Professor of English, University of Surrey
Diane Watt is professor of English literature at the University of Surrey and the author of God’s Own Gentlewoman: The Life of Margaret Paston (Icon, 2024). She is the Co-Editor in Chief of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Women Writers in the Global Middle Ages.
Diane works on medieval literature, women’s writing, gender and sexuality. Her books include Medieval Women’s Writing (2007), Amoral Gower (2004) and Secretaries of God (1997). Here most recent journal article, 'The Earliest Women's Writing?', is available as a free download at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/.U4y3MChigTM.
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Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, McDaniel College
I study social, cultural, and historical elements of sport and physical activity in the United States, with particular interest in the workings of power, gender, ideologies, and hidden histories.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Clark University
Dianne Berg specializes in late medieval and early modern English literature. Her research focuses on representations of domestic violence and the literary appropriation of real-life scandals to address contemporary anxieties about treason, obedience, gender, religion, and the state.
Professor Berg’s work has appeared in Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation; Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed (Parlour Press); Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Treachery, Betrayal, and Shame (Brill); and Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary, and Historical Contexts (Boydell). Recent course offerings at Clark University include “Medieval Women's Voices,” “The Arthurian Tradition,” "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"; "The Secret Life of Books," and "Pulp Non-Fiction: Representations of Domestic Crime in Early Modern England."
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Professor, Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health,, University of Sydney
Professor Dianne Campbell leads the NACE Training & Innovation Hub, which will support and mentor the next generation of allergy experts through six competitive PhD scholarships and four competitive post-doctoral fellowships.
Prof Campbell is an academic Clinical Paediatric Immunologist, with 28 years experience in clinical allergy and immunology. She completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University. Prof Campbell served as Chair of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Children's Hospital Westmead/Sydney University (2010-2019). She is an author of more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has a h-index of 44.
She has led randomised controlled trials in peanut and egg allergy – the most common cause of food allergy in Australian children. She is a Chief Investigator in NHMRC clinical trials, including OPIA, PrEggNut and OPTIMUM, and is a Chief Investigator in the NHMRC funded Centre for Food & Allergy Research, hosted at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
She has played major roles in the creation of national prevention of food allergy guidelines, standardisation of food challenges and anaphylaxis education and training for schools and childcare, serving as Chair of the Paediatric Subcommittee for Australian Society for Clinical Allergy and Immunology (2010-2016).
Prof Campbell also has extensive experience overseeing and developing paediatric graduate and postgraduate curriculum, previously serving as the Head of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School. She has recent biotechnology experience in her role as SVP, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs at DBV-technologies.
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Professor and Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology, Centre for Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne
Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick (PhD) holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology and is Director and Head of Research at the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She is the inaugural Director of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (2013 – 2015) and is a registered psychologist and a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Health Psychologists. She founded the Positive Psychology Network in Australia and has previously served as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and is currently on the IPPA Council of Advisors and was made an IPPA Fellow in 2019. Dianne has been an inaugural Editor in Chief of the Psychology of Well-Being:Theory, Research and Practice journal (2011-2016) and has Co-Directed the 2008, 2010 and 2014 Australian Positive Psychology and Well-being Conferences. She serves on numerous research advisory boards, regularly reviews scientific papers for leading journals and has received over $3 million funding for her research. Dianne’s research interests include the development and evaluation of well-being programs, particularly in the areas of positive education and performance optimisation. Her work draws on innovative mixed method designs which utilise the latest technology, experience sampling method and biological indices of well-being. Dianne served as the Ethics Chair at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education from (2014 - Feb 2020). She has been involved in the development of numerous well-being measures and programs including the Wuzzup and MoodPrism apps, the Wellbeing Profiler and more recently she founded the Bio-Dash wellbeing and optimal performance program (bio-dash.com).
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Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford
Diarmaid MacCulloch holds a Cambridge doctorate in History, an Oxford Postgraduate Diploma in Theology and an Oxford Doctorate of Divinity. He is a Fellow and current Vice-President of the British Academy. His new book All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation is being published in July.
He has written extensively on Tudor England; his biography Thomas Cranmer: a Life (Yale UP, 1996) won the Whitbread Biography, Duff Cooper and James Tait Black Prizes. More recent publications from Penguin/Allen Lane have included Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (appearing in the USA as The Reformation: a History), and A History of Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years (in the USA, Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years), which won the 2010 Cundill Prize; his latest book is Silence: a Christian History.
He was the presenter on BBC4 and BBC2 of "A History of Christianity - the first 3,000 years", which won the Radio Times Listeners' Award in 2010, "How God made the English" (BBC2, 2012) and "Henry VIII's fixer: the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell" (BBC2, 2013); his BBC2 series Sex and the West aired in spring 2015.
He received a knighthood in January 2012 for services to scholarship.
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Reader in Human Geography, Queen's University Belfast
My research interests include the cultural history and geography of the life and earth sciences, with a particular emphasis on religious responses to scientific developments in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My earliest work examined the reception of glacial theory in Victorian Edinburgh, investigated the historical geographies of Scottish natural history societies in the period 1831-1900 and, with Charles Withers and Rebekah Higgitt, explored the role of geography in the work of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 1831 – c.1933. My book on natural history societies in Victorian Scotland was published by Pickering & Chatto in 2009 and was awarded the Frank Watson Book Prize for Scottish History in 2011. In 2014, I completed a two-year AHRC-funded project on science in nineteenth-century Belfast. I have also written about the mix of metaphysics and science in the writings of the geologist James Croll and the reception of ideas about human evolution in the context of religious debates about the creation of Eve (rather than Adam). More recent work has centred on public speech as a situated mode of interaction between science and culture in the nineteenth century. A monograph on this subject examining the lecture tours of five British celebrity scientists in Gilded Age America published by the University of Pittsburgh Press has recently appeared. With Professor David N. Livingstone, I have now completed a 27 month project investigating debates about evolution and theology in the early twentieth century. This is part of a larger John Templeton Foundation-funded project on conjunctive explanations in science and religion (CESAR). I am currently at the early stages of writing a biography of Scottish evolutionist and evangelist, Henry Drummond.
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Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University
Diarmuid Hurley is a lecturer in leadership in healthcare and sporting settings, based at Southern Cross University. He holds a PhD in Psychology and a Masters in Sport and Exercise Psychology. His research interests include sport, exercise, and performance psychology, health psychology, and novel methods of mental health promotion and prevention in communities.
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Lecturer in medieval history, University College Cork
Diarmuid Scully devised the first module on LGBT history to be taught in an Irish university in 2018, the 25th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Republic.
The study of LGBT Irish identities on the island of Ireland is an emergent research area with huge potential. Modern Ireland, North and South, has seen many transformations, but few as dramatic as the change in the perception and status of LGBT people.
The module explores the experiences of LGBT people and the shaping of LGBT identities in Ireland from the 1970s to 2022 via activists’ testimonies, LGBT rights promotional materials, media reports, personal accounts, and creative productions including songs, poems and the visual arts. These sources are located and analysed in their historical contexts. The module also asks how, and to what extent, Irish LGBT issues have been analysed by historians.
My research interests focus on representations of Ireland, its inhabitants, and wonders in a wider archipelagic context in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern era. I am interested in Classical ideas concerning Britain, Ireland, and their surrounding seas, and the shaping of those ideas by Graeco-Roman world-geographical and ethnographical thought and the demands of Roman imperialism. The analysis of the long-term legacy of these concepts, topoi, and stereotypes dominates my current research. I am investigating their transmission to the early Insular world and adaptation and subversion by Insular authorities, and the response of twelfth to seventeenth century English and other textual and visual sources to both Classical and early Insular interpretations of Irish and archipelagic history, culture, geography, and marvels.
My research interests converge in a monograph in preparation, The Bull of the Herd: Giraldus Cambrensis and the Invention of Barbarian Ireland. This is the first full-length study of Gerald of Wales's Irish writings since 1662. Gerald of Wales's Topography of Ireland (1188) dominated discourse on Ireland from the late 12th to the 17th centuries. I am examining the work in relation to the Classical and Early Insular sources as well as 12th century views of European peripheries, and considering its impact on Early Modern perceptions of Ireland.
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Diatyka is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia. She is also an executive secretary and a research associate at Center for Sociological Studies, University of Indonesia. Her current research project is on young precarious workers who join vigilante groups in urban Jakarta.
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Lecturer, Makerere University
Holds a Ph.D. (Makerere), Licentiate (Linköping), M.A. Philosophy (Bergen) and B.A. (Makerere).
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychology, University of Florida
Dr. Didem Pehlivanoglu’s research interests involve investigating the role of emotionally and motivationally relevant information on cognition at basic and applied contexts, with a special focus on understanding the contributions of individual differences to cognition-emotion interactions. Her training background is on experimental aging research with focus on examination of cognitive and affective processes across adulthood by employing behavioral (self-report, behavior-based tasks), physiological (eye-tracking), and neuroimaging (EEG/ERP) techniques. Her current research in the Ebner lab focuses on identifying the cognitive, socioemotional, and neurobiological profiles of deception risk susceptibility in aging.
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Director of the Global Chair Nebrija-Santander on Migration and Human Rights, at Nebrija University in Madrid, Professor in Law, University of Bristol
Diego Acosta is Professor of Migration and European Law at the University of Bristol, where he is also International Strategic Lead for the Migration and Mobilities Research Centre. He is also the Director of the Global Chair Nebrija-Santander on Migration and Human Rights at Nebrija University in Madrid.
Professor Acosta is the author of more than 60 publications. His latest monograph (Cambridge University Press, 2018) looks at the legal construction of the national and the foreigner in South America from independence in the early 19th century until today. His new project analyses free movement of people regimes globally, and he has obtained funding from the Open Society Foundations.
Professor Acosta has testified before the parliaments of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru on migration law reform, and has advised numerous governments, international organisations, law firms, political parties and NGOs in the USA, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. He has produced the written observations for the applicant submitted to the European Court of Justice in several cases.
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Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Sussex
Empirical economist
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Enseignant Chercheur en Economie, Directeur d'Origens Media Lab, ESC Clermont Business School
Diego Landivar est Docteur en Economie (CERDI-CNRS), ancien élève de l’Ecole Normale Supérieur de Paris-Saclay. Enseignant Chercheur au Groupe Esc Clermont. Il a co-fondé le laboratoire Origens Media Lab (www.origens-medialab.org).
Ses travaux portent sur les reconfigurations ontologiques engendrés par la crise écologique et l'avènement de l'Anthropocène. Ses enquêtes portent sur le droit de la nature et des non-humains, les reconfigurations cosmopolitiques dans les pays andins, le statut des objets techniques et les controverses autour de la transition écologique.
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Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University
Diego Javier Luis studies the colonial histories of Latin America and the Pacific World, race-making, and Afro-Asian diasporic convergences. He is currently finishing a book with Harvard University Press entitled, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History. The book traces both free and enslaved Asian mobility from the Philippines to Mexico, Central America, Peru, and Spain, from the sixteenth to early-nineteenth centuries. In particular, it examines how Asian subjects encountered and responded to colonial-era racialization with an emphasis on cross-cultural exchanges, social mobility, and resistance to enslavement.
Luis's second project, "The Early Modern Black Pacific: Responding to Global Empire," aims to uncover the early, hidden histories of African diaspora to and through the Spanish Pacific.
Luis conducts archival research in Spain, Mexico, the Philippines, and the U.S.
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Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
I am a systems neuroscientist with a background in biophysics. The goal of my research is to understand how brain circuits mediate decision making to complex sensory input. In my lab, we study how sensory processing areas of the olfactory and somatosensory systems handle information relevant to decision-making, and how they interact with downstream regions such as the hippocampus and cerebellum. In addition, we study the circuit basis for behavioral deficits in mild demyelination and neurodevelopmental disorders.
To tackle these questions, we use an interdisciplinary approach employing high-density electrical recording, advanced microscopy, closed loop optogenetics, and computational neuroscience.
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Marie-Skłodowska Curie Fellow in Anthropology, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
During the last century, the indigenous South American Lowlands have been colonized by steamboats, railways, trucks, chainsaws, fire-weapons and electric generators introduced by missionaries, extractive industries, armies, development projects, and NGOs. However, anthropological and historical research has largely neglected this mechanical colonisation of indigenous life; in particular, there are almost no studies that analyse the current tide of motorcycles that during the last few decades altered dramatically the interethnic landscape, and its social, economic and environmental repercussions which are significantly reshaping current indigenous reality. The goal of my research project is to analyze the effects of motorcycle dissemination among the indigenous peoples of Bolivian Amazonia, and to achieve practical impact regarding public policies on road safety and prevention of accidents in marginal contexts.
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Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Florida
Dr. Rincon-Limas received a bachelor degree on Biopharmaceutical Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas in Reynosa, Mexico. He also obtained a Master’s degree in Microbiology and a summa cum laude Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico. He then moved to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to conduct his postdoctoral training in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, where he got training in Neurogenetics and Neurobiology. He got his first Faculty position in the Department of Neurology and the Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and then moved to the University of Florida to join the Department of Neurology at the McKnight Brain Institute. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience and is also a member of the UF Genetics Institute, the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND), and the Center for Neurogenetics.
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Professor of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dietram A. Scheufele is the John E. Ross Professor in Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the Morgridge Institute for Research. Since 2013, he’s also held an Honorary Professorship at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany.
Scheufele’s research deals with the public and political interfaces of emerging science. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, and a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering. He currently serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS) Advisory Committee.
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Research associate at the Institute for Industrial Production, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Research associate at the Institute for Industrial Production.
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Climate Research Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dillon Amaya is a research physical scientist at the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado. His main interests involve climate variability and change on seasonal-decadal timescales with an emphasis on tropical-extratropical interactions and air-sea feedbacks. His work further includes research into the dynamical drivers behind recent Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves. Dillon's current projects include investigating subseasonal-seasonal (S2S) predictability limits of ocean parameters in the California Current System, with the goal of assisting decision makers responsible for managing sensitive marine ecosystems along the U.S. West Coast.
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Sheffield
Professor Anumba is currently Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sheffield and has worked as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Sheffield Teaching hospitals for 22 years. He is Faculty Director of Clinical Academic Training in Sheffield. He serves on the Council of The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of GB as International Representative coordinating Sub-Sahara Africa. He is Honorary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Cape Town.
Professor Anumba investigates the physiology of human parturition, particularly the role of immunity and inflammation in term/preterm labour and pregnancy complications such as hypertension, fetal growth restriction and stillbirth. He is also investigating new techniques to predict preterm birth by the detection of cervical remodelling changes as well as changes in the vaginal microbiome and metabolome. He runs specialist clinics in Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Therapy, Prematurity Prevention, and High-Risk Pregnancy, all of which have research spin outs. One spin out is ECCLIPPx, a research programme that explores electrical impedance spectroscopy and several other innovative techniques and devices for predicting preterm birth. The NIHR Global Health Research Group on Preterm Birth Prevention and Management in LMICs PRIME is another spin out which brought together interdisciplinary researchers from the United Kingdom and South Africa amongst others to address the challenges of preterm birth management in low-middle income countries where its prevalence is highest.
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ALMA Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI), University of Freiburg
Dilshad Muhammad is ALMA Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg, and doctoral student at the University of Freiburg. His doctoral project deals with local governments and the governance of forced migration.
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Director of Professional Practice, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dima Nazzal is a Principal Academic Professional in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She is responsible for project-based learning in the Industrial Engineering undergraduate curriculum, including the capstone senior design course, and the cornerstone junior design course. She is also research director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she was Director of Research and Development at Fortna, Inc., an Engineering Design and Consulting company.
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Associate Professor in Computing, Edinburgh Napier University
Dimitra Gkatzia is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. She is interested in the evaluation of Natural Language Generation systems, and data-driven Natural Language Generation (NLG) for low-resource domains/languages. More recently, Dimitra has been interested in exploring privacy issues in LLMs and exploring how we can use them responsibly. Since 2021, Dimitra is the co-lead of the SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) AI Theme. Between 2016-2020, Dimitra served as an elected member of the Steering Board of the Special Interest Group in Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN). At Edinburgh Napier, Dimitra is currently leading the Natural Language Processing Group.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University
I am a Roman archaeologist with an outspoken holistic and comparative approach to my work. My research deals with agriculture and economy, but I specialize in all things related to ancient vines and wines. My focus lies on Italy and the Western Mediterranean from Republic to Empire, but I have conducted fieldwork in Italy, Greece, Portugal and Belgium.
I hold a double PhD in Classical Archaeology from the universities of Pisa (Italy) and Ghent (Belgium), and I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the latter institute since 2015. I was a Fellow of the Academia Belgica (and Belgian Historical Institute) in Rome, the Collegio dei Fiamminghi in Bologna, and the DAI in Berlin, and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in the City of New York and Padova University.
My latest work on Roman winemaking in earthenware vessels is scheduled for publication in Antiquity (2024). Recent publications include the edited books Reframing the Roman Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Vine-growing and Winemaking in the Roman World (Peeters, 2023) and Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology (Bloomsbury, 2024). I am a contributor to the upcoming A Cultural History of Wine in Antiquity (Bloomsbury 2024) and The Handbook of Roman Rural Archaeology (Cambridge 2025).
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Associate Professor, Political Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Professor Panagos is a specialist in the study of contemporary political philosophy and Aboriginal rights, with research contributions combining both normative and empirical concerns. He has published work on aboriginality, Aboriginal rights, Aboriginal voting behaviour and resource governance. He is currently working on a monograph on settler states, Aboriginal peoples and the problem of political obligation. he is also engaged in a number of collaborative research projects focused on, first, First Nations and the governance of mineral resources in Canada, and, second, the participation of Aboriginal peoples in elections in Canada and the United States.
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FinTech Capability Lead | Senior Lecturer, Emerging Technologies and FinTech, Swinburne University of Technology
Dr Dimitrios Salampasis is an award-winning global thought leader, educator, researcher, and sought-after keynote speaker, passionate about FinTech innovation and strategy, global affairs and geopolitics, sustainability and emerging technologies nexus.
Dr Salampasis is the FinTech Capability Director, Director, Master of Financial Technologies, and Senior Lecturer of Emerging Technologies and FinTech Innovation at the AACSB-accredited Swinburne School of Business, Law, and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr Salampasis is a Visiting Professor of FinTech at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance, Visiting Professor of FinTech at the University of Québec at Rimouski, Canada, Blockchain and FinTech Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Visiting Faculty at the School of Management in Fribourg, Switzerland, and an Academic Council Member of the Global FinTech Institute.
Dr Salampasis is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow within the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and a member of the CPA Australia Digital Transformation Centre of Excellence.
Prior to joining academia, Dr Salampasis worked in management consulting, legal services, non-profit and public sector being involved in global advisory activities in research and strategy on emerging market geopolitics and technology policy governance, assisting companies in developing long-term strategic focus and sustainable market business strategies.
Dr Salampasis is the recipient of the 2022 Innovation Excellence Award by the Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the 2021 Blockchain Educator of the Year Award by Blockchain Australia and the 2021 Swinburne University Vice Chancellor's Engagement Award - Industry Engagement (Individual).
Dr Salampasis publishes in international peer-reviewed academic journals and books and his work is regularly presented in major international conferences and invited keynote presentations around the world. Dr Salampasis’ research interests revolve around the organizational, human, geopolitical and ESG sides of innovation and open innovation in emerging technologies and FinTech innovation. His areas of specialist expertise, research, teaching, industry engagement, policy and advisory work revolve around the emergence and development of FinTech-enabled business models, Blockchain for business and public sector, corporate sustainability and human rights due diligence, synthetic identity fraud and scams, quantum computing for financial services and public sector, neuromorphic computing for business and public sector, along with the relevant global regulatory, ethical and policy interventions.
Dr Salampasis is regularly involved in advisory work with leading private, public, and governmental stakeholders of the Australian and international FinTech and broader business ecosystem. Dr Salampasis has a strong media presence in Australia and abroad, excellent communication and presentation skills with thought leadership experience presenting at large conferences. Dr Salampasis is regularly providing forward-thinking insights and sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice, furnishing strategic guidance by synthesizing analysis and insights from research across various innovation and emerging technological domains.
Dr Salampasis is a trusted partner to CEOs, C-Level Executives and Board of Directors of leading corporations, start-ups and government officials harnessing the power of emerging technologies to identify solutions that lead global change and impact. Dr Salampasis has been playing an instrumental role in shaping Australia’s FinTech innovation policy and advocacy agenda by participating in working groups, providing expert strategic advice and critical policy analysis, and submitting research-grounded responses to policy consultations.
Dr Salampasis has been actively supporting Australian and international ecosystem stakeholders by identify synergistic opportunities, incubating new strategic opportunities, and curating conversations of policymaking, ESG and regulatory implications and direct impact on business models and organizational transformations.
Dr Salampasis has received international recognition for his global perspective and creative research and thought leadership approach for thinking about innovation, entrepreneurial mindset and the evolution of the emerging and financial technologies landscape, together with, his novel practice-infused curriculum innovation in terms of designing and contextualizing a transformational, industry-relevant and career pathing learning and development experience across multiple modes of delivery.
Dr Salampasis is a dual citizen of Australia and Greece, currently living in Melbourne, Australia.
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Surrey
Dr. Dimitris Akrivos joined the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in Criminology. His research interests lie mainly at the intersection between criminology, law and cultural studies with a particular focus on violent crime, sexual deviance and mental health (as well as their representations in news and fictional media). His current research looks at the social harm associated with stereotypical gender portrayals in advertising, the press and other popular media. He is the lead editor of Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Dimitris completed his PhD in Criminology at City University London in 2015. He also holds an MA in Criminology (City University London), an MA in Crime Fiction (University of East Anglia) and a Degree in Law (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). He has previously lectured at the University of Essex, Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Bedfordshire. He was involved as a data researcher in the Reading the Riots project developed by The Guardian and the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Leicester
I am an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology based at Leicester Diabetes Centre. I have completed my PhD on gut hormone changes after sleeve gastrectomy the most commonly performed bariatric procedure worldwide. My main interests include how to best combine lifestyle pharmacological and surgical treatments for management of obesity and type 2 diabetes. I am also interested in the mechanisms of weight loss weight maintenance and diabetes remission after bariatric surgery and identifying potential treatments for postprandial hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia.
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Associate Professor in Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire
"Theoretical Star formation & Exoplanets" group. His work is mainly theoretical and computational, focusing on the study of the earliest stages of star and planet formation. He teaches a variety of courses (Astrobiology, Stellar Structure & Evolution, Fluid Dynamics) for the Physics, Astrophysics and Mathematics degrees.
Dr Stamatellos' group performs hydrodynamic simulations of star and planet formation using supercomputing facilities locally at UCLan and nationally. He has published more than 60 refereed publications (19 first author) that have attracted more than ~ 4000 citations. He is well known for his research on disc fragmentation and on brown dwarf formation. He has strong experience in analysing and visualising large amounts of computational data, programming within an astronomical context, developing of computational models, and using high-performance computing. He is particularly interested in computational methods and their applications in astrophysics. He has developed an efficient method to capture the thermal and radiative effects in hydrodynamic simulations, that has been used by other groups around the world (e.g. Edinburgh, St Andrews, Beijing, Sheffield, London, Cologne, Munich). Dr Stamatellos has a strong record of student supervision (undergraduate and postgraduate students) and significant teaching experience. He has also established collaborations with East and Southeast Asian countries (China, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam). He has been awarded two Royal Society International Exchanges Awards (for Japan and S. Korea).
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Senior Lecturer in Modern History, City, University of London
Dina Fainberg is a historian of US-Russia relations, Soviet media and propaganda, the Cold War. She held research fellowships at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the Center for the United States and the Cold War at New York University, and the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. Dina is the author of Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the ideological Frontlines, 1945-1991, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2021. Together with Artemy M. Kalinovsky she is the editor of Reconsidering Stagnation: Ideology and Exchange in the Brezhnev Era (Lexington Books, 2016).
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