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Valentina Rossi
Postdoctoral researcher, Palaeontology, University College Cork
I am a palaeobiologist, skilled in the analysis of pigmented soft tissues in fossil and extant vertebrates. A particular focus of my studies is the preservation of melanosomes in fossil vertebrates. My work so far have produced the first report of a tissue-specific chemical signal in melanosomes in extant amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds and the first report of similar chemical signals in fossils, spanning in age between 10 and 280 millions years old. During my PhD I have specialised in the study of metal-melanin associations using synchrotron-based chemical analysis.
My research interest also include the investigation of the taphonomic processes that lead to the preservation of soft tissues and biomolecules using taphonomic experiments at high pressure and temperature.
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Valentina Signorelli
Associate Professor in Film and TV, University of Greenwich
I am a British-Italian creative producer and academic based in London. I hold a PhD Film from the University of Westminster focusing on transmedia practices in the digital era. I am the co-founder of the production studio Daitona and its advertising division, DOGODOT. We make films, documentaries, commercials, TV projects, docu-mapping and VR experiences with a transmedia approach. My works as a writer, director and producer have been distributed internationally and showcased in A-list festivals around the world, including the prestigious Venice Film Festival. I joined the University of Greenwich in January 2024 as an Associate Professor in Film and TV. Before that, I served as Senior Lecturer and Course Leader BA Media and Communication at the University of East London for four years and worked as an Associate Lecturer with many academic institutions, including the University of Westminster, the University for the Creative Arts, Bucks New University, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Sapienza - University of Rome.
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Valentina A. Andreeva
research scientist, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
I obtained a Ph.D. in Preventive Medicine in 2008 from the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA. I am an epidemiologist and a behavioral scientist with expertise in chronic disease epidemiology, neuropsychiatric needs assessment and prevention research, and mental and behavioral health promotion especially via proper nutrition. I am proficient in research methods, health promotion theory, nutrition and mental health assessment, risk factor assessment, and validation research. At Sorbonne Paris Nord University, I have held the tenured position of Associate Professor of Epidemiology since 2013. I co-directed the Master of Human Nutrition & Public Health program from 2015 to 2022. I am an ad hoc grant proposal reviewer, peer reviewer for over two dozen indexed journals, and a member of numerous public health, epidemiology and nutrition non-profit professional organizations. I have published >180 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and conference proceedings (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/valentina.andreeva.1/bibliography/public/).
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Valeria Skafida
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh
My research interests and expertise straddle the disciplines of social policy, sociology and public health. For my research I use primarily advanced quantitative analysis methods and longitudinal survey data. Most of my research to date has involved using population cohort study data to understand how children’s health and wellbeing outcomes are socially stratified, and how early experiences or events relate to subsequent outcomes. I have dabbled with topics related to infant feeding and children's eating habits, and my more recent work explores the lives of women and children affected by domestic abuse.
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Valérie Bougault
Maître de Conférences, Université Côte d’Azur
J'ai un parcours Universitaire en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives (STAPS), à Rennes jusqu'en maîtrise, puis à Strasbourg pour un DEA et une thèse. Après un doctorat obtenu en 2005 en Sciences de la vie sur la mesure du débit cardiaque à l'effort chez des patients atteints de pathologies respiratoires, j'ai réalisé un stage post-doctoral d'un an à l'université d'Avignon où j'ai effectué des recherches sur les adaptations cardiaques à l'exercice chez l'enfant et l'adulte sportifs par échocardiographie Doppler.
Ex-nageuse de niveau national, j'ai réalisé un stage post-doctoral de 3 ans au centre de recherche de l'institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (QC,Canada) sur des projets que j'ai créé autour des effets du sport de haut-niveau sur la santé respiratoire des sportifs compétiteurs.
Je suis reconnue au niveau international sur cette thématique et plus largement sur la thématique des problèmes respiratoires des sportifs en lien avec leur environnement. Depuis 2009, je suis Maître de conférences en STAPS, initialement à l'université de Lille puis à à l'université Côte d'Azur, depuis 2018.
Mon laboratoire actuel est le LAMHESS (Laboratoire Motricité Humaine Expertise Sport Santé). J'interviens régulièrement dans des groupes d'experts internationaux pour la rédaction de revues narratives ou de recommandations sur le sujet de la santé respiratoire du sportif de haut-niveau. Dernièrement, j'ai été membre élue d'un tel groupe de travail pour le Comité International Olympique aboutissant à un rapport détaillé et des recommandations en vue des JO de Tokyo.
Mon activité scientifique principale est axée sur le thème des effets délétères potentiels du sport intense sur la santé. Je m'intéresse principalement à l'évolution des problèmes de santé des sportifs d'endurance, notamment des voies respiratoires, en relation avec leur environnement. Je m'intéresse particulièrement aux effets de la pollution et de la ventilation (type et mode d'exercice) sur les lésions épithéliales bronchiques et l'inflammation. L'objectif de ces recherches est de comprendre le développement de "l'asthme induit par l'exercice" , la rhinite, les allergies, les susceptibilités virales chez les athlètes d'endurance, et leurs conséquences sur la santé et la performance, notamment chez les nageurs et cyclistes d'élite. Je m'intéresse également aux effets de différentes modalités d'exercice physique sur les bronches chez des sujets sains et asthmatiques. J'encadre actuellement une étudiante en thèse sur la santé bucco-dentaire et le microbiote des cyclistes élites, en lien avec la santé respiratoire.
Mots-clés : Sportifs, Bronches, Asthme, Allergies, Rhinite, immunité, santé, pollution, chlore, environnement
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Valérie Duplat
Associate Professor of business strategy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dr. Valérie Duplat is Associate Professor of Strategy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (SBE). Before joining the Vrije Universiteit, Valérie was a faculty member at the EDHEC Business School, France. She obtained her Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. During her Ph.D., Valérie visited the University of Maastricht for nine months and the University of Michigan for one year and a half. In June 2013, she obtained the Junior Faculty Award granted by the FNEGE (French Foundation for Management Education). Thanks to this Award, Valérie visited the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, for six months in 2014. In 2016 and 2022, she visited the Univesrity of Colorado (Leeds School of Business).
Since September 2021, Valérie is coordinator of the Minor in Business Administration entitled "New Ways of Doing Business" at the VU Amsterdam. She has also acted as bachelor and master thesis coordinator in strategy and organization since 2016.
In December 2023, she was appointed Associate Editor for Business Strategy & Organizational Theory for the European Management Journal (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/european-management-journal).
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Valérie Erlich
Maîtresse de conférences de sociologie, URMIS (Unité de recherche Migrations et Société), CNRS, IRD, Université Côte d’Azur
Valérie Erlich est maîtresse de conférences au Département de Sociologie de l’Université Côte d’Azur et chercheure à l’URMIS (Unité de recherche Migrations et sociétés, CNRS 6, UMR 8245), Membre du comité scientifique de l’Observatoire National de la Vie Etudiante de 2007 à 2012, Directrice de l’Observatoire de la Vie Etudiante de l’Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis de 2003 à 2007.
Depuis les années 1990, ses recherches portent sur le monde étudiant, sur la socialisation des étudiants et la construction des identités étudiantes dans le contexte de massification de l’enseignement supérieur.
A partir de 2005, elle s’intéresse plus spécifiquement aux mobilités pour études, à l’analyse statistique des flux des étudiants en mobilité et à l’internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur.
Elle a publié sur ces thématiques :
- Les nouveaux étudiants. Un groupe social en mutation, Préface de Roger Establet, Paris, Armand Colin, « Références » Sociologie, 1998.
- Les mobilités étudiantes, Panorama des savoirs, Paris, La Documentation française, 2012, 219 p.
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Valerie Fraser
Professor of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex
Valerie Fraser specialises in the art and architecture of Latin America and Spain with particular emphasis on the early colonial period and the 20th/21st centuries. She is Chair of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA). She has won a number of major awards from the AHRC including funding for a fully-illustrated online catalogue of ESCALA, and is currently overseeing a three-year AHRC-funded research project (2009-2012) entitled Meeting Margins: Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978 which is in collaboration with the University of the Arts London and investigates artistic relations between Europe and Latin America in the post-war period. She has worked on a number of exhibitions including Kahlo's Contemporaries held at the University Gallery in 2005, and Latin American Art: Contexts and Accomplices at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, 2004.
Research interests:
•Colonial Latin American art
•Colonial Latin American architecture
•20th century Latin American art
•20th century Latin American architecture
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Valérie Hémar-Nicolas
Professeure des universités en sciences de gestion et du management - Consommation alimentaire et durabilité, Université Paris-Saclay
Valérie Hémar-Nicolas est Professeure des Universités en sciences de gestion et du management à l’Université Paris-Saclay. Ses recherches portent sur la consommation alimentaire dans une perspective de santé et de durabilité sociale et environnementale. Elle mène ses travaux dans le cadre de projets de recherche nationaux et internationaux (ANR CRI-KEE : Consommation et représentations des insectes - Etat des connaissances sur leur comestibilité en Europe ; Smag For Livet (Taste For Life) financé par la fondation danoise Nordea-Fonden ; ANR MarCO - Marketing to Children and Obesity...).
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Valerie J. Karplus
Valerie J. Karplus is the Class of 1943 Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research focuses on resource and environmental management in firms operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with an emphasis on emerging markets and the role of policy. Karplus is an expert on China’s energy system, including technology trends, energy system governance, and the sustainability impact of business decisions. She holds a BS in biochemistry and political science from Yale University and a PhD in engineering systems from MIT.
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Valérie Mérindol
Enseignant chercheur en management de l'innovation et de la créativité, PSB Paris School of Business
Spécialisée en management de l'innovation et de la créativité, j'ai produit une 30aine d'articles scientifiques et 5 ouvrages sur l'innovation dans les grandes entreprises, les politiques publiques d'innovation, les nouveaux lieux d'innovation. J'interviens régulièrement auprès des acteurs publics et privés pour la réalisation d'études et recherches sur les nouvelles dynamiques de l'innovation et de la créativité.
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Valerie Møller
Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University
VALERIE MØLLER is Professor Emeritus at Rhodes University. She was appointed to the new chair of Quality of Life Studies at Rhodes in the Institute of Social and Economic Research in 2007. Before that she was director of ISER (1998–2006) and headed the Quality of Life Research Unit at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, in the 1990s. She grew up in the southern United States and Switzerland. A sociologist by training, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Zürich. She and her architect husband arrived in Africa in 1972 in a VW kombi and stayed. She has lived and worked in southern Africa since that time.
Together with South African colleagues, she initiated the South African Quality of Life (SAQoL) trends study that has tracked the personal well-being of South Africans from all walks of life since the early 1980s. In 1996 and 2004, together with Alex Michalos, editor of the leading international journal on quality-of-life, Social Indicators Research, she organised ‘roving conferences’ to promote social indicators and quality-of-life research among South African scholars. The 2004 ‘Roving Conference’ held at Rhodes University formed part of the University’s Centenary celebrations.
Valerie Møller has published some 200 research articles, chapters in books, and research monographs covering a wide range of topics related to quality of life and well-being. She has edited or co-edited a number of Springer volumes on quality-of-life topics including two focusing on South African quality of life (published in 1997 and 2007).
She is an international Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) Distinguished Qol Researcher in recognition of her lifetime achievements and accomplishments in quality-of-life studies. She hosted the ISQOLS 7th conference at Rhodes University in 2006, and served as ISQoL’s President (2007–8). She serves on the boards of a number of quality-of-life journals and received the 1997 (with Lawrence Schlemmer) and 2013 Best Social Indicator Research (SIR) Paper awards. The 2013 Best SIR Paper reported on three decades of the SAQoL trends study.
Recent Publications:
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Møller, V.
2020 in press Preface: A place and a time for a Handbook on Active Ageing and Quality of Life. In: F. Rojo-Pérez. & G. Fernández-Mayoralas G. (Eds.), Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life – From Concepts to Applications. (pp. 1–7) International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Møller, V.
2020 in press Hamba kahle, ‘go well’, from Africa. In: A.C. Michalos (Ed.), The Pope of Happiness - A Festschrift for Ruut Veenhoven. Social Indicators Research Series. Cham, Switzlerland: Springer Nature,
Møller, V.
2019 ‘Foreword’. In Eloff, I. (Ed.) Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies. (pp.v-vii). International Handbooks on Quality of Life. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Møller, V., and Roberts, B.J.
2019 The best and worst times of life for South Africans: Evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well-being using Bernheim’s ACSA. Social Indicators Research 143(3), 1319-1347. DOI 10.1007/s11205-018-2018-9 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-018-2018-9
Møller, V., and Roberts, B.J.
2018 Online appendix: The best and worst times of life for South Africans: evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well-being using Bernheim’s ACSA. (Domains that define the anchors of the ACSA scale of personal well‐being: South Africans’ descriptions of their best and worst experiences in life in 2012). Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67024
Otterbach, S., Sousa-Posa, A., and Møller, V.
2018 A cohort analysis of subjective wellbeing and ageing: heading towards a midlife crisis? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 9(4), 382–411.
http://dx.doi.org/10.14301/llcs.v9i4.509
Barrientos, A., Møller, V., Saboia, J., Lloyd-Sherlock, P. and Mase, J.
2018 Ageing, wellbeing and development: Brazil and South Africa. In: Alan Walker (Ed.), The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 1, Bristol UK: Policy Press. (Chapter 15, pp. 307 – 324.)
ISBN 978-1-4473-1473-8 paperback
Møller, V., Roberts, B.J. and Zani, D.
2018 The National Wellbeing Index in the IsiXhosa Translation: Focus group discussions on how South Africans view the quality of their society. Social Indicators Research 135(1), 167–193.
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4 http://rdcu.be/mOnk http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4
Møller, V.
2018 Whatever Happened to Social Indicators in Africa? Whatever happened indeed! A developing world perspective on the Kenneth C. Land and Alex C. Michalos report on 'Fifty Years after the Social Indicators Movement'. Social Indicators Research 135 (3):1009–1019.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1555-y
http://rdcu.be/opqP
Møller, V., Roberts, B.J., Tiliouine, H. & Loschky, J.
2017 ‘Waiting for Happiness’ in Africa. In: John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs (Eds.), World Happiness Report 2017 (Chapter 4, pp. 84–120). New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/ http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/HR17-Ch4_w-oAppendix.pdf ISBN 978-0-9968513-5-0
Møller, V. and Roberts, B.
2017 New Beginnings in an Ancient Region: Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In: R.J. Estes and M.J. Sirgy (Eds.), The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History.
(pp. 161–215), International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Research, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
ISBN 978-3-319-39100-7 www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319391007 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39101-4
Møller, V. and Roberts, B.J.
2017 South African Hopes and Fears Twenty Years into Democracy: A Replication of Hadley Cantril’s Pattern of Human Concerns. Social Indicators Research 130(1), 39–69.
DOI 10.1007/s11205-015-1131-2 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-015-1131-2
https://rdcu.be/6qUp
Møller, V.
2016 South African perceptions of the good life twenty years into democracy. In:
F. Maggino (Ed.), A Life Devoted to Quality of Life, Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos. (pp. 271–295). Social Indicators Research Series 60, Dordrecht: Springer International Publisher.
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20568-7_15 ISBN 978-3-319-20568-7
Glatzer, W., and Camfield, L., Møller, V. and Rojas, M. (Eds.).
2015 Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life. Dordrecht: Springer.
ISBN 978-94-017-9177-9, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6
Roberts, B.J., Gordon, S.L., Møller, V. and Struwig, J.
2015 Shadow of the Sun – the distribution of wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Glatzer, W. and Camfield, L., Møller,V., and Rojas, M. (eds.), Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life, pp. 531– 568. Dordrecht: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6_23
Møller, V., Roberts, B., and Zani, D.
2015 The Personal Wellbeing Index in the South African isiXhosa translation: A qualitative focus group study. Social Indicators Research 124, 835–862. DOI 10.1007/s11205-014-0820-6
Møller, V. and Roberts, B.J. (2017). “South African Hopes and Fears Twenty Years into Democracy: A Replication of Hadley Cantril’s Pattern of Human Concerns”. Social Indicators Research 130(1): 39-69.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1131-2
Møller, V. (2017). “Whatever Happened to Social Indicators in Africa? Whatever happened indeed! A developing world perspective on the Kenneth C. Land and Alex C. Michalos report on 'Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement' “. Social Indicators Research
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1555-y. http://rdcu.be/opqP
Møller, V., Roberts, B.J. and Zani, D. (2016). “The National Wellbeing Index in the IsiXhosa Translation: Focus group discussions on how South Africans view the quality of their society”. Social Indicators Research.
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4 http://rdcu.be/mOnk
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4
Møller, V., Roberts, B., and Zani, D. (2015). “The Personal Wellbeing Index in the South African isiXhosa translation: A qualitative focus group study”. Social Indicators Research 124: 835–862.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11205-014-0820-6
Books/Chapters in Books
Møller, V., Roberts, B.J., Tiliouine, H. & Loschky, J. (2017). “ ‘Waiting for Happiness’ in Africa“. In Helliwell, J., Layard, R., & Sachs, J. (eds). World Happiness Report 2017. (Chapter 4, pp. 84-120). New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/
Møller, V. and Roberts, B. (2017). “New Beginnings in an Ancient Region: Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa” In Estes, R.J. and Sirgy, M.J. (eds.) The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History. (pp. 161–215), International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Research, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39101-4
ISBN 978-3-319-39100-7
Møller, V. (2016). “South African perceptions of the good life twenty years into democracy. In Maggino, F. (ed.) A Life Devoted to Quality of Life, Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos. Social Indicators Research Series 60 (pp. 271–295). Dordrecht: Springer International Publisher.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20568-7_15
ISBN 978-3-319-20568-7
Glatzer, W., and Camfield, L., Møller, V. and Rojas, M. (eds.). (2015). “Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents”. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life. Dordrecht: Springer.
www.springer.com/kr/book/9789401791779
Roberts, B.J., Gordon, S.L., Møller, V. and Struwig, J. (2015). “Shadow of the Sun – the distribution of wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa”. In: Glatzer, W. and Camfield, L., Møller, V., and Rojas, M. (eds.) Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life (pp. 531– 568). Dordrecht: Springer.
www.springer.com/kr/book/9789401791779
Conference presentations
Møller, V. and Roberts, B.J. (2017). Powerpoint presentation on ‘Waiting for Happiness in Africa’ at the World Happiness Report 2017 launch held on 20 March 2017 at The United Nations Headquarters in New York City, in New York, USA.
Møller, V. and Tiliouine, H. (2015). Powerpoint presentation on Quality of life in South Africa and Algeria: A multi-method approach (2011-2013) at the South Africa-Algeria Joint Researchers’ Workshop held on 18-20 October 2015 in the iThemba LAB, Faure, Western Cape, South Africa.
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Valerie Payré
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa
I am a planetary geologist, and my primary research interest is understanding the evolution of planetary bodies, with an emphasis on Mars, to better constrain the geological history of our own planet. My work crosses several disciplines including igneous petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, and sedimentology to assess planetary surface and interior evolution and constrain magmatic processes on Mars and other planets.
I use various methods including measurements from the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers (ChemCam, SuperCam, APXS, PIXL, and CheMin) and orbital data (CRISM visible/near infrared spectroscopy and TES and THEMIS thermal infrared spectroscopy), modeling, experimental petrology, and laboratory measurements.
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Valerie Tarasuk
Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto
Valerie Tarasuk is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and leads PROOF, a research program funded by CIHR to investigate policy interventions to reduce food insecurity in Canada.
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Valerie Thomas
Professor of Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Valerie Thomas, Ph.D., is the Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems and Professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy.
Dr. Thomas's research interests are energy and materials efficiency, sustainability, industrial ecology, technology assessment, international security, and science and technology policy. Current research projects include low carbon transportation fuels, carbon capture, building construction, and electricity system development. Dr. Thomas is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Physical Society. She has been an American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow, a Member of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, and a Member of the USDA/DOE Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee.
She has worked at Princeton University in the Princeton Environmental Institute and in the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, and at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.
Dr. Thomas received a B. A. in physics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University.
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Valerie Ah Chee
Indigenous Research Midwife, Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence, The University of Queensland
Valerie is a proud Bindjareb woman from the Nyoongar Nation in the South West of Western Australia with family connections to the Palkyu people of the Pilbara, a mother of six and grandmother of five beautiful grandchildren with another soon. Through her husband, Valerie's children also identify as Nyikina and Yawaru from the Kimberley.
Valerie graduated as a Registered Midwife in 2015 and has worked clinically in Perth at the Armadale Health Service, in Midland at St John of God Public Hospital and in Adelaide at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Her dive into research started as an Indigenous Project Officer at Ngangk Yira Institute for Change on Baby Coming You Ready? Project: a comprehensive and culturally safe way to assess the social and emotional health and wellbeing of Aboriginal women in the perinatal period, with a focus on strength and resilience. As an Aboriginal woman and midwife, Valerie's own experiences birthing in the system generated her interest to improve outcomes in Aboriginal maternal and infant health, more specifically, embedding cultural safety in the pregnancy and birth space and improving the health of Aboriginal women from a strength-based, cultural perspective. Valerie is now an Indigenous Research Midwife at the Stillbirth CRE, working on the cultural adaptation of the Safer Baby Bundle and developing a Healthy Yarning Guide for non-Indigenous health care professionals to talk about stillbirth and stillbirth prevention.
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Valerie Ann Johnson
Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and Professor of Sociology, Shaw University
Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson is the Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and Professor of Sociology at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Previously, she was the Mott Distinguished Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of Africana Women’s Studies at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.
She holds a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco; M.A. in Sociology from Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University); and B.A. in Sociology from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Johnson has also completed doula training focused especially on women of color.
Her research conducted in Costa Rica, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, the Seychelles Islands and the US, center on gender, bioethics, disability, the health of women and girls, and environmental justice. In addition, she has published and given lectures in these research areas. In North Carolina, Dr. Johnson conducts research on both African American foodways, and African Americans attitudes toward and experiences with “nature spaces” with special emphasis on Black women’s garden clubs. Her speaking engagements include this work as well as public commentary on the issue of confederate monuments on public lands.
Other scholarly projects include work with Dr. Karima Jeffrey (Hampton University), on a joint collection of essays on the speculative and science fiction work of Black women and girls and with Dr. Crystal Moten (Macalester College), on compiling and editing an interactive, intersectional database on women, gender, and slavery.
Dr. Johnson chairs the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, serves on the North Carolina Historical Commission, National Register Advisory Committee and is member of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), North Carolina League of Conservation Voters (NCLCV) Board of Directors, Scarritt Bennett Center Board of Directors (Nashville, Tennessee), the Ms. Committee of Scholars and an advisor on the Humanities Action Lab’s initiative on climate change, immigration/migration and environmental justice. Dr. Johnson is also active on the board of directors for both NARAL Pro-Choice NC and Preservation North Carolina and serves as an advisory member for Scarritt Bennett Center’s Racial Justice Initiative.
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Valeriia Popova
Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
I work on media-government relationship in the United States, and I teach classes in Comparative Politics and American Politics.
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Valerio Capraro
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology , University of Milano-Bicocca
I'm an associate professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca. I studied mathematics but later turned into a social scientist. I use behavioral experiments, mathematical modeling, and numerical simulations to study cooperation, honesty, and other moral behaviors.
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Valeriy Ivanov
Professor of Hydrosystems Engineering, University of Michigan
My research interests aim to uncover interactions, mechanisms and feedbacks among various components of natural and human-impacted systems. My group strives to promote both the development of process-oriented models of water, energy and element cycles at various scales and the integration of data and models. The specific foci are land surface hydrology, ecohydrology, floods and climate impact assessments, with a growing emphasis on uncertainty quantification in all these research domains. In the years to come, we will apply both rigorous computational models and field data collection to better understand: water, energy and carbon dynamics in tropical and polar ecosystems; coupled processes of surface-subsurface hydrology and flooding hydrodynamics in natural and managed environments; and impacts and feedbacks associated with the propagation of climate and weather dynamics through hydrologic systems.
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Valmont Layne
Programme Director for New Archival Visions, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
Valmont Layne is the programme director for New Archival Visions and co-convenor of the graduate Sound Study Group at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. He has written about museums, archives, heritage studies, sound and media studies, as well as jazz and black music history. He is working on a monograph based on his doctoral thesis titled ‘Goema’s refrain: Sonic anticipation and the musicking Cape’.
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Van Callaly
Associate Lecturer, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Work, The University of Melbourne
Van Callaly is an Associate Lecturer and PhD candidate in the Department of Social Work at the University of Melbourne. Van is completing her thesis on improving cross-sector collaboration between family violence and substance use services on a systems level. Her research areas include collaborative practices and frameworks that inform coordinated responses to gender-based violence and social policy issues, particularly at the intersection of family violence and substance use. Van is a qualified social worker and has previously worked in health settings to support clients experiencing problematic substance use.
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Vanda Černohorská
Postdoctoral Researcher, Czech Academy of Sciences
Vanda Černohorská, Ph.D., focuses on gender inequalities from an intersectional perspective concerning issues of digitalization, social resilience and the creation of expert knowledge. Currently, she is researching the issue of the production of gender expertise in times of crisis and post-crisis recovery in the CoRe: Beyond Security - Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building (OPJAK) project at the National Contact Centre for Gender & Science. She also works at the Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she researches the impact of digital technologies on the perception of time and wellbeing (Time experience in Europe's digital age - TIMED). In the past years, she explored the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and related policies on existing gender inequalities as part of the RESISTIRÉ research team or the effect of the European Structural Funds on gender equality in the Czech labour market. Her doctoral research investigated the relationship between digital technologies and the contemporary feminist movement in the Czecho-Slovak region. Her other research interests include the issue of qualitative methods and multi-disciplinary approaches within social research and co-creation practices related to gender-sensitive policy design. She was awarded a Fulbright grant and spent 2015/2016 as a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology.
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Vandana Singh
Professor of Information Science, University of Tennessee
Dr. Vandana Singh is a Professor in the iSchool, the School of Information Sciences (SIS) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville . Currently, Dr. Singh is serving as the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the College of Communication and Information.
Dr. Singh joined the SIS faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. In her time at SIS, Dr. Singh has worked as Information Science and Technology Minor Coordinator (2008 – 2011), Acting Associate Director of SIS (2013) and the inaugurating Director of Undergraduate Studies (May 2017 – April 2019).
Dr. Singh graduated with a PhD in Information Science from the iSchool at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , USA, in 2008. Her dissertation research was on Online Communities to Support the Users of Open Source Software. For more details about her research please click here. She holds two masters degrees, one in Computer Science from University of Chicago , Illinois, USA and the other one in Knowledge Management Systems from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her undergraduate degree is from G.B. Pant University, in the foothills of Himalayas in India.
Her current research interests are in Gender and IT, Open Source Software, Technology for Library Professionals, Women in STEM, Rural Libraries, Social Justice, Online Learning/Communities and, Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
Dr. Singh teaches the core course in Information Technology, Usability Testing and Methods, Web Design, Information Networking Applications and a wide range of topics as Independent Studies.
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Vandinika Shukla
Fellow, Practicing Democracy Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Vandinika Shukla has over a decade of experience in gender and human rights policy, movement building and emerging technology. She has designed national gender policies at the United Nations, built civic engagement AI products and partnerships at MIT Media Lab, launched a community organizing portfolio at Harvard, and founded organizations to amplify unheard stories for stronger democracies. For her work she has been recognized as a young leader by the G20 and the European Commission.
Vandinika is a Reporting Fellow at Tech Policy Press. She writes on technology and democracy, movement building, gender justice, women’s political participation, and international relations. Her work has been featured in Slate Magazine, Huffington Post, Tech Policy Press, All Tech Is Human, Indian Express, and other Indian national dailies. As a Belfer Fellow, she has published her research on platform policy to mitigate online harm against journalists and served as the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Kennedy Review.
Vandinika holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in History from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. She currently teaches movement building for marginalized communities and democratic leadership and works at the intersection of democracy and technology.
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Vanessa Barolsky
Research Associate, Deakin University
Vanessa Barolsky is a Research Associate at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She works across several disciplinary areas including sociology, anthropology and criminology to tackle questions related to social conflict and its transformation. This includes critical engagements with social cohesion, truth, reconciliation and questions of justice and decolonisation. Her work is informed by her research in South Africa on political conflict where she worked at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and participated in writing the Commission’s final report. She subsequently completed a PHD on the Truth Commission’s conceptualisation of political conflict. She is currently working on several studies on community truth-telling in Australia with partners, including Reconciliation Australia.
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Vanessa Beck
Professor in Employment Studies, University of Bristol
Vanessa works at the University of Bristol Business School. She gained her degrees from Brunel (BSc), Keele (MPhil) and Birmingham (PhD) and worked at the University of Leicester before joining Bristol.
Vanessa has published on issues relating to older workers; the extension of working lives following the abolishment of the default retirement age; unemployment and underemployment.
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Vanessa Cobham
Dr. Vanessa Cobham is a Clinical Psychologist and a Professor, with continuing appointments in both Children’s Health Queensland’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service and the School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. Dr. Cobham has continuously maintained both clinical and academic appointments, making her a true clinician-researcher. Dr. Cobham is regarded as an international expert in child and adolescent emotional disorders. Her research is characterized by a family-centric, consumer-focused approach to the treatment of youth experiencing mental illness. Dr. Cobham’s research has focused on improving our understanding of the ways in which anxiety and depressive mental health conditions develop; the development and evaluation of models of care and interventions for the treatment of these conditions; understanding the intersection between physical and mental health conditions; and bridging the evidence-practice divide that exists in child and youth mental health. She is also the lead author of internationally disseminated clinical programs. Dr. Cobham has led numerous child and adolescent mental health responses following natural disasters in Australia; and is regularly invited to consult to government agencies in other countries following community-wide traumatic events (e.g., 2020 Nova Scotia shootings, Canada; 2019 Christchurch Mosque Attack, NZ). Often this consultation involves providing training and supervision to clinicians working with children and families.
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Vanessa Letico
Lecturer in Criminology and Senior Policy Officer (Office for the Commissioner for Victims of Crime), Victoria University
Dr Vanessa Letico is a Lecturer in Criminology (Level B) at Victoria University. Dr Letico completed her Doctor of Philosophy (Criminology) in 2024 which focused on sexual violence and how offenders excuse and justify their actions.
Beyond her accolades, Dr Letico has extensive work experience with the Commissioner for Victims of Crime (Western Australia) and the youth justice system in Victoria.
Her research interests are in voiceless victimology; focusing on the victimisation experiences of those who do not have a voice including infants/children, animals, people with disabilities and deceased victims. Dr Letico's research focuses on sexual violence victimisation experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing women and their unique barriers to reporting and justice.
Dr Letico has been invited to present her research findings and expertise at the University of Genova, Italy, as well as multiple domestic criminology conferences.
Beyond her research, Dr Letico is passionate about childhood literacy and is a children's book author. Vanessa is also passionate about teaching the next generation of criminal justice workers and is the Unit Convenor of LCR2003 Criminological Theory and LCR3004 Victims, Justice and the Law at Victoria University.
Email: [email protected]
Accessibility Information: Proficient in Australian Sign Language (Auslan)
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Vanessa Macaulay
Senior Lecturer, School of English and Drama, Anglia Ruskin University
Vanessa is an artist scholar, researcher and lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice. Vanessa's research specialises in Black feminist performance practices in the UK and US from the 1980s to the current day. Her research uses both practice-based and written approaches to challenge the imbalances of intersectional identities, speaking to contemporary struggles and anxieties about the performing Black body.
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Vanessa Mardirossian
PhD Candidate and educator in sustainable fashion, Concordia University
I hold a Fashion Design Bachelor from Paris (1992-1996) and a Master of Arts in Textile Design from London (1996-1998). With over two decades of experience in the European and Canadian fashion industry, I bring a wealth of practical knowledge to my current role as a PhD Candidate in the School of Graduate Studies at Concordia University (INDI program, 2017-2024). My research, centered around Textile Ecoliteracy, bridges the realms of Design, Environmental Health, and Ecology, with a specific focus on sustainable dyes. I am committed to developing a macro vision for the fashion industry that aligns with ecological principles. In addition to my research, I contribute to the next generation of designers as a Textile Design Instructor at Ecole Supérieure de Mode ESG UQAM.
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Vanessa McBride
Astronomer, International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development
Dr McBride is an astronomer at the International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development. She works towards bridging the gap between the community of professional astronomers and the development world with a view to helping astronomers apply their skills to problems related to socioeconomic development. She is also an honorary research associate at the University of Cape Town where she works on observations of massive stars in binaries.
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Vanessa Moulton
Senior Research Associate, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL
Vanessa is a researcher at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), focusing on mental health, cognition and social inequalities throughout the life course. Her work mainly uses secondary data analysis of large-scale longitudinal data sets, with a particular focus on the British birth cohort studies. She has published on areas including cognitive ability and skills, children’s aspirations, mental health in childhood and across the life-course, wealth, social mobility and mental health inequalities.
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Vanessa Napaltjari Davis
Researcher, Tangentyere Research Hub, Australian National University
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