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Lauren Pearson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University
Dr Lauren Pearson is a Research Fellow within the Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research Group, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Dr Pearson leads a large body of work with the aim of improving accessibility in bike riding, with a particular focus on gender equity. Dr Pearson also manages the Australian activities of an international program of research about implementation of sustainable transport interventions.

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Lauren Rea

Lecturer, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield

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Lauren Rosewarne

Dr Lauren Rosewarne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She is a writer, researcher and frequent media commentator on issues relating to gender, sexuality, pop culture and the media.

Lauren is the author of eight books: Sex in Public: Women, Outdoor Advertising and Public Policy (2007), Cheating On The Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism (2009), Part-Time Perverts: Sex, Pop Culture and Kink Management (2011) and Periods in Pop Culture: Menstruation in Film and Television (2012), American Taboo (2013) and Masturbation in Pop Culture: Screen, Society, Self (2014). This year, Lauren will have two books published: Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators: Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes (2016) and Intimacy on the Internet: Media Representations of Online Connections (2016).

For more information, please visit her website: www.laurenrosewarne.com and feel free to get in touch at [email protected].

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Lauren Sudeall Lucas

Lauren Sudeall Lucas is assistant Professor of Law at the Georgia State University. She joined faculty of GSU College of Law in 2012, where she teaches Constitutional Law and Capital Punishment.
Soros Justice Fellow/Staff Attorney, Southern Center for Human Rights (2007-12)
Clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court (2006-07)
Clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2005-06)

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Lauren Westerberg

Doctoral Candidate in Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University
Lauren Westerberg, M.S., is a doctoral candidate at Purdue and her work focuses on understanding how environmental factors, including home and classroom contexts, contribute to the development of children’s STEM knowledge and skills and on developing early STEM assessments that can be used in both the research and classroom settings.

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Lauren A. Miller

PhD Student in AR filters and digital beauty cultures on social media, Swinburne University of Technology
Lauren A. Miller is currently a confirmed PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology. Prior to returning to study, Lauren spent almost a decade working in marketing and social media management. Lauren's PhD project examines Instagram’s augmented reality filters through a socio-technical lens, with a focus on how the technology impacts beauty and surgery culture. Lauren's research interest include feminist approaches to social media, digital privacy/surveillance, digital beauty cultures, theories of the technology user as cyborg, and digital embodiment praxis.

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Lauren A. Siegel

Lecturer, University of Greenwich
Dr. Lauren Siegel is a Lecturer in Tourism & Events at the University of Greenwich in London. Lauren's research focuses on how social media have transformed experiences into objects of collectible consumption and visitor impacts to destinations considered 'Instagrammable'. Lauren earned her MSc from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hons) and her PhD from the University of Surrey. Her research is centred on all things leisure and technology, and is published widely in both academic and industry journals.

Personally, Lauren is a keen traveller and considers local and authentic experiences very precious. Lauren also considers herself pretty witty, but not all will agree.

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

Instructor, School of Education, University of New Orleans
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian who studies the political history of the American academy, especially its relationship to the 20th century conservative movement. Shepherd’s first book, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars" (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) traced how conservative activists shaped higher education policy, precedent, and law in the wake of 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements.

Shepherd was recently profiled in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education as part of its Class of 2024 leading women in the field of higher education. Her work and commentary have been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, TIME Magazine, NPR, POLITICO, Vox, The Nation, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Lapham’s Quarterly, and Contingent Magazine.

Shepherd is an instructor in the School of Education at the University of New Orleans and an IUPUI-Society for US Intellectual History Community Scholar.

In addition to research and writing, she enjoys teaching Pilates and practicing yoga. She lives with her husband and their dogs in South Mississippi.

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Lauren Nichola Colley

PhD in English literature, University of Nottingham
I studied English at Cambridge, before returning to my home town of Nottingham and doing a Creative Writing Masters. I have now moved onto a English literature PhD and am in my final year. My thesis is multi-disciplinary, engaging with the rise of pedestrian culture in the long nineteenth-century, and the implications that had for literature.
Whilst studying part time I edit and advise on independent articles for a number of popular publications and broad scope of areas.
I have continued my creative writing, publishing my most recent prize-winning book of poems ('Pegging Out') in 2021 with Indigo Dreams.

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Lauren P. Bailes

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Delaware
Lauren Bailes is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her scholarship focuses on the ways in which organizational, social-cognitive, and leadership theory unite to promote the success of school leaders and K12 students. Specifically, she addresses three distinct strands of research: social cognitive theory and the efficacy beliefs of school stakeholders, especially as they relate to school organizational characteristics; school leader preparation, placement, and evaluation; and shared influences of leaders and organizations on favorable conditions for student success. She received her doctorate in Educational Administration from The Ohio State University. Prior to receiving her doctorate, she taught middle school English Language Arts (ELA) in Brooklyn, New York, designed ELA curriculum and assessments for 5th-8th grade students, and served as a professional development and literacy coach in Columbus, Ohio.

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Lauren T. May

Senior Lecturer and Group Leader, Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
Dr May leads the Cardiac GPCR Biology laboratory at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS), Monash University. Dr May uses her molecular pharmacology expertise to apply new and innovative drug discovery approaches to facilitate the development of safe and effective therapeutics. She employs multidisciplinary methods to achieve these research goals, including artificial intelligence, computational biology, and molecular and analytical pharmacology. Dr. May has secured significant competitive funding, which has led to impactful publications in Nature, Cell, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.

Dr May is committed to improving health outcomes as advisory member for the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance Drug Discovery Flagship and inaugural Chair of the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Climate Health Initiative. Dr May is an advocate for diversity in science, co-founder and past chair of Her Research Matters (2021 Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion) and a member of the 2019 International Women’s Forum (IWFA) Emerging Leaders Cohort.

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Laurence Booth

Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Professor Booth holds the CIT chair in structured finance at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto where he was also the finance area co-ordinator for almost 21 years. His major research interests are in corporate finance and the behaviour of regulated industries. He teaches corporate finance and asset allocation in Rotman’s graduate programmes and in 2003 was awarded the Financial Post’s Leader in Management Education Award.

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Laurence Don Wai Luu

Lecturer and Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Laurence Luu is a Chancellor's Research Fellow (CPDRF). His current research program investigates chlamydia host-pathogen interactions using a systems biology approach (transcriptomic, proteomic and functional genomics) and new organoid models to better understand how chlamydia infection leads to infertility. This knowledge will be used to develop new interventions to reduce the significant burden of chlamydia.

Prior to joining Prof Huston's group, Laurence completed his PhD in the Evolutionary Microbiology lab under the supervision of Prof. Ruiting Lan and Dr. Sophie Octavia at UNSW. Here, he investigated the evolution of Bordetella pertussis (which causes whooping cough) to vaccines. During his PhD, he discovered new proteomic adaptations that were associated with increased fitness in the current Australian B. pertussis strains circulating. This discovery garnered widespread media attention and led to a national call to improve vaccines for whooping cough.

Laurence continued his research at UNSW as a postdoctoral researcher in A/Prof Natalia Castaño Rodríguez's and A/Prof. Nadeem Kaakoush's research group where he investigated how interactions between host immunogenetics and the microbiome can lead to cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and inflammatory bowel diseases.

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Laurence Jones

Lecturer in Finance, Bangor University
I am a Lecturer in Finance here at Bangor University and Lead of the Institute of European Finance’s “Financial Innovation and Data Analytics” research group.

My current research focus is on:

Modelling dynamic systems to explore how they respond to regulatory and external changes,
Retail investor behaviour
Predictive data analytics in a variety of business settings to enhance decision making.
I also have research interests in: Labour Economics, Data Analytics, Stock Recommendations, Credit Ratings, Regulation and policy impact.

My background includes:

Head of Data and Analytics at a Financial Technology start-up analysing the performance of stock recommendations
PhD was in Banking and Finance where I investigated the impact of new regulation on Credit Rating Agency and Bank behaviour and applied a dynamic computer modelling technique to the task (Dynamic Structural Estimation modelling and Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming).
Held roles both in data scientist and as a mathematician/statistician.
The Alun Turing Institute’s Bangor Theme Champion for “Economy and Finance, Autonomous Systems”.
Undergraduate BSc (Hons) in Physics from University of Warwick.

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Laurence Monnier

Research Associate and member of the EDHECinfra Advisory Board, EDHEC Business School

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Laurence Murphy

Senior Lecturer & Researcher in Media Technology, University of Salford
Laurence Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Media Technology and programme leader for the BSc Media Technology Pathway programme at Media city

He is an active researcher in Mobile and Internet broadcast systems, High Definition , 4K & 3D Television and Digital cinema. He is currently engaged in PHD research into changing media technologies and their impact on both the Broadcast industries and the viewer.

Laurence began his operational career as a location sound recordist in 1985 whilst studying for his 1st degree. After a move into Camera work he progressed into studio and outside broadcast technical management. He is an active camera and engineering consultant for a number of broadcast companies and manufacturers.

He began his association with Salford University in 1992. He designed the four camera studios within the school. His academic career began with a BA in Communication Media in 1986, his second degree MA in Television and Documentary he completed in 1999.

In September 2000 Laurence became programme leader of the BSc Media Technology programme.

In 2007 Laurence designed the first undergraduate technology degree in the UK to focus on the newest areas of Broadcast Media, Mobile and Internet Television. The Programme took its first students in Sep 2008 and is a joint programme between the Schools of Media, Music and Performance and Computing, Science and Engineering at Salford.

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Laurence Zwiebel

Professor of Biological Sciences and of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University
The major focus of the Zwiebel laboratory is the characterization of specific genes and their products that control important behavioral processes in the life cycle of insects that act as disease vectors, particularly host (i.e. blood-meal source) seeking/selection in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, the principal vector for malaria in Africa. Malaria is caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium that is transmitted to humans through blood feeding by female Anopheline mosquitoes. In this context, the Zwiebel lab is examining the molecular events of olfaction, as this sense predominates the overall host preference and other essential behaviors in mosquitoes and other insects. This aspect of the mosquito’s behavior is especially important as it makes a significant contribution to the vectorial capacity of this arthropod vector, as well as playing a similar role in the overall impact of many other insects of economic importance.

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Laurencia Villalba

Honorary fellow, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong
Associate Professor Villalba is Wollongong’s only female vascular surgeon. Laurencia is the Head of the Vascular department at Wollongong Hospital and founder of the Vascular Care Centre, located on Crown St, Wollongong.

In 2018 Laurencia was selected to become a member of the Court of Examiners, this is a board of high performing surgeons who assess the competencies of candidates, in order to ensure that they are safe and competent to practice as surgeons. Laurencia is the first ever female surgeon to be a part of this prestigious group.

Laurencia became an Associate Professor in 2017 and has been teaching at Wollongong University since 2008. She is a highly sought after national and international speaker, speaking at medical conferences around the globe on topics such as May Thurner syndrome, Deep vein thrombosis and Pulmonary embolism treatment. “I believe in quality of life, patient education and personalized care. I treat all my patients as if they were my own family”

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Laurent Bazinet

Professeur en sciences et technologies des aliments, Université Laval
Le Dr Laurent BAZINET est professeur, au département de Sciences des Aliments, à l'Université Laval où il enseigne l’ingénierie des procédés industriels alimentaires. Il est titulaire de la Chaire de Recherche en partenariat sur la Valorisation Intégrée des coproduits par des Technologies ALimentaires écoefficientes dans le cadre d’une Économie circulaire et directeur du Laboratoire International Associé sur la Bioproduction d’Antimicrobiens Naturels.

Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur l’étude des phénomènes électrodialytiques et leurs impacts sur les composés bio-alimentaires et leurs bénéfices santé. Il dirige 2 M.Sc., 10 Ph.D et 5 Post-doc dans le cadre de projets de recherche dont le budget total annuel s’élève à plus de 1.0 M$. Le Dr. Bazinet a publié plus de 267 articles et depuis 2020, il est reconnu comme le leader mondial de l'électrodialyse avec membrane de filtration et comme faisant partie du 2% des meilleurs scientifiques au monde.

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Laurent Fourchard

Research Fellow, Sciences Po
Laurent Fourchard, historian and political scientist, is a research professor at the National Foundation for Political Science (CERI).

Research Fields: Violence and security, governance of metropolises, vigilantism, history and political sociology of Nigeria and South Africa, history and historiography of contemporary Africa, History of Nigerian migration to Italy.

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Laurent Husson

Earth sciences researcher, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
Geophysicists call me a geologist, geologists call me a geophysicist. In practice, I am mostly interested in quantifying the processes operating within the Earth system in general. The geosphere is central to my research, but the atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere are indiscriminately crucial to my research.

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Laurent Jolivet

Professeur, Sorbonne Université

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Laurent Palka

Maître de conférences, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
Je suis spécialiste des protistes, procaryotes et champignons mycorhizogènes, dans le domaine de l'écologie des sols et de l'écologie urbaine (toits végétalisés).
Crédit photo : Patrick Lafaite.

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Laurette Marais

Senior Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Laurette has been researching and developing human language technology for the South African languages since 2009. Her primary interest is in developing high accuracy computational language resources for the South African languages and to apply these in ways that contribute directly to a sustainably multilingual South Africa.

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Laurette Pretorius

Professor Extraordinarius, Stellenbosch University
I obtained the following qualifications:

1974: BSc (Mathematics and Computer Science) (Stellenbosch University)

1975: BSc Hons. (Computer Science) (Stellenbosch University)

1980: BSc Hons. (Mathematics) (University of South Africa)

1981: MSc (Applied Mathematics) (University of Pretoria)
Title of full dissertation: A global method for solving stiff differential equations,
Supervisor Prof J A Snyman

1987: DSc (Applied Mathematics) (Potchefstroom University for CHE, now the North-West University)
Title of thesis: Gauss-type quadrature formulas for spline functions
Supervisor Prof D P Laurie.

2019-2021: Zulu I, II and III and Sepedi I, II and III (University of Pretoria)

2022-2024 (yet to be completed): MA (African Languages) (University of Pretoria)
Title of dissertation: A Northern Sotho GF resource grammar: From grammar to corpus and Back
Supervisor: Prof E Taljard.

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Laurie Johnson

Professor in English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Queensland
Laurie Johnson is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Queensland, and a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Historical Society. He is immediate past President of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, an Academic Adviser to the Museum of Shakespeare in Shoreditch, London, and Research Dramaturge for the Oxford Marlowe Project. Laurie is a recipient of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, and has published more than 60 books, chapters, and journal articles in cultural and literary studies, theatre history, and Shakespeare studies.

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Laurie Laybourn

Visiting Fellow, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
Laurie Laybourn is an award-winning policy researcher, author, and strategist. He is executive director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI), a think-and-do tank that helps develop capabilities for securing a better world even as the environmental crisis escalates. He is an associate fellow at Chatham House, a visiting fellow at the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, and an associate fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He is a trustee of the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and sits on the board of the Economic Change Unit, an organisation he founded. Previously, he was Director of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and has worked at the LSE, Oxford University, and the UK Parliament. Laurie regularly appears on television, radio, and in print. He is co-author of Planet on Fire: A manifesto for the age of environmental breakdown (Verso 2021).

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Laurie Mintz

Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Florida
Dr. Laurie Mintz is a feminist author, therapist, emeritus professor, and speaker whose life’s work has been committed to helping people live more authentic, meaningful, and joyful lives through the art and science of psychology.

While both a tenured Professor, and now and Emeritus Professor at the University of Florida, Dr. Mintz teaches the Psychology of Human Sexuality to hundreds of undergraduate students each year. Mintz has published over 50 research articles in academic journals and six chapters in academic books. She has received numerous professional and teaching awards. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, indicating that her work has had a positive national influence on the field of psychology.

She is the author of two popular press books—both written with the aim of empowering women sexually and both with published studies showing that women who read them enhance their sexual functioning: Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters and How to Get it (HarperOne, 2017) and A Tired Woman’s Guide to Passionate Sex: Reclaim Your Desire and Reignite Your Relationship (Adams Media, 2009). Becoming Cliterate has received national awards and international acclaim, earning Mintz a spot on Forbes "50 over 50" list of women innovators. Mintz also gives presentations and workshops to professionals and lay audiences and is often quoted in national and international media.

For over 25 years, Dr. Mintz has also maintained a small private practice, working with both individuals and couples on general and sexual issues. One of her greatest honors is supporting her clients during difficult times, as well as helping them make positive changes and reach life goals.

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Laurie-Anne Kosak

Masters student, Psychoeducation, Université de Montréal
I am currently completing my master's degree in psycho-education at the Université de Montréal. My research looks at the impacts throughout life of early healthy lifestyle.

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Lauryn Stafford

Fellow in Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington
I am a third-year Post-Bachelor Fellow at the University of Washington (UW) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), and a part-time UW graduate student in the MS Health Metrics Sciences program with graduation in August 2023. At IHME, I am responsible for diabetes mellitus disease burden and high fasting plasma glucose risk burden estimates for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study.

In 2020, I received my undergraduate degrees in Public Health-Global Health (BS) and Economics (BA). By being able to take courses in both these majors, I was able to explore my interests in global health economics and the crucial intersection between financial stability and health. As an undergraduate, I was able to participate in a study abroad program through the School for International Training (SIT) in India focusing on public health, gender equality, and community-based initiatives. I was also an Undergraduate Research Assistant on the Cost Effectiveness team at IHME before continuing at IHME as a Post-Bachelor Fellow.

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Lavina Sequera

Scientific Research, Unesco
Lavina Sequera is a Masters graduate, a merit scholarship holder (2022-2023) from the University for Peace - UN Mandated (UPEACE) in International Law and Human Rights, with an internship with the Natural Sciences Unit at the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO as a Scientific Researcher to the Chief of the Unit. With over 16 years dedicated towards social and humanitarian initiatives across Government, Private and Not-for-Profit’s in India, she spearheaded India’s largest rural CSR program for Hindustan Unilever Ltd. spanning across 70,000 villages in 2010-12 and yet again, established a women’s empowerment, income-generating program across 600+ rural artisans, preserving endangered craftwork for Souvenirs of Soil Pvt. Ltd.

In the past, she supported humanitarian initiatives such as mapping rural Tanzania to combat Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) under the aegis of the UN; mediated legal / international aid sustaining the welfare of children in an orphanage in Madhya Pradesh, volunteered for the Blind School in Worli, Mumbai, for Street Children in Mumbai Central, Mumbai and is currently a Member of The Maharashtra State Women’s Council which runs 10 NGO's in Mumbai.

Recognized among Asia’s Top Sustainability Superwomen 2019 by CSRWorks International and Global Reporting Initiative, Singapore and recipient of the Eco-Business A List award for ‘Sustainability Leadership during Covid-19’ by Eco-Business in partnership with Trucost, part of S&P Global, Singapore, Noted as one of 'Women for Change 2021' by ChangeNow, Lavina Sequera is currently Hon. Executive Director Women Empowerment and Global Goodwill Ambassador for Human Rights and Peace for India and Hon. Executive Director – CSR, National Council of News and Broadcasting – for an human rights based organization both, signatories to UNGC.

She also works with animal activists for emergency response, aid and activism.

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Lavinia Iancu

Assistant Professor of Forensic Science, Director of the Forensic Science Program, University of North Dakota
Dr. Iancu received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (Faculty of Biology, Bucharest University), followed by two master’s degree programs (European Master of Forensic Sciences and Medical Biology Master). She earned the PhD title in biology (forensic entomology and microbiology expertise) within the Romanian Academy, Institute of Biology Bucharest.

In her research, Dr. Iancu is committed to advancing the study of forensic entomology and microbiology, aiming to identify novel biomarkers for the estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI). The research focuses on investigating the necrophagous insects and bacteria diversity and dynamics associated with decomposed tissue, in correlation with the climatic parameters, aiming to provide new data useful for forensic investigations worldwide by emphasizing novel PMI estimators.

Her concept of education consists greatly in teaching with passion, in respecting each student and inspiring them through the way of being and existing; treating each student individually, being able to observe their motivation and passions. Her beliefs are that a professor needs to support the students, find what really motivates them, and in the forefront of forensic sciences, a goal unites them all, the fight for justice and finding out the truth; and in this sense, knowing that each student has their own motivation they can work in a team, where each one can bring their contribution.

Dr. Iancu’s experience and contributions to the field have been recognized by the numerous peer-reviewed articles in the field, by the Henry C Lee scholarship Award, the AAFS Outstanding Early Career Achievement in Forensic Science Award received from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, The Fulbright Senior Award for initiative and leadership in advancing forensic entomology research, the Romanian Academy “Grigore Antipa” Award, granted for the pioneering work in the field of forensic entomology and microbiology, and the Itterman Faculty Professional Development Award granted by the College of Arts & Sciences in recognition of exemplary teaching while maintaining excellence in research and service.

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