Ph.D. Candidate in Microbiology, Cornell University
A microbiologist by training and a writer by passion. I research the mechanisms behind antibiotic tolerance and how this process relates to other cellular processes. With an aspiration to bridge the gap between academia and the public, I have spent time bettering my communication skills through various workshops, programs, and seminars.
I enjoy outreach programs where I get to directly connect with my local community. I taught a class on sewage and public health this past semester to over 20 undergraduates. I additionally started my own website and write for The Cornell Daily Sun. I am excited to expand the scope of my audience through The Conversation!
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Associate Dean, University of Hertfordshire
Megan Knight completed her PhD on "The impact of changing media technology on the practice of journalism" at the University of Central Lancashire. She has worked extensively as a journalist and webmaster for news organisations ranging from alternative weeklies in Vancouver to the Daily Star, the Sunday Independent and the South African Broadcasting Corporation in Johannesburg. She is the co-author (with Clare Cook) of Social Media for Journalists: Principles and Practice (Sage, 2013) and researches the impact of new media technologies on the practice of journalism. Her current research is on Facebook as a news source and its impact on awareness.
She has taught journalism and media studies in South Africa at Rhodes University and Tshwane University of Technology, in the United Arab Emirates and in the United Kingdom.
She is an Associate Dean in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire, and a member of the Media Research Group at the same institution.
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Professor of Sociology, Criminology, and Public Policy, Penn State
Megan Kurlychek is a professor of sociology, criminology and public policy. Her research interests include juvenile justice and delinquency, offender rehabilitation, prisoner reentry, courts and sentencing. Before joining Penn State, Kurlychek was an associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York, Albany.
Kurlychek holds a Ph.D. in Crime, Law, and Justice from Penn State and an M.S. in Administration Justice from Shippensburg University. She has worked as a research analyst for the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, the National Center for Juvenile Justice and the Pennsylvania State Senate, and retains a major focus on public policy and evaluation research.
She has been widely published in academic journals, including Justice Quarterly, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, Criminology, and Criminology & Public Policy.
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Head of Young People's Health Research, Burnet Institute
Megan Lim is the Deputy Program Director (Behaviours and Health Risks) and Head of Young People’s Health Research at the Burnet Institute. Her research focuses on the impact of digital technologies on young people’s health and wellbeing.
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PhD Candidate in Psychology, Western University
I am currently a PhD candidate in psychology at Western University. My research is focused on body and appearance-related stigma, stigma management, well-being, and health.
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Professor of Kinesiology and School Head, School of Exercise, Sport, and Health Sciences, Oregon State University
Megan MacDonald, Ph.D. is a professor of kinesiology, the School Head for the School of Exercise, Sport, and Health Sciences and the OSU IMPACT for Life faculty scholar - all housed within the College of Health. Her vision is that every child is active and accepted.
Megan works to achieve her vision by conducting high-quality research, teaching and outreach focused on youthful activity for all people.
Her research has been published in high-impact academic journals in her field, and she has disseminated her work at academic and professional meetings nationally and internationally. Her work has also been supported through distinguished funding mechanisms, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education programs.
Megan earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2011, and she disseminates her ideas to the public through various mechanisms, including articles and essays, news interviews, presentations, lectures and op-eds. Her opinions have been featured widely, including U.S. News & World Report, The Hill and the Los Angeles Times.
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Professor and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security, Simon Fraser University
I am Professor and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. My research focuses broadly on military culture and gender and war. I am the author of Good Soldiers Don't Rape: the stories we tell about military sexual violence (Cambridge 2023) and Beyond the Band of Brothers: the US military and the myth that women can't fight (Cambridge 2015).
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Professor of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Clinical Interests
Moreno is an adolescent medicine physician interested in complex medical conditions and the intersection of physical and mental health among adolescents.
Research Interests
Moreno’s research focuses on the intersection of technology and adolescent health. She is principal investigator of the Social Media and Adolescent Health Research Team (SMAHRT). In addition to research projects, SMAHRT leads two research programs: 1) the Technology and Adolescent Mental Wellness (TAM) program, which funded research, built a community of professionals around this topic, and includes a TAM Youth Advisory Board that is an integral part of the program’s mission and function, and 2) the Summer Research Scholars program, which provides adolescents exposure and experience in research in the area of adolescent health and social media as investigators.
Professional Activities
Dr. Megan Moreno is tenured professor and interim chair in the Department of Pediatrics. Nationally, Moreno is co-medical director of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Center of Excellence: Creating a Healthy Digital Ecosystem for Children and Youth. She has served as a reviewer for more than 30 journals in the fields of pediatrics, adolescent health, medical education, digital health, behavioral health, and public health and currently serves as associate editor of JAMA Pediatrics and editorial board member for the Journal of Adolescent Health. She is the recipient of dozens of honors and awards, including an AAP Council of Communications and Media’s Holroyt-Sherry Award for Career Achievement (2020), an American Pediatrics Society Norman J. Siegel New Member Outstanding Science Award (2021–2022), and a UW–Madison WARF Kellett Mid-Career Fellowship (2021).
Education
BA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
MD, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia
Residency, Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Chief Residency, Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Master of Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Fellowship, Adolescent Medicine and STD/HIV Research, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Master of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Casual Academic, School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney
Megan teaches in literature and film at The University of Sydney. Her research interests are in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, with a particular focus on its histories and theories of emotion. Trained in both arts and science, she employs her cross-disciplinary training in a research practice that operates at the juncture of the two.
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Assistant Professor of Biology, Drexel University
Megan Phifer-Rixey is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Drexel University. She is an evolutionary biologist, and her research is motivated by the challenge of making connections between genotype, phenotype, and fitness, especially for complex traits and in the context of changing environments. The Phifer-Rixey lab uses many different approaches—combining genomics and population genetics with fieldwork and organismal functional studies. The lab also investigates fundamental questions in evolutionary genetics relating to adaptation, speciation, and demography, primarily focusing on wild house mice. House mice are one of the mostly widely used genetic model systems and they have recently spread around the world in association with humans. This combination makes them a great system for studying evolutionary genetics and the genetics of adaptation to new environments. The lab also collaborates on projects relating to marine genetics and biology education.
Megan earned her B.S. in Biology from Duke University and her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. As a Ph.D. student, Megan was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. Afterwards, she joined the University of Arizona as a postdoctoral researcher and then continued her postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley with Dr. Michael Nachman. In 2016, she joined the Biology Department at Monmouth University as an Assistant Professor. In 2021, she was awarded an NSF CAREER grant to study the genetics of urbanization in house mice. She joined the Department of Biology at Drexel University in 2023 where she will continue her work in evolutionary genetics with an emphasis on the impacts of urbanization.
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Assistant Professor of Music, University of Texas at Arlington
Megan Sarno is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Arlington. She was previously Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton and St Olaf Colleges. She earned her PhD at Princeton University in 2016.
Her research focuses on the cultural dimensions of early 20th-century French music. Dr. Sarno’s published work includes an article in 19th-Century Music on the music of little-known French composer André Caplet. Focusing on his final work, the song cycle "Le Miroir de Jésus," Sarno uses archival materials, as well as literary and music analysis, to explain subtle layers of meaning in Caplet’s songs. Her 2018 article in Journal of Musicological Research investigates the 1911 stage music of composer Claude Debussy. The work, "Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien," has been long misunderstood. Using literary and music analysis, Sarno argues that Debussy’s music highlights the Symbolist poetic qualities of Le Martyre.
Though her work is focused on French music, Sarno is broadly interested in the social and intellectual function of music—why composers write it and why listeners keep returning to it. Sarno has taught on a wide range of topics, from Baroque and Classical repertory through the music in Disney films. She enjoys teaching music majors and non-majors alike, encouraging students to draw on their own musicality to engage with assignments. Previous courses include American Musical Theater, Songs and Identity, Women and Music, Religion and Music, Disney Movie Musicals, Music of the Cold War, and American Music.
Sarno has presented her work on French music and literary culture internationally and in the United States, at the Society for the American Musicological Society, the North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Music and the Moving Image, and special meetings on Fauré, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, French Creative Women, and Musical Life in 20th-Century Paris. She has won numerous grants for pedagogical innovation. In 2016, she was the recipient of a Chateaubriand Fellowship, which funded a semester of archival research in Paris, France.
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Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne
Megan (she/her) is a Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on youth, genders and sexualities, subcultures and social inclusion. Megan has received a number of awards and prizes for her teaching, research and engagement activities and has published her work in journals such as Emotion, Space and Society, Journal of Youth Studies, The Sociological Review, and Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture. Megan is currently the Convenor of The Australian Sociological Association's Genders + Sexualities Thematic Group.
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PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Megan Shaw is a Doctoral Candidate in Art History at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau. She researches elite women in 17th century England, royal favour, cultural patronage and art collections. Her PhD thesis is a cultural history of Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham (neé Manners, 1603-1649) which was supported by a Junior Fellowship with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She also has an interest in contemporary art from New Zealand and Australia as the Assistant Manager of the Chartwell Charitable Trust.
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Nottingham Trent University
Megan is a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School. She is a module leader and deputy course leader within the postgraduate portfolio. She teaches Civil Litigation and Skills on the LLM Legal Practice Course as well as on specialist practitioner courses providing experiential learning for litigation procedure and skills. Megan also works on the development of new courses that will be launched over the next year.
Megan qualified as a Solicitor in September 2008. She specialised in Commercial Litigation and Professional Negligence and is now continuing to practice as a Solicitor as part of NLS Legal.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
I completed my PhD at Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (now known as the Department of Cognitive Science) at Macquarie University. My PhD research explored the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in processing emotional expressions and using emotional expressions to guide social judgements. I am now a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the Australian Catholic University (Strathfield).
My primary research interests are in social cognition, emotion processing and cognitive neuropsychology. My research has focused on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in processing emotional expressions and making social judgements. My research also aims to uncover the reasons why certain people have difficulties recognising the emotional expressions of others and using emotional expressions to guide their social judgements. My research has primarily employed cognitive neuropsychological, electrophysiological, behavioural techniques and mild brain stimulation techniques.
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Student Community Engagement Specialist, Connecticut College
Megan Griffin is the Student Community Engagement Specialist at Connecticut College's Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy. Previously, she studied Rural Sociology at Penn State, where she focused on issues of gender and agriculture, agricultural labor, critical development studies, and science and technology studies.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Master of Community Planning Program, Auburn University
Megan E. Heim LaFrombois, PhD, AICP, is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science’s Master of Community Planning program and is a faculty affiliate of the Women’s and Gender Studies program and the Sustainability Studies Minor program at Auburn University. She is currently serving as the director of the Master of Community Planning Program.
Dr. Heim LaFrombois’ research within the planning discipline broadly focuses on community development, participatory forms of city and neighborhood planning, public policy, plan evaluation, urban inequalities, and feminist and qualitative approaches to urban studies and research. With over eight years of experience working in the community development, public policy, and planning arenas - focusing on issues related to ending homelessness in Chicago - an important aspect of her work, both as a practitioner and an academic, is community engagement in addressing inequalities. Her research strives to inform planning practice and policy, and to improve cities and communities.
Dr. Heim LaFrombois is the recipient of the 2020 Community and Civic Engagement Teaching Award from Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts and the 2016 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association. She served as the secretary/treasurer of the Faculty Women’s Interest Group (FWIG) of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) from 2021-2023. She is a current member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).
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PhD Student in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Associate Project Scientist and Continuing Lecturer in Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Megan Schwarzman is a physician and Environmental Health Scientist at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health where her research and teaching focus on endocrine-disrupting chemicals, reproductive environmental health, U.S. and European chemicals policy, and strategies for applying environmental health knowledge to the design and selection of safer chemicals and materials. She is also Associate Director of Health and Environment for the interdisciplinary Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry—a joint center of the School of Public Health, the Colleges of Chemistry, Engineering, and Natural Resources, and the Haas School of Business.
Dr. Schwarzman has served since 2009 on California EPA’s Green Ribbon Science Panel advising the Safer Consumer Products Program, and since 2014 as a member and chair of the Scientific Guidance Panel for California’s biomonitoring program. Her current research includes an assessment of the impact of California’s Proposition 65 on exposure to breast carcinogens and endocrine disrupting chemicals.
After studying history at Haverford College, Dr. Schwarzman earned her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts. She completed specialty training in Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (SF General Hospital) where she earned the Julius R. Krevans Award for Clinical Excellence. She earned a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Dr. Schwarzman also trains family medicine residents in reproductive medicine.
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Megan Stevenson is an economist and criminal justice scholar. She conducts empirical research in areas such as bail, algorithmic risk assessment, misdemeanors, sentencing and juvenile justice. She was the inaugural winner of the Ephraim Prize given to an “early-career scholar in the field of law and economics whose work has advanced the state of knowledge in the field.” Stevenson was also the 2019 winner of the Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.
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Director: Climate Change, Energy & Resilience, ICLEI Africa, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
Dr Meggan Spires is the Director of the Climate Change, Energy and Resilience Workstream at ICLEI Africa. The workstream she manages serves ICLEI Africa’s network of over 400 cities, towns and regions in over 25 African countries, in terms of supporting their journeys towards climate resilience. Meggan and team manage a suite of multi-year, multi-country programmes and projects in fields such as energy access, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, disaster risk reduction, coastal management and ecosystem-based adaptation. The work involves capacity building, policy development, on-the-ground implementation, and unlocking climate finance at the city-scale. She has also performed the role of principal investigator for a number of cutting-edge research into development programmes on the continent.
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Senior Lecturer, Exercise Sport Sciences, Federation University Australia
Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Federation University in the Collaborative Evaluation Research Centre and Physical Activity and Sport Insights (PASI).
Promoting sport participation and gender equality
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Master's student, Public Administration, University of Victoria
Interested in climate policy and decarbonization, and applying behavioural science to support policy design and behaviour change.
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Assistant Professor of International Security & Law, George Mason University
Meghan Garrity is an Assistant Professor of International Security & Law at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Her research is situated at the nexus of international peace and security, political violence, and forced migration. She is focused on understanding conflict processes by examining the causes of, and constraints on, government policies of group-based ethnic violence and exclusion. Her current book project, “Disorderly and Inhumane: Explaining Government-Sponsored Mass Expulsion, 1900-2020,” explains why and how governments expel ethnic groups en masse. Garrity’s work is published or forthcoming in the Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, the British Journal of Sociology, Political Science Quarterly, Political Violence at a Glance, and The Washington Post. She also has over ten years of experience as a humanitarian and development practitioner throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, and she continues to engage in consultancies with international organizations. Garrity was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Peace Fellow with the U.S. Institute of Peace. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022.
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, Dalhousie University
I am a SSHRC-funded PhD Candidate in the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. My research has mainly focused on reproductive and sexual health, while my PhD research examines women-identified individuals experiences living with vaginismus. I have taught courses on Gender and Health and have worked on several research projects related to sexual and domestic violence. In addition to my dissertation, my current research work examines social disconnection and masculinity.
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Adjunct Faculty in Psychology and Childhood Studies, Bridgewater State University
Meghan K. McCoy, Ed.D. is the Manager of Programs at the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, at Bridgewater State University. McCoy is also an Adjunct Faculty of Psychology and Childhood Studies at BSU. She has a BA in Psychology, a M.Ed. in School Counseling, and an EdD in Curriculum, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership. Her work focuses on social and emotional learning for older teens and young adults, bullying, cyberbullying and digital use among children and teens, and addressing bias in the K-16 education system. McCoy works with and trains K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students, consults in K-12 education, and focuses her expertise on providing practical strategies and concrete solutions to everyday social challenges.
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Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Mehak Bharti serves as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University. Prior to this, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Specializing as a consumer behavior psychologist, Dr. Bharti holds expertise in Psychology and Consumer Behaviour, having earned her PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2020. Her experiences of living in different countries and cultures like Canada, India, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands have shaped her understanding of the influence of self across various consumption contexts, as reflected in her research interests. Her research primarily focuses on understanding Mindful and Sustainable consumption practices across different cultures. In addition to her academic pursuits, she is a meditation coach, traveling internationally to instruct in meditation and mindfulness.
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Senior Research Assistant, Ethos Project, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University
Mehak Oberai, an emerging public health researcher with a strong foundation in Microbiology, is dedicated to advancing her expertise in Public Health Promotion and Healthy Ageing. Her strategic utilization of current knowledge and skills reflects her commitment to fostering effective and efficient contributions to these fields. Mehak's overarching goal is to narrow the gap between research and the public, ensuring that academic findings are communicated in an accessible manner. Proficient in engaging with stakeholders and users, she possesses a unique ability to convey complex information in a comprehensible way. With a focus on project planning and management, Mehak is continuously honing her monitoring and project evaluation skills.
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Professor, European University Institute and John Hopkins University, European University Institute
Prof Mehari is currently a Part-time Professor at the School of Transnational Governance and Academic Coordinator of the Young African Leaders Programme (YALP) at the European University Institute in Florence, as well as an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna.
With over 23 years of experience in teaching, research, and professional roles in intergovernmental negotiations and leadership in multilateral governance bodies, think tanks, and universities, Prof Mehari has developed a unique blend of skills and expertise in strategic thinking, and management, transnational and national policy, law-making, multilateral relations, applied cross-border research, and academic excellence. This is complemented by his in-depth knowledge of multilateral forums and partnerships, particularly those between the African Union (AU), the United Nations (UN), and the European Union (EU).
He teaches and works on research topics that focus on new frontiers in transnational governance and law, leadership and management of partnerships, geopolitics and African agency, peace and security, migration, and mobility, as well as human rights and humanitarian law.
He also runs innovative core courses for master's and executive training modules for specialists, and creative deliberative platforms for policy makers, leaders drawn from transnational governance institutions and diplomatic communities such as the UN, the AU, EU delegations, RECs, and other transboundary regulatory bodies.
Previously, as a high-level professional staff member, Prof Mehari served as Legal Expert at the Office of the Legal Counsel of the AU and Programme Coordinator for Migration at the AUC. He also served as Chief Strategist, Lead Migration Expert, and Legal Drafter for the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the AU High-level Advisory Group. Additionally, he was an expert at the Mercator Dialogue on Asylum and Migration and a Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges, Belgium.
He was also Programme Head at the Institute for Security Studies and Director at Addis Ababa University. He served as a Visiting Professor and was a Senior Fellow at the NATO Defense College (Rome), the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the Nigerian Defence College (Abuja), the Nigerian Armed Forces Command and Staff College (Jaji), and the UN Institute for Economic Development and Planning (Dakar).
Prof Mehari is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities and has held fellowships in prestigious academic programmes at various think tanks and institutions of higher learning. These include the Robert Schuman Centre, the Nation Building Institute, the Future Studies Institute, George Mason University, Royal Dutch Shell, the NATO Partnership for Peace, Max Planck Institute, and the NATO Defense College.
Prof Mehari holds a PhD in Legal Sciences from JL Giessen University, Germany, an MPA from Harvard, an MSc from the University of Oxford, and an LLB from Addis Ababa University.
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Associate Professor of Operations Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Dr. Mehmet Chakkol is an Associate Professor of Operations Management in Warwick Business School. Prior to joining Warwick, Mehmet has worked in a multi-disciplinary EPSRC project at Cranfield School of Management where he also completed his PhD. Mehmet is currently teaching Supply Chain and Operations Management at both undergraduate and master's levels. His main research interests are within the areas of inter-organizational relationships and service operations. In particular, his research focuses on the implications of innovative business models on network structures, configurations, and relationships.
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PhD student in the School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
My research explores the role of green infrastructure in enhancing urban flood resilience.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Surrey
Mehrdad Zare is a chemical engineer with 10+ years of experience in industrial R&D, specialising in Tech development and commercialisation with a focus on CleanTech and water/wastewater. Through his PhD at the University of Surrey, he focused on developing sonolysis as a technology for the degradation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
His current focus at the University of Surrey is on the industrialisation of sonolysis, a promising technology aimed at addressing the growing crisis of PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) pollution. As part of this mission, he co-founded Mantisonix Ltd, a spin-out company dedicated to commercialising this innovative technology by building bridges between academic research and real-world application. The company aims to deliver a sustainable, scalable and robust solution to industries grappling with PFAS contamination, including sectors such as water utilities, industrial wastewater treatment, and groundwater decontamination.
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Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University
Author of Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, UK). Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (2021) & Tomlinson Book Award (2020).
Dr McCrae is an historian of war & diplomacy. She works on three main themes: coalition wars, notions of victory, and how individuals think about future war during periods of conflict or great international tension. These areas of research are underpinned by her interests in strategy and resourcing for war.
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