Mirjam Büdenbender is a doctoral candidate at KU Leuven. Her research is part of the ERC funded project on the ‘Real Estate/Financial Complex’, which investigates the linkages between real estate markets and financial practices in contemporary capitalist societies. Mirjam studies the case of Russia and Poland. In so doing, she explicitly addresses the relationship between real estate and modern financial practices as well as their differential construction in post-Soviet societies.
As part of this project, Mirjam spends several periods of field research in her respective case countries. In Moscow she works as a research intern at the Institute for Urban Economics. Her fieldwork includes interviewing academics and professionals in real estate and related sector, analysing newspapers, government and industry documents, and accessing locally produced secondary material.
Previously Mirjam completed a BA (First Class Honours) in International Relations and Development Studies at the University of Sussex (2011) and a Master (Distinction) in Political Economy at the University of Manchester (2012).
In her previous degrees Mirjam studied the political economy of finance and the financialisation of everyday life through the lenses of housing markets. Her bachelor dissertation investigated the financialisation of the residential housing market in post-Apartheid South Africa. Her master’s thesis explored the historical origins and subsequent failure of the housing market as a growth and welfare model in the UK.
Mirjam speaks German (native language), English (full professional proficiency), Russian (professional proficiency) and French (basic). She has training in NVivo, SPSS and elite interviewing.
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Professeur, Inserm
Miroslav Radman is a French-Croatian geneticist and molecular biologist. He graduated in biology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. In 1969, he received his PhD degree in molecular biology from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. After working as a postdoctoral researcher with Raymond Devoret (1969-70) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at Gif-sur-Yvette, France, he joigned Matthew Meselson at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (1970-73). He is a former Professor of Molecular Genetics at the Free University of Brussels (1973-83) and Research Director at the French CNRS (Institute J. Monod, Paris, 1983-1997). In 1998, he became professor of Cell Biology at the Medical School of the René Descartes University (Paris-5) and director of the INSERM research Unit 571 "Evolutionary and Medical Molecular Genetics", from which he retired in 2013 as exceptional class professor emeritus.
Miroslav Radman is member of several international clubs and academies. He is also the founder of the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS) in Split, Croatia. He is the founding member of four start-up biotech companies in the USA and France, and initiator and co-founder of the EITP (European Institute of Technology in Paris) project.
During his career, he has published over 200 research and review articles in the areas of DNA repair, DNA replication, mutagenesis, genetic recombination, evolution, microbiology, cancer research, protein oxidation and aging, that have been cited over 10.000 times. Additionally, he is the author of 2 books of scientific popularization about his recent work on the field of aging.
Three of his personal discoveries are present in standard molecular biology and genetics textbooks worldwide (the SOS response in bacteria; the discovery that the mismatch repair system acts as the genetic barrier between closely related species).
His paper on the molecular basis of extreme radiation and desiccation resistance in the most robust microbe Deinococcus radiodurans in Nature unravelled a 50 years old mystery and was commented in over thousand newspaper articles and TV news worldwide.
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Profesora Adjunta Área de Comercialización e Investigación de Mercados, Universidad CEU San Pablo
Miryam Martinez es Profesora Adjunta del departamento de Economía de la Empresa de la Universidad CEU San Pablo. Es directora del Grado en Marketing de la Facultad de CC EE y EE.
Participa como ponente en diversos congresos y seminarios, así como en proyectos de investigación nacionales e internacionales, dentro de su línea de trabajo: Gender Gap.
Es autora de diversos artículos científicos publicados en revistas de reconocido prestigio internacional como: Sex Roles o Educational Management Administration & Leadership.
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Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto
Misha Teramura is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he researches and teaches the literature of the English Renaissance. His work has appeared in such journals as ELH, Shakespeare Quarterly, Modern Philology, English Literary Renaissance, RES, Early Theatre, and The Chaucer Review, as well as in the edited collections Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England, Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time, and Shakespeare/Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance. He is currently working on two book projects, titled Paper Plays: The Material Lives of Early Modern Manuscript Playbooks and Reading Lost Plays: Early Modern Drama and the Forms of Textual Survival, and is editing Henry IV, Part 2 for the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series. Other current research interests include textual scholarship, classical reception, and the circle of Henry Percy, ninth earl of Northumberland. He is also a co-editor of the Lost Plays Database (with Roslyn L. Knutson [emerita], David McInnis, and Matthew Steggle) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Misha received his PhD in English from Harvard University after completing his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto. He taught at Reed College in Portland, OR for two years before returning to UofT.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
I am an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, and a Research Fellow at University College London. My research and teaching lie at the intersection between Strategic Management and Public Policy. Prior to joining Bocconi, I was a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
My most recent research agenda is focused on exploring the evolution, dynamics and challenges of voluntary carbon markets.
My research was published in academic journals such as the Journal of Management and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, and is frequently featured in prominent media outlets such as the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the BBC. I was the Principal Investigator on the UKRI funded project “Hybrid Organising in the Railway Sector”. In addition, I am a collaborator on Croatian Science Foundation funded project “Resilience Enhancing Policies: Exploring the Role of Public Grants” and on the British Academy funded project "The Great Post Office Scandal".
In addition to academic research, I act as a policy and strategy advisor for several private and public sector organizations, and serve as an active member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community.
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Professor of Political Science, Auburn University
Mitchell Brown, Ph.D., is the Curtis O. Liles III Professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University and is a founding editor of the Journal of Election Administration Research & Practice. Her work as a researcher, evaluator, trainer and consultant focuses on applied projects around the country centering on election administration and community-based problem solving. She is the author of numerous books, research articles, and reports. Recent titles include How We Vote: Innovations in American Elections (with Kathleen Hale, Georgetown University Press) and the Elgar Publishing handbooks Teaching Undergraduate Political Methodology and Teaching Graduate Political Methodology (both with Shane Nordyke and Cameron Thies). From 2015-2018 she served as the Director of Auburn University PhD Program in Public Administration and Public Policy and currently co-directs the Election Administration Initiative with Kathleen Hale. She also serves as curricular faculty for the National Association of Election Officials and is a member of their board of directors. From 2016-2022 she served as the Science of Teaching & Learning section editor for the Journal of Political Science Education.
Brown is the recipient of the Meredith College 2023 Career Achievement Award; 2023 Distinguished Service Award from the Political Science Education Section of the American Political Science Association; the 2021 Glenn Howze Academic Freedom Award; 2016 & 2013 SGA Outstanding Faculty Awards for the College of Liberal Arts; the 2009 Distinguished Diversity Researcher Award through the Research Initiative for the Study of Diversity under the Office of the Vice President for Research at Auburn University; an Outstanding Service Award in 1998 from the Center for Mental Health Services (SAMHSA, NIH, DHHS) for her work developing a housing fidelity instrument; among others. Brown holds and has held board and leadership positions at the university, in state government, and in non-profit organizations.
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PhD Candidate, Geography, Planning, and Environment Department, Concordia University
Mitchell Dickau is a student researcher at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) as well as a PhD candidate studying climate science in the Geography, Planning, and Environment department at Concordia University. In his research, Mitchell uses an intermediate complexity Earth system model to investigate how Earth responds to anthropogenic emissions. His research interests include estimating the size of the remaining carbon budget and investigating how temperature overshoot affects Earth. Mitchell's previous research focussed on the effect of climate change on outdoor skating under various emissions pathways.
Working as a student researcher for the Canadian Centre for Climate Services at ECCC, Mitchell works on a project developing projections of different fire weather indices under a range of future emissions scenarios.
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Ph.D Candidate in Political Science, Wayne State University
As a doctoral candidate from the UK, I began my academic journey at Wayne State University in Detroit in 2021. My research focuses on the rise of China and how it affects international relations, particularly the shifting balance of global power as China’s influence reshapes the political landscape. I explore China's foreign policy, how it interacts with international institutions, and the competition between great powers.
Beyond my research, I actively participate in forums, conferences, and debates, which sharpen my grasp of current global issues. This doctoral journey has been both challenging and rewarding, pushing me to think critically about global politics and grow academically as I pursue greater clarity in the field.
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Dr Mitchell Gibbs is a Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences, Discipline of Exercise Physiology. Mitchell's research aims at helping people with chronic pain by understanding how to best design biopsychosocial exercise interventions, and, how to disseminate these approaches into practice.
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Senior research fellow, The University of Queensland
Senior Research Fellow in the Remote Sensing Research Centre, University of Queensland; and the Centre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales.
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Adjunct professor in Natural Resources, University of Manitoba
I am a behavioural ecologist with research interests in the evolution and ecology of animal behaviour with a focus on conservation biology and animal adaptations to environmental change. My research combines field-based mensurative and manipulative experiments with laboratory approaches (e.g. genetics) to explore the evolutionary and ecological drivers of cooperation, and behavioural response to impacts of natural environmental change, and human-induced disturbances (e.g. traffic, noise, and industrial activity) and climate change.
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Visiting Scholar of Global Affairs, Northwestern University
Mkhaimar Abusada is a U.S.-educated expert on Palestinian political attitudes. He received his PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1996 and is an associate professor at Al-Azhar University of Gaza and the former chair of the university's political science department. He has authored one book, and many academic articles in local and internationally recognized academic journals. He has also written for Project Syndicate, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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Lecturer at the School of Policing Studies, Charles Sturt University
Lecturer, assessor and curriculum developer at the School of Policing Studies, Goulburn, NSW, Australia.
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Senior scientist, South African National Biodiversity Institute
Dr Mlungele Nsikani is a senior scientist at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, extraordinary lecturer at Stellenbosch University, research fellow at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and chairperson of the Society for Ecological Restoration - Africa. Dr Nsikani has broad interests in biological invasions and ecological restoration. His current work focuses on the restoration of native ecosystems in previously invaded areas, detection of new invasive species, eradication of invasive species limited to small areas, and risk analysis for alien and invasive species.
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Researcher, Wits Health Consortium, University of the Witwatersrand
Mmamapudi Kubjane (PhD, UCT) is an epidemiologist and modeller with interests in modelling tuberculosis and population-level impacts of interventions. She currently works as a researcher at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Wits Health Consortium.
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Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria
Completed PhD at University of Pretoria, specialising in international trade, non-tariff measures, regulatory and policy issues and how they impact international trade and economic development. Hold MSc in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University (OSU). Undergraduate and Honours degrees were completed at University of Limpopo
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Group Leader, LGBTQ+ Population Health Research Group, and Research Fellow, HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program, Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
Mo is the Group Leader for the LGBTQ+ Population Health Research Group. Situated within the HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program at the Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, his program conducts research that addresses the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ individuals and communities in Australia. Mo's interdisciplinary team focuses on new and emerging infectious diseases, sexual health, mental health, substance use, and health policy that affect LGBTQ+ communities.
Mo is also a Research Fellow within the HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program at the Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney. His lead authored publications were used to inform an update to the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM) PrEP Guidelines, and cited by the World Health Organization, the United Nation, the Australian Governments Ministry of Health Eights National HIV Strategy, NSW Ministry of Health HIV Strategy, and two NGO strategies on mental health and illicit drug use.
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Lead Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
PhD, International Development, The Bartlett University College London
M.Sc, Environmental Impact Assessment and Management, The University of Manchester
B.Sc, Biochemistry, Imo State University Owerri, Nigeria
I am the Lead Research Fellow on the Data and Displacement Project at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Univerisity of Warwick.
I also teach P0374 (The Politics of Globalisation)
I also work as a Consultant at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. Here, I am part of the LO-Act project, investigating climate change in 100 cities in the Global South. As part of the Lo-Act team, I am investigating climate change initiatives in 33 Nigerian cities.
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Associate Professor in Language and Communication Studies, University of Media, Arts and Communication, Ghana Institute of Journalism
Dr Modestus Fosu holds a PhD in media and communication from the University of Leeds. His research interests broadly involve communication, media and language, political participation and journalism education.
His current research focus is on indigenous language broadcasting, communication ethics and climate communication.
He has been involved in various local and international projects aimed at improving journalism education and practice in Ghana and other African countries.
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PhD Candidate in the Department of War Studies, King's College London
Mohamad is a PhD Candidate within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London where his research focuses on protest movements and emotions in Lebanon. His research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Programme (LISS DTP).
Mohamad holds an MA in Political Economy of the Middle East from King’s College London, for which he was awarded a distinction and a postgraduate diploma in Middle East security studies from the University of St Andrews.
During his time at King’s, Mohamad worked as a translator for The Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy, and Trends (XCEPT) research programme. His translation work focused on security and stability in Lebanon and peace-building in Iraq.
Previously, Mohamad worked as a research analyst at the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project (CTP) where he was tracking and analysing current and emerging threats to American national security posed by the Salafi-jihadi movement in Yemen and North Africa.
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PhD Candidate, Université Abdelmalek Essaadi
My academic career began when I obtained my scientific baccalaureate in 2014, after which I joined the Higher Institute of Maritime Fisheries of Agadir, Morocco to follow my higher studies in the field of fishing, leading to me obtaining my professional fishing licence in 2017.
In 2019 I obtained a master's degree in marine environment and aquaculture at the Faculty of Science and Technology Tangier Morocco. Currently I am working on my doctoral thesis on the study of bycatch of the coastal fleet in the Moroccan Mediterranean Sea, towards the award of a PhD in biology education.
I am also president of the association of young people of the sea for sustainable development in Al Hoceima, Morocco. This association works on raising fishermen's awareness of the need to conserve marine biodiversity.
I have published several articles on my research in international journals: a study of the bycatch of elasmobranchs which was published in the journal Thalassas: International Journal of Marine Sciences; a study of the interactions of bottlenose dolphins which was published in the African Journal of Marine Sciences; and a study of marine turtle bycatch which was published in the Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries.
Publications:
Impact of interactions between common bottlenose dolphins and purse-seiners in the Moroccan Mediterranean region: case study in the Al Hoceima fishing grounds
This study examines the effect of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus on the purse-seine fishery for small pelagic fishes in the Mediterranean Sea and the economic consequences thereof. The investigation focused on the fleet registered at the port of Al Hoceima, Morocco, and used information collected from on-board observations and a semi-structured questionnaire with fishermen and ship-owners. A total of 121 dolphins were captured as bycatch during 48 fishing trips, with a mortality rate of 0.23 dolphins per fishing trip. In terms of damage to the fishing gear, the number of observed holes varied between 28 and 230 per net per incident. Though some tears were large, most were <35 cm in height. The cost of repairing the holes in the nets caused by these interactions was estimated at US$179.52 per mending event. The level of interaction between common bottlenose dolphins and the purse-seine fishery targeting small pelagic fishes is a challenge for both fishery management and dolphin conservation.
Elasmobranch Bycatch in a Bottom Trawl Fishery at Al Hoceima Port in Morocco (Mediterranean Sea)
This study focused on identifying and estimating the number of rays and sharks caught incidentally in the Moroccan Mediterranean Sea and their seasonal variation. In 2020, from 62 bottom trawl surveys, it was estimated that elasmobranchs represent 6.67% (25 kg) of the total catch (372 kg/trip) per trip in Al Hoceima Bay. Raja clavata and Scyliorhinus canicula were the most abundant species, representing between 27% and 21% of the total elasmobranchs captured, respectively, followed by Prionace glauca (19%) and Oxynotus centrina (13%). Single or sporadic captures of the threatened and protected Isurus oxyrinchus and Mobula mobular were further recorded, as well as of the endemic and threatened Raja radula. Elasmobranch bycatch rates vary with depth, season and fishing area. The current data indicate that the Moroccan Mediterranean may be an important breeding area for many elasmobranchs. They also emphasize the urgent necessity of better understanding the interactions between fisheries and elasmobranchs to develop management measures.
Preliminary data on bycatch and stranding of marine turtles in Al Hoceima, Morocco.
The area of Al Hoceima in Morocco occupies a strategic biological position concerning the trajectory of migratory species. Bycatch and standing data in this area are still lacking. However, knowledge of the number of stranded individuals/species and the bycatch rate/total catch for each fishing gear is crucial to adopting more effective conservation stratégies. Given this lack of information, monitoring of total standing and bycatch data was conducted from January To June 2021. Two different approaches were used in this study: on-board observation of longline, trawlers, and seiner vessels for bycatch rate and monitoring of the torture standing area through self- déclaration by sensitized fishermen. The results showed the existence of two species. Dermochelys Caracas (Vandelli, 1761) (1 individual) was stranded on Calabonita beach, and Caretta-Caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) was caught in longliners (two individuals) and trawlers (three individuals). No individuals were reported in purse seiners. For the first time, preliminary data on the bycatch and standing of tortures in Al Hoceima have been determined and this information is vital to implementing future conservation measures.
Concerning my professional career, in 2017 I was elevated to officer and lieutenant on board a freezer trawler in Morocco, in 2019-2023 I was a trainer at the Institute of Maritime Fisheries Technology in Al Hoceïma Morocco. I taught trainees who are future fishing bosses. Currently I am an administrative executive at the maritime fisheries delegation in Boujdour in the south of Morocco.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Civil Engineering, Drexel University
Mohammad, a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at Drexel University, focuses on bio-inspired self-healing materials with a strong background in advanced material manufacturing and characterization. His current research is dedicated to harnessing nature's ingenuity to develop groundbreaking solutions for damage-responsive self-healing in concrete. He has also been involved in the development of vascular self-responsive composites for thermal regulation in buildings. His previous work includes the performance assessment of organic-based sealants, providing robust protection against concrete degradation. Moreover, Mohammad has worked on the conversion of waste coal combustion by-products into construction materials, striving to foster sustainability and minimize environmental impact.
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Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Calgary
Mohammad Keyhani is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. His expertise lies in the areas of digital entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial strategy and generativity. Mohammad's research has been published in top tier peer-reviewed journals and presented in international conferences where he has received multiple best paper and best reviewer awards. Mohammad is also a no-code enthusiast and entrepreneur and an OnDeck No Code Fellow (ODNC2). His other experiences include roles such as business advisor to multiple startups, Lab Strategist at the Creative Destruction Lab Rockies, and a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission. He received his doctorate in strategic management from the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada, and has a M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship and B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of Tehran, Iran.
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Professor of Pharmaceutics & Nanomedicine, Anglia Ruskin University
Mohammad's research interests focus on the fabrication of multifunctional nanomedicines for drug delivery application. He has excellent experience of higher education as a teacher, researcher, external examiner and manager. Mohammad took a pharmacy degree followed by postgraduate diploma (Industrial Pharmacy) at Damascus University and worked as a community pharmacist. He obtained his PhD (2007) from the University of Manchester, Experience
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PhD Candidate in Economics, Macquarie University
I am a PhD candidate in economics at Macquarie University. My research lies at the intersection of economics and public health, using advanced methods in applied econometrics to explore the intricate connections between economic factors and health outcomes. My current focus revolves around investigating socioeconomic inequalities in hearing health. My expertise includes applied econometrics, health technology assessment, health economic modelling, economic evaluation in health care and energy economics.
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Associate Lecturer in Paediatric Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
Fauzan is an associate lecturer in paediatric physiotherapy at the University of Sydney (USyd) and has been involved in this speciality for 21 years. Fauzan has extensive experience working in paediatric physiotherapy in a variety of settings. Whilst working as a paediatric physiotherapist in the mid 2000s, Fauzan completed a Master of Physiotherapy (Paediatrics) at the University of Queensland where he was awarded the Yvonne Burns Prize for Outstanding Post-Graduate Achievement in the field of Paediatric Physiotherapy. Fauzan is currently pursuing his PhD part-time with the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, USyd in the field of infant thermoregulation, and teaches across units of study in the undergraduate and graduate entry masters physiotherapy programs at USyd.
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Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise, London South Bank University
I am a Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise at London South Bank University, School of Business. I hold a PhD in Business Administration from Pablo de Olavide University, Spain. Prior to joining LSBU, I was a visiting professor at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montpellier, France. I have also taught undergraduate, MBA, and executive education modules at various institutions around the globe including New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA), Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain), EUNCET Business School (Spain), and NEOMA Business School (France).
My main research interest is in the strategic management of technology and innovation, particularly in the biopharma industry and healthcare sector. I am interested in studying R&D alliances in the biopharma industry and I'm also passionate about digital healthcare platforms. As a secondary research interest, I have also co-authored papers on gender bias in financing social ventures.
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Associate Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
Mohammed Hassan is an Associate Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences at The University of Arizona (UA). He has 13 years of experience in the Attosecond Physics and Ultrafast Electron Microscopy and imaging research fields. He earned his Ph.D. from Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Munich, Germany, Prof. Ferenc Krausz group in 2013. He joined Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail’s group at Caltech as a postdoctoral scholar through 2017.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Hassan developed the light field synthesizer to generate the first optical attosecond pulse, the shortest light pulse documented in the Guinness World Records. Exploiting this tool, he measured the time an electron takes to respond and move. His breakthroughs have been published in high-profile journals.
He is currently well known in his field of attosecond Physics for developing the attosecond electron microscopy “Attomicroscopy”, a camera that will film the electron motion in action. He used this tool to image the electron motion in the solid state. This electron imaging opens a new era in ultrafast electron imaging and will lead to many breakthroughs and high-impact scientific achievements. Attomicroscopy imaging opens a new window to the quantum world. Recently, he has granted a patent for his Attomicroscopy camera, US Patent, Application No.16394920.
Furthermore, he established a new methodology to sample the light field of ultrafast laser pulses and a new methodology to measure the electronic delay response in the neutral matter. Also, he demonstrated the attosecond optical switch and the capability to encode data on ultrafast laser pulses, which paves the way to establish attosecond and femtosecond optoelectronics working at the petahertz speed.
Hassan received the international Max-Planck fellowship in 2009. He received the Air Force Young Investigator Award (YIP) in 2019. Hassan also received many prestigious awards for his Attomicroscopy project from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 2018, the W. M. Keck Foundation 2019, and recently the Inaugural AFOSR Director’s Research Initiative (DRI) Award 2022. Moreover, he was awarded 2022 Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCUs/MSIs) for his institute.
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PhD candidate, University of Leicester
I have just started a 4 year PhD program with the University of Leicester as my home institution (2015-2019). My research will aim to explore unidentified regulators of the RAS-MAPK pathway which plays a major role in cell proliferation (and if de-regulated, cancer).
In 2015 I completed a Masters degree entitled 'Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology' at the University of Leicester (2015-2016).
My undergraduate degree, in Biological Sciences, was again at the University of Leicester (2011-2014).
Recently I have developed a great interest in communicating scientific concepts to the public. As a result of this I started a three month placement at the University of Leicester Press Office which has provided me with an outlet to communicate science to the public.
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Professor of Agri-Food Biotechnology, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne., The University of Melbourne
Dr. Mohan Singh is currently Professor of Agri-Food Biotechnology in the School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include plant molecular biology and biotechnology, plant genetics and breeding and genetic engineering.
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Investigador postdoctoral en ingeniería de seguridad contra incendios, Universidad de Navarra
Mohd Zahirasri is very active in the field of fire safety engineering. He is currently attached as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Universidad de Navarra, Spain. Permanently, he is employed in Universiti Putra Malaysia as a Senior Lecturer. In the field of fire safety engineering, he has published 30 research papers in fire science best journals including Fire Safety Journal, Fire Technology, Fire and Materials, and Fire Science Reviews. He also has been involved in safety engineering research which resulted in several top publications as well. He is an active member of International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) which gathers top fire scientists around the world. In terms of acquiring research grants, as a Principal Investigator/Project Leader in total, he has received around RM 2,000,000.00 from local and international grant funders up until now. As of current, he has taught fire engineering and chemical engineering courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students since 2015 as a Senior Lecturer in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). In terms of supervision of research students, he is currently the main supervisor for 8 PhD students and 2 Masters by research students. His students are working on PV system fire safety, tropical peat soil fire dynamics, radiation heat transfer and CFD fire simulation.
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Senior Project Manager, Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
Dr Mohsen Gul is a senior project manager at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge (UK) working in the sustainable finance team. Mohsen brings over a decade of experience working in multilateral development organisations, including as a senior climate innovation specialist at the Asian Development Bank and senior technical advisor for the United Nations Development Programme.
Mohsen has led several socio-environmental and climate research projects in multiple countries and regional contexts, including a focus on just transition and sustainable livelihoods, net-zero pathways and decarbonised markets. His doctoral research at the University of Nottingham focused on sustainability governance mechanisms and effectively engaging state and non-state actors including private sector stakeholders. Mohsen was a research fellow at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford where his research focused on multiple environmentalities in the Asia-Pacific context.
His doctoral research at the University of Nottingham focused on youth and environmental volunteerism in the Global North and South perspective. Sustainable Development Goals with the agenda of ‘leaving no one behind’ call for rethinking the approaches of the MDG era that left youth out of the process, recognising the value of channelizing global youth as the ‘driver of change and knowledge creation’ and establish clear and explicit pathways for its meaningful participation including volunteerism. Global North and Global South, with common development agenda but varied responsibilities, provide a contrasting range of opportunities and challenges for policy and decision makers to ensure voluntary environmental action is generated and sustained by youth.
He has been involved in over six social development projects in Pakistan and abroad in different capacities including grant writer, project manager, advocacy specialist, knowledge manager, research analyst, etc. He has been involved with different UN agencies in a volunteer capacity. He has also served as a youth member on UNDP's panel for development of National Human Development Report 2016 in Pakistan.
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Associate Professor of Economics, School of Public Policy and Urban Studies Program, Simon Fraser University
My academic inquiries and intellectual pursuits are driven by a curiosity to engage with and interrogate issues that captivate my thoughts and concern me on a personal and professional level. This approach has led me down different paths—some less travelled, others well-trodden.
My work is a testament to the belief that intellectual growth and societal contribution do not solely arise from depth in a narrow domain of inquiry but can also flourish through breadth and the integration of diverse perspectives.
While my research often utilizes quantitative analysis, I also maintain a keen interest in qualitative and mixed-method approaches. Some of my main research areas of interest include economic inequality (with a spotlight on labour market inequalities and discrimination experienced by women, immigrants, and ethnic minorities); precarity in the labour market; public attitudes toward immigration and the forces shaping these views; the influence of ideological underpinnings in neoclassical economics; and the broader scope of political economy.
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