Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist, Food Microbiome Interactions, Quadram Institute
I joined the Quadram institute as a visiting post-doc. scientist, at the Kroon Group in January,2023. I work on studying the effects of different polyphenols and plant extracts on the gut microbial metabolism and the associated health benefits accompanied with their consumption. I also work on extracting, fractionating, metabolic profiling of polyphenol-rich extracts and isolating the bioactive constituents of promising extracts for further in-depth studies of their individual influence on gut microbial metabolism.
I am originally from Egypt where I got my bachelor degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (excellent degree with honors) from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (July, 2008). Then, I started my academic and research career working as Teaching Assistant and MSc. student at the department of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry (April 2009 to July 2013) then as Assistant Lecturer and PhD student at the same department (July 2013 to January 2020). Since February 2020, I am an Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
My research interest is mainly focused on food microbiome interactions, medicinal chemistry and plant metabolomics. I am highly experienced in the field of extraction, isolation and purification of naturally occurring secondary metabolites from natural origin especially terrestrial plants manipulating different chromatographic techniques as well as structure elucidation of isolated bioactive molecules utilizing the various techniques of spectroscopy (UV, IR, NMR) and mass spectrometry. During my scientific visit at Quadram Institute, I gain a lot of experience in the field of quantitative metabolomics and in vitro colon model experiments.
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PhD Candidate, Geoarchaeology, Southern Cross University
I am in the final month of my PhD candidature with the Geoarchaeology and Archaeometry Research Group, based at Southern Cross University. Currently I am employing trace element and stable isotope analysis to reconstruct the early life behaviour of the extinct hominid Gigantopithecus blacki. Prior to beginning my PhD, I completed a masters degree in heritage management and geoarchaeology focusing on the mobility and diet of Neanderthal and Homo Erectus prey species at sites in Israel and France.
I have worked in consulting archaeology and have undertaken fieldwork extensively, both nationally and internationally, and have presented my research at conferences run by bodies such as EAA, UISPP, WAC, AEIC, IPPA, and AAA. I am currently the vice chair of the World Archaeology Congress (student committee) and representative for Australia and Oceania.
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Professor of Clinical Education, West Virginia University
Marian “Marnie” Reven is an energetic teacher and scholar engaged in bridging the gap between traditional and integrative medicine and nursing practice. As a nurse for over 31 years, Marnie brings an understanding of healthcare that makes a difference during vital conversations with leadership, administrators, policy makers and more.
In addition to nursing, aromatherapy is a passion as well as a serious endeavor. Marnie has invested over 500 hours of education in aromatherapy and is the only Registered Aromatherapist in the state of WV.
Marnie serves on several boards and many committees including WV Wellness Inc., Alliance of International Aromatherapists, and Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Rho Chapter.
Her 2019 aromatherapy patch research study at the outpatient oncology center at Ruby Memorial has been presented in poster and in presentation form and was published in the spring of 2020 in the International Journal of Professional Holistic Aromatherapists.
Finally, Marnie is a proud member of the American Holistic Nurses Association, and the WVNA and ANA. At WVU she is currently pursing her Ph.D. in Nursing with a focus on research related to integrative and complementary therapies.
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Lecturer/Research Scientist, University of Ghana
Dr. Marian Selorm Sapah is a Lecturer and Research Scientist at the Department of Earth Science, University of Ghana. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Ghana and subsequently a Ph.D. in Earth Chemistry from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, as a trained Cosmochemist.
As a Lecturer, she teaches courses in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Geochemical analytical techniques, and Environmental geochemistry. Her main research interest is focused on investigating processes occurring in our Solar system by studying meteorite samples (i.e. rocks from space). Her other research interests and activities involve the application of geochemical tools in the exploration of mineral, water and oil resources, environmental monitoring, assessment and mitigation, and investigating the effects of Geology on public health. Marian is a published academic author whose work has been published in various peer reviewed journals https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marian-Sapah.
Marian is an active member of various professional organizations including the Ghana Institution of Geoscientists (GhIG), Meteoritical Society, Geological Society of Africa (GSAf), the Ghana Science Association (GSA), and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD). She is also a founding member of the Africa Initiative for Planetary and Space Science (AFIPS) and a member and mentor of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC). She is also currently a member of the selection committee for the Geochemical Society Capacity-Building Grant program.
Dr. Sapah delights in mentoring and educational outreach. She wants to be able to contribute meaningfully to research and teaching endeavours in Ghana especially in the field of Planetary and Space Science.
In her spare time, Marian enjoys spending time with family and friends, travel and sightseeing, sky gazing as well as crafting.
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Research Lecturer, Conservation, Charles Darwin University
Mariana Campbell is originally from Brazil, where she completed a Bachelor of Science and a Research Masters. She was awarded an Australian International Research Post-graduate Scholarship (IPRS) in 2009 to undertake a Ph.D. at The University of Queensland, studying the Ecology and Conservation of the Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus). She now works at Charles Darwin University as a Research Lecturer, managing the research associated with two Commonwealth Funded Grants. In this role, she engages in laboratory and field work around animal movement but also assists with the administration of the North Australia Centre for Autonomous Systems (NACAS). Mariana also lectures two courses in GIS (Geographical Information Systems) for undergraduates and Masters students.
Mariana has worked in animal research and teaching at five universities throughout her career and has over 15 years of experience in animal husbandry. Most of this experience is with reptiles and fish, but she has also worked with amphibians, mammals, and birds. Mariana's primary interest is using animal movement data and other ecological and behavioural variables to aid conservation and management.
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Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value and Founding Director of the UCL IIPP, UCL
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University.
She is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy's highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Most recently, Pope Francis appointed her to the Pontifical Academy for Life for bringing ‘more humanity’ to the world.
As well as The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), she is the author of The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018), Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2021) and The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies (2023).
She advises policy makers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. Her roles have included for example Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Co-Chair on the Council on Urban Initiatives, and a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council. Previously, through her role as Special Advisor for the EC Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation (2017-2019), she authored the high-impact report on Mission-Oriented Research and Innovation in the European Union, turning “missions” into a crucial new instrument in the European Commission’s Horizon innovation programme, and more recently, authored a report with the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Transformational Change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mission-oriented approach.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School
I graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences with an emphasis in Molecular Biology. In Dr. Adali Pecci’s lab, my undergraduate thesis focused on studying the role of the glucocorticoid and the liver X receptors in the modulation of inflammation. Currently, I am a graduate student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program at UMass Medical School. I joined the Mitchell lab where I’m using a genomic approach to uncover the metabolic interactions in microbial communities. I am also working with Brittany to systematically understand the impact of host-targeted drugs on bacterial growth. When I’m not in the lab, I love to spend my time dancing or climbing.
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PhD Candidate, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte is a Bombardier Doctoral Scholar and PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication. Her research focuses on Canadian cultural policy and artist-run organizations. In 2019, she received the Canadian Communication Association’s Doctoral CRTC Prize for Excellence in Policy Research for the paper “Creative Canada: A Critical Look at a ‘New’ Cultural Policy Framework.” She is a member of the Cultural Policy, IP and Rights Ecosystems Working Group for Archive/Counter Archive, a multi-year research project based out of York University.
Mariane obtained an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts in 2012 and has exhibited artistic and curatorial projects across Canada. Her research and art criticism has been published in various edited books, art journals including esse art + opinions, C Magazine, and Inter art actuel. Most recently, her chapter “Digital Cultural Industrialism and the Arts: A Critical Look at Creative Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Strategy Fund” was included in Canadian Cultural Policy in Transition (2021).
Mariane has worked as the lead consultant on various sectoral and community research projects commissioned by national and provincial arts service organizations including ARCA, IMAA, and CARFAC. Mariane has served on the board of directors of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres (2016-2018), VIVO Media Arts Centre (2014-2019), and Aphotic Theatre (2017-present).
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Marianna holds degrees in medicine, health economics, and a PhD in public policy from London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining academia in 2003 she has worked as a medical doctor in Greece, China, and the UK, as a volunteer and manager for humanitarian organizations Médecins du Monde and Médecins sans Frontiers in Iraq and Albania, and as the EU senior resident adviser to governments in transition (in Russia, Georgia and Armenia). Marianna is at present a Senior Editor for Organization Studies, and co-directs pro bono an online think tank Centre for Health and the Public Interest a charity that aims to disseminate research informing the public and policy makers (http://chpi.org.uk).
Marianna is also a Network Fellow at the Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University in 2014-2015.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
I am an evolutionary biologist using genomic data to understand how evolutionary and demographic processes shape an organism’s genome. I do this by using time-series data from ancient and historical samples. During my PhD, I used the woolly mammoth as a model species to study evolutionary processes in declining populations. At my current postdoc, I am studying the genomics of feralization by analysing genomes ancient and modern sheep and their wild/feral relatives.
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Auxiliaire de recherche en agriculture et systèmes alimentaires durables, Bishop's University
Provenant du milieu agricole biologique, je m'intéresse maintenant à trouver des stratégies afin de reconnecter l'humain à la nature. Favoriser l'émergence et l'implantation de systèmes alimentaires durables est selon moi une façon holistique de répondre à plusieurs enjeux, tels que la crise environnementale et la justice sociale, puisque l'alimentation est un des piliers de notre existence.
En septembre 2023, je rentrerai à la maîtrise en "Landscape and Wellbeing" à l'Université d'Édimbourg pour étudier l'impact que les paysages et les milieux naturels ont sur notre quotidien. J'ai donc l'ambition de revenir au Québec inspirée et prête à mettre la main à la pâte, ou la pelle, pour contribuer activement à ce changement de cap.
Je me trouve donc en grande période d'exploration.
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Leicester
I took up the post of Associate Professor of Archaeology in Leicester in early 2021 and I will until 2026 principally focus on the ERC Starting Grant Body-Politics: Death Personhood and Sexuality in the Iron and Viking Ages. Before taking up the post in Leicester I was Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. From 2017-2019 a grant took me to the University of Cambridge where I was a Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute of Archaeology and at Clare Hall college. Before this I was substitute Associate Professor (2016) and Teaching Fellow (2015) at the Institute for Archaeology in Oslo. My PhD (2012-2015) was also written there, with some time spent at UCL.
My research ranges topics from infancy, power and the powerless, to movement, dreams and the self in the past. It centres around three main axes of late prehistoric and early medieval Scandinavia: the entwinement between architecture and inhabitants; the complex relationships between the living and the dead; and politics of the body. Often, I have worked with the links between architectural spaces and human bodies, by considering how prehistoric houses are built by bodies, produce certain bodily experiences, can be conceptualised as bodies themselves - and how dead bodies, parts and whole, are linked to domestic space. I have a strong interest in the lived experiences of inequality and gender.
I was honoured to receive the 2022 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology.
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Assistante de recherche, MSc, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
Marianne Piochon a obtenu sa Maîtrise en Ressources Renouvelables à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi en 2008. Après ses études, elle a travaillé dans divers laboratoires en France (Yves Rocher, CHU Poitiers/INSERM), Royaume-Uni (Abbott) et Canada (INRS) afin de diversifier son expertise dans le domaine des biosciences. Depuis 2021, elle est revenue à l'UQAC pour travailler avec le Professeur André Pichette en tant qu'assistante de recherche au sein du Centre de Transformation et de Valorisation des Bio-produits (CTVB). Elle participe à divers projets de recherche tels que la découverte de nouvelles molécules bioactives issues des plantes de la forêt boréale, la valorisation des résidus de l'industrie forestière, le développement d’approches de production de molécules à haute valeur ajoutée, etc.
Champ d'expertise:
Chimie des produits naturels, Chimie analytique, Synthèse organique
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Distinguished Professor of Musicology and Art History, Penn State
Marica S. Tacconi is a Distinguished Professor of musicology and art history, and associate director of the School of Music. She joined the Penn State faculty in 1998 and teaches undergraduate and graduate music history. A native of central Italy, she is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and holds a B.A. from Williams College and a Ph.D. in musicology from Yale University.
Tacconi’s interdisciplinary research interests focus on the music, art, and culture of late medieval and early modern Italy. Her scholarly work has been presented at conferences in the United States, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, and England, and has appeared in numerous journals, collections of essays, and exhibition catalogues. She is the author of "I Libri del Duomo di Firenze" (with Lorenzo Fabbri; Centro Di, 1997) and of "Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence: The Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore" (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Tacconi’s research has been supported by several institutions and grant agencies, including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, and the American Musicological Society. In 2002-03, she was a post-doctoral research Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. She returned to Villa I Tatti in 2011 as the Robert Lehman Visiting Research Professor in Residence, where she worked on the scholarly project “The Rhetoric of Echo in the Music of Early Modern Europe, ca. 1575–1660.”
From 2005 to 2010, Tacconi served as director of the Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities. In 2008–09, she was selected to participate as a Fellow in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Academic Leadership Program. She was an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (vice chair; chair, Governance Committee; 2009-15) and has served as the School of Music faculty liaison for the Penn State Center for the Performing Arts’ Classical Music Project.
Tacconi’s dissertation ("Liturgy and Chant at the Cathedral of Florence: A Survey of the Pre-Tridentine Sources, Tenth-Sixteenth Centuries"; Yale University, 1999) won a 1997–98 AMS 50 Fellowship Award from the American Musicological Society. She is also the recipient of the 2001 Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching from the College of Arts and Architecture, the 2013 Achieving Women Award (faculty category) from the Penn State Commission for Women, the 2016 President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration, and the 2020 Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement (arts & humanities category).
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Professeur assistant, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
Marie Ballarini est Enseignante-Chercheuse au sein de l'Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, où elle est membre du laboratoire Dauphine Recherche en Management (DRM-MOST). Ses travaux se concentrent sur le financement et la communication des organisations culturelles, notamment à travers les nouvelles technologies et les réseaux numériques. Depuis 2022, elle occupe plusieurs responsabilités, dont la gestion des événements scientifiques pour l'association Mêtis, la communication pour l'Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) et la communication interne de l'Association Française de Marketing (AFM). Elle a mené des recherches post-doctorales à la Bibliothèque nationale de France dans le cadre du Labex ICCA relatives à l'impact des créateurs de contenu culturels sur les institutions et les publics du patrimoine. Sa thèse, soutenue en 2019 à l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, portait sur le financement participatif des musées et du patrimoine. Marie Ballarini est l'auteure de plusieurs publications académiques et professionnelles, explorant des thématiques telles que la médiation patrimoniale et la standardisation technique des œuvres en réalité virtuelle.
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Senior lecturer in Exposure Science, University of Galway
I graduated from NUI Galway in 2000 with a PhD in Atmospheric Physics. From 2000 – 2003 I have worked in industry as an Industrial Hygiene Professional. Since 2003, I have worked as a Lecturer in Exposure Science, Occupational Hygiene and Chemical Safety and Risk Management. In 2015, I was awarded Chartered membership (CMFOH) of the Faculty of the Occupational Hygiene (British Occupational Hygiene Society). I was the programme Director for the multidisciplinary MSc / HDip Occupational and Environmental Health & Safety programmes from 2009 – 2019. I am currently programme Director for the BSc Environmental Health and Safety programme. I also lead the Exposure Science research group and have published over 70 peer-reviewed journals, reports and conference contributions in the field of Exposure Science (Occupational & Environmental Exposure). In January 2021, I was invited to serve on a National Expert Group on the Role of Ventilation in Reducing Transmission of COVID-19. Initially established as a subgroup of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), this group now works with the Senior Official’s Group to further inform sectoral guidance and public information regarding ventilation
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Professor of Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Marie Connolly (Ph.D. 2007, Princeton University) has been a professor at the Department of Economics of UQAM’s School of Management (ESG UQAM) since 2009. Her research is primarily empirical and touches upon various topics in labor economics, such as intergenerational income transmission and socioeconomic mobility, the formation of human capital, the gender wage gap, women’s labor force participation and the evaluation of public policy. Her work as been published in the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and the Canadian Journal of Economics, among others. She is currently Data Editor for the Canadian Journal of Economics and the Vice-Dean for Research at ESG UQAM.
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Doctorante associée à l'Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'École Militaire en science politique et relations internationales (CMH EA 4232-UCA), Sciences Po
Livre : "Du conflit israélo-palestinien au nucléaire iranien : l'humiliation la variable oubliée des négociations", L'Harmattan, 2021
Diplômée de l’École Doctorale de Sciences Po Paris.
Doctorante associée à l'Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'École Militaire
Directeurs de thèse : Frédéric Charillon, Thomas Lindemann
Enseignante Science Politique et Relations Internationales à Sciences Po Paris et à Université de Clermont
Sujets d’étude : les émotions en politique, la guerre et les mutations de la conflictualité, Moyen et Proche Orient, analyse politique étrangère
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Professor of Sociology, The Open University
Marie is co-director of Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. She researches diaspora and national media cultures comparatively, historically and ethnographically. Her interests cluster around South Asian and Middle Eastern diasporas, cultural transnationalism, and changing configurations of audiences and publics in relation to question of citizenship. Recent collaborative include: a large-scale study of the BBC World Service as a multi-diasporic institution; an exploration of the new politics of security via a collaborative ethnography of transnational news cultures in multi-ethnic British households in eight UK cities; a national survey with the BBC on the changing face of British humour, ethnic jokes and comedy. Marie was awarded an AHRC Public Policy Fellowship in 2011 to develop research on the interface between international broadcasting and social media, specifically in relation to the BBC Arabic Services.
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Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand
Prof Marie Huchzermeyer is a professor in the School of Architecture & Planning at Wits University and the current Director of the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (CUBES) in the School. Her research has spanned Brazil, South Africa, Kenya and other African countries. She has explored questions of policy and rights as they relate to informal settlements, private rental housing or tenements and housing more widely. Her current research is on the right to the city and the right to development and their implications for policy, planning and institutional arrangements in a context of inequality and the prevalence of what has come to be known as informality.
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Professeure au département des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- Centres de recherche Geotop et GRIL
- Chaire de recherche Eau et conservation du territoire (chaire-eau.uqam.ca)
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Senior Lecturer, School of Environment, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Marie McEntee is a social scientist in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland with research interests in science / society interactions particularly relating to complex socio-environmental issues. She engages in transdisciplinary research focusing on public engagement in science, science communication, and science innovation. She has a particular interest in biosecurity and in particular forest biosecurity and invasive predator management.
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Professor of Law, Penn State
Marie T. Reilly is a professor at Penn State Law and an expert in bankruptcy and commercial law. She served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2008 to 2015. Prior to joining the Penn State faculty, she was a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Before she became a law teacher, she practiced law with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., and Schiff Hardin in Chicago, Illinois. She teaches contracts, bankruptcy, and commercial law subjects and co-teaches a bootcamp-style course on business fundamentals for law students. Her scholarship considers legal responses to insolvency problems in light of economic, political, and social influences over time. She is a co-author of a law school casebook on secured transactions. Her articles address a wide variety of issues including Catholic organization bankruptcies, fraudulent transfer law, successor liability, marital agency, and tax lien foreclosures. Professor Reilly holds a B.A. (economics) and J.D. from the University of Illinois. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a member of the bars of Illinois, District of Columbia, and South Carolina.
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Associate Professor of Law, Wake Forest University
I am an expert on gay and lesbian legal history and contemporary LGBTQ+ rights. My research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed and law review journals, and I am a three-time recipient of the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the country's most influential sexual orientation and gender identity scholarship.
I currently teach at Wake Forest University School of Law. Prior to joining the Wake faculty, I was the Berger-Howe Fellow in Legal History at Harvard Law School. I also served as an Associate in Law at Columbia Law School, where I taught the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic. I received my Ph.D in history from Yale University, and my J.D. from Columbia Law School, where I was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law and a Kent Scholar. I also hold a M.St. in Women's Studies from the University of Oxford, where I was awarded a distinction on my thesis.
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Associate Professor of Strategy, HEC Montréal
Marie‑Ann Betschinger is Associate Professor of Strategy at HEC Montreal in Canada. Her research focuses on corporate and international strategy. She is particularly interested in different forms of firm internationalization, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, and the political and social context within which firms act.
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Full Professor of Compared Politics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Marie-Christine Doran is a Full Professor of comparative politics at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, specializing in democratization, human rights, and violence in Latin America. She is also a consultant on Latin American issues for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada (Global Affairs Canada) since 2015. She holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-SSHRCC grant on “Violence and Democracy: the Criminalization of Struggles for rights in Latin America (2018-2025), for which she is main researcher of a team of 7 specialists and Director of the Observatory on Violence, Criminalization and Democracy. Since the beginning of her career, Marie-Christine Doran has obtained research grants totalizing over 1 700 000 $ CAN for projects focused on the persistence of violence in democratic context in Latin America, the nature of political regimes, the weight of authoritarian political and legal legacies, the impact of social movements for rights, justice and memory, and the impact of violence by state and non-state actors on women, LGBTQ+ communities, indigenous and Afro-descendant defenders, in order to find solutions that reinforce democracy. She is a researcher at the International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV), and other international research platforms in Europe and Latin America, including the Brazilian CAPES International Research Network on Conflict Management in Plural Public Spaces Her published work include numerous peer-reviewed articles in four languages, some of which can be found at Academia and Researchgate, as well as two books, Le réveil démocratique du Chili. Une histoire politique de l’exigence de justice, (foreword by Alain Touraine,: Karthala 2016); as well as Human Rights as Battlefields. Changing Practices and Contestations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and a third forthcoming book, Criminalizing Democracy:the Hidden Face of Violence in Latin America, to be published at Routledge in 2024. She is regularly invited to comment on Latin American politics and violence in Canadian and international media.
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Marie-Christine Doran, PhD
Marie-Christine Doran est professeure titulaire de politique comparée à l’École d’études politiques de l’université d’Ottawa, spécialiste de la démocratisation, des droits humains et de la violence en Amérique latine. Elle est aussi consultante pour le Ministère des Affaires Mondiales Canada depuis 2015.Elle est chercheure principale d’une subvention du Conseil de recherches en Sciences humaines du Canada-CRSH pour le projet « Violence et démocratie : la criminalisation de la lutte pour les droits en Amérique latine » pour lequel elle dirige une équipe de 7 chercheur.e.s, ainsi que l’Observatoire violence, criminalisation et démocratie-OVCD. Depuis les débuts de sa carrière, elle a obtenu près de 1 700 000 $ (CAN).en subventions de recherche, au Canada et à l’international, pour des recherches portant notamment sur la persistance de la violence en contexte démocratique latino-américain, la nature des régimes politiques, le poids des héritages politiques et juridiques autoritaires, l'impact des mouvements sociaux pour les droits, la justice et la mémoire, ainsi que l'impact de la violence exercée par les acteurs étatiques et non étatiques sur les femmes, communautés LGBTQ+, les défenseurs autochtones et afro-descendants, afin de trouver des solutions qui renforcent la démocratie. Elle est chercheure dans plusieurs équipes internationales en Europe et Amérique latine dont l’International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV) et l’équipe brésilienne CAPES International Research Network on Conflict Management in Plural Public Spaces. Elle a été Fellow à l’université Harvard University, et professeure invitée, notamment à École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Ses publications en 4 langues incluent de nombreux articles dont plusieurs sont disponibles sur Academia et Researchgate. mais aussi 2 ouvrages : Le réveil démocratique du Chili. Une histoire politique de l’exigence de justice, (foreword by Alain Touraine,: Karthala 2016); as well as Human Rights as Battlefields. Changing Practices and Contestations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), un 3ème ouvrage, Criminalizing Democracy:the Hidden Face of Violence in Latin America, paraîtra chez Routledge en 2024.Elle est régulièrement invitee à commenter l’actualité latino-américaine dans les médias canadiens et internationaux.
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Lecturer in Law, Macquarie University
Marie-Eve Loiselle is a Lecturer at Macquarie University in International Law and Legal Theory. Prior to joining Macquarie University, Marie-Eve was a Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (University of Toronto). She also held a research fellowship from the Max Planck Institute, Department of Ethics, Law and Politics. She was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, where she worked on the project, "Leveraging Power and Influence on the UN Security Council". She was also a research officer on the ARC linkage project "Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council" (Australian National University). She received a PhD in Law and Governance from the Australian National University.
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Professeur-chercheur en management, EM Lyon Business School
Ancrée dans une observation-participante de plusieurs années au sein du siège d'un grand groupe, ma thèse a porté sur la collaboration entre salariés et travailleurs extérieurs. Je travaille depuis sur la manière dont les entreprises et les personnes vivent les transformations du travail et de l'emploi. En particulier, je m'intéresse aux questions du management des collectifs de travail, du dialogue social et des pratiques de GRH, des parcours des travailleurs et de la soutenabilité de nos modes de travail. Je mène mes recherches dans le cadre du centre o.c.e d'emlyon business school.
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Marieke Riethof has a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Amsterdam and is a lecturer in Latin American Politics at the University of Liverpool.
Her past research and publications focused on political strategies of the labour movement in Brazil, including the Latin American regional context. She is currently finishing a book on the trajectory and political strategies of the Brazilian labour movement. Her new research projects focus on Brazilian foreign policy in the context of international relations in Latin America. The project examines traditional as well as non-traditional areas of foreign policy, including environmental politics and human rights. In May 2011, she was an expert witness at the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on UK-Brazil relations and Brazil's emerging global role. A second project deals with the role of transnational solidarity movements and exile in the opposition to military dictatorship in Chile with an initial focus on the UK.
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Assistant Professor in Political Science, MacEwan University
Over the last few years, I have worked on urban climate governance from local and global perspectives. More specifically I have studied the networks cities join or create to enhance their climate policies and their potential for generating innovative climate instruments. I am now starting a new research agenda on the governance of urban wellness and its synergies and conflicts with urban climate policy.
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Graduate Researcher, Explanatory Journalism Project, Toronto Metropolitan University
Mariia Sozoniuk is a Master of Professional Communication (TMU). She conducted studies on Sustainability, User Experience and Consumer Behaviour at the Sustainable Packaging Research Lab at TMU, employing Online Surveys and PLS-SEM analysis. She also worked with the Explanatory Journalism (XJO) team at TMU on the annual survey of The Conversation Canada readers to deliver practical implications through the Theory of Planned Behaviour study. Mariia continues to work with the XJO team, surveying news consumers from Canada, the UK and Australia to inspect their perception of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in news creation.
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Essex
Marija Jovanović is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre. Her research focuses on modern slavery and the way this phenomenon interacts with different legal regimes, such as human rights law, criminal law, labour law, immigration law, international trade law, and business regulation. She is the author of State Responsibility for ‘Modern Slavery’ in Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2023). Marija holds DPhil, MPhil, and Magister Juris degrees from the University of Oxford, and a law degree from Serbia. She previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in ASEAN Law and Policy at the National University of Singapore, and worked as a Lecturer at the University of Kragujevac and University of Belgrade. Dr Jovanović is currently leading a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre, which investigates the experiences of modern slavery survivors in the UK prisons.
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Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Antwerp
I am Associate Professor in International Relations at the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp. Previously I was Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. My research and teaching focuses on military technology, militarism and the changing character of warfare. In my current research project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), I examine military applications of artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular interest in how these technologies shape the way in which warfare is thought, fought and lived.
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