Professor of Religion and Art History, Rice University
Marcia Brennan’s research engages clinical aesthetics and the medical humanities, spirituality and comparative mysticism, and modern art and museum studies. She is the author of several books, including Curating Consciousness: Mysticism and the Modern Museum, Modernism’s Masculine Subjects: Matisse, The New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction, and Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics. She is the winner of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize, and the recipient of grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Office of Research, Rice University, and Rice’s Humanities Research Center. She has served as a Fellow at Rice’s Center for Teaching Excellence, and she has been awarded the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. Since 2009, she has also served as an Artist In Residence in the Department of Palliative Medicine at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Her experiences in this setting represent the subject of her books The Heart of the Hereafter: Love Stories from the End of Life, Life at the End of Life: Finding Words Beyond Words, and A Rose From Two Gardens: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and Images of the End of Life.
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Professor, University of South Africa
Marcia Mkansi is a professor at the University of South Africa. Her specialist subject is supply chain and operations management, with a specific focus on e-grocery supply chain, healthcare supply chain, innovation and research methods.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate Dynamics, University of Oxford
I am a postdoc researcher at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, working under the supervision of Dr Neil Hart. Our objective is to understand how changes in circulation are affecting the SACZ location, intensity, and persistence. This framework can also be used to evaluate climate model's performance and identify mechanisms that are not well reproduced by the simulations.
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Research professor of geospatial technology, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Marcia Moreno-Baez is a Research Professor in Geospatial Technology at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She also serves as an associate advisor to Andanza LLC, a consultancy supporting individuals, groups, collectives, and institutions in increasing environmental and human well-being. She is a collaborating professor at the NIPPON Foundation Ocean Nexus and the board secretary of Maine Big Night, a non-profit organization committed to protecting and studying amphibians. Marcia is the co-founder and advisor of dataMares, an initiative to facilitate access to scientific knowledge and data, and the co-founder of Watershed Management Group, a non-governmental organization focused on developing community-based solutions for environmental prosperity. With over 25 years of experience in geospatial technology, she has worked in government, the private sector, NGOs, and academia. Her expertise includes facilitating the practical use of science and technology to create a spatially literate workforce and supporting scientific research and policy in the US, Mexico, and Latin America. She is a member of the Center for the International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), the Climate Policy Lab, and the Henry J. Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Marcia earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She teaches classes on geospatial technology, focusing on developing methods for applications such as human security, economic development, humanitarian assistance, climate change, and natural resource management worldwide.
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Lecturer in Media and Technology Studies, University of Alberta
Dr. Adria is an accomplished teacher, a distinguished academic leader, and an internationally published researcher. He has held the positions of Associate Dean, Acting Dean, and Founding Graduate Program Director (the Master of Arts in Communications and Technology) at the University of Alberta. He has also taught in the Business School at Athabasca University. He is a former president of the Canadian Library Trustees’ Association and a recipient of the Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the New York based Media Ecology Association.
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
I am an Astrophysicist with strong interests in astro-particle physics and cosmology. My interests lie in the evolution of super-massive black holes and galaxies, the generation of truly diffuse backgrounds (from infrared to gamma rays), high-energy transients and high-energy sources in general. Recently I turned my attention to the evolution of the extragalactic background light and the role of the first stars during the epoch of re-ionization. I work with a number of instruments and telescopes both from the ground and in space, but my all-time favorites are the NASA missions Fermi, Swift, and NuSTAR.
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Lecturer, Law School, Auckland University of Technology
Dr Marco de Jong is a Pacific historian and lecturer at the AUT Law School. He was raised in Tāmaki Makaurau with ties to Papa Puleia in Sāmoa. His work details the history of regional politics and environmental governance in the Pacific Islands with a particular focus on Indigenous knowledge, nature conservation, anti-nuclearism, and climate change.
Prior to joining AUT, Marco completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and worked in civil society organisations advocating for an independent, nuclear free, and Pacific-led foreign policy for Aotearoa.
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PhD Candidate in Communication, Arizona State University
I am a Doctoral Candidate and Graduate Teaching Associate in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. I am a multi-method social scientist who studies Human-Machine Communication, Human-AI Communication, and the social impact of communication technologies.
I use qualitative, quantitative, and rhetorical methods including interviews, textual analysis, thematic analysis, surveys, and experiments. My work integrates methods, concepts, and theories from a variety of disciplines and areas including communication studies, critical/cultural studies, human-computer and human-robot interaction, as well as sexuality studies.
Currently, I am working on my PhD with a focus on how humans build relationships with machines such as social robots and AI technologies. In particular, my dissertation uses qualitative methods to explore human-machine relationality (how humans form relationships with machines like robots).
My research has been published in a variety of academic journals such as Human Communication Research, Human-Machine Communication, Review of Communication, and in book chapters published by Routledge and SAGE (forthcoming). My article "Persuasion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Theories and Complications of AI-based Persuasion" received the 2022 Outstanding Article Award from the Human Communication and Technology Division of the National Communication Association.
In June 2022, I was featured on the National Communication Association’s Podcast Series “Communication Matters” on the topic of alternative academic careers for communication graduate students. In October 2022, I was featured on the German science communication portal Wissenschaftskommunikation.de in an interview about the topic of transformation.
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Professor of Paleontology, Sapienza University of Rome
Marco Romano received his PhD in Earth Science (vertebrate paleontology) from Sapienza, University of Rome Italy, with a focus on the phylogeny of basal synapsids (Family Caseidae, Casesauria, Synapsida). Since 2012 he has been a Research Associate in Vertebrate Paleontology at the Sam Noble Museum (Norman, Oklahoma) and since 2018 has been a corresponding member of the Subcomission on Permian Stratigraphy (International Commission on Stratigraphy). After completing his PhD he spent two years at the Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions of Berlin, as post-doc researcher in vertebrate paleontology in the framework of the Sofja Kovalevskaja-Project “Early Evolution and Diversification of Synapsida.“
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Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Marco Solmi, MD, psychiatrist, PhD, is Associate Professor and Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Canada, Medical Director of On Track First Episode Psychosis program and of the Eating Disorders program, The Ottawa Hospital, Scientist, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Berlin, visiting academic at University of Southampton, School of psychology and King's College, IoPPN, Psychosis Department, UK, and affiliate at the Stanford University METRIC center.
He is Chair of ECNP Physical And meNtal Health (PAN-Health) Thematic Working Group (TWG), and member of the others European and Canadian psychiatric associations. He is interested in meta-research and epidemiology, to study prevention/early interventions, psychopharmacology, and physical health in those with mental disorders.
He authored over 420 publications in leading medical journals, is among top 0.1% Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers in Psychiatry and Psychology since 2021, and his work has been cited over 30,000 times.
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Professor of International History and Security, Lancaster University
Marco Wyss is Professor of International History and Security and the Director of the Centre for War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University; a Research Fellow at the Department of Military History, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Before coming to Lancaster, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester, and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich. He also was a Senior Humboldt Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, a Senior Researcher at the University of Lausanne and a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, and held visiting professorships at Sciences Po Lille and Sciences Po Aix. Marco gained his PhD in Politics and International Relations, as well as in History, from the Universities of Nottingham and Neuchâtel.
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Coordinator, Science, Technology and Innovation Unit, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Marco coordinates the Science, Technology and Innovation Unit of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. He holds a PhD from KTH - the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also a Visiting Professor at Kobe Institute of Computing (KIC) in Kobe, Japan.
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Professor in Urban Mobility Futures, University of Amsterdam
Professor in Urban Mobility Futures, at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam. Specialized in the integration between land use and mobility and the use of knowledge in strategy- and decision making. As Chairman of the Board of the Urban Cycling Institute I support research on how cycling is linked to phenomena in the social and spatial environment. As founding academic director of the Lab of Thought I critically study the narratives we use to think about mobility (futures) and constructively look for alternative narratives.
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Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies, Brunel University London
Marco-Benoît Carbone is a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Brunel University, London.
His interdisciplinary research revolves around the social and mediated dynamics of identity-making. He authored the monograph 'Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) about heritage and identity in South Italy and is currently carrying out research projects on regional and transnational Italian identities.
His areas of expertise include the dimension of play and games research.
His recent study on Super Mario focuses on ethnicity and character creation in the cultural industries:
Carbone, M.B. (2022) 'Olive Face, Italian Voice: Constructing Super Mario as an Italian-American' (1981–1996). Cinergie, 11(22), 127–144. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/15824
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Honorary Research Fellow, UCL Social Research Institute, UCL
Marcos González Hernando is Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Social Research Institute, Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad Diego Portales and Adjunct Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion.
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Assistant Professor of Space Studies, University of North Dakota
Passionate Aerospace and Aeronautical professor, I hold a broad background experience embracing all levels of research, from the development of the proposal through project management. Broad research interests in rocket propulsion systems (chemical, electric, air-breathing and nuclear), and hypersonic aerodynamics at scientific, engineering and geopolitical level. More than 20 years of professional experience in the industry, having worked for universities and colleges, Civil Aviation Administrations, international aviation organizations, and air transport consultancies in the U.S. and abroad. Training experience in a wide variety of cultural environments, including the U.S., Europe, South Korea, Morocco, Jordan, Mauritania, and Nepal. Instructor of chemical space propulsion, nuclear space propulsion, electrical space propulsion, jet engines and hypersonic aerodynamics. Gregarious and assertive, able to reach the organization’s objectives while optimizing the full potential of the students.
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PhD candidate, Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford
Marcus is working on choreographing tragedy at the turn of the twenty-first century, with a particular focus on the relationships between the postmodern and the classical. They completed their BA and MA in Classical Reception at King's College London with Professor Edith Hall before moving to Oxford, where they are supervised by Professors Fiona Macintosh and Felix Budelmann. Marcus is a dancer and choreographer and so he is also interested in practice-based, and practice-as-research. Through the development of their thesis they aim to align queer theory and practice in theatre and performance studies with assemblage-thinking to critically explore the tangles and encounters taking place when embodied receptions, or dynamic integrations, of the ancient world are positioned against modernism and modernity.
Marcus dances with Oxford-London based dance company Thomas Page Dances and they are an artistic associate with By Jove Theatre company. They are co-convening the Corpus Christi seminar series titled 'Queer and the Classical: Futures and Potentialities' and lecturing at Goldsmiths. Their other interests include pantomime dance, epic, poetry, philosophy, and film studies.
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Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School
Marcus M. Larsen, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management at Copenhagen Business School. His research—which has been published in top-tier academic journals and received several international prizes—lies on the intersection of strategy, organizational theory and international business, with a particular focus on offshoring and emerging economy multinationals. He teaches students at all levels on issues relating to strategic management and international business and is the author of several teaching cases which are actively used around the world.
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Marcus Maloney is Assistant Professor in Sociology with the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University. His research focuses on ideological contestations in digital spaces; men and masculinities online; video game narratives, cultures, and communities; and postdigital intimacies and socialities. Marcus has published widely in these areas, including articles in Cultural Sociology, New Media & Society and Games and Culture. His most recent book is Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming: Analysing Reddit's r/gaming Community (Palgrave 2019).
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Adjunct Lecturer in Sports Law, University of Toronto
Marcus is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto where he teaches courses on Global Sports Law and Canadian Sports Law. Marcus is also a lawyer for the Ontario Ministry of Health.
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Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, Middlesex University
Marcus O'Dair co-leads the Popular Music BA at Middlesex University, where he is convenor of the Blockchain for Creative Industries research cluster. He is the author of Different Every Time: the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt (Serpent's Tail, 2014). Shortlisted for the Penderyn music book prize, it was a Radio 4 book of the week and a book of the year in the Guardian, the Independent, the Times, the Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, Mojo Uncut.
Marcus has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Irish Times, Uncut, the Arts Desk, the Quietus, Pitchfork, Wire and Jazzwise. He is an occasional studio guest on BBC 6 Music (Freak Zone, Freakier Zone) and BBC Radio 3 (Jazz on 3, the Essay) and has presented music podcasts for the Independent, Music Week and the Barbican.
As a keyboard player, double bassist and manager, Marcus is one half of Grasscut, who have released three acclaimed albums (Ninja Tune, Lo Recordings) and performed across Europe. As a session musician, he also spent several years on retainer with Passenger, performing at festivals including V and Latitude and live on Radio 2 and Radio 4, but somehow managed to leave before Let Her Go became an international number one.
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Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham
I am a lecturer in English Language and Linguistics. My research examines iconicity in speech and gesture, with special interest in the evolution of human communication. I also study the gesturing and vocal behaviour of great apes.
I joined the Department of English Language and Linguistics in September of 2017. Before coming to Birmingham, I earned my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with Raymond Gibbs. Following this, I was a postdoc at the Gorilla Foundation, where I studied under the gorilla Koko. I then did postdocs in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced, and in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently, I was a postdoc in the Language and Cognition department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
My research is driven by two big questions. What is language? and Where did it come from? My main angle into these questions is through iconicity – resemblance between the form of a signal and its meaning. My work examines iconicity across a range of phenomena, from prosody in the production of spoken sentences, to word learning by children, to the gesturing of gorillas. I am especially interested in the role of iconicity in the evolution of human communication and the ongoing historical development of languages.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter
I am an ecologist interested in how species respond to environmental change. My research involves a combination of fieldwork and modelling to investigate how climate and habitat influence the persistence of species within landscapes. Butterflies are a particular passion of mine, with their ecology and conservation forming a focus for much of my work.
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Associate Professor of Management, University of North Texas
Marcus Wolfe is the G. Brint Ryan Professor of Entrepreneurship, and an Associate Professor in the Ryan College of Business at the University of North Texas. His research primarily focuses on individual cognition and decision making at all stages of the entrepreneurial process, the potential clinical and biological factors that influence entrepreneurial health and well-being, as well as emotions and entrepreneurial failure. His research has appeared in a number of leading academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal among others. He serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management, and Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Additionally, prior to beginning his career in academia Marcus was also involved in helping to found and run several new venture start-ups in a wide range of industry sectors.
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Policy Analyst, Indigenous Knowledge
Marcus (He/him) has a Bachelor of Science Majoring in Biological sciences and Philosophy from the University of Canterbury, a Post-graduate Diploma in Applied Science from Lincoln University, and is currently working on his Thesis at the University of Canterbury in seed banking methods and cultural protocols for seed banking.
Marcus-Rongowhitiao has a keen interest in using both traditional scientific practices, as well as mātauranga Māori research practices. He has experience working alongside Kaumātua across the country as well as researchers across New Zealand Universities and Research agencies in the biosecurity, language and wider science space.
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PhD candidate, Queensland University of Technology
Maree is a PhD candidate at the School of Justice at QUT. Her thesis focuses on young people's experiences of pornography and school-based pornography education. She is co-founder and Director of the Australian violence prevention initiative It's time we talked and co-producer and co-director of the broadcast documentary films, Love and Sex in an Age of Pornography and The Porn Factor. She is also author of In The Picture, a resource to support secondary schools to develop a tailored, whole school approach address pornography's influence and Talking Respect, a resource to support conversations about healthy relationships and media influence with young people in the Northern Territory. Maree delivers conference presentations and professional learning to a wide range of sectors in Australia and internationally.
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La Trobe University
Maree Patsouras is a PhD candidate and research associate at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR) at La Trobe University. She completed her honours Psychology degree on digital and media alcohol exposure. Her other research interests include emerging technologies and women’s alcohol use.
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Programme Leader for MA International Journalism, University of Salford
Two decades in overseas media development training and consultancy after 15 years with BBC Global News and World Service in London as broadcast journalist and editor. Expertise and experience in FSU, Eastern Europe and international affairs, media regulation and public service broadcasting.
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With a passion for exploring bleeding edge technologies and using them to create opportunities and solve problems, Marek has extensive industry based innovation implementation experience together with a strong academic background.
With a high quality publication record and registered patents, Marek is academically rigorous and actively applies research to industry outcomes. His role of Senior Director, Products and Innovation with SAP, Silicon Valley saw him successfully lead teams of researchers and developers in many innovative projects. He drove the set up of a brand new SAP Research centre in Singapore and SAP’s newest, flagship series of developer events, d-kom. Marek is also a co-founder of Business Information Systems Institute (I2G), a successful spin-off delivering high quality R&D services in statistical NLP, information extraction, data mining and data integration.
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Marek's research focuses on various aspects of competition law and policy in international and transnational contexts, including the limits of extraterritorial jurisdiction and state involvement in anticompetitive practices. In broader terms, his interests lie in international economic law.
Before joining Queen's Marek was a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago. He holds a PhD from University College Dublin (completed on a prestigious Ad Astra Scholarship), an LLM (with specializations in EU Economic and World Trade Law) from the Saarland University’s European Institute, and MA degrees from the Warsaw School of Economics.
Marek is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at the Loyola University Chicago (US); an Associate Member of the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies at the Warsaw University (Poland); and a Fellow of the European Law Institute (Austria). He is also a member of a number of academic societies-- among them the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), Academic Society for Competition Law, and Competition Law Scholars Forum. Marek has been also nominated by the Polish Competition Authority to serve as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network
He has taught Contract Law, EU Law (both Constitutional and Substantive/Economic), International and Comparative Competition Law, EU Competition Law, and International Trade Law.
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Professor, Head of School of Learning Development and Professional Practice, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Professor Marek Tesar is Head of School of Learning Development and Professional Practice, and the Associate Dean International at the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland. He is also the director of Centre for Global Childhoods, and the Chair of Early Years, Childhood Studies and Child Development Research and Teaching Hub. His award-winning scholarship is focused on early childhood education in both New Zealand as well as in cross-country contexts. His academic work and consultancy focuses on educational policy, philosophy, pedagogy, methodology and curriculum, and draws on his background as a qualified teacher. Currently, Marek serves as a leader of two leading learned societies in his fields; he chairs the Steering Committee of the Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE), and is elected President of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA).
Marek’s scholarship and activism merges theoretical work with a practical focus on the everyday lives of children and their childhoods in Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas. He has published 200 peer-reviewed publications, and his scholarly work has received many prestigious national and international awards and accolades. He edits 4 educational book series with renowned publishers, is Editor of 6 academic journals, and sits on over 20 international editorial boards.
In 2016 Marek led a team of international and local experts in Indonesia to establish a research centre of excellence for early childhood education, care and parenting, that serves the South-East Asia region (SEAMEO). While his research is mainly focused on the early years, he has substantial experience and knowledge of educational systems more generally. Since 2018, Marek has been leading a team of New Zealand early childhood experts to deliver a curriculum framework, and teaching and parenting programmes in China. In 2020, Marek was appointed as a Research Fellow at SEAMEO to provide expertise on future research and development initiatives and programmes, and enhance cooperation in education, science and culture in Southeast Asia.
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Lecturer of Federalism, Debark University
I teach and conduct research on governance, federalism, human rights and political science. I graduated from the University of Antwerp, Belgium (2023) with an MSc in governance and development. I also did my MA (2013) in federalism studies and BA (2010) in journalism and communications at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
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