Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
Alessandro is a Lecturer in Finance at the University of Technology Sydney since September 2024. He completed his PhD in finance at Copenhagen Business School, in Denmark prior to joining UTS. His research interests include several aspects of financial markets, such as financial intermediation, macro-finance and corporate finance.
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Professor in Ocean Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Prof Toffoli has a wealth of experience in ocean and coastal engineering, physical oceanography and air-sea interactions, which includes research, teaching, consultancy, working at the Universities and industry. With a Master degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy) and PhD in Civil Engineering from the KU Leuven (Belgium), he went on working in shipping industry (DNVGL) in Norway and academia (Swinburne University of Technology and University of Plymouth) in Australia and UK, before joining the University of Melbourne.
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Lecturer in Urban Data Science and Sustainability, The University of Edinburgh
I am Lecturer in Urban Data Science and Sustainability at the Edinburgh Future Institute and the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Lanscape Architecture of the University of Edinburgh.
My research sits at the intersection of Urban Planning, Geography and Computer Science and I am interested in developing new spatially informed computational methods to better understand the mutual relationship between human behaviours and their urban contexts. This work blends traditional and new forms of data to provide quantifiable evidence of urban dynamics and inform policy making. My current substantive focus concerns how we can equitability manage Net Zero transitions within cities.
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Senior Lecturer in Communication and Applied Linguistics, University of Portsmouth
I teach Communication and Applied Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth. I am interested in the representation of violence against women in both online and traditional media.
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Research associate, University of Bristol
I am currently engaged in developing human gene therapy at the University of Bristol. My research goal leverages on my gene editing expertise to develop a viral vehicle for safely and effectively administering therapeutic agents to treat human genetic diseases. I previously worked at the University of Edinburgh where I was involved in developing the application of gene editing technology in chickens with a particular focus on producing resistance to bird flu. I also have an interest in using machine learning and artificial intelligence to study how proteins can be engineered to treat animal and human diseases.
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Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
Alexander Bacalja is Senior Lecturer of English and Literacy Education in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and the Language and Literacy Research Hub. After beginning his career as a secondary English teacher, Alex has been involved in Initial Teacher Education for almost a decade. He coordinates and teaches secondary English curriculum in the Master of Teaching (Secondary) program at the University of Melbourne and works closely with the broader English teaching profession through school partnerships and leadership roles with Victorian Association for the Teaching of English and the Australian Association for the Teaching of English. His areas of research, scholarship and publications include: the impact of digital technologies, especially digital games, on the literacy practices of young people, critical digital literacy education, and English teaching curriculum and policy.
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Research Assistant, Common Ground Politics, University of Alberta
Alexandra Ballos is a graduate student at the University of Calgary, with research interests spanning extremism, right-wing ideologies, eco-politics, and gender dynamics, particularly within the context of Canadian politics and political culture. Having completed her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies in 2024, she serves as a Research Assistant for the Common Ground Politics project.
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, The University of Melbourne
I am a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing at The University of Melbourne.
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Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, University of Pretoria
Dr Alex Bignotti heads the African Network of Social Entrepreneurship Scholars, a scholarly community aiming to advance social entrepreneurship teaching and research in Africa and facilitate of training of scholars in the same field. Alex is currently a senior lecturer in social entrepreneurship at the University of Pretoria. He has a keen interest in entrepreneurship as a catalyst for social change. His research currently focuses on social entrepreneurship, especially in an African context. Under the same research umbrella, his earlier work has also focussed on entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurial personality and entrepreneurship education, with a particular focus on the youth and disadvantaged individuals.
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PhD Candidate, Communication & Culture, York University, Canada
Alex Borkowski (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Communication & Culture at York University. Her doctoral research examines the performance of gender in digital technologies, media histories and contemporary art practices. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals and arts publications including Afterimage, openwork, Momus, PUBLIC, Journal of Radio and Audio Media, Canadian Art and Prefix Photo.
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Professor of Indigenous Genomics, Australian National University
Professor Alex Brown (BMed, MPH, PhD, FRACP (hon.), FCSANZ, FAHMS) is the Professor of Indigenous Genomics at the Telethon Kids Institute and The Australian National University. He is an internationally leading Aboriginal clinician/researcher who has worked his entire career in Aboriginal health in the provision of public health services, infectious diseases and chronic disease care, health care policy and research.
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Teaching Associate, University of Nottingham
I am a historian of United States foreign relations and I specialise in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My research interests revolve around United States imperialism, Pan-Americanism, and the American experience of the First World War.
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Lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Reading
18 million people die from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) every year, accounting for approximately one-third of all global deaths. This includes deaths from heart attacks (myocardial infarction) and stroke, which involve blood clots forming within blood vessels that block blood flow to the heart of brain. Small cells in the blood called platelets play a central role in forming these clots. One of the best ways to prevent heart attacks and strokes is to reduce the ability of platelets to form clots using antiplatelet medications. These drugs are effective for many, but a minority of patients will suffer a cardiovascular event while on antiplatelet therapy. Another limitation of antiplatelet drugs is increased risk of haemorrhage, including catastrophic forms of bleeding such as intracranial haemorrhage (haemorrhagic stroke). In my research, I work with patients that are at risk of these negative outcomes to better understand why and work towards better treatments.
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Alex has over 20 years of experience working in the child protection and out of home care sectors. She has worked in both government and non-government sectors, including homelessness, strategic policy and planning, child and youth engagement and residential care management. Since completing a Masters in Youth Studies with the ACU, Alex’s area of interests is in the connection between youth policy and practice and how best to translate this directly for workers on the ground and the children and young people they work with. She commenced work with the ICPS in September 2017 as a research officer.
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Honorary Fellow, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
Dr Alex Fischer is an Honorary Research Fellow at the ANU School of Cybernetics. He brings his interdisciplinary training and global cross-sector experiences to pressing questions about how technology is being designed to accelerate progress across the Sustainable Development Goals. His policy and practice interests include how smart-monitoring technologies are shaping rural drinking water services, how Bayesian analytic approaches are enabling adaptive design aimed at improving intergenerational societal health and how new data flows are changing policy and accountability pathways ranging from community to watershed to national scales. His academic research explores how competing media and policy narratives interact to shape public priorities and how to design polycentric institutions by considering the way information systems link to decisions and performance outcomes.
Alex was previously the Head of Research at the Paul Ramsay Foundation. Prior to that, he supported Bangladeshi colleagues to launch SafePani, a community owned rural water service leveraging blended public-private finance and use of smart monitoring technologies to improve safety and reliability of public and private water points. During his time at the Center for Earth Science Information Networks (CIESIN) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, he established the Fragile States Policy Program and co-led the Environmental Security Research Program. He is a founding member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s expert group on Thematic Research on Data and Statistic.
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Professor of Education, University of Otago
Alex conducts research and teaches into a range of education and teacher education topics at The University of Otago Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. A former early childhood teacher, she has also served in professional and research organisations, advocating for research-based policy and practice developments that remain critically aware of the historical, social, and political conditions of teaching, teacher education and the communities they serve.
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PhD Candidate in Geography, Lancaster University
I am a first year PhD candidate at Lancaster University in geography, researching land use, agricultural transitions and ecological crisis. Specifically, my research is looking at the concept and practice of natural capital. Focussing on how changes to subsidy schemes and regulations are affecting farmers in Wales and England.
I have a co-authored article on hinterlandisation in the Architectural Design journal, a co-authored chapter on neoliberal Welsh farming policy, a forthcoming paper on land grabbing in Wales and have written for various online publications on food and farming systems.
I also help to run a small, mixed farm in the south west of Wales.
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
Alexander Hinton (@AlexLHinton) is Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University Newark. He is also a past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2011-13) and holds the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, including the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (California, 2005), The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018), and, most recently, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021) and Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell, 2022).
Research interests: Sociocultural and psychological anthropology; genocide and political violence; extremism; transitional justice; US and Southeast Asia (with a focus on Cambodia); culture and mind; globalization and modernity; self and emotion; anthropology and critical theory.
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Researcher at Deep Design Lab and PhD Candidate at Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
Alexander Holland an architect, designer, data scientist, researcher and PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on creating better worlds for all living beings, with particular focus on arboreal habitats provided by large old trees.
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Dr Alex Ireland is a Research Associate within the School of Healthcare Science at Manchester Metropolitan University. His main research interest is in how the muscle and impact forces which squash, bend and twist our bones during movement end up determining their size and shape. This work has involved examination of a number of different populations from spinal cord injury patients to elite tennis players, and from toddlers to nonagenerian pole vaulters. Alex is currently employed on an MRC-funded project investigating how changes in our motor nerves affect our muscles and movements as we age.
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Associate Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Michigan State University
Dr. Johnson's research interests are in uncovering the neuronal mechanisms of learning and motivation. Current projects examine mechanisms of binge-eating with a particular focus on how the organizational and activational role of gonadal hormones shape and confer risk for the excessive intake of palatable food. A second area of research focuses on the role of neuropeptides in the control of learning and ingestive behavior to examine how brain circuits controlling both homeostatic and learning and memory systems interact to modulate allostatic control of food-seeking, consumption and metabolism. A third area of research examines mesencephalic-forebrain influences over learning and decision-making, with a particular focus on dopamine. To examine these research questions, Dr. Johnson's lab employs sophisticated ingestive and associative learning procedures with cutting-edge chemogenetic and optogenetic techniques.
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Lecturer, Swansea University
I am interested in social and evolutionary perspectives of psychology, and have used these approaches to study topics related to face perception. My work has examined facial cues to personality, physical and mental health, and differences between men and women in terms of skin texture and colouration. I've also investigated the way cosmetics can change social perceptions and how they act on naturally occurring differences between men and women. My most recent projects have investigated body image and misconceptions of attractiveness ideals between men and women.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston College
I am a quantitative criminologist and study gun violence, victimization, and drugs. I got my PhD in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania, where I also got my MA degree in Statistics. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Boston College.
I was born and grew up in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. After high school, I moved to Saint Petersburg, Russia, where I got my BA degree in Sociology from Saint Petersburg State. Shortly after finishing my Master's in Sociology from the European University at Saint Petersburg, I joined the Institute for the Rule of Law there, where I studied how Russian police plant drugs, conducted the first Russian Crime Victimization Survey, and had a really good time.
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PhD Candidate, Psychology (Personality Psychopathology), Nottingham Trent University
Alex Lambert is a PhD candidate and a graduate teaching assistant at Nottingham Trent University. Her interests lie in the area of personality psychopathology. The aim of her PhD programme is to develop a new psychometric measure of maladaptive overcontrol.
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Lecturer in German, Aberystwyth University
M.A. in English Literature, German Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (English) from Augsburg University (Germany); MSc in Psychology (Chester, UK); PhD in Theatre Studies (Wales). I am currently Lecturer in German at Aberystwyth University. I am a Fellow of the HEA and a graduate member of the BPS.
My research focuses on performance philosophy and contemporary politics (especially Zizek and performance), post-1956 European Drama, theatre translation and on Easy German Grammar.
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Bristol
Alex has been Professor of Public Policy and Head of the School for Policy Studies since 2007.
Alex's research encompasses a wide range of topics in the field of housing studies, particularly concerned with policy in the social and private rented housing sectors and with issues of regulation.
His research interests include the use of economics in the policy process and the application of heterodox economic ideas to the analysis of housing markets. His interest in housing policy is both substantive and for the insights it can offer into broader questions of policy-making and the policy process.
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Associate Professor, Media Arts & Production, University of Technology Sydney
Alex Munt is a screenwriter/director and academic. He leads the Creative Practice Research Group in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at UTS.
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Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Adjunct Professor, International Human Rights Law, University of Ottawa, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
I am an international human rights lawyer, with over 35 years of experience, including serving as Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada for 21 years.
I am currently a Senior Fellow with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow with the Atlantic Human Rights Centre at St. Thomas University. I am an adjunct professor of international human rights with the faculties of law at the University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University. In the past I have been a visiting professor and a sessional lecturer with Osgoode Law School at York University and for several years was a lecturer with the capstone seminar in international human rights law and policy with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.
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Assistant Professor, Biology, University of Toronto
I'm an assistant professor at the University of Toronto (same university where I obtained my PhD). My lab studies how mutations affect our genomes and how this affects evolution. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Michael Desai at Harvard University, where I developed several synthetic biology tools to interrogate cells and observe evolution at extremely high resolution.
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Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy earned his doctorate in Economics from the University of Houston and a masters degree in Physics from Odessa National University in Ukraine. Prior to joining Lehigh's faculty, Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy served as an assistant professor at the University of Memphis, where he taught graduate Macroeconomics and Econometrics, and conducted research on monetary policy analysis.
Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy's papers have been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and others. He has been the recipient of several research grants and his research has been referred to at the U.S. Congress.
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Senior Technical Lead of Bioinformatics, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope
Alexander Pozhitkov, Ph.D., graduated from the Moscow State University with an M. Sc. in chemistry and molecular biology in 1998. His master’s thesis was on the detection of microorganisms by biochips using 16S rRNA. In 2003, Alexander earned his doctorate degree from the Albertus Magnus University of Cologne (Germany), focusing on the physical chemistry of immobilized DNA oligonucleotides for the purpose of detection and quantification of specific RNA targets. He also conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Washington (Seattle), studying the interaction between microorganisms and implant materials. In Prof. Pichiorri’s lab, Dr. Pozhitkov has established and been maintaining the informatic infrastructure for the ongoing clinical trials. Also, he has been developing atomic force microscopy protocols to investigate cellular micromechanics.
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Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University
Dr. Alex Sévigny, APR is an associate professor of communication studies and communication management at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is an expert in public relations, communication management, and data-driven communication strategies, most recently using AI, augmented and virtual reality. Dr. Sévigny is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Professional Communication and the chief examiner of the Accredited in Public Relations program for the Canadian Public Relations Society. His research interests include the use of artificial intelligence and big data in communication, political communication, and strategic communication. He is currently finishing a book with co-author Martin Waxman on how AI is transforming strategy and workflow in the creative professions. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Sévigny is also an active public relations practitioner and consultant.
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Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alex is a Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior in the Management and Human Resources Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business. He is a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Alex is also a Faculty Affiliate of the African Studies Program at UW-Madison. He was a visiting scholar in the psychology department at Stanford University.
Alex’s research examines public leaders’ role in addressing societal grand challenges – pressing social problems with ripple effects. His three most recent papers provide new insights into qualities associated with leadership effectiveness in addressing grand challenges and highlight the potential for diversity in leadership positions to achieve favorable outcomes.
His paper on U.S. Governors’ female leadership advantage during the COVID-19 crisis received a Responsible Research Finalist Award from the Academy of Management in 2021. Alex’s 2023 paper on Ethics of Care Leadership demonstrates a Female Leadership Advantage in achieving effective outcomes in the context of the urban revitalization crisis. Most recent paper showed that the gender and race of police chiefs were associated with violence during the BLM protests, such that protests in cities with Black women police chiefs were associated with the lowest levels of violence compared to other groups.
Alex received a Gaumnitz Distinguished Research Award (UW-Madison, WSB), a Mabel Chipman Excellence in Teaching Award (UW-Madison, WSB), and an Excellence in Teaching Award at UC-Irvine, GSM. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Applied Psychology (contributing editor), Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, South African Journal of Human Resource Management, Organizational Dynamics, and as a member of the Advisory Council of Harvard Business Review.
Alex has published in premier psychology and Management journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. This research generated close to 15,000 citations.
Alex received his PhD (Organizational Behavior) and MA (Management) degrees from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a BSc in Economics from University of Belgrade (Serbia). He teaches in WSB Executive and Professional MBA programs, has conducted executive education seminars globally (e.g., Australia, Chile, China, Germany, Korea, Singapore, South African Republic), and has presented at over 100 professional conferences.
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Research Associate in Epidemiology, University of Manchester
Dr Alex Trafford was awarded his PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Manchester in 2022. His PhD focused on examining the risk of cancer and cancer mortality in individuals with psoriasis. He is currently a Research Associate at the University exploring mental health outcomes, and opioid prescribing.
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Graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1994 with a BA in Natural Sciences. After competing a PhD in Neuroscience at University College London he moved to Stanford University to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship in human brain imaging specializing in the neural computations underlying our perception of colour. Continued this research as a Principle Investigator at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco until moving to York in 2011. Current research interests include visual attention, the representation of colour and contrast in the human brain and the way in which these processes are affected by neurological diseases.
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