Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science, University of Bedfordshire
Jonny Hunt is a senior lecturer in Applied Social Science - Childhood & Youth Studies at the University of Bedfordshire. For the past 20 years Jonny has worked in relationship and sex education (RSE), working directly with children, young people and the professionals who support them. Jonny is author of "Sex Ed' for Grown Ups: How to talk to children and young people about sex and relationships" available through Routledge.
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Senior lecturer in African Studies, Yale University
Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy. A two-time winner of South Africa’s premier nonfiction award and an inaugural winner of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize, Steinberg was professor of African Studies at Oxford University and currently teaches at Yale and at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) in Johannesburg.
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Climate Scientist, University of Reading
PhD in computational physics (2008) and subsequent experience in climate modelling, past environmental change, environmental consultancy and the public understanding of science.
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Lecturer in Personal Finance, The Open University
Also a personal finance practitioner, working with a variety of independent, consumer-facing organisations and financial services providers, including the Money Advice Service, Which? and Royal London, carrying out consultancy, commissioned research, authoring financial capability materials and creating interactive financial capability tools.
Past head of Money Research Group at Consumers' Association/Which? and past editor of research journal, Consumer Policy Review (Blackwell's/Consumers' Association).
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Research Associate, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Joonsoo is a recent graduate from the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and a current research associate with the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. In addition to holding a MPH from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, he also holds a BHSc from McMaster University.
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Professor of Labour Economics, Utrecht University
Joop Schippers is a full professor of Labour Economics at Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands) and one of the coordinators of the Future of Work hub. Throughout his career he worked on issues regarding labour market inequality by gender and age, looking for explanations from different angles, like human capital, discrimination and the role of institutions. Earlier he served as the PI of the European project Activating Senior Potential in Ageing Europe (ASPA). Currently, his focus is on labour market shortages and lifelong learning and development. Next to his teaching and research he has always been active in dissemination of his research and policy advice.
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Assistant Professor of Statistics, Purdue University
My primary research interest is in data privacy, where the goal is to publish meaningful statistical results on sensitive datasets, without compromising the privacy of the participants in the dataset. In particular, I mostly work in the framework of differential privacy, which has been adopted by a number of tech companies as well as the US Census. Some data privacy problems that I am particularly interested in are 1) performing valid statistical inference subject to privacy constraints (e.g., confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, posterior inference), 2) designing privacy-aware algorithms for a variety of tasks (e.g., functional data analysis, topological data analysis), and 3) foundations of data privacy (e.g., definitions of privacy, optimizing basic privacy mechanisms)
I also work with a variety of scientists as an applied Statistician on problems related to 1) diagnosing and treating voice disorders, 2) developing novel methods of low-cost spirometry, and 3) studying the basic laws of physics.
Before transitioning to Statistics, I worked on dicrete mathematics problems in graph theory, matroid theory, and discrete geometries.
I studied at Clarion University from 2011-2014, earning a B.S. in Mathematics. After this, I completed a M.A. in Mathematics at Brandeis University in 2016 under the advisement of Dr. Olivier Bernardi. In May of 2020, I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics at Penn State University, advised by Dr. Aleksandra Slavkovic and Dr. Matthew Reimherr. Currently I am an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Purdue University. I also work as a differential privacy consultant for the federal non-profit, MITRE.
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Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University
Jordan is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Deakin Business School at Deakin University and is a member of the Centre for Sport Research.
Jordan's research focuses on advancing the knowledge and practice of how organisations can strategically leverage mega events to create social and sustainable impacts for individuals, organisations, and society. His research has helped shape national policies around mega event bidding and social value for communities. Jordan has collaborated with various community, state/province, national, international, and professional sport organisations in Oceania, North America, and Europe, such as Sport Canada, Football Australia, and FIFA.
Currently, Jordan is leading a collaborative project with the Victoria Office for Women in Sport and Recreation to advance women and girls' sport leadership in community sport clubs. He is also leading a collaborative project with FIFA, Football Australia, and New Zealand Football investigating the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup co-hosting, leveraging strategy, and social impacts.
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Research Analyst at the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety, Arizona State University
I have a research background in applied linguistics, particularly corpus linguistics. Currently, I work as a research analyst at the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at Arizona State University, where I use my expertise in programming, statistics, and research writing to work on issues related to violent deaths.
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Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Department of Political Science, College of Charleston
Jordan Ragusa joined the department of Political Science at the College of Charleston in 2011 and became Associate Chair of the department in 2019. Dr. Ragusa has a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Florida and a B.S. in secondary education from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Dr. Ragusa’s research and teaching focus on both American and South Carolina politics, the Congress, political parties, elections, political economy, and statistical methods for the social sciences.
Dr. Ragusa is the author of two books: "Congress in Reverse: Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present" (University of Chicago Press, with Nate Birkhead) and "First in the South: Why the South Carolina Presidential Primary Matters" (University of South Carolina Press, with Gibbs Knotts). He has published in the journals: Political Research Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, American Politics Research, Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Political Science, Research & Politics, and the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties.
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Post Doctorate Fellow, Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
Dr Jordan Stanford is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and an early career researcher in the School of Health Sciences at The University of Newcastle, Australia. She obtained her Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours Class I) in 2016, and her PhD in Nutrition and Dietetics in 2022, both from the University of Wollongong.
Dr Stanford's research investigates diet-based therapies and the gastrointestinal microbiome to achieve favourable gut microbiome and metabolomic changes and enhance clinical outcomes for individuals with chronic kidney disease. Since completing her studies, Dr Stanford has broadened her research scope to emphasise precision and personalised nutrition, which involves examining the interplay between diet and using multi-omic technologies, such as the dietary metabolome.
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Professor, History and Director, Past Wrongs, Future Choices, University of Victoria
My research and teaching focus on immigration, race, and inequality in twentieth century North America. For 8 years, I directed director of Landscapes of Injustice, a 7-year multi-sector and community-engaged project to research and tell the history of the forced sale of Japanese-Canadian-owned property during the 1940s (www.landscapesofinjustice.com). I am now Co-Director, with Audrey Kobayashi, of Past Wrongs, Future Choices, a partnership linking histories of internment, incarceration, dispossession, and exile of people of Japanese descent across allied countries in the 1940s.
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Assistant Professor, Military Psychology and Leadership, Royal Military College of Canada
Jordan Sutcliffe is an Assistant Professor studying emotion regulation, family dynamics, and positive youth development in sport and physical activity contexts. His current projects examine how family members help youth athletes regulate emotional experiences. Jordan is also an avid sport sampler himself, and previously played Varsity Football at the University of Ottawa.
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Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Jordi is a Research Fellow at The Future of Free Speech and a Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on free speech in the digital space. Jordi has almost a decade of experience as a policy analyst at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and as an associate in leading European law firms. Jordi has been a fellow at the Internet Society and holds a Master’s in public administration from Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts), where he specialized in tech and AI policy. While at Harvard, Jordi supported the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, two former senior Department of Justice officials, and the former Chair of the MIT Economics Department with the organization of a year-long seminar series on tech policy. He also holds a Master of Law from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and two Bachelor of Laws and Business Administration from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain).
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Urban planning, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Dr. Jordi Honey-Rosés is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). He is an environmental planner (University of Illinois, PhD) specialized in impact evaluation. He joined ICTA-UAB after eight years at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia (2013-2021) where he was Associate Professor with tenure. He has published widely on urban experiments and impact evaluation in leading international scientific journals and his teaching has been recognized with the prestigious University Killam Teaching Award. He has university degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master in Public Policy (MPP) from the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Profesor asociado Estudios Psicología y Ciencias de la Educación, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Catedrático de Botánica Agrícola y Malherbología, Universitat de Lleida
Jordi Recasens Guinjuan es Catedrático de Botánica Agrícola y Malherbología de la Universitat de Lleida e investigador del centro CERCA-Agrotecnio. Ha sido Presidente de la Sociedad Española de Malherbología (2007-2010), Vicepresidente de la Asociación Española de Sanidad Vegetal (2012-2017) y miembro de la Junta Directiva de la European Weed Research Society (2012-2014). Su linea de investigación se centra en estudios sobre ecología y manejo de malas hierbas en sistemas agrícolas. Ha dirigido varios proyectos de investigación, de convocatorias europeas y nacionales, y publicado varios libros y artículos científicos en el campo de la ecología vegetal y la malherbología.
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Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
Dr Jordy Kaufman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Swinburne University of Technology. His research focuses on the intersection of child development and technology, exploring how children interact with and learn from various technologies such as virtual reality, touchscreens, video chat, and robots.
Dr Kaufman's studies, which employ a range of methods, including behavioural experiments, event-related high-density EEG, neuroimaging, and surveys, provide a nuanced understanding of children's engagement with technology. This research contributes to our understanding of child development in the digital age; and, in doing so, informs educational practices and policy.
As part of his research program, Dr Kaufman has led multiple projects for the Australian Department of Education and Training, focusing on enhancing children's learning experiences through technology. These projects bridge the gap between academic research and real-world applications, demonstrating the potential of technology to transform learning experiences.
While grounded in psychology, the work conducted in Dr Kaufman's research program intersects with technology and education. This interdisciplinary approach and dedication to applying research to real-world challenges contribute to the evolving dialogue on innovation in education and child development, reflecting the dynamic nature of the field.
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Research Associate, Department of Environmental Science, Thompson Rivers University
Jordyn M. Bogetti has a Master’s in Environmental Sciences from Thompson Rivers University and a JD from the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. She is also a non-practicing member of the Law Society of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the interaction between legislation and conservation, with an emphasis on comparing species at risk protections between Canadian jurisdictions.
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Associate Professor for Sport and Social Science, Aarhus University
Jörg Krieger is an Associate Professor in Sport and Social Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He also holds a Professor II position at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. He is the Head of the International Network for Doping Research and the Chair of the Sport & Society Research Network.
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Professor of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York
Prof. González earned his Doctorate (1994) and Bachelor (1988) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, respectively. He joined The City College of New York faculty in 2008 after tenures at Santa Clara University, California, as Professor and David Packard Scholar, and as Chairman and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. He teaches and conducts research in urban energy sustainability, urban weather and climate, urban remote sensing, and regional climate modeling and analysis.
Professor González holds several patents in solar energy equipment, aerosol detection, and energy forecasting for buildings, and was recognized as a prominent young researcher by the National Science Foundation with a prestigious CAREER Award. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, has delivered 100s of conference presentations, and his research has attracted more than $40M in external funding.
He is a Fellow Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), and Former Vice-Chairman of the American Meteorological Society Board on the Urban Environment. He was appointed in 2015 by the Mayor of the City as Member of the Climate Change Panel for the City of New York, and more recently as Senior Visiting Scientist of the Beijing Institute of Urban Meteorology and of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is the coeditor of the ASME Handbook of Integrated and Sustainable Buildings Equipment and Systems, and was named this year 2019 as the Founding Editor of the newest ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.
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Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University
Ambassador Jorge Heine is a lawyer, IR scholar and diplomat with a special interest in the international politics of the Global South. He was most recently a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. (2018-2019). He has served as ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007) and to South Africa (1994-1999), and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government. A past Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), he was CIGI Professor of Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, from 2007 to 2017, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow; a Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford University; a United Nations Research Fellow at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz; and the Pablo Neruda Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Paris.
He is currently a non-resident Wilson Center Global Fellow at The Wilson Center in Washington D.C., a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for China and Globalization (CCG) in Beijing, and an Honorary Visiting Professor of International Relations at the University of Sichuan in Chengdu. He has been a consultant to the United Nations, the Ford Foundation, the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Trinidad & Tobago Ministry of External Affairs, Oxford Analytica and Frost & Sullivan. A past president of the Caribbean Studies Association and of the Chilean Political Science Association, he served on the board of the Institute of International Relations (IIR) of the University of the West Indies, and was the first chair of the jury for the Luciano Tomassini International Relations Award of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in 2011-2012.
He is on the editorial board of Diplomacy & Foreign Policy, World Affairs, Estudios Internacionales, Pensamiento Propio and the South African Journal of International Affairs. He has published fifteen books, including 21st Century Democracy Promotion in the Americas (with B. Weiffen, Routledge, 2015); the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (with A. Cooper and R.Thakur, Oxford University Press, 2013,2015); and The Dark Side of Globalization (with R.Thakur, UN University Press, 2011), and some 100 journal articles and book chapters. An active commentator on current affairs, he is frequently interviewed by international media and has written for The New York Times, the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune. He holds a law degree from the University of Chile, a B.Phil. in Modern Political Analysis from York University in England and an M.A. and a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University in California.
Ambassador Heine’s areas of expertise include diplomatic studies, international relations, international politics of the global south, foreign policies of rising powers, globalization, multilateralism, democracy promotion, democratic transitions, transitional justice, as well as China, India, and Latin America.
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Profesor Contratado Doctor. Departamento de Matemáticas y Ciencia de Datos, Universidad CEU San Pablo
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James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director, Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Utah
Jorge L. Contreras is the James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine. Professor Contreras’s research focuses on intellectual property, technical standards, antitrust law and science policy. He is the editor or author of twelve books and more than 150 scholarly articles and chapters. During his career he has served on advisory committees of the US National Institutes of Health, the National Academies of Science, and as Co-Chair of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. Professor Contreras’s award-winning book, The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (NY: Hachette/Algonquin, 2021), which has received praise from media outlets from the New York Times and Wall St. Journal to Nature and Law360, describes the landmark civil rights litigation that ended gene patenting in America. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD) and Rice University (BSEE, BA), and an elected member of the American Law Institute.
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Profesor de Geografía Física, Universidad de La Rioja
Licenciado en Geografía por la Universidad de Zaragoza (2008), Máster en Sistemas de Información Geográfica y Teledetección (Universidad de Zaragoza, 2010), y Doctor por la Universidad de Zaragoza con premio extraordinario (2012).
Como profesor he impartido 8 cursos académicos en estudios de Licenciatura, Grado y Máster en la Universidad de Zaragoza, la Universitat de les Illes Balears y la Universidad de La Rioja. He codirigido una Tesis Doctoral, tutorizado un Trabajo Fin de Máster y una decena de Trabajos de Fin de Grado.
Mi trayectoria investigadora se ha centrado en las interacciones entre el clima y los procesos hidrológicos, evaluando la influencia de la variabilidad climática en la disponibilidad de recursos hídricos, con especial énfasis en los fenómenos extremos, como sequías e inundaciones. En los últimos años he ampliado el foco de atención hacia la interacción entre la variabilidad climática y los niveles de los acuíferos. He colaborado activamente en líneas de investigación relacionadas, como los impactos hidrológicos de los patrones atmosféricos, la hidro-climatología de áreas de montaña y el desarrollo y test de distintos índices de sequía climática e hidrológica. Los resultados de estas investigaciones se han publicado en una cuarentena de artículos en revistas internacionales.
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Research Fellow in the Department of Economics, KU Leuven
Joris is a research fellow in the Economics Department at KU Leuven. He is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Economics Department at the University of Cambridge.
His research interest are on the intersection between international macroeconomics, trade and industrial organisation. He has a particular interest in studying the quantification of changes in, and the level of, market integration and its implications for international macroeconomic policies.
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Postdoctoral researcher, Genetic History Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Doctoral thesis: Palaeogenomic insights into the population structure and organization of northwestern Europe during the “long Iron Age”
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Senior lecturer, Bournemouth University
José M. Blázquez is a practitioner and Senior Lecturer in media production. Previously, he held two postdoctoral research positions at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Bournemouth University. His work has been published in academic journals, newspapers and other publishing venues as well as screened and exhibited internationally. His second monograph, ‘Participatory Worlds: The Limits of Audience Participation’, was published by Routledge in October 2023.
Additionally, José has been teaching and supervising students at Bournemouth University (2019- ), University of Nottingham (2016-2019) and the University of Valladolid (2010-2011) and held research-oriented roles at the University of Granada (2010-2012) and the University of Nottingham (2014-2019).
José’s main research interests revolve around the study of audience/citizens participation and the intersection with new technologies and digital media, covering topics such as creative industries and practices (publishing, film, comic, videogame and photography), transmedia and interactive storytelling, game studies and immersive media. He has also been involved in research projects examining the representation of immigration in news, film and literature and the impact of transmedia narratives in creative industries. José worked with Professor Anna Feigenbaum and other colleagues in the AHRC-funded project ‘Comics in the time of COVID-19: How public health messages are communicated through web-based Comics’. He also led the ACE-funded project 'Press Start', in which he examined three transformative gaming practices (machinima, in-game photography and gamics) and the possibilities they offer to learn digital literacy skills. Additionally, José worked on the project 'Digital Narratives of the Amazon' with other BU and international colleagues of the University of Las Americas in Quito, Ecuador. This project, which also involved a Summer School, led to multiple media outputs co-created with students with the aim of helping native communities in the Amazon to preserve and share their culture, language, folklore and history.
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Assistant Research, Universidade do Porto
I am a researcher at Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) in Porto. I got my first degree in Physics/Applied Mathematics (Astronomy) by the University of Porto in 2007. In 2008 completed the Mathematics Triplos with distinction at the University of Cambridge (UK). In 2012 obtained a PhD from the University of Portsmouth (UK). After my graduation at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, I worked in Ciência Viva (PT), University of the Western Cape in South Africa, Università Degli Studi di Padova and Queen Mary University of London. I have been a member of IA since 2021.
My current research interests focuses in studying the large-scale structure of the Universe in the optical and radio frequencies to understand the composition, formation and evolution of the universe and test General Relativity at cosmological scales. I am interested in using the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, and its precursor MeerKAT, in the radio and Euclid in the optical/infrared to probe the very early universe.
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Medical Student, Queen's University, Ontario
Jose Navarro (he/him) is a medical student at Queen's University in Kingston, ON with an interest in social medicine. He obtained a BSc in Medical Sciences at Western University, London, ON during which he was involved with research in trans health, social paediatrics, and cardiac oncology. Jose also is heavily involved in the acappella and musical theatre community as a music director and performer.
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Assistant professor of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Jose is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University's Department of Psychology. His interests span social cognition, evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, mating and relationships, culture, organizational behavior and group processes, motivation, and wellbeing. In a previous lifetime, Jose was active in the electronic music scene as a DJ but these days can be found pursuing his loves for whiskey, football, travel, and the occasional rave when he isn’t knee-deep in research.
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Investigador Genómica de la Conservación , Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
José A. Godoy is a Scientific Researcher at Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC). His research aims at the understanding of the genomic changes caused by species decline, how they contribute to increased extinction risk. He also collaborates in applied conservation through the implementation of genetic monitoring and management programs.
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Profesor e investigador científico en Neurociencia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Jose A. Morales-García is a neurobiologist on the Department of Cellular Biology in the School of Medicine at the Complutense University. He is also a member of the Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED). He was awarded his PhD (summa cum laude with a Special Doctorate Mention) in 2011 for a thesis entitled 'Identification and analysis of new cellular targets implicated in neurogenesis and neurodegeneration` performed at the Autonoma University of Madrid. During his scientific training in the University of Würzburg and Tübingen (Germany) and in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain), his work was focused in the study in vitro and in vivo of the mechanism underlying neurodegenerative disease, mainly Alzheimer's and Parkinsonism in order to develop new neuroprotective, antiinflammatory and neurogenic compounds for the treatment of these disorders.
Also participates at the Autonoma University of Madrid as a teacher in the Master of Pharmacological Research and in the Postgraduate Certificate “Expert in Public Communication and Dissemination of Science”.
He has vast experience in scientific communication as a speaker and organizing divulgation activities to bring science to the general public.
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