Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield
Matt Wood is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Politics and Deputy Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics.
He has previously worked in local journalism and lobbying, and has held visiting fellowship positions at the UK Cabinet Office and ANZSOG Institute for Governance, Unviersity of Canberra.
Matt's research interests are diverse, but centre mainly upon understanding the problem of 'anti-politics' as a societal trend of disaffection, disengagement, and anger with liberal democratic politics in western states.
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DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford
I am a DPhil Student at the University of Oxford, working on improving seasonal forecasting. I'm supervised by Tim Woollings and Antje Weisheimer. I also hold an Energy Science Engagement Fellowship at the Royal Meteorological Society, where I help the society bridge the gap between weather/climate and the energy sector. I am interested in climate change, how we can model it and how we can mitigate it.
My PhD is in partnership with AFRY Energy Consultancy, and I will be working for them for 3 months in September 2023.
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Professor of American Literature, Iowa State University
Matthew Wynn Sivils is Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor of American Literature at Iowa State University, where he also directs the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities.
Among other books, he has published the monograph American Environmental Fiction, 1782–1847 (Routledge, 2014), an edition of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Gothic novel, Sir Rohan’s Ghost (Anthem, 2020); the critical anthology, Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (with Dawn Keetley, Routledge, 2017); and an edition of Paul Errington’s Of Wilderness and Wolves (University of Iowa Press, 2015).
Sivils’s articles have appeared in various critical anthologies as well as scholarly journals such as ANQ, Literature and Medicine, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Southern Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction, and Western American Literature. He recently guest-edited a special, double-issue of Studies in American Fiction on the ecogothic in American literature.
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PhD Student in Quantitative Psychology, University of Connecticut
I’m a PhD student in Quantitative Psychology at the University of Connecticut. My research involves developing statistical methods and software to aide in meta-analysis and evidence synthesis. Specifically, my current research projects focus on correcting bias in effect size estimates caused by statistical artifacts. My advisor is Dr. Blair T. Johnson and I am a member of the Systematic Health Action Research Program (SHARP). I am also on the editorial board for Psychological Bulletin as a methodological reviewer.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Iowa State University
Matthew Hill works at the intersection of archaeology, vertebrate paleontology, and ecology to address questions about the people who lived on the eastern Great Plains and Upper Midwest at the end of the last Ice Age (ca. 12,000-9,000 years ago). Current research falls into several areas, including the cause of terminal extinction or regional extinction of Ice Age animals such as muskox, moose, caribou, ground sloth, and flat-headed peccary. Other active research concerns the diet and subsistence activities of late prehistoric villagers in central Iowa, Late Paleoindian ritual practices in the western Great Lakes, colonization and settlement of the Upper Midwest, and the formation of ancient bone assemblages in fluvial contexts.
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Associate Professor, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to this appointment, I was an Assistant Professor in the School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on African politics, global indigenous politics, land tenure reform, migration and conflict, natural resources and governance, peacebuilding and political violence. My work has appeared in journals such as African Studies Review; Commonwealth & Comparative Politics; Conflict, Security & Development; Democratization; Ethnopolitics; Journal of Agrarian Change; Journal of Peace Research; Politics, Groups, and Identities; and The International Journal of Human Rights. I have also published in numerous edited volumes and am a co-editor of New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State (Routledge, 2019). I have conducted fieldwork in Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Uganda, and is currently principal investigator on a SSHRC Insight Grant (2017-2023) titled “The Far North Act in Ontario and the Plan Nord in Québec: Sons of the Soil Conflicts in the Making?
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Professor of Politics and Forced Migration, University of Oxford
Matthew J. Gibney is Professor of Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. He specialises in the political and ethical issues raised by refugees, citizenship, and migration control. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he was educated at Monash University (BEc (Hons)) and, as a Commonwealth Scholar, at King’s College, University of Cambridge (MPhil; PhD).
Matthew is the author of many scholarly articles, chapters and books, including The Ethics and Politics of Asylum (2004), Globalizing Rights (2003), which has been translated into Italian and Spanish, The Normative, Historical and Political Contours of Deportation (2013) (edited with Bridget Anderson and Emanuela Paoletti) and (with Randall Hansen) Immigration and Asylum (2005), a three volume encyclopedia.
His published research has dealt with issues of asylum, deportation, citizenship, globalization, and statelessness and has appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Government and Opposition, Political Studies and Citizenship Studies, as well as several anthologies of influential academic writing in migration studies and in international relations.
He is currently writing a book entitled, Denationalization and the Liberal State
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Associate Professor of Astrophysics, Stockholm University
My research is focused on the origin and evolution of galaxies, where I am concerned with how galaxies are assembled in the early universe and evolve to become the population of galaxies we see at the present day. Aside from being interested in galaxy surveys, I typically say I have the following overlapping main interests:
The reionization process and the sources that drove it. The infering the neutral fraction of the intergalactic medium, understanding the properties of the first galaxies, Lyman alpha emission, the escape of ionizing radiation, etc.
The circumgalactic medium. What are the thermodynamic properties of 'galactic atmospheres'? Can we map CGM gas in emission, measure its thermal state, figure out where the metals are, etc.
Stellar feedback and galaxy winds. How does energy returned by massive stars interact with the ambient material in the galaxy? How are winds launched and accelerated, and what influence does this have on galaxy conditions and the future of star formation.
The formation of the first black holes. Were the first black holes formed by direct collapse, popullation III star formation, or other processes? How can surveys of massive black holes in the early universe inform this?
Star formation histories and stellar modeling. How can we infer the star formation history of galaxies using spatially resolve high resolution imaging and large wavelength baseline spectroscopy from multiple telescopes.
Nebular diagnostics. How can we infer the properties of warm gas in and around galaxies, and how reliable are these measurements?
My approach to answering these questions is mostly observational. I use mainly the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, and the European Southern Observatory, although we use any telescope that can provide unique measurements.
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Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
I am a medical anthropologist and historian of medicine in the U.S., focusing on psychiatry and neuroscience in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. My work focuses on disabilities as they are social produced and offers ways to reconceptualize the role of institutions in the experiences of disability, health, and well-being. I hold a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology, an M.A. in American Cultural Studies, an M.A. in English Literature (with a focus on Science Fiction Studies), and a B.A. in English Literature and Language. I've published four books: The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and American Life (2012), Theory for the World to Come (2019), Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (2020), and American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within (2024), all published by the University of Minnesota Press.
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Professor of Palaeoproteomics, University of Cambridge
In addition to his post in Cambridge Matthew Collins is professor of Biomolecular Archaeology and the GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen.
Prior to joining Cambridge Matthew founded BioArCh, a collaboration between the departments of biology, chemistry and archaeology (BioArCh: Biology Archaeology, Chemistry) at the University of York
His research focuses on the persistence of proteins in ancient samples, using modelling to explore the racemization of amino acids and thermal history to predict the survival of DNA and other molecules. Using a combination of approaches (including immunology and protein mass spectrometry) his research detects and interprets protein remnants in archaeological and fossil remains.
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Lecturer and Researcher of Education Policy, School of Education, Curtin University
Dr. Matthew P. Sinclair is a lecturer of education policy at Curtin University’s School of Education in Western Australia.
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Associate Professor of Biology, Ambrose University
BSc (Honours, Co-op) in Marine Biology, Dalhousie University
MSc in Environmental Genomics (University of Calgary)
PhD in Evolutionary Biology (University of Calgary)
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Curator of the Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History, Duke University
Dr. Borths is Curator of the DLC Museum of Natural History. He earned his bachelor's degrees from The Ohio State University (Geological Sciences and Anthropology) and his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University (Anatomical Sciences).
Matt is a paleontologist who studies the evolution of animals in Africa, particularly the evolution of carnivorous mammals and primates. He has been part of field projects in Egypt, Madagascar, Oman, Kenya, Tanzania, Wyoming, and North Dakota. He is also interested in the sustainability of natural history collections and the integration of specimen databases. Matt is also the co-host of Aye-Aye Pod, the official podcast of the Duke Lemur Center.
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Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dr. Matthew T. Hughes is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023, where his researched focused on the potential of acoustically enhanced condensation heat transfer and the role of machine learning in the thermal sciences. His current work at MIT focuses on developing advanced diagnostics to help shed light on complex phase-change heat transfer phenomena encountered in common energy conversion systems. Beyond that, Matt has conducted research on simultaneous energy and resource recovery methods in water reclamation facilities, experimentally characterizing and enhancing waste-heat driven absorption chillers, and dynamic modeling and re-optimization of water-cooled vapor compression chillers.
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Associate Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, University of Tasmania
Associate Professor Matthew Harrison is an award-winning scientist based at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture in Launceston, Australia. Matt is internationally renowned for his work in improving the sustainability of agricultural and land-use systems through innovative economic, environmental and social solutions to demand-driven problems. His team uses systems thinking to develop skills, technologies and practices aimed at improving food production, enterprise profitability, social licence to operate and long-term agri-food sustainability. The impact of his work on carbon removals, greenhouse gas emissions, the climate crisis and food security will have enduring benefits for decades to come.
Matt is the Director of the Carbon Storage Partnership, a multi-million-dollar transdisciplinary initiative that is developing environmentally-contextualised and socially-acceptable pathways aimed at profitably progressing the entire Australia livestock sector to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Matt has long engendered a culture of research excellence, as shown by his mentoring and supervision of colleagues, his training of the next generation of scientists, and his inclusive approach to leading diverse teams of people. He has supervised numerous Honours, Masters and PhD scholars through to successful completion, and he welcomes enquiries relating to research supervision or collaboration. As an egalitarian, he regularly advocates for social equality of people he works with.
The knowledge, skills and technologies developed by Matt and his co-workers have contributed significantly to the University of Tasmania’s ‘well-above world standard’ Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) rankings in ‘Agriculture, Land and Farm Management’ and ‘Crop and Pasture Production’.
*Career biography*
After completing undergraduate degrees in Applied Science, Plant Science (Hons) and Civil Engineering (Hons), Matt conducted a PhD with the Australian National University while based at the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia.
From 2009, he conducted post-doctoral fellowships at the CSIRO in Canberra, Australia, working with various stakeholders to develop fit-for-purpose, legitimate and sustainable livestock production systems. Matt later worked at the ‘Institut Nationale de la Recherche Agronomique’ (INRA) in Montpellier, France, and during this period he spent extensive time at Pioneer Hi-Bred International in Des Moines, USA, and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Since completing his undergraduate degrees, Matt worked with- and was tutored by preeminent scientists in crop breeding, systems modelling, agronomy, computer-, plant- and animal-science. His post-doctoral research integrated the physics, maths and computer science from his engineering background into agricultural science. It was truly a multi-disciplinary training pathway.
Matt joined the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture in 2012 at the Cradle Coast Campus in Burnie, Australia. In 2022, he relocated to Launceston in support of the University’s strategic plan to grow a critical mass of world-class plant scientists in the north of the State.
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Ecological Modeller at RIFCON GmbH, Germany and Affiliate at the Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
I am interested in behavioural ecology, focusing on colony organisation and division of labour in social bees. I combine experimental work with computer simulations to better understand the complex processes within a colony and its interactions with the environment.
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Associate professor of finance, HEC Paris Business School
Matthias Efing is an Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris. His research on financial intermediation, corporate finance, and governance has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Finance, the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and the Journal of International Economics. Professor Efing holds a PhD in finance from the Swiss Finance Institute and graduated as Diplomkaufmann from the University of Mannheim.
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Education
M.A., Philosophy, University of Vienna
M.S., Formal Logic, University of Vienna
M.Sc.E., Computer Engineering, Vienna University of Technology
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Vienna
M.A., Computer Science, Indiana University
Ph.D., Jointly Cognitive and Computer Science, Indiana University
Research
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Life
Cognitive Modeling
Complex Systems
Foundations of Cognitive Science
Human-Robot Interaction
Multi-scale Agent-based Models
Natural Language Processing
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PhD candidate in Education, Simon Fraser University
I am a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education of Simon Fraser University. My scholarship is in adult education and digital technologies with a focus on digital equity, adult literacy, second language education, and newcomer settlement. My research interest is in documenting adult learners’ experiences with digital access and use of resources and services online. Since earning a BA from Concordia University in 1999 and a MA from UQAM in 2003, I have worked for non-profits in the basic skills and newcomer settlement sectors as project coordinator, researcher, and evaluator on provincially and federally funded projects in Canada. I also work as a research consultant for blended distance learning projects in the US. I have published in English, French, and German.
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Maître de conférences en sociologie du sport, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Ancien élève de l'ENS de Rennes (département Sciences du sport et éducation physique) puis professeur agrégé d'EPS à l'ENS de Lyon, Matthieu Quidu est aujourd'hui maître de conférences en STAPS (Sciences et techniques des activités physiques et sportives) à l'Université Lyon 1. Chercheur au sein du L-ViS (Laboratoire sur les Vulnérabilités et l'Innovation dans le Sport), il enseigne au sein de l'INSPE de Lyon. Ses recherches sociologiques et philosophiques portent sur les tendances sportives innovantes, que celles-ci concernent l'utilisation des dispositifs d'auto-quantification (self-tracking) ou l'essor de la sobriété et de la simplicité volontaire dans le domaine des loisirs physiques.
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Étudiant la maîtrise en biologie, Université Laval
Je réalise actuellement une maîtrise en biologie à l'Université Laval, où je me penche sur la prédation du renard arctique sur les nids d'oies des neiges. À partir d'observations comportementales et d'expériences sur le terrain nous vérifions des hypothèses concernant les mécanismes influençant la force de l'interaction de prédation.
Le baccalauréat en biologie à l'Université du Québec à Montréal, m'a permis de participer durant deux étés à des études sur la faune cavicole en Abitibi. Les projets étaient surtout centrés sur le Grand pic et les utilisateurs secondaires des cavités qu'il creuse dans les arbres.
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Lecturer in ecology, Curtin University
I am a researcher interested in aquatic environments - both superficial and subterranean - and the incorporation of multidisciplinary designs into the study of functional ecology.
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Associate Professor of Ethnology, Stockholm University
Reader/associate professor in ethnology with an interest in collective memory processes, difficult cultural heritage and issues at the intersection between nature and culture. Coordinate the Critical Heritage Studies Network (CHSN) at Stockholms universitet. In my thesis, I analyzed social hierarchies in (re)production of contemporary royalty in Sweden. By studying arenas where royalty was present, I showed how social authority was pruduced at the intersection between notions of exclusivity and commonness. The analysis also demonstrated the symbolic and actual importance of the material in the exercise of power, and how rituals forms social superiority.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Institute of Palliative Care, Lund University
I'm a clinical psychologist and a researcher. My focus is communication, compassion as well as psycho-therapeutic interventions in palliative care.
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Assistant Professor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Mattie is an Assistant Professor at Warwick Business School, a Senior Research Affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford, and an Academic Affiliate at the Office of Evaluation Sciences in the U.S. government. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Mattie's work uses behavioural and experimental economics to address policy-relevant questions.
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Lecturer in English, University College Cork
I lecture in the School of English and Digital Humanities in University College Cork. I am an Irish Studies scholar, specializing in women's writing, from the late nineteenth century to today. Much of my work is ecofeminist analysis, including my first book, The Female and the Species: The Animal in Irish Women's Writing.
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Professor, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University
Currently teaching in curriculum studies at SU; formerly dean of education at Stellenbosch University and Cape Peninsula University of Technology, academic at University of the Western Cape, and high school teacher.
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Researcher, Rhodes University
Dr Maureen Bilinga Tendwa is a researcher at Rhodes University, a senior scientific researcher at the Global Health Catalyst and an expert evaluator of Complementary Medicine with the South African Health Product Regulatory Authority. She also serves as a moderator at the University of Johannesburg's Department of Medicine and practices Clinical Phytomedicine. Dr Tendwa focuses on addressing health disparities and promoting sustainable health systems in Africa. She holds a PhD in Bioinformatics with a specialization in Pharmacogenomics in Oncology from Rhodes University, an MSc in Medical BioSciences, and a Post-graduate Certificate in Globalization and Health from the University of Western Cape. Additionally, she has extensive experience as a researcher with the Human Heredity and Health in Africa consortium and is a mediator and arbitrator in medical negligence cases. Dr Tendwa has numerous publications on Afrocentric oncology studies in reputable journals.
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Distinguished Professor and UNESCO Chair in Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability, Reconciliation and Renewal, University of Saskatchewan
I am Distinguished Professor and UNESCO Chair in Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability, Reconciliation and Renewal at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. My research, academic service and teaching focus on the social dimensions of sustainability, gender relations and diversity, collaborative environmental governance, and community engagement. I have conducted research about and with UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (called Regions in Canada) since the early 2000s, working with individual sites and with the national network to support capacity building in conservation, sustainable development, and reconciliation. I also work with rural and Indigenous communities to understand and plan for climate hazards. Presently, I'm leading an international partnership to train graduate students working in transdisciplinary sustainability science professional, relational and intercultural skills and competencies necessary to become sustainability change makers.
More details of my research program can be found on my website or via ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0860-6395
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Lecturer in Nursing, University of Manchester
I am an academic with a background in nursing who works at the intersections of health sciences, sociology, and cultural studies. My work addresses issues around death, sex, drugs, HIV and more recently covid-19.
I have an undergraduate degree in Nursing, an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture, and a PhD in nursing.
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PhD Candidate, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
PhD Candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia working climate adaptation. Previous experience as a municipal engineer working on drainage masterplans.
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Associate Professor, Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics, Macquarie University
My research interest is to uncover cutting-edge trends, reveal critical knowledge gaps and connect scholarly communities by creating novel literature-based discovery methods. I have developed a strong interest in creating innovative research methods and have enhanced conventional research methods using text mining and machine learning. In doing so, I act as a boundary spanner between disciplines, research communities, academics and practitioners.
I have received several internal and external awards for my innovative learning and teaching methods.
I am part of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Management. In addition, I have published in top-tier journals such as the European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Information Management and Technological Forecasting and Social Change journal.
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Victoria
I am a native of Medellin, Colombia. After completing my bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Antioquia, I relocated to Georgia (US), where I obtained my Master’s (2005) and PhD (2008) in Psychology (School Psychology/Developmental Neuropsychology emphasis) at the University of Georgia. I am now an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada), which I joined in 2008. At UVic, I created the CORTEX lab [www.cortex.uvic.ca], a research lab specialized in the study of the neural and behavioural foundations of executive functioning. I am now the Associate Dean Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Social Sciences. I also serve as Associate Editor of the APA journal Psychological Assessment and I am the past President of the Latin American Association of Neuropsychology (2018-2021). My research focuses on the study of executive functioning, our ability to problem-solve, make decisions, and organize cognitive processes towards achieving a goal. I have a particular interest in the psychometric assessment of executive function, but most of my research focuses on clinical events or environmental variables that may modify the lifespan development of this self-regulatory capacity, such as the effects of positive life experiences ranging from sports participation and leadership-based employment to negative experiences such as brain injury (e.g., sports concussions, hypoxic/anoxic brain damage associated with synthetic drug overdose), the experience of war, and the intersections between brain injury, mental health, and addictions.
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I am a social theorist working on the historical, conceptual, and political implications of the life sciences. I have held two EU Marie Curie Fellowships, a Fulbright scholarship, and an Annual Membership (2014–2015) at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. I am the author of Political Biology: Science and Social Value in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics (Palgrave, 2016)
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Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, New York University
Dr. Maurizio Porfiri is an Institute Professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, with tenured appointments at the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress of New York University. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, in 2000 and 2006; a “Laurea” in Electrical Engineering (with honors) and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Toulon (dual degree program), in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He has been on the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department since 2006, when he founded the Dynamical Systems Laboratory.
Dr. Porfiri is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served in the Editorial Board of ASME Journal of Dynamics systems, Measurements and Control, ASME Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics, Flow: Applications of Fluid Mechanics, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Mathematics in Engineering, and Mechatronics. Dr. Porfiri is engaged in conducting and supervising research on complex systems, with applications from mechanics to behavior, public health, and robotics.
He is the author of approximately 400 journal publications, including papers in Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, and Physical Review Letters. He was included in the “Brilliant 10” list of Popular Science in 2010 and his research featured in major media outlets, such as CNN, NPR, Scientific American, and Discovery Channel. Other significant recognitions include National Science Foundation CAREER award; invitations to the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium and the Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by National Academy of Engineering; invitation to the third and fourth World Laureate Forums; the Outstanding Young Alumnus award by the college of Engineering of Virginia Tech; the ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award; the ASME DSCD Young Investigator Award; the ASME C.D. Mote, Jr. Early Career Award; and the Research Excellence Award from New York University Tandon School of Engineering.
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