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Virginia Robinson
Secretary of the Dharriwaa Elders Group, Indigenous Knowledge
Virginia Robinson (BA/LLB/GDHM/RN) is a Gamilaraay woman from Walgett and Secretary of the Dharriwaa Elders Group. Virginia grew up and was educated in Walgett, before moving to Sydney to work as a registered nurse and midwife, and then Melbourne to study and work in criminal and constitutional law.
She returned to live in Walgett in 2003 and has since then been leading efforts with the Dharriwaa Elders Group to advocate for culture, language and heritage issues and improving access to justice for the Aboriginal community in Walgett.
Virginia is an author of multiple publications including the Briefing Paper on the core principles underpinning the Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership between the Dharriwaa Elders Group and UNSW which are being community-led, culturally connected, holistic, strengths-focused and rights-based.
https://www.dharriwaaeldersgroup.org.au/images/downloads/Yuwaya_Ngarra-li_Core_Principles_Research_Brief_final.pdf
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Virginia Singla
Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh
Virginia Singla, MD, specializes in cardiology and is board certified in cardiovascular disease, internal medicine, and clinical cardiac electrophysiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She practices at UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute and is affiliated with UPMC East, UPMC Presbyterian, and UPMC Shadyside. Dr. Singla completed her medical education at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, residency at University of Virginia Health System University Hospital, and fellowship at Yale New Haven Hospital.
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Virva Salmivaara
Assistant professor in business administration and entrepreneurship, Audencia
I am Assistant Professor at Audencia Business School in Nantes, France. Having a background in business studies (at Aalto University) as well as social sciences (at the University of Helsinki), my research interests focus on understanding the discourses, changes and challenges in societies at large, and how the need for more sustainable business practice and changes in macro-level policies affect the societal role of entrepreneurship.
To enhance the social impact of research, I have been involved in producing a number of policy reports for the United Nations on youth social entrepreneurship, and for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission on inclusive entrepreneurship policies that aim to offer people from all social groups an equal opportunity to create a sustainable business.
My professional background lies in corporate communications, investor relations, branding and corporate social responsibility (CSR). I have worked in the corporate world as well as for organisations in the public and academic sectors for over a decade, and have a solid track record in executing and leading corporate communications tasks.
This range of experience has given me the joy and capacity to work in a fast-paced and international environment, and taught me to be broadly critical, analytical and focused. In the future I wish to combine these skills and, to follow my passion to contribute to the alleviation of environmental and social problems and to the advancement of sustainable development either at a local or a global level.
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Vishal Mehrotra
Assistant Professor, Bond University
Vishal Mehrotra is an assistant professor in the Bond Business School at Bond University, Queensland. He is a multi-award-winning educator, an experienced marketing practitioner and a design solutions specialist. He teaches marketing, strategy, design thinking, entrepreneurship and innovation subjects.
With a PhD in marketing gamification, Vishal’s research interests are in ludic marketing, human motivation, consumer behaviour and the scholarship of learning and teaching (specifically looking at game based learning interventions, innovations and effects).
Prior to gaining his PhD at Bond, he completed a Master of Business Administration from Griffith University and a, Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from St Xavier's College, University of Calcutta.
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Vishnu Reddy
Professor of Planetary Science, University of Arizona
Vishnu Reddy is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Director of Space Safety, Security and Sustainability Center (Space 4 Center) at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Prior to serving as a faculty member at the UArizona, he was a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, from 2012-2016.
Prof. Reddy served as the investigation team lead on NASA Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission to discover 90% of near-Earth objects (NEOs) larger than 140 meters to fulfill the George E. Brown Congressional mandate. He was a member on NASA’s Dawn mission working with the Framing Camera team at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.
Since 2005, Prof. Reddy has been using the NASA IRTF on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to spectrally characterize small NEOs that make close flyby of the Earth. In addition to his work with NASA, Prof. Reddy is part of the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) program at the University of Arizona where he has developed a network of optical and RF sensors to characterize orbital debris and space objects in cislunar space for the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
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Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy
Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Louisville
My name is Vitaliy, and I am an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Louisville, where I conduct research on family firms, entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial teams, with a keen interest in replication studies. Holding a PhD from Mississippi State University, I am passionate about research because, at the very least, the research process is FUN. This enthusiasm drives my academic and professional pursuits in the field of entrepreneurship, family business, and management.
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Vivian R. Underhill
Postdoctoral Researcher in social Science and Environmental Health, Northeastern University
Vivian Underhill’s scholarship bridges groundwater hydrology, anthropology, and feminist and critical race science studies toward community-engaged research on oil, groundwater, and the environmental justice issues surrounding their extraction. She holds a B.A. in Hydrology from the University of Colorado and will hold a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz in January 2022. Through archival research, ethnographic work, and community collaborations, her dissertation research investigated scientific knowledge and environmental justice activism around groundwater contamination and oil drilling in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Her broader research agenda prioritizes community-based collaborative relationships and multidisciplinary methodologies spanning the geologic and social sciences, working to understand the material-discursive production of contamination within settler colonial and racial capitalist formations.
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Viviane Gravey
Senior Research Associate in EU Environmental Politics, University of East Anglia
I studied sustainable development and European Union politics throughout my undergraduate and postgraduate studies in France, Denmark and the UK (2005-2010). After two years at a leading French environmental think tank (IDDRI) I went back to academia to study for a PhD in EU environmental politics at the University of East Anglia (2012-2016). I am now a Senior Research fellow at UEA working on environment and the EU referendum.
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Viviane Seyranian
Assistant Professor of Psychology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Dr. Viviane Seyranian is a social psychologist who researches how communication and narrative content can be framed to optimize influence and behavioral change, particularly in the environmental and health realm. Her award winning research on her theory called Social Identity Framing (Seyranian, 2013, 2014) provides support for the idea that implicating social identity in communication helps to garner support for social change.
In addition to her research in social influence, Dr. Seyranian also develops and tests a wide variety of interventions seeking to empower minority populations. Her research utilizes diverse methodologies ranging from lab and field experiments to qualitative methods such as manual and computerized content analysis.
Dr. Seyranian earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in social psychology from Claremont Graduate University and her B.A. cum laude in psychology and government from Claremont McKenna College. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California.
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Vivien Lowndes
Professor emerita, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham
Vivien Lowndes is Professor Emerita at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research examines the dynamics of public institutions, particularly at the local level. She is interested in how institutions reproduce power relationships and how they can be reformed to secure new settlements. Vivien's research has focused on gender, migration, citizen participation, urban renewal and local government. She is the author, with Mark Roberts, of 'Why Institutions Matter' (Palgrave) as well as many articles on related themes. In 2021, Vivien was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin prize for a lifetime contribution to political studies.
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Vlad Glăveanu
Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology, Dublin City University
Vlad Glăveanu, PhD, is full professor of psychology in the school of psychology, Dublin City University, and professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN). His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, wonder, possibility, and societal challenges.
He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016) and the Oxford Creativity Reader (2018), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017). He authored The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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Vladimir Bortun
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
I am a critical political scientist interested in political elites, class, left parties, transnational politics, and the EU. Currently, I work on the Changing Elites project, hosted by the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. Here, I focus on the impact of class background on the ideology and decision-making of power elites.
At the same time, I am developing a research agenda around the class character of right-wing populist parties in Western Europe. I am interested, in particular, in their economic policymaking and the class background of their party elites.
My work is rooted in a historical materialist approach and has been published so far in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Capital & Class, New Political Science, Qualitative Research, and European Political Science. My first book, "Crisis, Austerity and Transnational Party Cooperation in Southern Europe: The Radical Left's Lost Decade", was published in 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan.
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Volodymyr Bilotkach
Volodymyr received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Arizona. He has taught at the University of California, Irvine, and held short-term appointments in South Korea, Germany, and France. Volodymyr's research covers various issues in economics of the aviation sector. He has published over 30 papers in scholarly journals. He co-edits Journal of Air Transport Management, and has advised The Netherlands Competition Authority and the European Commission.
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Vrinda Nair
Doctoral Student in Physics, Concordia University
Vrinda Nair is a doctoral student in physics and is currently working on the drug design of small molecules by implementing deep learning and machine learning models. Her project focuses on Antibiotic Resistance (ABR) and aims to find new antibiotic hybrids. She holds a Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology in biotechnology and was awarded the Young Investigator Award for her bachelor's thesis project on making biocolours. She also serves as the treasurer of the Forum on Graduate Student Affairs (FGSA) at the American Physical Society. She is a published author-poet, artist, science communicator, and STEM mentor. She actively supports many causes, like women in STEM and supporting sci-artists, has worked with various organizations, and has offered her volunteering services. Her doctoral research is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Research Chairs (CRC), and Concordia University. She is also working on her internship through the Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship at Molecular Forecaster.
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W David McCausland
David's principal research interests are in the areas of health economics and well-being, labour economics transport economics and open economy macroeconomic modelling. Prior to his appointment as Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in September 1995, David spent three years teaching at the University of Keele. Before that he was a Research Fellow, first at Warwick Research Institute, and then at Warwick Business School Research Bureau. He obtained his first degree in Economics from the University of Hull, his Masters degree in Economics from the University of Warwick, and his PhD. from the University of Keele. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in September 2000, and became Assistant Director of the Centre for European Labour Market Research (CELMR) in November 2001. He also served on the Quality Assurance Agency for Scotland’s Enhancement Themes Steering Committee for the First Year Experience Enhancement Theme. In August 2010 he was appointed Director of Learning and Teaching in the Business School. He received the HEA Economics Network eLearning Award in 2006 in recognition of innovative good practice in the use of eLearning to enhance economics teaching. In the July 2009 graduation ceremony he received the (student-nominated) College of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching. In September 2011 he was awarded the Student Nominated Teaching award from the Economics Network.
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W. Ian O'Byrne
Associate Professor of Literacy Education, College of Charleston
Dr. W. Ian O’Byrne is an associate professor of literacy education at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. His research focuses on the dispositions and literacy practices of individuals as they read, write, and communicate in online and/or hybrid spaces. Ian is the author of many journal articles and book chapters focusing on initiatives ranging from online and hybrid coursework, integrating technology in the classroom, computational thinking, and supporting marginalized students in literacy practices. His work can be found on his website (https://wiobyrne.com/) or in his weekly newsletter (https://digitallyliterate.net/).
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W. Rocky Newman
W. Rocky Newman (Ph.D. The University of Iowa, MBA & BS-BA Bowling Green State University) has been a professor of supply chain and operations management at Miami University since 1987. Newman teaches in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, and manufacturing strategy. His research interests include manufacturing strategy, organizational issues in supply chain management as well as supply chain management strategy. His work has been published in many journals including: International Journal of Production Research, The Journal of Production and Inventory Management, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, American Journal of Business, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, The Journal of Manufacturing Systems, The International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Mid American Journal of Business, The International Journal of Operations and Production Management, The International Journal of Production Economics, The International Journal of Forecasting, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, The International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, The Journal of Supply Chain Management, and others.
He is on the editorial board of several academic journals and has served as the editor in chief of the American Journal of Business.
He has authored several popular textbooks in the field of Supply Chain Management. He coordinates the Farmer School of Business’ highly ranked Supply Chain Management Program at Miami University.
He has served on the Midwest DSI board for many years in a variety of roles including president and program chair for the MWDSI annual conference in 2003 and 2009. He served on the board of directors for the Supply Chain Council (www.supply-chain.org) from 2008-2014. He is SCOR-S certified and has incorporated SCOR-S into his teaching with over 250 of his students certified through 2014. He has served on the APICS Board of Directors (2014) and now serves on the APICS Supply Chain Council Board of Directors.
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Wacango Muguro Kimani
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
Wacango Muguro Kimani is a post-doctoral researcher and teacher educator in the field of inclusive education at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Wade M. Chumney
Wade Chumney joined the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics in August 2014. Prior to that he was employed at Georgia Tech as the Cecil B. Day Assistant Professor of Business Ethics and Law in the Scheller College of Business since 2009. He was previously an assistant professor at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee and a visiting lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Professor Chumney also spent five years in private practice before embarking on an academic career.
His research agenda focuses on the interplay between business ethics, law and technology: focusing on intellectual property, data privacy and security, and the impact of the Internet. Professor Chumney has been an invited speaker at several prestigious universities, including: the University of Michigan Patent Law Colloquium in 2012, ICN Business School International Business Seminar in 2012, and the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School Spring Privacy Speaker Series in 2011. Additionally, he has been invited to present his research at numerous peer-reviewed conferences to discuss his areas of interest. He has also received several honors for his research. In 2011, he was awarded the SEALSB Young Scholar Award of Excellence by the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business. In 2009, he was awarded the Outstanding Scholarly Activity Award by the Belmont University College of Business Administration. The same year, he received a best paper award from the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE). In 2008, he accepted a Distinguished Proceedings Paper Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB). Additionally, he was honored with the Holmes-Cardozo Best Paper Award from ALSB, the highest honor given by the academy to a piece of legal scholarship in a given year.
A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Professor Chumney has a Juris Doctor from the University Of Virginia School Of Law, a Master of Science in Information Systems from Dakota State University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College.
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Wajiha Mehdi
PhD Candidate, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia
Wajiha Mehdi is a PhD Candidate at Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at University of British Columbia. Her research interests include Islamophobia, nationalism, geographies of violence and struggles of Muslim women in India. Her work exists at the intersection of postcolonial, critical Muslim studies, intersectional feminist work to develop an understanding of how ideas of belonging and citizenship are reinscribed spatially during violent nationalist moments.
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Waller R. Newell
Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Carleton University
The history of political thought from classical to contemporary. German Idealism. Statesmanship and political leadership. Liberal Education and citizenship. Tyranny, terrorism and extremist politics. Books published on Platonic political thought, the manly virtues, great political leadership, ancient and modern tyranny. Topical journalism on political and cultural affairs.
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Wally Smith
Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
I am a Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne where I currently co-lead the Human-Computer Interaction Group. My research examines the psychological and social dimensions of new digital technologies through design-based investigations in collaboration with organisations and communities. Current and recent projects explore the nature of AI-based deception, people's use of technologies to manage their emotions, the creation and sharing of public histories online, and the design of technologies for health-related change. .
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Wanglin Ma
Associate Professor of Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand
I am doing research in the fields of Agricultural Economics and Development Economics. My research outputs have covered a wide range of topics, such as sustainability and economies of agrifood systems, food production and marketing, farmer organization, agribusiness, rural development, rural-to-urban migration, climate change and adaptation, land transfer, agricultural technology adoption, information technology adoption, welfare and well-being, productivity and efficiency, income growth, farmer subjective well-being, and rural energy transition. According to the economists ranking based on the past 10 years publishing at IDEAS, I was ranked "Top 10 Economists" (Authors 10) in New Zealand (https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.newzealand.html).
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Wangui Kimari
Anthropologist, University of Cape Town
Wangui Kimari is an anthropologist affiliated with the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town. Her work draws on many local histories and theoretical approaches in order to think through urban spatial management in Nairobi from the vantage point of its most marginalised residents. Wangui is also the participatory action research coordinator for the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC), a community-based organisation in Mathare, Nairobi, and a contributing editor to the online publication Africa Is a Country (AIAC). She is also a co-founder of the Nairobi-based critical urban studies forum: UTA-Do African Cities Workshop, an Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Trustee, and on the editorial boards of Urban Geography, Africa and Nokoko. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from York University, Canada.
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Wanning Sun
Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney
Wanning Sun researches and supervises research students in a number of areas, including Chinese media and cultural studies; rural to urban migration and social change in contemporary China; soft power, public diplomacy and diasporic Chinese media. Wanning is the author of three single-authored monographs Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Maid in China: Media, Morality and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (Routledge, 2009), and Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices ( Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She has edited numerous volumes, including Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce (Routledge, 2006). She is a member of the editorial board for several journals, including Media International Australia (ANZCA), Asian Journal of Communication, and Communication, Culture & Critique (ICA).
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Warren Clarke
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Manitoba
Warren Clarke is an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba in the Anthropology department. Warren's focus is in sociocultural anthropology. Warren’s research is situated in youth cultures, social citizenship, neoliberalism, gentrification, race & ethnicity, anti-colonialism, and masculinity.
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Warren McNabb
Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Massey University
Warren McNabb is a Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the Riddet Institute. The Riddet Institute is one of New Zealand’s Centres of Research Excellence (CoRE) which is hosted by Massey University. His research interests include nutrition for health, sustainable nutrition, and physiology and metabolism.
Warren joined the Riddet Institute in 2016. Warren currently supervises 17 PhD students and 4 Postdoctoral Fellows. Warren has published >220 peer-reviewed scientific papers with >17,000 citations and an h-index of 64 (Google Scholar).
Warren completed his B. Agric. Sci (First Class Honours; 1986) and PhD at Massey University. Prior to joining Massey University, Warren joined AgResearch in 1993 as a Research Scientist and was promoted to Principal Research Scientist in 2004. Warren was promoted to Science Team Leader in 2000, Science Section Manager in 2005, General Manager in 2009 before becoming AgResearch’s Research Director in 2011.
At the Riddet Institute, Warren leads several programmes including the Sustainable Nutrition Initiative (SNI; www.sustainablenutritioninitiative.com) and the MBIE-funded programmes, New Zealand Milks Mean More (NZ3M) and Kai anamata mō Aotearoa – exploring future food system scenarios and impacts. Warren is also a Principal Investigator in the Riddet Institute CoRE Research programme (www.riddet.ac.nz) and an Associate Investigator in the HVN National Science Challenge (www.highvaluenutrition.co.nz) priority research programmes’, Healthy Digestion, and Infant Health.
Warren has been elected to a number of international committees including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to be a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee guiding the process leading to a comprehensive and evidence-based global assessment of the contribution of livestock to food security, sustainable food systems, nutrition, and healthy diets, and to represent NZ as a member of the World Farming Organisation (WFO) Scientific Council by Federated Farmers NZ.
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Warwick Badgery
Research Leader Pastures an Rangelands, The University of Melbourne
Dr Warwick Badgery is a research leader with NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) with over 15 years’ research experience improving the profitability and sustainability of grazing systems and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions under a changing climate. He is currently the Program Leader for the Feedbase Theme of the national Livestock Productivity Partnership, is a board member of Monaro Farming Systems and has adjunct positions with Melbourne University and China Agriculture University.
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Warwick Teague
Director of Trauma and Paediatric Surgeon, Royal Children's Hospital
Associate Professor Warwick Teague
DPhil Oxford, FRACS, FRCSEd
A/Prof Warwick Teague is Director of Trauma, Clinical Lead for Burns, and Academic Paediatric Surgeon at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
Warwick is active in discovery science and clinical research, building on the expertised gained from a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He is Co-group Leader of Surgical Research within the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, and his clinical research interests focus mostly on paediatric trauma care, epidemiology and prevention.
Within the State of Victoria, Warwick is a member of various trauma and injury prevention focused committees for the government, Kidsafe Victoria, WorkSafe Victoria and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and he chairs the Victorian State Trauma Registry Monitoring (VSTORM) Steering Committee.
Nationally an internationally, Warwick is considered a leader and key advocate in the fields of paediatric major trauma care and childhood injury prevention. Warwick has engaged widely with media and community groups to promote practical steps towards safer and healthier childhoods for all our children.
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Wasim Saman
Emeritus Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering, University of South Australia
Wasim Saman is Emeritus Professor of sustainable energy engineering, University of South Australia. His career has focused on sustainable energy education and industry targeted research since the 1980s. He has published over 300 technical articles and supervised 35 post graduate research candidates. His research has focused on solar thermal generation and storage and sustainable use of energy in buildings.
He has been leading industry-focused research teams developing thermal storage materials and systems for buildings, solar thermal applications, low energy air conditioning systems and developing smart demand management technologies. He has been a founding research leader for the CRC for Low Carbon Living and led a number of research projects as well as establishing and leading the SA Research Node for Low Carbon Living until July 2018. He has been leading industry focused research into low energy and water housing which involved establishing guidelines and detailed performance monitoring programs. This commenced at Mawson Lakes and culminated in the Lochiel Park Green Village, Australia’s most environmentally sustainable housing development where a multidisciplinary approach research involving social, economic and engineering research demonstrated the environmental, social and economic advantages of near zero energy housing.
Wasim is Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy, Fellow of the Australian Institute for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating. He received the Pioneer Award from the World Renewable Energy Network in 2012. He is currently working with industry on commercialising solar water heating and energy storage systems. Wasim provides advice to developers and has served on a number of national and international committees on energy use in buildings.
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Wawan Kurniawan
Peneliti di Laboratorium Psikologi Politik Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Indonesia
Peneliti dan membahas isu psikologi sosial.
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Wayne Wong
Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
Wayne Wong is Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. He holds a PhD in Film Studies and Comparative Literature from King’s College London and the University of Hong Kong. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, including Global Media and China, Asian Cinema, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and Archiv Orientální.
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Wei Gordon
Assistant Professor of Biology, Menlo College
Dr. Gordon is Assistant Professor of Biology at Menlo College. This is her first year teaching at Menlo College. Dr. Gordon went to graduate school to become an undergraduate professor and work at a student-focused institution. Prior to joining faculty, Dr. Gordon taught graduate courses at UC San Francisco and undergraduate courses at University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and UC San Diego, as well as elementary courses at San Francisco public schools. At Menlo College, Dr. Gordon is focusing on improving STEM interest in STEM-underrepresented groups and connecting students to their surrounding biotechnology hub.
Dr. Gordon first began research at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California, where she worked as a husbandry intern. She conducted an artificial reef habitation project with local swell sharks and launched an aquaponics education exhibit. Dr. Gordon went on to work as a husbandry intern in the lab of Dr. Deborah Yelon at UC San Diego, where she migrated to the laboratory bench to study zebrafish heart development. Dr. Gordon simultaneously worked in the lab of Dr. Maike Sander at Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine as a lab assistant and, later, the lab of Dr. Amro Hamdoun at Scripps Institution of Oceanography as an undergraduate researcher and URS (David Marc Belkin Memorial Research Scholarship for Environment and Ecology). While learning about drug transporters and embryonic development with sea urchins in Dr. Hamdoun’s lab, Dr. Gordon pioneered a collaborative project between the labs of Dr. Hamdoun and Dr. Yelon, identifying a cell type in the zebrafish embryo that likely protects embryonic development from harmful small molecules (Gordon et al., Aquatic Toxicology, 2019).
As a graduate student, Dr. Gordon joined the lab of Dr. Nadav Ahituv at UC San Francisco to investigate the genetic factors underlying the evolution of frugivory (fruit-specialization) in mammals. By studying the DNA of mammals that adapted to high sugar diets, bats and primates, Dr. Gordon and her collaborators can identify novel DNA targets for therapies for metabolic diseases in humans like diabetes. Dr. Gordon utilized both comparative genomics and functional genomics techniques for her investigation, and she also traveled to Belize to work with bats and other bat researchers across the globe at the “Bat-a-thon.” Dr. Gordon was awarded the NSF GRFP and also acquired an NIH EDGE CMT grant with Dr. Ahituv to advance her research. Dr. Gordon discovered many frugivory adaptations in the fruit bat kidney and pancreas, including differentially active genes and regulatory regions involved in fluid and electrolyte balance in the frugivore kidney and an increase in endocrine and a decrease in exocrine cells in the frugivore pancreas (Gordon and Baek et al., BioRxiv, 2023). More of Dr. Gordon’s work will be published in the coming years.
Dr. Gordon’s research at Menlo College will be on general biology education. She will be testing a variety of techniques and collecting data. Ultimately, she intends to use her genetics expertise to develop new courses at Menlo College that are in line with student interests and prepare students to become positive leaders of change in fast-growing biotechnological spaces of genomics, gene therapy, and pharma.
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