Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
Andrea has published in the fields of household consumption, homelessness and housing. Her focus has been on social and affordable housing, alternative housing development models and market-based apartment development. In 2022 she lead the development of the award winning 'Asset Managment For Social Housing', the first specialist manual for social housing providers.
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Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Shin received her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and also completed her internal medicine residency at Indiana University School of Medicine. She then earned a master’s degree in clinical and translational research while training as a research fellow at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, followed by completion of a clinical fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at Indiana University.
Dr. Shin specializes in the care of patients with disorders of gut-brain interactions (DGBI) and gastrointestinal motility disorders. Her research interests relate to her clinical expertise and focuses on developing novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to treating disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), functional diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, chronic constipation, and anorectal disorders. She is a past recipient of an institutional career-development award (KL2) and K23 career development award through the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of the Rome V Functional Bowel Disorders Committee, served as a lead physician investigator for the American Gastroenterological Association’s (AGA) 2015 IBS in America Campaign and is a former member of the AGA Clinical Practice Update Committee. She now serves on the AGA Research Awards Panel as the AGA Patient Education Advisor, and as a council member for the American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society. She has authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications, serves as associate editor for Neurogastroenterology & Motility, and serves as an editorial board member for Alimentary, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and BMC Medicine.
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Associate Professor of Islamic Studies & Faculty Affiliate, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver
Middle East historian with a focus on broadcast media and national identity. Islamic studies professor with a focus on contemporary concerns including the use of emoticons on Salafi websites (and what they can tell us about Sunni authority), the hajj in the era of broadcast media, and the evolving use of anti-Islam rhetoric in the United States.
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
Andrea is a chartered civil engineer with a postgraduate degree in environmental engineering from Imperial College, London. She has over 20 years’ engineering and research experience in water, wastewater, stormwater and environmental assessment, having worked in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia.
Since joining the Institute in 2001, Andrea has managed and been the key researcher on a wide range of projects involving the application of integrated resource planning (IRP)/least cost planning (LCP)—an internationally recognised best practice approach to water planning and management. She has been involved in all stages of IRP: strategic long-term and drought response planning; survey design and analysis; detailed demand forecasting; efficiency option design, analysis and costing; development of pilot studies; implementation/budget plans; and evaluation of savings from implemented efficiency programs.
Andrea has worked with water service providers in most major cities (Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth) and many regional centres (Ballarat, Geelong, Wagga Wagga and Alice Springs). She has conducted IRP projects at both an urban and regional scale, investigating demand forecasts and efficiency options for urban, industrial and agricultural sectors in Australia and overseas. She has also worked with the IWA, EU SWITCH, WSAA and NWC to develop guides, training, models and tools to aid the water industry both nationally and internationally. Andrea has presented the findings of her research and provided workshops on end use analysis, demand management and IRP nationally and internationally.
Andrea has also been involved in research associated with smart meters, energy efficiency, distributed systems and water recycling. Andrea has recently led two projects on evaluation: an energy efficiency program in Queensland implemented in 400,000 houses, and a water efficiency program in Newcastle conducted on 4 residential programs and 50 schools using smart metering for leakage management.
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Assistant Professor, Political Science, MacEwan University
Dr. Andrea Wagner is a Jean Monnet Chair [1] and Assistant Professor of Political Science at MacEwan University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science and Political Economy from Carleton University in 2016. Her current research focuses on populist and anti-immigrant attitudes in the European Union and North America. Her research so far has been published in highly ranked political science journals such as Comparative European Politics and Political Studies.
Dr. Andrea Wagner’s recent publications:
Wagner, A., Pietrasik, E., & Kroqi, D. (2021) ”The Rise and Challenge of Populism”, in Abelson and Brooks Transatlantic Relations: Challenge and Resilience, Routledge Publishing.
Wagner, A., Marin, J., Bouwer, R., & Kroqi, D. (2020) ”Media(ted) frame analysis of the Spanish- Catalan political crisis”, in Byrne S., El Procés: Identity and Nation in 21st Century Catalonia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hurrelmann A, and Wagner A. (2020) "Did the Eurozone Crisis Undermine the European Union’s Legitimacy? An analysis of newspaper reporting 2009-2014 ” Comparative European Politics.
Wagner A, Marin J, and Kroqi D (2019) “The Catalan struggle for independence and the role of the European Union”, Regional Science Policy and Practice, Volume 11, Issue 5.
Dr. Wagner’s profile at MacEwan University:
https://www.macewan.ca/academics/academic-departments/anthropology-economics-political-science/our-people/political-science/profile/?profileid=wagnera27
[1] Here is an excerpt from European Commission’s website on the Jean Monnet Chair grant: “Jean Monnet Chairs are designed to: (1) deepen teaching in EU studies embodied in the official curriculum of a higher education institution and (2) provide in-depth teaching on EU matters in areas increasingly in demand in the labour market. Jean Monnet Chairs are also encouraged to provide open educational resources and involve open education activities in their work to increase the flexibility and accessibility of learning.” Erasmus: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/opportunities/opportunities-for-organisations/jean-monnet-actions/jean-monnet-chairs
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Social Scientist, CSIRO
Andrea is a social scientist with CSIRO Land and Water. Her recent work includes social science research into community responses to coal seam gas development, investigating community resilience and wellbeing, and community expectations and aspirations in communities of the Surat Basin.
Her other research experience at CSIRO includes projects that have investigated social licence to operate in the waste sector, community acceptance of urban water policy initiatives, alternative water supply options, and behaviour change programs. Andrea’s doctoral research was in the field of pro-environmental behaviour in water and electricity.
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Professor Applied Social and Policy Research; Director, Centre for Loneliness Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
Andrea is a leading researcher on loneliness and social isolation, specialising in the wider social determinants and implications through research, programme evaluation, and evidence based policy and practice.
The key principles which guide her work are academic rigor and evidence based research which is policy driven and leads to impact and change. Many aspects of her research focus on co-production involving all key partners in the research process, including ‘experts by experience’.
As Director of the Policy Evaluation Group (2002-11), Deputy and then Co-Director of CIRCLE (2011–2016,) Director of Care-Connect (2014-2017) and currently Director of Centre for Loneliness Studies (2017+) she has spearheaded interdisciplinary research collaboration and established strong networks in both academia and with external stakeholders in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Andrea has been awarded research funding of almost £3 million and has published over 50 books, chapters, articles, and reports, and worked on approximately 90 externally funded research projects.
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Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Sheffield
Andrea is an academic researcher and teacher specialised in Intellectual Property Law.
Before joining the School of Law of the University of Sheffield, he worked as Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany) where he led the research team on the Law of Geographical Indications. He also worked as 'Adjunct Professor in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Sustainable Development' at the University of Milan.
He advises private and public stakeholders on matters related to Geographical Indications, including the European Commission.
His scientific outputs are award-winning and regularly published in top IP Law Journals. In 2022, his book 'The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law' (Routledge 2021) was elected 'Best Trade Mark Law Book 2021' by the readers of the top IP information website 'IP Kat'.
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Andrea B Pembe is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and a consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist practising at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He teaches undergraduate and Postgraduate students. He has supervised and mentored more than 30 Master students and 5 PhD student. Andrea have considerable experience in research with a number of publications related to maternal and newborn care, health systems, reproductive health, quality of health care and implementation science. He participated in development of maternal and newborn policies and guidelines under the Ministry of Health and other developmental partners. Andrea is collaborating with local institutions including IHI, NIMR, GIZ. Internationally he is collaborating with Uppsalla University and Karolinska Institute in Sweden, Harvard, George Masson and George Washington universities in US, Bergen and NTNU in Norway, and university of Birmingham in the UK.
Contact: [email protected]
Selcted publications: Alwy Al-Beity F, Pembe AB, Kwezi HA, Massawe SN, Hanson C, Baker U. “We do what we can do to save a woman” health workers’ perceptions of health facility readiness for management of postpartum haemorrhage. Glob Health Action. 2020;13(1):1707403. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2019.1707403.
Pembe AB, Hirose A, Alwy Al-beity F, Atuhairwe S, Morris JL, Kaharuza F, Marrone G, Hanson C. Rethinking the definition of maternal near‐miss in low‐income countries using data from 104 health facilities in Tanzania and Uganda. IJGO; 2019. doi/pdf/10.1002/ijgo.12976.
Pembe AB, Sunguya BF, Mushi S, Leshabari S, Kiwango G, Masaki C, Mlunde LB. Essential medicine and equipment for emergency obstetric and neonatal care in Zanzibar: Situation at a glance. GJMR-(E) 2019;19(4)
Pembe AB, Mbekenga CK, Olsson P, Darj E. Why women do not adhere to advice on maternal referral in rural Tanzania? Narratives of women and their family members. Global Health Action. 10:1, 1364888, DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1364888
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Postdoctoral Fellow of Physics, Stockholm University
I am a researcher in astroparticle physics at Stockholm University. I did a PhD in the field of neutrinos in supernova explosions. Since then, I have moved my scientific interest to axions. I am currently contributing to the ALPHA experiment.
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Professor of education, American University
Andrea Guiden Pittman is a professor in the School of Education at American University where she teaches courses on social justice, urban education, and the role of schools in society. Her research considers how race, class, and gender affect education policymaking and school reform efforts.
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Dr. Andrea Glenn is a CIHR-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Registered Dietitian at the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto. Her research interests include the role of plant-based dietary patterns on cardiometabolic disease risk, including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. She is currently working on the role of the cholesterol-lowering portfolio diet in preventing cardiometabolic diseases, incorporating traditional epidemiological analyses, clinical trial data, and metabolomics, as well as a web-based app for the diet. Other research areas include carbohydrate quality and plant protein. Dr. Glenn also has a variety of experience in coordinating clinical trials, developing knowledge translation tools for patients with cardiometabolic disease, mentoring students, and teaching (including undergraduate, graduate, and adult learners).
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Lecturer and Post Doctoral Researcher in Biological Anthropology, Princeton University
My research occurs in the spaces where humans and non-human primates interact. This includes applying wild field research to captive animals, investigating the impacts of anthropogenic changes to wild primates, and examining how social media can be inadvertently harmful to wildlife.
I earned my PhD from Boston University in 2019, where I studied Biological Anthropology. My dissertation research, conducted at the Gunung Palung National Park on Borneo, applied newer foraging theories to wild orangutan dietary data to better understand what types of food resources we should focus on for conservation habitats, and to feed captive zoo and rescue orangutans. Since that time, I have worked with several orangutan rescue and rehabilitation centers, including the Orangutan Veterinary Advisory Group, and also with the Philadelphia Zoo.
I am currently a lecturer at Princeton University in the Princeton Writing Program and the Department of Anthropology. I also work as a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Erin Vogel examining the impacts of low food availability and near-annual fires on the health and diet of wild Bornean orangutans in a fire-prone peat swamp habitat.
In addition, I am starting a nutritional ecology program at the Tsaobis Baboon Project in Tsaobis, Namibia. This project will investigate the impacts of climate change on diet, and the costs of motherhood on these highly social monkeys.
My other work examines how well-meaning social media posts by researchers, rescue and rehab organizations, and veterinarians can be harmful to wildlife conservation. In this project, we have found that humans touching or interaction with primates, or featuring babies in YouTube videos leads to negative conservation comments such as endorsing orangutans as pets or blaming the local people for their endangerment. Our most recent publication finds that when we take pictures of ourselves handling or near our study subjects, despite adding the recommended captions explaining that we are trained researchers with proper permits, the public still is interested in owning wild primates as pets, or seeking out (often illegal) opportunities to interact with these animals themselves.
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Andrea is an early career researcher for the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney. Her research interests are in the area of health economics and economic evaluation, focussing on supporting effective policymaking to develop healthier, wealthier and more equitable communities. Her current research involves co-developing decision-support tools using systems modelling and simulation to guide investments in sustained, coordinated and digitally enhanced youth mental health care. The aim is to help investment in best-value policies and models of care.
Her previous research concentrates on investigating cost-effective strategies for the management of sleep health in primary care settings as part of her PhD in collaboration with the National Centre for Sleep Health Services Research (NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence) team at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health and economic evaluation analysis of Nerve Transfer Surgery in Tetraplegia for the Transport Accident Commission (VIC, AU).
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Associate Professor of Honors and African History, University of Oklahoma
I am the Wick Cary Associate Professor of Honors and African History in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. My research focuses on the intersections of gender, politics, and religion in East Africa. I am currently working on a project about the history of evangelical development initiatives in Kenya.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in the Human Development and Violence Research Centre, Federal University of Pelotas
Andreas holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Vienna (Austria) and a master’s degree in Psychiatric Research from King’s College London (UK). He completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Bath (UK) examining the relationship between childhood trauma and antisocial behaviour, using data from Brazil, South Korea, and the UK. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Human Development and Violence Research Centre (DOVE) in Brazil, he continues to investigate the effects of childhood adversities on mental health outcomes in young pepole. Andreas is particularly interested in examining these associations using longitudinal data analysis, structural equation modelling, and systematic reviews.
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Professor, Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, University of Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Andreas Birkenfeld is Medical Director of the Department of Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nephrology at the University Hospital of Tübingen. He is also Head of the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of Helmholtz Munich at the DZD site in Tübingen and spokesperson for the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.). As a physician, he treats people with obesity and diabetes in his department. As an expert in these diseases, which are closely linked, his research focuses in particular on the causes and new treatment options for obesity. In doing so, he also deals in detail with the active ingredient semaglutide, which is used in the so-called "weight loss injection
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Associate Professor, Electro-Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern Queensland
I am an engineering academic specialising in electrical machines, drives, carbon and energy storage, based an an industry professional engineering career of 26 years, and 15 years as an independent electrical engineering consultancy.
I'm affiliated with the University of Southern Queensland as an A.Prof. Electro-Mechanical Engineering and engineering Postgraduate Program Director. I'm a member of Centre for Future Materials research group. I am a volunteer C.O.O. for the Toowoomba regional based aid and development program Project Madagascar and a CSIRO Stem Educator.
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Associate Professor, Graz University of Technology
Andreas Lechner is Associate Professor of Design and Building Typology at TU Graz and a practicing architect. His teaching, writing, and research activities form an integral part of his engagement with architecture. He was a visiting researcher at the Università Iuav di Venezia and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and held various lectures and visiting professorships internationally. His habilitation thesis was published as awards winning ‘Design Thinking - Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology’ (Park Books 2021) and presents a contemporary typological position that is open and undogmatic.
Andreas Lechner studied architecture at Graz University of Technology and after formative study stays in Los Angeles, trained as an architect living and working in Berlin, Tokyo and Vienna. After obtaining a doctorate in 2009, he was assistant professor and is since 2017 an associate professor for design and typology at the TU Graz faculty of architecture. From 2022 to 2023 Andreas is a visiting scholar at the Politecnico di Milano.
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Associate Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University
Andreas Malm is associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, Sweden.
His research focuses primarily on various aspects of the climate crisis. He is the author of, among other books, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Verso, 2016) and The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World (Verso, 2018). In 2020 he wrote a short book about the corona crisis as well as How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire and – together with the Zetkin Collective – White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism, all at Verso.
With J.P. Sapinski and Holly Jean Buck, Malm is editing a book on negative emissions technologies from Rutgers University Press called Has it Come to This? The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink. He is also working on a history of humanity in the wilderness.
During his stay at the Humanities and Social Change Center, Malm wrote the book Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency. War Communism in the Twenty-First Century (Verso 2020).
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PhD Candidate at Timescales of Mineral Systems Group, Curtin University
I hold Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Geosciences with main emphasis in geology from German universities. I'm currently enrolled in the PhD program in applied geology at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. My research aims to decipher the geological history of Earth's oldest continents with implication for ore deposit exploration.
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Professeure-chercheure adjointe au Département de médecine, Université de Montréal
2013-2018: Doctorat en sciences biomédicales à l'Université de Montréal et au Centre d'études avancées en médecine du sommeil
2018-2021: Post-doctorat à la Boston University et à la Framingham Heart Study en neurologie et épidémiologie
2021-2023: Post-doctorat à l'Université McGill et à l'Institut universitaire de recherche en santé mentale Douglas
2023: Professeure-chercheure adjointe à l'Université de Montréal et au Centre d'études avancées en médecine du sommeil du Centre de recherche du CIUSSS-NIM (site Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal)
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Maîtresse de conférences HDR en psychologie sociale, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
Andreea GRUEV-VINTILA est maîtresse de conférences HDR en psychologie sociale à l'Université Paris Nanterre UFR Sciences sociales et administration-LAPPS, autrice du livre "Le contrôle coercitif : au coeur de la violence conjugale" (Dunod, 2023). Elle s'intéresse aux processus psychosociaux, l'impact et l'incrimination de la violence et du contrôle coercitif. Ses travaux contribuent aux politiques publiques et pénales sur la violence conjugale/intrafamiliale. Elle a coordonné le projet ANR XTREAMIS et assuré la coordination France de plusieurs projets européens.
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Professeur des universités, Université de Lille
Andreï Kozovoï est docteur en histoire et professeur à l'Université de Lille où il enseigne l'histoire russe et soviétique. Spécialiste de la Guerre froide, son histoire des services secrets russes (Tallandier) a été couronnée du Grand Prix de l'Académie du renseignement. Il est aussi l'auteur d'une biographie remarquée de Leonid Brejnev, "Brejnev l'antihéros" (Perrin) et coauteur du "Livre noir de Vladimir Poutine" (Perrin / Robert Laffont). En février 2023 sortira la 2e édition actualisée de son dictionnaire d'histoire et de civilisation russe (Ellipses). En avril, verront le jour une réédition enrichie de sa Chute de l'URSS (Tempus) et un inédit sur les femmes révolutionnaires russes, "Egéries rouges" (Perrin).
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Professor of Geology, University of Ljubljana
My main fields of research are Sedimentology and Geomorphology. I am primarily interested in dynamic of fluvial and mass movement processes, recent lake and marine sedimentation and influence on geological setting on geomorphological processes and landforms. Large part of my work is related to field work the leads me from high Julian Alps to the Trst bay in Adriatic Sea. My research is also related to the field of Applicative Sedimentology in order to help other scientific fields (for example provenance analysis of tesserae used in Roman mosaics, and reconstruction of paleoclimate in last 10 000 years). Due to the love of vine, I’m also doing the terroir resarch. Occasionally I also do consulting work in sedimentology for commercial clients. I am active in representing geology to the general public trough popular science articles, interviews and lectures. I am also member of the scientific council of Idrija Geopark that is a part of UNESCO Geoparks Network and scientific member of Notranjska Regional park.
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Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State
Andrene Wright is a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State University's Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on urban politics and political behavior at the intersections of race, gender, and class. Her work uplifts the voices of Black women and girls, who are often left out of race and gender scholarship. Wright earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. She was also a Vera Fellow at the Center on Youth Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice.
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University
Andrene J. Castro, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and research faculty at the Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry, and Innovation at Virginia Commonwealth University. Castro’s research explores the cultural politics of race in education policy. Her current work focuses on two areas: 1) teacher recruitment and retention policy with a particular focus on teachers of color; and 2) the impact of educational policies on school-community dynamics.
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Profesor de Humanidades, IE University
Andrés Porras Chaves cambió su Madrid natal por los Estados Unidos para la realización de sus estudios de posgrado en Literatura y Estudios Culturales. Allí, obtuvo el título de máster por la Universidad de Colorado en Boulder y, posteriormente, se doctoró por la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Chapel Hill. Su labor investigadora se centra en la literatura y el audiovisual contemporáneos a partir de un enfoque poscolonial y transatlántico. Sus publicaciones académicas más recientes abordan cuestiones relacionadas con el imperio, la memoria y la identidad en el mundo hispanohablante.
En 2022, tras varios años de experiencia docente en universidades de Estados Unidos, el Dr. Porras Chaves se incorporó a IE University como profesor en la Facultad de Humanidades, donde imparte asignaturas sobre estudios culturales, métodos de investigación, escritura y lenguas modernas.
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Lecturer, Griffith University
I am spatial ecologist interested in using knowledge on ecosystem functioning in conservation and environmental management planning. Currently, my research focuses on optimizing the selection of areas that can maximize biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provisioning in human-dominated landscapes. In addition to my academic outputs, I regularly act in a range of service roles, providing advice to urban and regional planners, environmental consultants, and government institutions from both the Global South and the Global North.
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Doctorant en Relations Internationales, Universitat Ramon Llull
Doctorant en Relations Internationales à l'Université Blanquerna Ramon Llull de Barcelone, spécialisé dans les extrêmes droites au Parlement Européen.
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Professor and Regius Chair of Surgery, Director of Translational Research Centre, University of Glasgow
Andrew Biankin is a surgeon-scientist whose research goals are to improve outcomes for individuals with pancreatic cancer through the development of early detection and novel therapeutic strategies based on molecular phenotyping and the delineation and implementation of biomarkers that facilitate clinical decision-making. He contributes to the International Cancer Genome Consortium through extensively characterising the genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic aberrations in pancreatic cancer, and is extending this knowledge to a personalized model of cancer care, where molecular characteristics guide treatment decisions.
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Professor, Politics, Acadia University
I am a Professor in the department of Politics at Acadia University. I also teach in Acadia's Environmental and Sustainability Studies, and Social and Political Thought programs. My teaching and research interests are at the intersections of critical theory, environmental politics, political economy, and media/cultural studies.
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Dr. Blick's main areas of interest are the constitutional future of the UK, the contemporary significance of Magna Carta, the Civil Service, special advisers, and the office of Prime Minister. He uses an historical perspective to asses contemporary issues.
Before his academic appointment Dr Blick had extensive experience working for think tanks, in the UK Parliament and as an administrative assistant at No.10 Downing Street. Dr. Blick has acted as an adviser to democratic reform groups in countries including Ukraine and Turkey; and to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Stockholm. He has carried out consultancy work for the United Nations Development Programme, European Commission, European Parliament, and UK National Audit Office. Since 2010 he has been research fellow to the first ever parliamentary inquiry into the possibility of introducing a written constitution for the UK, being carried out by the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee.
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Associate Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for Political Participation, Allegheny College
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. Before coming to Allegheny College, I completed my B.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and my Ph.D. at the University of Illinois. My research and teaching interests lie primarily in political behavior, participation, and mobilization.
As a scholar, my research is motivated by a commitment to the ideals of participatory democratic theory. More specifically, my research examines the inherent challenges of participatory democracy and seeks strategies for overcoming these challenges. One of my current projects examines the challenges of mobilizing citizens for collective action. Another examines the challenges of communicating accurate policy information to citizens.
My teaching similarly combines a focus on participatory democracy with my interests in American politics and citizen behavior. Courses I teach include political psychology, politics and the news media, and direct action organizing (social movements and community organizing).
My commitment to participatory democracy also extends beyond my academic work. Prior to joining the faculty at Allegheny College, I worked as a community organizer for the Champaign County Health Care Consumers (CCHCC) where I contributed to campaigns addressing health care and environmental justice concerns.
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Senior Research Scientist in Marine Biogeochemistry, University of Tasmania
Research interests:
Chemical oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, trace elements and isotopes, analytical chemistry, ocean iron fertilisation, atmospheric dust deposition
My research has advanced our understanding of marine trace metal biogeochemistry, particularly by focussing on Southern Ocean and Antarctic sea-ice environments. I adopt an Earth system approach and have a broad my understanding of land–atmosphere– ocean interactions and the coupling of terrestrial and marine ecosystems. My current projects address key research questions on atmospheric dust deposition and solubilities, ocean iron fertilisation, physico-chemical speciation of trace elements and their isotopes, and the role of ocean dynamics on chemical and biological marine processes. I have applied my discoveries to important research outcomes related to climate change, ocean carbon sequestration, marine ecosystems dynamics, and geochemistry.
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