Professor of English, Long Island University, Brooklyn
Louis J. Parascandola is Professor of Humanities at Long Island University, Brooklyn. He has edited several anthologies on Black American authors as well as a collection of writings about Coney Island.
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Director, Albert Gore Research Center and Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University
Louis M. Kyriakoudes is director of the Albert Gore Research Center and Professor of History at MTSU. He is an acclaimed historian who served as the Oral History Association's co-executive director from 2018 to 2022. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University and received additional training in demography and public health as a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development postdoctoral fellow. He has won grants from the Economic History Association, U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Parks Service to support research and public programs. He is the author of The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), co-editor (with Susanna Delfino and Michelle Gillespie) of Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 (Missouri, 2011), and the author of many articles and book chapters.
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Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland
Professor Louisa Allen is a graduate of The University of Auckland and the University of Cambridge. She has taught at both of these universities in the area of educational sociology, the sociology of youth, research methodologies, feminist post-structural theories and theories of gender. Her research interests lie in the area of sexualities, sexuality education, youth, gender and schooling. This work is informed by feminist new materialism, queer theory and sensory methodologies.
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Senior Conjoint Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
Louisa is a Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at Sydney Children’s Hospital with a special interest in asthma management and the epidemiology of respiratory health of children. She is also working on her PhD entitled “The impact of early life factors versus lifestyle on the respiratory health of young adults” through the University of Western Australia, for which she was awarded scholarships from both the University and the Asthma Foundation of Western Australia.
Having attained her medical degree at Trinity College Dublin, Louisa completed her paediatric training in Ireland and then carried out a Fellowship in Respiratory medicine at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth, Western Australia.
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Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester
I am a Clinical Lecturer and Chartered Clinical Psychologist working at the University of Manchester and Pennine Care NHS Trust. I have predominantly worked with older people in mental health services and research in the areas of behaviour and distress in people with dementia, trauma and complex presentations in older people.
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Executive Manager, Indigenous Engagement, CSIRO
Louisa Warren is a proud Torres Strait Islander woman with over twenty years’ experience in community engagement, strategy and policy development. She has delivered a range of social and economic development projects in remote, regional and urban Indigenous communities. Louisa is an experienced Reconciliation Action Plan Manager and is the Executive Manager of the Indigenous Engagement team at the CSIRO. Louisa sits on a number of Indigenous Advisory Panels to provide strategic advice to organisations to support their Indigenous Engagement Strategies.
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Researcher of Geography, Penn State
I am a health geographer and demographer with training in public health and public policy. My research focuses on how place-based inequities produce and reinforce health disparities and how to alleviate those disparities. In my interdisciplinary work, I seek to understand contexts of health and place as foundational to perpetuating health disparities, as well as opportune for promoting health, through social engagement, built and natural environments, and multi-level policy infrastructures. In particular, I currently study neighborhood inequities and stress, and the potentials for urban planning strategies as means of mitigation; and substance use and landscapes of addiction using demographic, geospatial, and mixed research methods.
I have designed and implemented numerous studies involving primary data collection, including probabilistic household surveys of hard-to-reach populations, ecological momentary assessment studies, observational studies, and community-based participatory research projects.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Sciences, University of Toronto
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, where I research the responses of polar bears to sea-ice loss from climate change.
My work generally explores the role that physiology and energetics play in mediating how individuals, populations, and communities respond to changing environments, ultimately aiming to improve our ability to conserve and manage at-risk species.
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Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London
I am a sociologist in a business school studying how social class affects access to the elite professions, and subsequent career progression. I have recently published a book called: Highly Discriminating: Why the City isn't Fair and Diversity doesn't Work. This explores how the City of London has deployed a meritocratic narrative to obscure highly exclusive recruitment and promotion practices, from which it benefits. It also explains how diversity interventions do not work as their primary function is to preserve the unequal status quo.
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Research Assistant, Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program, Australian National University
Louise Bardwell is a research assistant in the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University with a background in renewable energy engineering and Pacific/Asian studies. She is interested in transdisciplinary research focused on driving the world's sustainable and equitable pathway to decarbonisation through the use of renewable energy systems and social change.
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Chancellor's Fellow | Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde
I am a sociologist of punishment. In particular, I am interested in comparative and historical study of incarceration, penal cultures and penal politics.
In 2023 I was named as on of ten New Generation Thinkers by the BBC and AHRC. I have been the recipient of the Theoretical Criminology Best Article Prize and the British Society of Criminology's Best Article Prize for a new scholar.
I have published on the history of prisons in Ireland and Scotland, comparative punishment, and am currently writing a book on the rise and fall of Magdalene Laundries in the Republic of Ireland.
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Senior Lecturer in Conservation, University of York
Louise Cooke is a conservation expert interested in sustainability, historic buildings, archaeological sites and landscapes. She is internationally recognised for her expertise in the study and conservation of Earth Buildings.
She undertook an undergraduate degree in Archaeology at the University of Birmingham and then worked for the Museum of London Archaeology Service before joining the Archaeology Commissions team at English Heritage. In 2001 she was based in Lebanon working on the archive from the post-civil war Beirut Souks excavations. She then returned to study at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, undertaking an MA in Managing Archaeological Sites, and her PhD researching approaches to the conservation of earth structures. Her fieldwork was undertaken in Central Asia and the Middle East with particular focus on the multi-period earthen cities of Ancient Merv (Turkmenistan).
From 2006 Louise combined teaching for the Open University with a wide-ranging portfolio of heritage consultancy work including work in the UEA, Peru, Turkey and the UK including the development of a £3.5 million HLF funded Landscape Partnership Scheme. She joined the Department in York in 2016.
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PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool
Louise Coyne is a PhD student at the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. She has recently submitted her thesis titled 'The Making of a Militant: How Ireland made Emmeline Pankhurst a Militant'. The thesis focused on the influence of Ireland on Emmeline Pankhurst and her policies as one of the leaders of the Women’s Social and Political Union (more commonly known as the suffragettes). The thesis analysed the tactics of the suffragettes, the Irish inspiration behind the tactics and the differing response by the Government to the suffragettes in comparison to Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists.
Louise's research interests include: women’s suffrage, feminism, modern British history, modern Irish history and protest (violent and nonviolent).
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Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
I am a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute of Society and Culture. I was awarded my PhD in Human Geography from Macquarie University in 2007 and have been with Western Sydney University since 2007. I work on housing affordability, sustainability, multi-stakeholder governance, decolonisation, property law, resilience, and citizenship.
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Professor of law, University College Cork
Professor Louise Crowley of the School of Law, UCC, is a national voice on intimate partner violence having published widely on the adequacy of legal responses to the challenges of gender-based violence and works with service providers and state agencies to highlight the need for greater targeted investment in service provision.
Louise was a member of the Government appointed expert group that developed the National Framework to End Sexual Harassment and Violence at Third Level in 2019 and she continues to advise on law and policy reform.
In 2016, at University College Cork, Louise developed the campus-wide Bystander Intervention programme which educates and empower staff and students to challenge the normalisation of sexual abuse and to recognise their role as pro-social bystanders to effect change and bring about a new normal of safety and respect. This training is now being delivered in other third level institutions as well as workplaces and sporting organisations.
In 2022, funded by the Irish Research Council, Louise developed a bespoke second level programme, now being piloted in 50 secondary schools nationwide. Louise has recently commenced a 14 month partnership with the Irish Defence Forces to deliver Sexual Respect and Ethics training to members of the Army, the Air Corp and the Navy.
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Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
Louise Dorignon is a geographer and a Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research in the School of Global, RMIT University. She specialises in the production, lived experience and urban outcomes of apartment housing in Australia and Europe. Louise’s VC Fellowship project focuses on modular apartment prefabrication to analyse how it can enable the production of more sustainable and affordable homes and support everyday experiences of post-carbon housing. Louise has collaborated with a wide range of stakeholders, from material manufacturers and builders, to architects, developers, policymakers, regulators and householders in Australia and internationally, especially in Europe.
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Research Fellow in History, University of York
Louise read Medieval English and History at Birmingham University and has an MA In Archive Administration from UCL. She joined the Centre in 2009, having worked in partnership previously through her role at York Minster. Louise recently completed a part-time PhD at York on the history of the stained glass of York Minster since 1500.
Louise worked in the archives sector in the county record offices of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, specialising in education and outreach and was Head of Collections at York Minster for many years. She co-authored 'York Minster: A Living Legacy' with Dr. Richard Shephard and the Very Revd Keith Jones and has written numerous popular articles on the Minster and its history. She wrote for the CD-ROMs Images of Salvation: the Story of the Bible through Medieval Art and Pilgrims and Pilgrimage and brokered the ongoing partnership between the Centre and York Minster. Louise was associate editor for both The English Parish Church through the Centuries and for the partner disk English Cathedrals and Monasteries through the Centuries, as well writing a number of articles for that disk too. Her research interests are stained glass, manuscript art and Viking and Anglo-Saxon culture.
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PhD, Remote sensing scientist, Cirad
Louise Leroux is a researcher at the CIRAD institute in the AÏDA unit. She is geographer with a strong background in remote sensing applied to agricultural monitoring. Her researches are focused on the use of remote sensing technologies combined with statistical or biophysical modelling to (1) improve the cropping systems descriptions and (2) improve the assessment of agronomical and environmental performances of smallholder cropping systems. Over the last years she worked mainly in West Africa, with a focus on agroforestry systems. She was previously seconded to Centre de Suivi Ecologique in Senegal and she is now based at IITA Nairobi in Kenya where she conducts her research on yield gap assessment in Ethiopia .
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Associate Professor and Psychiatrist, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
Associate Professor Louise Nash is a psychiatrist with expertise in teaching, research and clinical work.
She is the Associate Director of Teaching and Learning at the Brain and Mind Centre of The University of Sydney and consultant psychiatrist with Sydney Local Health District.
She has diverse clinical experience in rural, remote and metropolitan Australia having worked in Darwin, Alice Springs, Dubbo, Orange and Sydney.
Her recent research projects include promoting doctors’ health and wellbeing, improving the junior doctor experience of psychiatry terms, exploring innovative ways to change workplace culture, promoting rural psychiatry training and youth mental health.
Her PhD examined the impact of medico-legal matters on the health and practice of Australian doctors.
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Associate Professor in Social Policy Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), University of Birmingham
Louise is an Associate Professor in Social Policy and Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM). Her research interests focus on older people and personal finance (and personal finance-related issues), including financial security, financial advice, and the regulation of consumer financial services.
Louise’s research is strongly empirical, but against a backdrop of welfare privatisation and the individualisation of economic risk, she is also interested in more normative questions concerning the role of, and balance of responsibility between, the state, the market, and the individual for later life financial well-being.
Louise has carried out extensive research on the role and relevance of housing wealth as a source of retirement finance, with a particular emphasis on equity release. Her published work in this area has gained widespread press coverage, and has been used by the Financial Conduct Authority, the equity release industry and its trade body, as well as in the development of Age UK’s Equity Release Advice Service.
Prior to joining the University of Birmingham, Louise worked as a Research Fellow on a major, multi-disciplinary, Leverhulme-funded project: Mind the (Housing) Wealth Gap: Intergenerational Justice and Family Welfare ’at the Universities of Durham and Essex.
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Early Career Researcher and Ecotherapist., Queen's University Belfast
Dr Louise Taylor is an Early Career Researcher and therapist committed to working with activists and academics to highlight the importance of mental health, wellness, and equity in the struggle for climate justice. She is passionate about supporting activists on the frontline of environmental struggles, whether in the Sperrin Mountains or in Uganda. Her research uses an Intersectional Ecofeminist perspective to explore the link between health and wellness in a time of climate chaos.
Louise is an activist academic, a mother and a neurodivergent consultant who believes we must embody our work and live in such a way that we make our lives Art. She is a keen writer and enjoys writing poetry as a spiritual and wellbeing practice and she believes that Nature, Art and Music are the greatest healers we have today.
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PhD Candidate, Identity of Motorcyclists, London South Bank University
I am a PhD student researching the influence of motorcycle clubs on riding behaviour and risk perception. My interest in this topic was from my own personal experience as a keen motorcyclist and the identity of belonging to a motorcycle club or motorcycle group.
I recently attained my green badge from the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM); a member of IAM and the Kent Advanced Motorcyclists Group.
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Dr Thornton is a Senior Research Fellow and Program Lead for Digital Interventions and Engagement at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use at the University of Sydney. She leads a program of research to identify and understand the most effective ways digital technologies can be leveraged to reduce chronic disease risk and improve people’s mental health. Her research primarily focusses on adolescents and young people, and people experiencing mental health problems and she has extensive experience co-designing and evaluating digital health solultions to help people improve their mental and physical health.
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Practice Professor of Architecture, Monash University
Louise Wright (PhD) is a Director of Baracco+Wright Architects in Melbourne, Australia and Practice Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University.
She is interested in a role for architecture that can extend its relationship with the natural world towards one that supports all life and explores this through in her architecture office and practice-based research in the Urban Architecture Lab research unit under the theme Buildings & Living Things.
Since 2019 she has sat on the Design Review Panel of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and was recently appointed as an ‘expert’ member on the City of Melbourne Design Review Panel. In 2022 she was made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.
In 2017, Louise was appointed in the role of Creative Director by the Australian Institute of Architects with Mauro Baracco in collaboration with Linda Tegg, of the Australian Pavilion at the 16th International Venice Biennale di Architettura 2018, with the theme Repair, which sought to explore the role of architecture in the repair of the natural environment. In 2019 they were invited by Paola Antonelli to exhibit in Broken Nature at the Triennale di Milano and together they are the guest editors for the recent issue of Antennae: The Journal of Art and Nature with an issue titled Spaces for Species around architecture and nature.
Founded in 2004 with Mauro Baracco, Baracco+Wright Architects are a small experimental architectural practice. Their work sits between academia, practice and multiple creative fields such as art and landscape architecture. They approach projects by thinking through a whole of world view where a building may not necessarily be the solution, placing value on the very occupation of land.
PhD Architecture (RMIT) 2012
Registered Architect
Bachelor Architecture (RMIT)
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PhD Student in Astrobiology, Dublin City University
Louise Gillet de Chalonge has a Bachelor's degree from Aix-Marseille Université and a Master's degree from Sorbonne Université in biology and ecology. She gained research experience in various projects related to astrobiology, including at the French National Museum of Natural History and at the German Aerospace Center. She is now a PhD student at Dublin City University, focusing on astrobiology and origins of life.
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Professor, Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University
In my research, which is interdisciplinary, I combine theoretical perspectives, qualitative methods and materials belonging to the areas of fashion studies, film studies, gender studies and queer theory. I am also interested in work life questions and in organizations and I often collaborate with scholars in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
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Doctora en Comunicación. Autora del estudio para el Observatorio Nebrija del Español "El boom de la música urbana latina y la expansión del español a nivel global", Universidad Nebrija
Productora ejecutiva, distribución y audiencias en Podium Podcast. Doctora en Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Máster en Gestión de Empresas de Comunicación por la Universidad de Navarra y licenciada en Periodismo por la Universidad de Sevilla. Compagina el mundo académico colaborando en grupos de investigación sobre comunicación e impartiendo clases en másteres de comunicación en la Universidad Nebrija de Madrid y Universidad CEU San Pablo de Madrid y Universidad Europea de Madrid. Autora del estudio “El boom de la música urbana latina y la expansión del español a nivel global” para el Observatorio Nebrija del Español.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo
Lourdes Vera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Department of Environment and Sustainability at UB. As an environmental sociologist and civic scientist, she works with communities living near oil and gas development to monitor their air for contaminants. She also serves on the coordinating committee of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, envisioning and building digital tools and research infrastructures for environmental data justice. Her interdisciplinary work spans environmental science, social science, and critical theory with articles appearing in Atmospheric Environment, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, and Mobilization.
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Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Bangor University
Dr Lowri Ann Rees is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Bangor University. A historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Wales, with a particular interest in landed estates and rural society, she has published on the Rebecca Riots, Welsh sojourners in India, and new wealth and gentry society. She co-edited the volume The Land Agent: 1700-1920 (Edinburgh, 2018), which explores the role of land agents in Britain and its imperial territories.
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Associate Professor of Earth Science, Drexel University
Loÿc Vanderkluysen, PhD, is an associate professor at Drexel University. Professor Vanderkluysen is a volcanologist concerned about how past and present volcanoes and their eruptions have impacted their environment and surroundings. He uses multidisciplinary approaches to study the entirety of the volcanic system, from magma generation to transport and emplacement. He is particularly interested in the cyclicity of volcanic eruptions, volcanic degassing processes, volcanic aerosols, and large igneous provinces. He employs research methods that range from volcano monitoring and thermal remote sensing to high-temperature geochemistry, igneous petrology, and experimental volcanology.
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Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
Lu Liu is an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering. Her research interests include the water-energy-climate nexus, urban water sustainability, human-natural system interactions, and climate change adaptations.
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Lecturer, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Dr. Luana Carcano;s research focuses on design and execution of strategies, management in luxury and premium businesses, differentiation strategies, and on growth and competitiveness strategies. She is the author of numerous books and articles on the subject. Her works have been published in The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Finanza, Marketing and Produzione e Mestieri d’Arte, among others. She is a board member for the Luxury Research Journal. Luana earned a degree in business administration from Bocconi University, a PhD in economics, marketing and corporate communication from IULM University, and a master’s degree in international management from Bocconi-Esade.
In addition to being a lecturer at the Beedie School of Business she is Academic Director for Undergraduate and Business Minor programs.
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Researcher, Human Geography, University of Amsterdam
I am a researcher with a passion for environmental governance, political and queer ecology, and climate and water justice. I have completed academic degrees in human geography, politics, philosophy, and environmental studies from Australian and Dutch universities. Currently, I work as a researcher for the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW).
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Liverpool
I am a Senior Lecturer (Junior Associate Professor) in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool. I joined the Department as a Lecturer in Politics in September 2019. Before moving to Liverpool, I was a Juan de la Cierva-formación Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science and Public Law at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and part of the DEC research group. Previously, I was a researcher in the ERC-funded ResponsiveGov Project at the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester, where I obtained my PhD with a dissertation investigating the effects of electoral incentives on government responsiveness to public opinion. I hold an MA (Florence) and a BA (Cagliari) in Political Science. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
My research is largely based on quantitative data and I am interested to explore the following research areas and questions:
- Mental health and politics (e.g., how do mental health problems - such as depression, anxiety and stress - influence political perceptions, attitudes, behaviours and decision-making? How does politics affect people's mental health? What are the determinants of policy attention and policy change on mental health?)
- Public opinion and public policy (e.g., to what public opinion signals does policy respond? To what extent do factors such as electoral incentives condition the opinion-policy link? What are the consequences of government (non)responsiveness?)
- Mass-elite linkages (e.g., what are the causes and consequences of voters' perceptions of parties' policy positions? Do voters punish and reward parties for what they say or what they do?)
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Senior Research Associate and Honorary Neurology Consultant, University of Cambridge
Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti is a Senior Research Associate, Honorary Neurology Consultant, and Group Leader within the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Cambridge University (UK), and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London (UK).
Luca obtained his MD from the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele of Milan, Italy (2007). He completed a residency program in Neurology at the same University (2013) and a following PhD in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, UK (2018). During his early graduate studies, he was a visiting scientist in major European universities, such as the University Hospital in Zürich (Switzerland), the University of Aarhus (Denmark), the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Restorative Neurology of Lund (Sweden) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria). He later progressed towards a post-doctoral position at Cambridge University (2018) and then became Group Leader within the Cambridge Center for Myelin Repair (CCMR) and Department of Clinical Neurosciences (2020).
Over the last 10+ years, Luca has made key contributions to the understanding of the pathobiology of inflammation in central nervous system (CNS) diseases. His research in regenerative neuroimmunology led to novel experimental advanced therapeutics with neural stem cells, acellular therapeutics (e.g., extracellular vesicles), and small molecules for the treatment of ischemic stroke, spinal cord injury, and progressive multiple sclerosis (MS).
Luca’s most recent work is focusing on cellular metabolism and mitochondria to find novel ways to modulate chronic inflammation and favour CNS regeneration. To this aim, he has developed unique tools to model metabolic/mitochondrial dysfunctions in vitro (using human cells and gene editing techniques) and in vivo (with animal disease models); as well as cutting edge techniques to detect metabolic changes in rodent and human cells and tissues. His multi-disciplinary approach is setting the stage for a new series of interventions that target cell metabolism in immune cells, as the next opportunity to promote the healing of the persistently inflamed CNS.
Luca’s laboratory activity is documented in >60 PubMed indexed publications - including Cell Stem Cell, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, and Nature Chemical Biology - which have received >8,300 citations, having a Hirsch Factor of 27.
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