Researcher at International Research Laboratory Takuvik, Université Laval
Mathieu Ardyna is a biological oceanographer interested in understanding phytoplankton dynamics in polar environments. My main research focuses on how environnemental drivers and changes are altering phytoplankton phenology, productivity and structure. In both polar regions (i.e., the Arctic and Southern oceans), climate change is drastically affecting the interplay between the atmosphere, the cryosphere and the oceans.
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Professeur, directeur adjoint du CSUG, directeur scientifique de la MPLS en Alpes Dauphiné, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Research Associate, Inrae
Immunologist specialized in immunotherapies and vaccinology, Mathieu Epardaud joined the BioMAP team of UMR ISP 1282 University – INRAE in 2018 to contribute to the development of anti-cancer immunotherapies and develop strategies for mucosal vaccine platforms.
He previously contributed to research on (1) preclinical model for studying the immunopathology of tuberculosis in the same UMR, (2) cancer immunotherapy at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School (Boston) and ( 3) systemic vs mucosal immune response at the INRAe (Jouy en Josas).
Mathieu Epardaud participates in the vaccine development project and is one of the founders in January 2022 of the start-up LoValTech, for which he holds a position of scientific consultant, in particular for the development of the intranasal delivery system.
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McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Dr Mati Keynes is an historian and social researcher. Their research explores how societies use education to grapple with historical injustices, in comparative and transnational context.
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PhD Candidate, Australian National University
I am a current PhD candidate at the ANU, specialising in the history of masculinity in the British Royal Navy. Last year I completed an Honours Thesis focussing on masculinity and representations of disabled sailors, which was well received and awarded the ANU University Medal. My current project involves looking at masculine emotion and war experience in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. I will be presenting on this topic at a conference on the history of emotions later this year.
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Assistant Professor in Global Challenges, Brunel University London
Dr Matilde Rosina is Lecturer at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. An expert on migration and asylum matters, she obtained her PhD from King's College London, winning the King’s Outstanding Thesis Prize. She is the author of ‘The criminalisation of irregular migration in Europe’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
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Director, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn
Matin Qaim is a food systems and development economist with a doctoral degree in agricultural economics from the University of Bonn (2000). Before joining the Center for Development Research (ZEF) in 2021 he was Professor of International Food Economics and Rural Development at the University of Goettingen (2007-2021), Professor of International Agricultural Trade and Food Security at the University of Hohenheim (2004-2007), and postdoctoral scientist at the University of California at Berkeley (2001-2003).
Qaim has research and project experience in Europe, the USA, and numerous countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of his research focuses on sustainable food systems, agricultural development, and the reduction of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. He has over 250 academic publications, mostly in top disciplinary and interdisciplinary science journals, including Science, various Nature and Lancet Group Journals, and PNAS. He has been recognized as "Highly Cited Researcher" in 2021 and 2022.
Qaim is member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), Fellow of the American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), and President-Elect of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). He has served on different high-level expert committees, including for the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, FAO, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the European Commission, The Royal Society, and the German Federal Government and Parliament.
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Professor of molecular physics, Stockholm University
Mats Larsson is Professor of Physics at Stockholm University and director of the AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm, which is a joint scientific center between the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University. He serves on the Nobel Committee for physics since 2016. His research interests are laboratory astrophysics and its importance to astrochemistry, free electron laser research targeting small molecules, and, more recently, molecular chirality and chiral interaction. He chairs a Nobel Symposium on Chiral Matter during 2020, with Dmitri Kharzeev as one of the co-chairs.
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Adjunct Lecturer, University of New England
Matt Balogh is currently an adjunct lecturer at the University of New England where he is completing his PhD.
Matt was previously a social and media researcher, having been Managing Director of McNair Research from 2001 to 2018. Previous to that, Matt was Vice President of The Gallup Organisation, and prior to that, Group Marketing Services Manager at News Ltd.
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Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Matt Brooks, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Dr. Brooks’ work seeks to understand how strengths-based concepts such as posttraumatic growth can be used to enhance wellbeing in people who are exposed to adversity, with a particular interest in those who have experienced interpersonal violence. He has engaged in research and evaluations with criminal justice organisations, health providers, and local authorities, and has previously worked with young people in secure residential settings. Dr. Brooks’ work on posttraumatic growth has been published in international journals and quoted by the international media.
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, an affiliate faculty in Economics, a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and the Director of the Center for Social and Environmental Futures, at the University of Colorado Boulder. My academic training is a mixture of ecology and economics. I received my Ph.D. in 2014 at the University of Minnesota in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, where I supplemented my training with graduate coursework in Applied Economics. My research focuses on economic growth futures and their impacts on the environment and society, mathematical modeling of human-environment systems, and political polarization of environmental issues.
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WTW Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Matt Burke is the WTW Research Fellow in the University of Oxford's Sustainable Finance Group. His research focuses on pricing climate and environmental risks.
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PhD Student, University of Sydney
Matthew Clements is PhD student working closely with Professor Maria Byrne in her Marine and Developmental Biology lab at the University of Sydney. He is interested in the ecology of crown-of-thorns starfish throughout their entire life history; from larvae to adult. Echinoderms have had centre stage in his research career to date spanning topics of asexual reproduction, salinity tolerance of the larvae, juvenile-adult interactive behaviour and field based adult population demography and ecology. One Tree Island Research Station, the University’s facility on the Great Barrier Reef, provides a stunning coral reef system to delve into a marine biology career and an exciting place to continue exploring important topics in echinoderm biology.
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Adjunct Professor of Marine Biology, Nelson Mandela University
Matt Dicken is the head of research and monitoring at the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research (CMR), Ocean Sciences Campus, Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa.
He has over 20 years of senior management and lecturing experience in the fields of marine conservation, ecology and fisheries management.
His extensive experience of developing and implementing research projects focuses on better understanding the ecology of oceans with a specific focus on fisheries and the socioeconomics of marine tourism.
He is a nationally rated C2 scientist with over 40 peer reviewed publications.
At the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board research department, he is responsible for the strategic vision, management, policy formulation and cost-effective budget control.
He is also a visiting researcher at the School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.
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Senior lecturer and researcher in chiropractic, CQUniversity Australia
Matt Fernandez is a registered chiropractor with over 20 years experience and senior lecturer within the Discipline of Chiropractic at CQUniversity, in Brisbane, where he teaches into the both undergraduate and masters component of the clinical chiropractic program. Matt earned his PhD at the University of Sydney and now directs his research efforts into patient education, exercise and physical activity promotion within chiropractic
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Lecturer in Advertising and Brand Creativity, Auckland University of Technology
Lecturer in Te Kura Whakapaho (School of Communications) at AUT. An early career academic trying to get the creative industries to help solve the world's wicked problems.
I teach Advertising and Brand Creativity and love helping students use their creativity for a good cause.
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Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Leicester
Matt is an Associate Professor at the Department of Criminology, University of Leicester. His research spans of variety of areas in relation to violence, organised crime, security and crime prevention. He has conducted research for the UK Home Office exploring motivations for the use of acid and corrosive substances in violent crime. He is the lead author (with Dr Lucy Neville and Professor Teela Sanders) of Acid Crime: Context, Motivation and Prevention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science (Sport Psychology), Anglia Ruskin University
Matt joined ARU as a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science (Psychology) in August 2022 from University of Hertfordshire where he was a Lecturer in Skill Acquisition and Motor Control since August 2019. Prior to joining UH Matt completed my undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD and teaching qualifications at University of Chichester.
Matt's main research interests are centred around identifying those psychological variables which are associated with peak performance (e.g., challenge and threat states) in performance settings (sport, education, aviation). Matt is also interested in emotional regulation, and I have published in the areas of cognitive psychology and leadership. Matt has collaborated with colleagues on a variety of research and consultancy projects at a range of HE institutions such as Prof. Iain Greenlees (University of Chichester), Dr Matt Smith (University of Winchester) and Dr Oliver Runswick (Kings College London).
Matt was awarded a PhD, Msc, Bsc and Fellowship of the HEA (FHEA) from the University of Chichester. Matt's research interests are performance under pressure in a variety of performance domains, e.g., sport, education, and aviation and emotional regulation (e.g., HRV). I lead L4 Multidisciplinary Sport and Exercise Science and l6 Applied Sport Psychology.
Research interests:
• Performance under pressure (Challenge and threat states, anxiety)
• Predictors of performance and adherence (self-efficacy, self-confidence, motivation)
• Emotional regulation (e.g., Heart Rate Variability)
• Scanning strategies and gaze behaviour
• Efficacy of Psychological Skills Training strategies
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Assistant Lecturer in Psychology, Birmingham City University
Having completed my undergraduate degree in Psychology at Staffordshire University earlier that year, I began my PhD in September 2020. Under the supervision of Dr Jade Elliott and Dr Samuel Jones, my PhD investigated why some people share their sexual fantasies with a partner and others do not. During this research, I paid particular attention to the influence of the specific fantasy and the individual's relationship.
I am currently the lead of the "Gender, sexuality and intimate relationships" research lab at Birmingham City University. My research interests more widely focus on human sexuality, kink, intimate relationships, sexual communication, inequality and LGBTQ+ experiences. I have previously utilised both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
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I am Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Future Fellow at the University of Tasmania. My field of expertise is geodetic observation of Earth deformation and the global water cycle, including ice-sheet mass balance and sea-level change and particularly using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). I also work on reduction of systematic and random errors in these techniques in order to maximise the information content in the data and improve the reliability of the interpretations. I have authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications including several articles in the leading scientific journals Science, Nature, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. In 2015 I was awarded the Royal Society (London) Kavli Medal and Lecture (see the lecture at https://royalsociety.org/events/2015/04/continental-loss).
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My doctoral research project studies the collaboration between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank from an ideational perspective. I seek to explain why, in marked contrast to parallel developments in the global political economy, the IMF and the World Bank opted to partly deinstitutionalise their collaboration after the global financial crisis.
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Formerly lecturer in politics and international studies at the University of New South Wales, University of Birmingham (UK) and University of Warwick (UK)
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Dean, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
Professor Matt McGuire is the Dean of School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He has over twenty years' of experience in the tertiary education sector of two countries - the UK and Australia.
Professor McGuire has held a number of Senior Management roles within the Australian higher education sector. These include Director of Higher Degrees by Research, Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre, and President of the Australian Universities’ Heads of English. Currently, Professor McGuire is Treasurer and a Board Member of DAASH, the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Professor McGuire’s qualifications include a MA (Honours), MSc and PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He also holds an Executive MBA from the Sydney Graduate School of Management and qualifications from the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Adjunct Professor, Geography, University of Winnipeg
Dr. Matt Morison is a Adjunct Professor of Geography at The University of Winnipeg as well as working in the Water Science and Watershed Management Branch of the Government of Manitoba. Dr. Morison holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo (2018) in Geography and Environmental Management, and a BSc from The University of Winnipeg (2012) in Mathematics and Geography.
The world’s freshwater resources face rising pressure from direct human impacts and the effects of climate change on both water quantity and quality. Climate change, winter warming, forest fire, agricultural land use, permafrost thaw, and oil sands development are just a window into the way we impact - and are impacted by - the water which we need to live.
We urgently need to understand both the state of our natural, less-impacted watersheds and freshwater bodies, as well as monitoring of areas of hard and fast disturbance to be able to make conclusive statements about the effects our activities and climate change are having on these regions. Dr. Morison believes these important research problems requires working at a variety of scales from soil grains and single trees all the way up to catchments thousands of kilometers apart, working within a big team with diverse perspectives and experiences.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Political Science, University of Toronto
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science, at the University of Toronto. I hold a PhD in Politics from Royal Holloway, University of London (2021). My research lies at the intersection of comparative politics, political economy, and political behaviour. I am particularly interested in the consequences of inequality on political behaviour across advanced industrialized countries.
My research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC), and Royal Holloway, University of London.
I've published in American Behavioral Scientist; Canadian Journal of Political Science; Electoral Studies; European Political Science Review; Party Politics; Political Studies; Politics & Policy; Politics, Groups & Identities; Statistics, Politics & Policy; and West European Politics.
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Senior Director of Emerson College Polling, Emerson College
Matt Taglia is the Senior Director of Emerson College Polling.
He has worked in polling, political communications, and political strategy since the 2012 election cycle, most recently consulting on behalf of independent expenditure campaigns for a national organization.
Prior to this, Matt was an independent pollster for private clients and media outlets across the country, specializing in mixed-mode methodology and new approaches to online data collection. He also served as the UK government’s Head of Political, Press, and Public Affairs for the Southeastern US, where he led a team that oversaw diplomatic engagement with politicians, media, and other stakeholders.
He holds his BA (Honours) in politics from Queen’s University in Canada and his MA in political science from Georgia State University, where he focused on political theory and quantitative research methodology.
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Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Leicester
Matt is the author of 'A Blessing and a Curse: Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela' (Stanford University Press, 2023).
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba
I work on the genomics of wildlife, including fish and marine mammals. This work can have both fundamental importance and conservation applications.
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DPhil Candidate, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford
Matteo Gasparini is a DPhil student at Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and Environment (SSEE) and Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), as well as an External Advisor to McKinsey & Co. He works at the intersection between economics, finance and sustainability focusing on the impact of climate change risk and the energy zero transition on financial institutions and the broader financial stability. His research also focuses on how finance could support the energy transition and on assessing the policy implications for financial regulators and central banks. Previously, Matteo was an Associate at McKinsey & Co based in London where he supported leading financial institutions across Europe on climate, risk, strategy and analytics projects. He has also supported the European Central Bank (ECB) on various supervisory projects. Matteo holds an MSc in Financial Markets and Investment from Skema Business School in Paris, an MSc in Economics and Finance from the University of Milan-Bicocca, and a BSc in Economics from the University of Brescia.
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Senior Lecturer in Functional Materials, Nottingham Trent University
Dr. Addicoat’s research interests lie in computational combinatorial chemistry – that is using computer calculations to search and sort many thousands or even millions of possible chemical compounds, before any of them are synthesised. In particular, Dr. Addicoat is interested in applying these methods to materials chemistry, where the following three types of materials are of current interest:
Molecular Framework Materials – Molecular Framework Materials, such as Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) and Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs) are highly porous materials made by stitching together various metal or organic “nodes” (corners) with organic “linkers” (edges) to create 2D and 3D frameworks. These materials typically have high surface area, tuneable pore size and changeable functional groups leading to possible applications in fields such as gas adsorption and separation, catalysis and sensing. Given the hundreds of different networks and the effectively infinite number of molecules that can be used to create a framework material, identifying the optimum framework by chance is highly unlikely.
Ionic Liquids – Ionic liquids (ILs) are liquids comprised entirely of ions, differentiated from typical ionic salts by having melting points below 100 oC. IL melting points are low because electrostatic interactions between component ions are weaker, and crystal lattice packing is hindered. This is typically achieved by making at least one of the ions large, unsymmetrical and organic. The physicochemical properties of ILs can be tuned through a judicious choice of ions. This flexibility has driven wide-ranging research into their use as solvents in green chemistry, energy and electrochemical applications, pharmaceuticals and lubricants.
Transition Metal Clusters – Small clusters of transition metal atoms in the sub-nanometre range have been shown to catalyse a number of environmentally important reactions – e.g. the oxidation of CO and reduction of NO. However, the properties of these clusters are very difficult to predict, and adding or subtracting a single atom can change the reaction rates by several orders of magnitude.
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Assistant Professor of Physical Geography, University of Cambridge
I am a lecturer in Palaeoecology and Quaternary Science. My research focuses on understanding long-term interactions between terrestrial ecosystems, climate and Indigenous land use from centennial to millennial times scales and how the knowledge of this deep-time interactions can assist in addressing contemporary ecological/biodiversity issues.
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Associate Pro Vice Chancellor Employability and Opportunities and Associate Professor in Microeconomics, University of East Anglia
An applied labour market economist, my research has examined the value of degrees and the role of soft skills, to fatherhood and the role of family friendly policies in promoting gender equality, and intersectional equalities in driving lack of access to government support. With a strong interest in Graduate Outcomes and student employability, I am currently Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Employability and Opportunities at UEA, with strategic oversight of our institutional strategy for employability, with a focus on teaching and learning and the wider student experience, Welcome Week and building learner communities, and placement activity.
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I'm a lecturer in politics and the media at Nottingham Trent University. I did my BA degree in politics at NTU before taking a Masters in Politics and Contemporary History at Nottingham. I returned to NTU to do a Phd on the German part system passing my viva in 2009.
My current research interests lie in the area of the British and American political and media system.
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