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Leigh-Ann MacFarlane

Educational Developer, Mount Saint Vincent University
Leigh-Ann MacFarlane is an educational developer at Mount Saint Vincent University as well as an instructor in the Biology department.

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Leighton is Professor of Economics and Finance. He is Head of Economics Research and Director of the Betting Research Unit and Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School. Leighton's main teaching is in the area of money, risk, forecasting, efficiency of markets and financial economics.

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Leila Tarakji

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
Leila Tarakji is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching focus on Islam and Muslim Studies, with a particular interest in the lives and experiences of Muslims in America. She is also a core faculty member in the Muslim Studies Program at MSU.

Leila received her doctoral degree from the Department of English at MSU. Her research in Muslim American literary studies explores how Muslim writers (re)imagine their plural identities through narrative and how they participate in the production of American literature and the U.S. cultural imaginary. Her work also considers how Muslim texts define Islam in America and engage with representations of their faith and community in U.S. media and culture. She is working on a manuscript that elaborates on how Muslim Americans articulate their “Muslimness” while situating themselves within the broader Umma or Muslim community.

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Leland Glenna

Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society, Penn State
My teaching and research program is in agriculture and natural resources. Within that more general program, I have three areas of emphasis: 1) social and environmental impacts of agricultural science and technologies, 2) the role of science and technology in agricultural and natural resource policy making, and 3) the social and ethical implications of democratizing science and technology research.

Although I do not have a formal extension appointment, I consider it the responsibility of rural sociologists to participate in outreach activities. One of my most significant outreach activities has been my service as a member on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Task Force on Faith and Genetics.

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Lella Nouri

Associate Professor, Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Swansea University
Lella Nouri is an Associate Professor of Criminology and the Co-Director of the University’s Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC). Lella is also a Co-Director of the 7.5m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhanced Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems.

Lella’s research specialism is in extremism, terrorist use of the internet and in particular extreme right ideologies as well as hate crime.

Lella’s most recent work focuses on combatting hate visuals in communities across Wales. Lella is the inventor of the innovative ‘StreetSnap’ app, which was developed in collaboration with the Legal Innovation Lab Wales and Bridgend Community Safety Partnership. Lella also runs a community impact project in relation to anti-hate crime, Flip the Streets, which helps communities to build resilience to hate.

Alongside this Lella has researched widely on extremist use of the internet including far and extreme right narratives, their dissemination via social media and provided recommendations for policy and community responses.

As well as co-organising numerous community and academic events on these topics, including a VOX-Pol extreme right workshop, Lella has published a variety of edited collections, journal articles, book chapters, research reports and blogs through leading publishers in the field.

Stakeholder and community impact and engagement work is at the heart of her research. Lella’s has most recently been appointed as an Anti-Racist Wales Research Expert for the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan as part of the External Accountability Group. She is also an active member of the following expert groups/networks: Academic-Practitioner Counter Extremism Network (APCEN) for the Commission for Counter Extremism (UK Home Office), Member of the Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) Research Network, Homeland Security Group at the UK Home Office as well as the UK Counter-Terrorism Policing Evidence-Based Review Group. In 2017/18, Lella held a visiting scholar position at the University of California, Santa Barbara on a Fulbright Cyber Security Award.

Lella is also keen to work university wide and is currently one of the University’s Morgan Advanced Studies Institute Fellows and Co-Chair of the University’s Race Equality Network (SIREN).

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Counter-terrorism
Extreme right
Terrorist use of the internet
Radicalisation

Lella has received the following accolades in recent years:
2023 Winner of the Social and Humanitarian Achievement Award - Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association (EMWWAA)
2017/18 Fulbright Cyber Security Scholar Award - Visiting scholar position at the University of California, Santa Barbara
R&I Rising Star, Early Career Winner in the 2018 Swansea University Research and Innovation Awards
Inspiring Woman Award for Swansea University's International Women’s Day 2017 celebrations
The Cyberterrorism Research Project was the winner of the Outstanding Research Collaboration Award at the 2016 Swansea University Research and Innovation Awards
She successfully applied for a place on the CHERISH-DE Digital Economy Early Career Researchers Crucible Programme in 2016
Runner Up in the Research Impact Awards (Outstanding Contribution to Law and Public Policy) at Swansea University in 2015
Certificate of Merit from the Swansea University Research Forum Research Community Award, with the Cyberterrorism Project, in 2013
Runner Up in Swansea University's Research as Art Competition, with the Cyberterrorism Project, in 2013

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Len Gillman

Professor of Biogeography, Auckland University of Technology
Len Gillman is Head of Science at Auckland University of Technology and a professor of biogeography. His research interests include polar ecology, plant ecology, global patterns in primary productivity and species richness, environmental influences on rates of genetic evolution, and conservation.

He has published in international journals including; PNAS, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Ecology, Evolution, and Frontiers in Plant Science.

He has used drones for ecological and conservation research in Antarctica, Namibia, and Western Australia, and has field experience in environments from the Arctic to Antarctic and from tropical rainforests to tropical deserts.

Prior to joining AUT, Len Gillman worked as a campaign manager for a New Zealand conservation organisation, he has an interest in the synergy between Art and Science and has published a YA grounded fantasy novel.

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Len Shaffrey

Professor of Climate Science, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading
I'm a climate scientist at the University of Reading. I'm researching how climate change might affect storms. I am also research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science.

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Lena Gutheil

Researcher,, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Research programme: Transformation of Political (Dis-)order

Function: Researcher

Specialisation: Cultural Anthropology

Work areas:

Civil society organisations and funding relationships
Project management and adaptive management
Effects of urbanisation on civil society
Democratisation processes in Africa

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Lena Henry

Lecturer in Creative Arts, Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland

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Lena Karamanidou

Visiting Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University

I am currently a visiting fellow at the School of Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University. My PhD was on the discursive legitimation of asylum policies in Greece and Ireland.

My research interests include the political discourse of migration and migration policy in Greece and the European Union; migration, racism and exclusion; state power and sovereignty; national identity, citizenship and nationalism; human rights; ethnicity; race and racism; critical discourse analysis qualitative research software.

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Lena Molnar

Research Fellow, Newcastle Youth Studies Centre, University of Newcastle
Lena is a sociologist whose research has focused on social movements, urban sociology, visual methodologies, and the prevention of gender-based violence.

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Lena Springer

Research Associate in History and Philosophy of Science, King's College London
Lena Springer gained her Dr. phil. in Sinology at the University of Vienna. She researches the transmission of scientific and medical heritage. In the project team “Cosmological Visionaries” www.cosmovis.uk, Springer investigates scientists’ and shamans’ efforts at reforestation in Southwest China and Siberia to tackle climate change. As a research fellow of Sichuan University, she investigated multi-ethnic folk medicines in China’s West. In a database team at Charité Medical University Berlin, she contributed to the translation, scientific identification, and interdisciplinary accessibility of Chinese historical pharma-recipes. Springer publishes on ethnicity in Western China, on ethnographic archivers and medical-history-writers in China, on spatial and social migration to Europe and on the anthropology of science. She has taught Sinology, organised summer schools for Sinologists and pharmacognosists in China, and provided consultancy service based on her research and fieldwork throughout China`s diverse regions. Lena is also an Affiliate of the Lau China Institute.

Research interests and PhD supervision

Environmental Sciences and Forestry in China
To tackle global climate change, developments in China are crucial. The involved environmental sciences fall into different disciplines of science, which include forestry and philosophy and have national and ethnic histories in countries, such as in China. Based on its biological diversity, as well as ethnic knowledge and technology of nature preservation, Southwest China is a global hotspot of this crucial human project.

History of Science, Chinese Medicines, and Botany in China
Materia Medica are a unique case that challenges the current Euro-centred academic mainstream and its historiography. This undercurrent in world science, and the early, medieval and folk history in this multi-disciplinary field, are easily overlooked and still understudied, especially in the vast West of present-day China.

Ethnography and Oral history in China
The available historical record in Western China is more focussed on pre-modern sources and scattered surveys than in the East of China. As a consequence, Chinese folk culture and multi-ethnic regional dynamics shed light on heritage and history of science in China, even in the modern and contemporary context.

Spatial and Social Mobility in Higher Education and Academia
Elite and outcasts are most often researched in separate projects of migration studies. Academic migrants from China in Austria are one case where China plays a strong role on both levels, especially through mobility in healthcare and higher education, both as a source of tradition and of scientific innovation.

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Lena M. Campagna

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology, Caldwell University

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Lenka Benova

Professor of Maternal and Reproductive Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
I am a quantitative population health scientist with training in management, economics, Middle East studies and demography/epidemiology. From 2014 to 2018, I served as a co-investigator on the Maternal healthcare markets Evaluation Team (MET) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where I led the SAGE (Secondary data Analysis for Generating new Evidence) team.

Previously, I headed operations in a start-up company in eldercare in the United States and worked as project coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières in Nigeria, the West Bank and South Sudan. I was responsible for the design, implementation and evaluation of the health pillar of a conditional cash transfer program in Egypt between 2008 and 2010.

I have a keen interest in health-seeking behaviour, maternal health research, and evaluation in low- and middle-income countries. I hold an MA in Middle East studies (American University in Cairo), MSc in Demography and Health (LSHTM), and PhD in Population Health (LSHTM).

I teach on Masters course modules and supervise PhD students.

My research focus is on health-seeking behaviour in general and reproductive/maternal health in particular. Within these areas, I am interested in innovative methods to capture decisions and steps in health-seeking, validity of self-reported health-seeking indicators, and coverage of care contact and content.

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Lennart Bach

Associate Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
Lennart T. Bach works at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania.

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Leo Anthony Celi

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Research Director, Laboratory of Computational Physiology; Founder and Director, Sana, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Leo moved to the US from the Philippines after medical school to pursue specialty training in internal medicine (Cleveland Clinic), infectious diseases (Harvard) and critical care medicine (Stanford). He has practiced medicine in three continents (Philippines, US and New Zealand) and has worked in both industry (Philips Visicu) and academe (faculty positions at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and University of Otago), rendering him with broad perspectives in healthcare delivery. He has a strong interest in systems re-design for quality improvement, and became the New Zealand representative to the Quality and Safety Committee of the Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Society in 2006. Feeling he needed more skills to tackle the healthcare inefficiencies he faced wherever he practiced, he went back to the US to pursue graduate studies in biomedical informatics at MIT and public health at Harvard. While attending both schools and working part-time as an emergency department physician, he co-founded Sana, personally recruiting most of the current members, and was instrumental in shaping the mission and vision of the young organization.

His other research interest is in data mining and the application of machine learning on large databases. As a research scientist at the Laboratory of Computational Physiology at MIT, he works with MIMIC, a publicly-available de-identified ICU database from BIDMC. He is working on a data-driven decision support system known as Collective Experience that (1) allows a clinician to draw on the experience of other clinicians who have taken care of similar patients as recorded in a clinical database, and (2) uses models performed on relatively homogeneous patient subsets.

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Leo Gugerty

Professor Emeritus in Psychology, Clemson University
Leo Gugerty has 32 years of professional experience (including 23 years at Clemson University) conducting research in cognitive and human-factors psychology. His recent research and teaching has focused on critical thinking, how political ideology and trust in science influence reasoning and beliefs about controversial political topics

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Leo Paas

Professor, Marketing, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
After studying Social Science Research Methodology (MSc) and Social Science Informatics (MSc) at University of Amsterdam, I worked at a large Dutch bank, Postbank (ING group). The role at Postbank addressed database marketing, data mining, marketing research activities and supporting direct marketing and reporting was done directly to the CEO next to second and third tier management. In 1999 I started working as a consultant for Da Vinci Group in Amsterdam, applying the knowledge gained at Postbank for various other firms.

In 2001 I joined Tilburg University, first as a research assistant and in 2002 as Assistant Professor at the Marketing Department. I joined the marketing department of VU University Amsterdam in 2005 taking on the role of Associate Professor in 2006. In 2014 I started as Professor in Marketing at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing (Massey University – Auckland). In February 2019 I joined The University of Auckland as a Professor in Marketing. In 2020 I took on the role of Department Head and also became Program Director for the newly launched Master of Business Analytics.

Central to my current academic research is (big data) analytics, with a focus on segmentation and respondent attention in online panels. Other research areas I work on are: Consumer reactions to human advertising models and entrepreneurship in developing economies. Papers have been published in top-ranked marketing and statistics journals, i.e.: International Journal of Research in Marketing (A- on the ABDC list), Journal of Economic Psychology (A), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (A-Series), Marketing Letters (A) and various other ABDC journals.

I have taught various courses at BSc, MSc and postgraduate level on marketing communications, marketing research, services marketing, cross cultural marketing and customer insights. I have contributed to various academic committees, been a programme leader for a Master of Business Analytics and have been involved in NUFFIC projects for capability development at African universities.

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Leo Porter

Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Porter is an expert in computer science education research focused on active learning pedagogies and assessing student learning. He is interested in identifying core course concepts which are essential to student success, developing pedagogies which facilitate student engagement with those concepts, and creating assessment instruments to evaluate the effectiveness of those pedagogical practices. He is also interested in improving the diversity of the discipline by using pedagogies which foster a community among the students. His research on Peer Instruction, a student-centric pedagogy which uses targeted conceptual questions (often with clickers) to identify student understanding, has shown it to be widely valued by computer science students in a variety of contexts, that students learn from the Peer Instruction process, and that, relative to lecture, it reduces student failure rates while improving the retention of majors. In addition, his work has shown that student responses collected automatically through the Peer Instruction process can be used to both predict student outcomes and to identify critical course concepts.

Porter also works on multi-core, multi-threaded computer architectures with UC San Diego computer science Professor Dean Tullsen, who was his Ph.D. advisor. Porter also collaborated with the late Allan Snavely at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on scheduling in high-performance computing, and continues to work with Snavely’s San Diego startup, EP Analytics.

Capsule Bio:

Porter joined the UC San Diego faculty in 2014. Prior to UC San Diego, he was an assistant professor at Skidmore College in upstate New York. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science at the University of San Diego in 2000. From 2000 to 2004, he served as a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After leaving the Navy, he earned his M.S. in 2007 and Ph.D. in 2007 in computer science from UC San Diego. As co-principal investigator on an NSF award, he has studied the impact of Peer Instruction in computer science classes. He received the Best Student Paper Award at the Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture in 2011, Best Paper Award at the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Technical Symposium in 2013, and Chair's Award for his paper at the International Computing Education Research Conference in 2014.

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Leo Roberts

Research Fellow, Centre for Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
I am a research fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Mental Health, where I progress dual research agendas in mental health and sport psychology. I have a PhD in sport psychology from RMIT University and have held several professional data scientist roles in government and university settings.

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Leo Rutherford

PhD Candidate, Social Dimensions of Health, University of Victoria
Leo Rutherford is a trans activist, and PhD candidate currently studying at the University of Victoria, on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples. Leo’s work is focused on transgender health and gender-affirming care. He has worked on a number of research projects, including as a Research assistant for TransPulse Canada, and a Mitacs fellow for the Community-Based Research Centre’s Sex Now project. PROGRESS (Patient-Reported Outcomes of Genital Reconstruction and Experiences of Surgical Satisfaction) for metoidioplasty and phalloplasty is Leo’s dissertation project and the first of many more community-focused research project on the topic. Leo hopes his work creates much-needed and invaluable knowledge for the trans community about gender-affirming surgeries. Leo’s work is supported by CIHR’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Transition to Leadership award.

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Leo S.F. Lin

Senior Lecturer in Policing Studies, Charles Sturt University
I am an interdisciplinary teaching researcher currently focusing on crime, policing, and security issues at Charles Sturt University, Australia, with previous experience as a police practitioner.

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Leon Fink

Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois Chicago
Leon Fink is a specialist in American labor, immigration history and the Gilded Age/Progressive Era. The author or editor of a dozen books, his most recent work adopts a transnational and comparative view of the Gilded Age/Progressive Era as well as seeking out the roots of today's "globalized" economic order.

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Leon Furze

PhD Candidate, Deakin University
Leon is a PhD candidate at Deakin University, exploring generative AI and education. He has a BA(Hons) in English and American Literatures and PGCE Secondary Teaching from Keele University, UK, and a MEd from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Leon is an author and educational consultant, with fifteen years' experience in secondary school leadership.

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Leon Lack

Professor of Psychology, Flinders University
After receiving a BA from Stanford University and PhD from the University of Adelaide Dr. Lack has been teaching and conducting research in the areas of sleep, circadian rhythms, and insomnia at the School of Psychology, Flinders University since 1972. He has received 15 large ARC and NHMRC research grants, published over 140 refereed articles and book chapters, and given over 27 invited keynote lectures to national and international conferences and 300 conference papers in the sleep area. He has had considerable clinical involvement since 1992 in the design and management of the non-drug insomnia treatment program at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Repatriation General Hospital, S.A. He presents his research and clinical experience frequently to health professionals (medical practitioners, psychologists, pharmacists) and to the general public in the media. He has integrated his teaching, research, clinical practice, public education roles, and commercial developments in an attempt to alleviate the problem of insomnia in our society.

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Leon Sterling

Professor emeritus, Swinburne University of Technology

Professor Leon Sterling received a BSc(Hons) and a PhD in Pure Mathematics in Australia. After positions at universities in the UK, Israel, the US, Leon returned to the University of Melbourne in Australia in 1995 in several roles, including Professor of Software Innovation and Engineering. From 2010-2013, he was Dean of the Faculty of ICT at Swinburne University of Technology, and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Digital Frontiers) from 2014-2015. He is past president of the Australian Council of Deans of ICT and a Fellow of Engineers Australia and the Australian Computer Society.

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Leon Vanstone

Academic Qualifications:
• MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London
• PhD in Shock Induced Separation of Transitional Hypersonic Boundary Layers from Imperial College London
• Currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher investigating SCRAM jet phenomena at the supersonic wind tunnel facility at the University of Texas at Austin

Science Communication:
• Two TEDx talks (TEDxLBS 2014 and TEDxHull 2015)
• Presented work at the Houses of Parliament.
• Winning the UK’s largest science communication competition, FameLab-- run by Cheltenham Science festival with NASA and the British Council.
• Presenting for the Cheltenham Science Festival, one of the UK largest science festivals.
• Presenting for Head Squeeze-- a YouTube science channel.
• Numerous talks on behalf of the Natural History Museum, the Royal College of Art, the Festival of Ideas, and Imperial Festival.

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Leonard Collard

Professor Emeritus in Aboriginal Studies, The University of Western Australia
Professor Len Collard is with the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia. Len has a background in literature and communications and his research interests are in the area of Aboriginal Studies, including Nyungar interpretive histories and Nyungar theoretical and practical research models. Len has conducted research funded by the Australian Research Council, the National Trust of Western Australia, the Western Australian Catholic Schools and the Swan River Trust and many many other organisations. Professor Collard's research has allowed the broadening of the understanding of the many unique characteristics of Australia's Aboriginal people and has contributed enormously to improving the appreciation of Aboriginal culture and heritage of the Southwest of Australia. Len’s groundbreaking theoretical work has put Nyungar cultural research on the local, national and international stages. Finally Len is a Whadjuk Nyungar elder and who is a respected Traditional Owner of the Perth Metropolitan area and surrounding lands, rivers, swamps ocean and it's culture.

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Leonard Lum

Data analyst, EDHECinfra, EDHEC Business School
Leonard is a Data analyst. Prior to joining EDHECinfra, he worked for a large custodian bank providing accounting and asset services. Leonard also has experience in the fintech and insurance industry. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Accounting and Finance from the University of London and is an associate member of CPA Australia.

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Leonard M. Gralnik

Chief of Education and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Florida International University
Board Certified in Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Full time faculty member of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

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Léonie de Jonge

Professor of Research on Far-Right Extremism, Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex), University of Tübingen

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Leonie Young

Professor, Department of Surgery, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Professor Leonie Young leads the Endocrine Oncology Research Group based at York House in the Royal college of Surgeons in Ireland. Prof. Young graduated from Trinity College Dublin and completed her PhD training at University College Dublin in 1997 and her research is focused on uncovering networks involved in SRC-mediated resistance in breast cancer to both tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors. In doing so, these investigations will identify markers that predict these outcomes and importantly develop new therapeutic targets. The research focuses on SRC-1 and takes a high-level view to harness data from high throughput experimental methods, molecular studies, functional models and translational studies. Leonie's group capitalises on established strengths in translational research, in particular making use of primary breast cell cultures derived from patient tumours and large clinical datasets. By modelling the mechanism(s) of resistance associated with SRC-1, this research has defined new predictive markers and therapeutic targets suitable for commercial development and clinical trial interventions that could improve patient outcomes.

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Leonre Manderson

Visiting Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University, USA, and Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand

I was trained in Asian Studies, with my early field research in Peninsular Malaysia. Over the past four decades, I have worked as a medical anthropologist and social historian of medicine on questions of public health among diverse populations in Australia, east and southeast Asia, and increasingly in Africa. My fields of research include questions of gender, sexuality and reproductive health; infectious and chronic disease; access to and ideologies of medical and health care; and disability and inequality. My sustained commitment to build research capacity includes my life long work with higher degree students in and from resource-poor settings, my involvement in CARTA (Collaboration for Advanced Research and Training in Africa), and from 1988 to the present, my continuous collaboration with the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Disease. My broad interests extend to interdisciplinary collaborations in the social and biosciences, humanities and creative arts, for social justice, human rights, and sustainability.
My key works include, in medical anthropology, Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries and the Social Self; and in social history, Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940. My latest work – The Routledge Handbook in Medical Anthropology – undertaken with Elizabeth Cartwright (Idaho State University) and Anita Hardon (University of Amsterdam) – was published in May 2016.

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