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Stan Chu Ilo
Research Professor, World Christianity and African Studies, DePaul University
I was ordained a Catholic priest in my home country of Nigeria, and in addition to my native language, Igbo, I speak French, English and Italian. My educational background includes an MA in theology; an MA in educational leadership; an ecclesiastical licentiate in sacred theology (with a concentration in the Christological images in Luke-Acts and African theologies); and a PhD in theology from the University of St Michael’s College at the University of Toronto (with a concentration in African Christian history’s cross-cultural currents); and a second PhD from the University of South Africa in the sociology of education, specializing in equity and multicultural education in faith-based schooling.
In addition to teaching at DePaul, I am also a visiting professor at Tangaza University College’s Institute of Social Ministry and Mission in Nairobi, and the founder of the Canadian Samaritans for Africa, a nonprofit that works directly with African women to help them alleviate poverty. I also am the editor of the African Christian Studies Series for Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers; a commentator on Africa, religion, and politics for Canada Television (CTV) and Al-Jazeera; a columnist for CNN African Voices, Catholic Register and Premium Times; and a blogger for Huffington Post’s World Affairs, Religion, and Black Voices sections.
My areas of interest are cross-cultural studies, African intellectual and political history, African Christianity and the world Church, equity and diversity in faith-based education and ministry, religion and social transformation, and religion and violence. I coordinate CWCIT’s new African Catholicism Project, a network of established and emerging African Christian scholars to promote mentorship and diverse research in African Christianity and to make this scholarship more visible beyond Africa. Since 2017, my research has been centred on reform and renewal in the Church, especially following Pope Francis' call for a missionary conversion and the crisis of clerical sexual abuse. The fruit of my research is being developed in my forthcoming book: Rome and the Margins: Reform and the Renewal in the Catholic Church Beyond the West.
Some of my recent works include: The Face of Africa: Looking Beyond the Shadows; Love, Joy and Sex: African Conversation on Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and the Gospel of Family in a Divided World; A Poor and Merciful Church: The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis; Church and Development in Africa.
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Stan van Hooft
Emeritus Professor Philosophy, Deakin University
Stan van Hooft is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University in Australia. He is the author of Caring: An Essay in the Philosophy of Ethics, (Niwot, University Press of Colorado, 1995) and numerous journal articles on moral philosophy, bioethics, business ethics, and on the nature of health and disease. He is also a co-author of Facts and Values: An Introduction to Critical Thinking for Nurses, (Sydney, MacLennan and Petty, 1995). His Life, Death, and Subjectivity: Moral Sources for Bioethics, was published by Rodopi (Amsterdam and New York) in 2004. Stan published two further books in 2006: Caring about Health, (Aldershot, Ashgate), and Understanding Virtue Ethics, (Chesham, Acumen Publishers). Acumen Publishers published his Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics in July, 2009. This book was shortlisted for the Australian Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics in 2010. His current research centres on Global Ethics and Political Philosophy, the concept of caring in contemporary moral theory, and the role of hope in politics and religion. His book, Hope was published by Acumen in 2011 and his edited volume, The Handbook of Virtue Ethics, was published by Acumen (now Routledge) in 2014.
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Stanley Simoes
Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast
Stanley Simoes is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher and PhD student at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests currently lie in the field of fair AI, particularly in unsupervised learning.
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Stavroula Chrona
Lecturer in Politics, University of Sussex
Stavroula Chrona is a Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Sussex. Her field of research lies at the intersection of political science and psychology. Analytically, her main research interest focuses on the exploration of the psychological underpinnings of political behavior. Focusing in particular on the cognitive, affective and motivational mechanisms, her work explores the interplay of individual-based factors in the shaping of political judgements and beliefs. Stavroula is particularly interested in the effect of ideological dispositions, value orientations and emotions on citizens' political judgements and decision-making processes. Her current work is focused on the political affectivity of grievance politics and democratic change.
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Stef Vandeginste
Associate Professor, University of Antwerp
I am an associate professor and programme director at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp.
I teach in the Advanced Master Governance and Development on Law and Development and on Conflict, Peace and State Reconstruction. I also teach some introductory units on research methods in all IOB Advanced Master programmes.
My research focuses on politics, peace, power and law with a particular interest in the Central African Great Lakes region in general and Burundi in particular.
I supervise(d) doctoral research on a variety of topics including: rebel movement to political party transitions; the promotion of constitutional governance by the African Union; electoral dispute settlement in DRC and Burundi; the contemporary salience of ethnicity in Burundi; elections, donors and legitimacy; power-sharing in Burundi; Burundi's constitutional court and the rule of law.
Since 2016, I have been the coordinator of the institutional inter-university cooperation programme between the Université du Burundi (in Bujumbura) and the Belgian Flemish University (VLIR-UOS).
For my research on Burundi, please also visit my website 'Law, Power and Peace in Burundi': www.uantwerpen.be/burundi
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Stefan Caddy-Retalic
Ecologist, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide
I am interested in promoting sustainable urban landscapes, including more resilient trees, in Australia. I am also interested in using living and preserved plant collections to enhance biodiversity conservation, improve quality of life and enable new science. My research combines biomolecular techniques (stable isotopes, DNA metabarcoding) with traditional ecological survey methods (vegetation metrics, invertebrate trapping) to integrate species change from a population to biome level. My fieldwork is conducted on a climate gradient from the south coast of South Australia through the Mt Lofty Ranges, Flinders Ranges, Gammon Ranges and Stony Plains to investigate changes within species, communities and biomes to better understand the interrelationships and drivers of this change.
In addition to my scientific work, I have a strong interest in working with government and have worked in environmental policy and programs for the South Australian and Commonwealth governments. I have also managed science projects for the University of Adelaide and Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN). My primary interest is in conducting research to address real world problems and bridging the gap between ecological theory and the current needs of land managers.
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Stefan Hajkowicz
Stefan is a senior principal scientist in strategic foresight in Data61 at CSIRO. He leads a team of researchers and consultants working on scenario planning, megatrends analysis, risk analysis, decision support and strategy problems. His academic qualifications from the University of Queensland and University of New England are in the fields of geography, economics and decision theory. Stefan has published widely in the international scientific literature. His work involves a combination of original research and the provision of consulting and advisory services. Stefan's most recent book "Global Megatrends" is currently available through CSIRO Publishing.
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Stefan Hanß
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Manchester
I am an early modern historian working on material culture, cultural encounters, and global history. In September 2023, I will start as Deputy Director and Scientific Lead of the John Rylands Research Institute.
I explore new interdisciplinary collaborations between the humanities and the sciences, and new methodological trajectories in material culture studies like the use of digital microscopes and scientific analysis, remaking experiments, and historians' collaboration with artisans and artists. I was awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award to organise Microscopic Records, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in recognition of research achievements in early modern material culture studies and global history.
As the research group leader of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, I co-organise Affective Artefacts and run The Manchester Material Culture Lab reading group.
Before joining the University of Manchester in 2018, I held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge and the Research Centre Gotha, University of Erfurt. I received the PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin and studied in Berlin, Venice, and at the Warburg Institute London. I was also an intern and research assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar, and the German Historical Institutes in Rome and London.
My current monograph project focuses on the history of hair in Reformation Germany and the broader Habsburg world. I explore what it meant to live in a 'hair-literate society', and how hair was linked to early modern identities. My History Workshop Journal article examines Habsburg and Ottoman captives' descriptions of forced hair removal in the early modern Mediterranean and their societal, religious, medical, and sexual meanings. Bringing gender history, the history of the body, and art history into a conversation with material culture studies, my Gender & History article argues that the sudden fashionability of beards in Renaissance Europe has been intricately linked with a culture of material and visual experimentation. Focusing on how people made hair matter, I suggest working with the concept of face-work. I also published on haircare and hair dyeing in early modern Germany, and run an interdisciplinary research project to conduct scientific analysis of early modern haircare recipes.
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Stefan Lovgren
Research scientist College of Science, University of Nevada, Reno
I am a writer by training and have worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent around the world for 25 years, often writing about environmental issues. I am a frequent contributor to National Geographic's various media platforms. In recent years, I have been employed by the College of Science, University of Nevada, Reno, as a research scientist and involved with a USAID-financed research project focused on the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia.
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Stefan Maier
Head of School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University
I'm Stefan, in my work life a physicist. Currently my main post is Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University in Melbourne, steering an amazing group of highly dedicated colleagues in world-class training and research in physics and astronomy. I also hold the Lee-Lucas Chair in Experimental Physics at Imperial College London, which I joined many years ago and still consider a place home.
For over twenty years now (can't believe it) I conduct research in fundamental and applied plasmonics and metamaterials, nanophotonics, photonic energy conversion and optoelectronics. That's fun and has enabled me to see the world, but what really drives me is people development. I'm very proud of my alumni — at this point twenty-one of them have obtained faculty positions, all over the world: at École Polytechnique Montréal, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CSIC Madrid, Hong Kong City, Soochow University, IPTH Jena, University of KwaZulu-Natal, CNRS Grenoble, King's College London, University of Oman, University of Birmingham (two!), LMU Munich, Universidad de Santander, Shenzhen University, the University of Lisbon, University College London, the University of Buenos Aires, SUSTech, Northumbria University, and at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Higher education in physics prepares you for highly valued jobs — many of my graduates are now in finance (London salaries calling), some have formed start-ups or are in industrial R&D; others have fallen off my radar. Hope you are all well!
I'm a graduate from Caltech, where I first did a Masters in Applied Phycics and then a PhD in the group of Harry Atwater (thanks Harry!). Then I went to the University of Bath in the UK for my first tenured position, before joining Imperial in 2017. From 2019 till the start of 2022 I was mainly in Munich, establishing a new Chair in Hybrid Nanosystems at LMU. In March 2022 I joined Monash University, taking on the role of Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy, and re-uniting with a set of former colleauges from Imperial College there.
My research has been quite successful, the main indicator being the great places my alumni went to. Additionally I was awarded the Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences (together with my friend Mark Brongersma), the Paterson Medal of the Institute of Physics, and most recently the ACS Nano Lectureship. I am also a fellow of Optica and the Institute of Physics. The Royal Society supported parts of my time in London with a Wolfson Research Merit Award. Since 2017 I am on the ISI Highly Cited Researcher list. I was part of the initial editorial team of ACS Photonics, and am now Editor-in-Chief of Nanophotonics.
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Stefan Rother
Stefan Rother is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany. His research focus is on transnational migration, global governance, social movements, regional integration and non-/post-Western theories of international relations. He was previously a fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and researcher and editorial manager at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for socio-cultural research, Freiburg. Rother has conducted extensive fieldwork in Southeast Asia as well as participant observation at global governance fora and civil society events. He is a board member of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA) and speaker of the working group on migration in the German political science association (AK Migrationspolitik in der DVPW). His latest monograph is “Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine Return Migrants” (Lexington 2016, with Christl Kessler).
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Stefan Sambol
Research Fellow (Psychology), Victoria University
Stefan Sambol is an academic in the field of psychology, with a specialised focus on cognitive psychology. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics including higher order cognition, emotional intelligence, personality traits, and executive function. Stefan has also conducted studies into implicit bias, particularly in relation to sports and deviant behaviors such as fire lighting. Currently, they are investigating the dynamics of conspiracy beliefs and adolescent misuse of fire, contributing valuable insights into these complex areas.
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Stefan Schillberg
Executive Director, Fraunhofer IME
Stefan Schillberg mainly investigates Recombinant DNA, Antibody, Biotechnology, Molecular biology and Biochemistry. The various areas that Stefan Schillberg examines in his Recombinant DNA study include Proteases, Plant cell and Transgene. His Antibody research includes elements of Genetically modified crops, Microbiology and Virology.
His studies deal with areas such as Downstream processing and Suspension culture as well as Biotechnology. His Molecular biology study also includes fields such as
Nicotiana tabacum and related Cell culture,
Protein A most often made with reference to Affinity chromatography. When carried out as part of a general Biochemistry research project, his work on Enzyme, Ornithine decarboxylase, Nucleic acid and Putrescine is frequently linked to work in Glycolate dehydrogenase, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study.
He most often published in these fields:
Recombinant DNA (27.23%)
Antibody (26.29%)
Biotechnology (24.41%)
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Stefan Talke
Professor of Water Resources, California Polytechnic State University
Stefan Talke, Ph.D., is a professor of water resources. His research interests include physics of estuaries and tidal rivers, sediment transport, tides, storm surge and other long waves; sea-level rise and other climate change effects, coastal flood hazard, and coastal environmental changes.
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Stefania Masè
Associate professor of marketing and communication, IPAG Business School
Stefania Masè est anciennement Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et Recherche (ATER) à l'IAE Pau-Bayonne et professeur invité à l'Université de Macerata, Italie. Elle a obtenu un double doctorat en Management & Comptabilité et Commerce International de l'Université de Macerata (Italie) et de l'Université Sorbonne (France).
Ses intérêts de recherche actuels incluent la gestion basée sur l’art (art-based management), le comportement des consommateurs, les produits de luxe et le marketing numérique. Elle a publié dans des revues et des livres internationaux et a participé à plusieurs conférences telles que le Monaco Symposium on Luxury et la European Marketing Association Conference.
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Stefania Masè is a former Temporary Teaching and Research Associate (ATER) at IAE Pau-Bayonne and Visiting Professor at the University of Macerata, Italy. She holds a double doctorate in Management & Accounting and International Business from the University of Macerata (Italy) and Sorbonne University (France).
Her current research interests include art-based management, consumer behaviour, luxury products and digital marketing. She has published in international journals and books and has participated in several conferences such as the Monaco Symposium on Luxury and the European Marketing Association Conference.
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Stefania Paolini
Professor, Department of Psychology, Durham University
I am Professor of Social and Intercultural Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Durham University (UK), where I lead the Quantitative Social Psychology Research Group. I am also honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne and at the Australian National University, and a former Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle (Australia).
My research and teaching specialise on the psychology of diversity and social cohesion; I investigate the determinants and consequences of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination, as well as ways to mitigate these problems. I am the author of over 55 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and I have delivered 120+ conference papers and book contributions. I am best known for my research on intergroup friendship in sectarian Northern Ireland, my theoretical and empirical syntheses on stereotype formation and change, research on negative intergroup contact and contact valence asymmetries. My more recent contributions are on topics of intergroup contact seeking and avoidance and contact volition. My research is highly cited by peers and is discussed in policy briefs by peak organisations like the WorldBank, the United Nations, and UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission. It has earned science and research awards by the (US-led) Academy of Management and the Australian Psychological Society.
My research has been funded by the European Community, the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, the Australian Research Council, the Keats’ Endowment Fund and Daphne Keats Chair Endowment Fund. I have recently secured a large research grant from the Australian Research Council to investigate the ecologies and consequences for individuals, groups and communities of voluntary and involuntary intergroup contact. To this end, I will be leading an interdisciplinary research team of social psychologists and human geographers from three continents on a mixed-method research program.
Recently, I have chief edited a special issue on “Advances in Intergroup Contact research” and convened over a dozen of symposia at major international conferences. I have served as Section Editor and I am now on the editorial board of Social Psychology and Personality Compass and Associate Editor for Frontiers in Psychology. I am currently member of the Australian Research Council’s Medical Research Advisory Group. I was recently awarded the Distinguished Service award by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
I am passionate about Equity and Diversity Issues (EDI) in academia, science, and broader society. I received several service and community awards for my EDI work and I am regularly consulted by the media for my contribution to intergroup dialogue, social cohesion and minorities’ empowerment.
I have an extensive track record in research supervision and mentoring of young academics. I am currently seeking capable research students interested in my areas of research expertise and in joining my research laboratory.
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Stefanie Benjamin
Associate Professor of Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Management; Co-Founder of CODE, University of Tennessee
Dr. Stefanie Benjamin (she/her) is the Co-Founder of CODE and Associate Professor in the Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Management Department at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Her research seeks to challenge existing paradigms and traditional perspectives, offering fresh insights and transformative perspectives to the tourism field. With an extensive publication record, Dr. B has published numerous academic journal articles amplifying counter-narratives and disseminating this research within popular press pieces inclusive of AFAR Travel Magazine, the Conversation, and Conde Nast Traveler. Beyond her academic pursuits, Dr. B actively engages in community outreach and collaboration with industry leaders and organizations striving to bridge the gap between academia and the tourism industry. Driven by a deep-rooted commitment to disrupting dominant ideologies, Dr. B continues to make ‘good trouble’ through her research, teaching, and service. Her critical scholarship serves as a pedagogical framework, shedding light on how oppressive systems must be dismantled in order to reimagine a more inclusive and sustainable academic and touristic world.
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Stefanie Broszeit
Senior Scientist, Marine Ecosystem Services, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
I am a senior marine ecologist specialising in ecosystem services research and have been working in this field for the last 10 years. I use and develop methods that improve our understanding of this fascinating interdisciplinary field. I aim to link my work to Sustainable Development Goals and Aichi Targets to ensure that I do not only create interesting new research but also that this provides real-life application potential to marine managers, policy makers and users of the marine environment.
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Stefanie Colombo
Canada Research Chair in Aquaculture Nutrition, Dalhousie University
Dr. Stefanie Colombo is an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Aquaculture Nutrition. Her research focuses on understanding nutrition in farmed fish, to improve aquaculture sustainability and productivity. She has published over 50 scientific papers and 2 book chapters. She has been an invited keynote speaker at several national and international conferences. Dr. Colombo has served as the President of the Aquaculture Association of Canada and is currently the Science Advisor for the Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia. She has received the Dalhousie’s President’s Research Excellence Award for an Emerging Investigator and the Faculty of Agriculture’s Early Career Research Excellence Award, as well as Innovator of the Year by the Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia.
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Stefanie Keulen
Stefanie Keulen obtained her master's degree (MA) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2013. She opted for the profile of language psychology and language pathologies in her final year and continued to pursue a PhD in the domain of neurolinguistics after obtaining her MA degree summa cum laude.
She defended her PhD entitled "Foreign Accent Syndrome: A Neurolinguistic Analysis" in 2017 at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (double-degree PhD).
In 2017, she obtained a grant from the Research Foundation Flanders (F.W.O.) to continue her post-doctoral research, and as of 2019 she is an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and now teaches Research Methodology, Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics.
In 2022 she was the recipient of the I. Vanderschueren Prize, awarded by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for the best PhD research in the Humanities, defended in the past 6 years.
Her research interests include Foreign Accent Syndrome, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, motor speech disorders in general, Primary Progressive Aphasia, and aphasia in general and she has a particular interest in bilingual populations.
Apart from carrying out her research, she also gives guest lectures (psycho- and neurolinguistics, research methodology in linguistics) and regularly gives talks at other universities in the context of courses, or postgraduate trainings as well as in the context of public outreach activities.
She is currently the chairwoman of the Brussels Centre for Language Studies.
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Stefanie Tremblay
PhD candidate in medical physics, studying MRI biomarkers of declining brain health in aging, Concordia University
Stefanie Tremblay is a PhD candidate in the Department of Physics at Concordia University. Her research focuses on uncovering early biomarkers of declining brain health in individuals at risk of neurological disorders using MRI.
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Stefano Balietti
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northeastern University
Stefano Balietti is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Network Science Institute, and a Fellow at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS). His research interests involve: incentives schemes for peer review systems, consensus formation and social influence -- in particular in epistemic communities, equality and efficiency in public-goods games, efficiency in coordination games, philosophy of science -- in particular Paul Feyerabend's body of work. His methodology aims at bringing together agent-based computer simulations and behavioral experiments. He is also an active developer, and he created a JavaScript platform for conducting real-time online behavioral experiments directly in the browser called nodeGame (http://nodegame.org).
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Stefano Bloch
Associate Professor of Geography, Development & Environment, University of Arizona
As a cultural geographer, I conduct research on everyday forms of policing, crime, and neighborhood change (gentrification, redevelopment, ethnic in-migration, etc.) and am the author of Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture published by University of Chicago Press in 2019.
I am associate professor in the School of Geography, Development & Environment and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory at the University of Arizona. I live in Tucson, Arizona and Los Angeles, California.
My work on gangs, graffiti, policing, and gentrification has appeared in scholarly monographs as well as in peer-reviewed journals including: Critical Criminology, Progress in Human Geography, Environment and Planning (Society and Space), Geographical Review, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Radical History Review, and Cultural Geographies.
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Stefano Horst Baruffaldi
Associate Professor in Economics and Management of Innovation, Polytechnic University of Milan
I am an associate professor at the School of Management of the Polytechnic of Milan. I am also an affiliated research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. In my research, I study how scientific and technological knowledge is produced, diffused and used to create economic value.
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Stefano Jossa
Honorary Research Fellow in Italian Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
Dr Stefano Jossa is Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London and teaches Italian Literature at the Universita` degli Studi di Palermo.
He is the recipient of the BA/Leverhulme SRG for research on the Ridolfi collection at the Archives of Royal Holloway (2019-2021).
His research specialises in the Italian Renaissance and the Italian national identity expressed through literature. He held Visiting Professorships at the Polytechnic (ETH) of Zurich (Switzerland - De Sanctis Chair, 2017), the University of Parma (Italy, 2017) and the University of Roma Tre (Italy, 2018).
Among his main publications: (with L. Curreri), In balia di Dante e Pinocchio: Per una critica della cultura italiana (Rome: Mauvais Livres, 2022); (with J. E. Everson and A. Hiscock), Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture (Oxford: OUP, 2019); La più bella del mondo: Perché amare la lingua italiana (Turin: Einaudi, 2018); (with G. Pieri), Chivalry, Academy and Cultural Dialogues: The Italian Contribution to European Modernity (Cambridge: Legenda, 2016); Un paese senza eroi: L’Italia da Jacopo Ortis a Montalbano (Rome: Laterza, 2013); (with Y. Plumley and G. Di Bacco), Intertextuality, Memory and Citation between Middle Ages and Renaissance (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2011).
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Stefano Pluchino
Professor of Regenerative Neuroimmunology, University of Cambridge
My team studies whether the accumulation of neurological disability observed in patients with progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (PMS) can be slowed down using stem cell therapies. In particular, our aim is to understand the basic mechanisms that allow exogenously delivered neural stem cells (NSCs) to create an environment that preserves damaged axons or prevents neurons from dying. Using stem cells as a model to identify the critical factors that prevent neurodegeneration is an exciting new frontier of regenerative medicine, which is just being tested in humans.
I have been first or senior author in seminal papers that have established the potential of somatic NSC-based experimental therapies for PMS. My early studies identified a critical role around the route of cell injection4 and the mechanisms of NSC accumulation in the chronically inflamed CNS, as well as revealing an unexpected ability of NSC therapies to provide neurotrophic support and inhibit detrimental host immune responses in vivo.
My team has also focused on defining the nature and function of intercellular signalling mediated by extracellular membrane vesicles (EVs) from NSCs. Using a series of computational analyses and high-resolution imaging techniques, we have demonstrated that EVs deliver functional IFN-g/Ifngr1 complexes to target cells.
We have also discovered that EVs harbour L-asparaginase activity catalysed by the enzyme Asparaginase-like protein 1. While the translation of EV therapies into clinical regenerative therapies is still some way from being fully achievable, both these studies on NSC EVs serve as complementary models of how stem cell grafts might signal to the host to mediate repair through a range of complementary actions.
Our most recent work describes a delayed accumulation of the pro-inflammatory tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle intermediate succinate in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of mice with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a model of chronic MS. We have identified a new complementary mechanism by which directly induced NSCs (iNSCs) respond to endogenous inflammatory metabolic signals to inhibit the activation of type-1 mononuclear phagocytes (MPs) in vivo after transplantation. Transplanted iNSCs respond to the succinate released by type-1 inflammatory macrophages and microglia in the CSF, which then signals to iNSCs via succinate receptor 1 (SUCNR1) and initiates the secretion of prostaglandin E2 and the scavenging of extracellular succinate.
Our research has therefore recalibrated the classical view that neural grafts only function through structural cell replacement and opened up a new therapeutic avenue by which to use exogenously delivered NSCs.
By understanding the mechanisms of intercellular (stem cell) signalling, diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) may be treated more effectively, and significant neuroprotection may be achieved with new tailored NSC therapeutics.
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Stella Black
Kairangahau/Māori hauora and social justice researcher, Auckland University of Technology
I graduated with an LLB/BA from the University of Auckland in 2009 and was enrolled as an officer of the court in 2010. In 2013, I completed Criminology Honours. I worked as a researcher with Waitakere DHB, then took a role with the School of Nursing, University of Auckland. In 2018, I became the Research Project Manager for He Ture Kia Tika.
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Stella Villarmea
Professor of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Areas of specialisation: Epistemology and Feminist Philosophy
Field of interest: Philosophy of Birth
Stella Villarmea is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid,
and Associate Faculty Member in Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
She is a main contributor to the emergent field of the Philosophy of Birth. With an expertise in
epistemology and feminism, her works address the relation between knowledge and
emancipation. She has published on capacity and rationality in birth care, obstetric violence,
and the language of birth from an epistemic perspective. In former years, she published
research on conceptual innovation and scepticism, as well as on Wittgenstein, Kant, and
Levinas.
She currently leads a Program of Excellence on the Philosophy of Birth (PHILBIRTH-2), funded
by the Government of Madrid (2021-24). She is a research member in the European Project
‘IPOV-Respectful Care’, an International Platform on Obstetric Violence, funded by the
European Commission MSCA Staff Exchange Programme. As a Marie S. Curie Fellow at the
University of Oxford, she led the research project, ‘Controversies in Childbirth: from
Epistemology to Practices (VOICEs), funded by the European Commission (2018-20). As the
principal investigator of ‘Philosophy of Birth: Rethinking the Origin from Medical Humanities
(PHILBIRTH-1)’, funded by the Ministry of Economy in Spain, she coordinated an
interdisciplinary team around birth care (2016-19).
Stella Villarmea received the Special Distinction of Excellence for her 20 year-teaching career
at her former University, the University of Alcalá. She was Adjunct Professor at University of
Saint Louis, Madrid, and Visiting Professor at the Humboldt and Paderborn (Germany), Lund
(Sweden), Marie Curie (Poland), Kent and Oxford (United Kingdom).
Stella Villarmea serves in the Steering and the Gender Committees of The International
Federation of Philosophical Associations (FISP) and has been Speaker of The International
Association of Women Philosophers (IAPH), the oldest and most diverse global network of
women philosophers. She is a Member of the Institute for Feminist Studies at Complutense
University of Madrid. She is the Lead of the Philosophy of Birth Network in The Collaborating
Centre for Values-based Practice at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. She volunteers in Childbirth
is Ours, the Spanish birth-rights association, and has been recently hired by the European
Commission to co-author the report “Obstetric Violence in Spain”.
Her career, commitment, and knowledge speak for her ability to contribute to the diversity of
philosophical areas, methods, and topics; and to apply the philosophical tools to improve
birth-care and citizenship in the labour room.
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Stella Ifeanyi Smith
Professor of Microbiology, Mountain Top University
Stella Ifeanyi Smith (PhD) is a director of research with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria and professor of microbiology at Mountain Top University.
She holds a PhD in medical microbiology from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos (1997). She had her pre-doctoral fellowship with EU Scholarship at the Withington Hospital, Manchester, UK and post-doctoral fellowships at Bordeaux, France and Dresden and Munich, Germany, with INSERM and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships respectively.
Her special interest is in molecular epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance and microbiome of infectious diseases agents such as Helicobacter pylori, Salmonella spp, Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli, Enterohaemorraghic E. coli 0157:H7 and Vibrio cholerae.
She was a consultant to the Maastricht VI project, Italy, 2021 as well as the Real-World Gastritis Initiative (RE.GA.IN), Italy 2022 as the only African, with 29 countries involved.
She is the founding president of African Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Initiative Limited by Guarantee (AHMSI Ltd/Gte) with board members from 10 countries and 70 ordinary members spanning 17 African countries.
She is the co-chair of the Food-Borne Disease Genomic Surveillance Network, an initiative of African CDC, and the group is finalising the roadmap for disease surveillance in Africa. She is the head of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Research Group in NIMR.
In molecular biology hands-on-training, she has built capacity of over 720 students/participants with supervision/co-supervision of several BSc, MSc and PhD students. She is a reviewer for several international journals and editorial board member/special issue editor in some international journals.
She has been an external assessor for several professorial candidates internationally (South Africa and currently one from Canada).
She is a recipient of the 19th Edition of the Who is Who in the world and a member of the national Technical Working Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) as well as the chairperson of the Institute Biorisk Management Committee and AMR Committee. She is a member of several international organisations.
She has attracted 16 research grants, both local and international and five equipment grants with several book awards.
She is a fellow of the prestigious Nigerian Academy of Science (FAS), fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine Specialties (FAMedS), fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and International Federation of Biosafety Association (IFBA) certified. She has 205 peer-reviewed publications and a Google Scholar citation of 4741 and h-index of 36.
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Steph Gardner
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Science, University of Sydney
I have a PhD in Marine Biology, specifically coral physiology and biochemistry, focusing on how corals protect themselves against environmental stress caused by climate change.
My research spans tropical and temperate reef ecosystems, with a range of organisms such as corals, algae and fish gastrointestinal tracts, with the common theme of marine microbial ecology. My research as a microbial ecologist involves looking at bacteria to understand their role in health and function under a changing climate. My day-to-day activities include experimental design, fieldwork, lab work, data analysis, manuscript writing and science communication work.
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Steph Kershaw
Research Fellow, Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
Steph is a Research Fellow at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use. Steph leads an innovative program of research and translation to reduce the impact of substance use. Her research aims to improve the health outcomes for individuals, families and communities especially among vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. Steph is passionate about addressing the stigma and discrimination associated with alcohol and drug use.
Steph leads a number of innovative digital projects including 1) Cracks in the Ice, a National Online Portal funded by the Australian Government Department of Health to develop and disseminate evidence-based resources about crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’) for the Australian Community; 2) The Illicit Project an interactive, neuroscience-based harm reduction program that aims to upskill Australian young people in alcohol and drug use harm minimisation. She also works closely in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to co-develop and disseminate culturally appropriate resources to prevent and reduce the impact of substance use (e.g. crystal methamphetamine, nicotine) among communities.
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Steph Tai
Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Steph Tai's scholarly research examines the interactions between environmental and health sciences and administrative law. These include the consideration of scientific expertise and environmental justice concerns by administrative and judicial systems, and as well as the role of scientific dialogues in food systems regulation, and the ways in which private governance incorporates scientific research. Professor Tai was an adjunct law professor at Georgetown from 2002-2005 and a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law during the 2005-06 academic year. Teaching interests include administrative law, environmental law, food systems law, environmental justice, risk regulation, contracts (especially private governance and supply chains!), and comparative Asian environmental law.
Raised in the South by two chemists, Professor Tai decided to combine their chemistry background with a legal education to improve the use of science in environmental protection. At Georgetown, Professor Tai was the Editor-in-Chief of theGeorgetown International Environmental Law Review and was a member of the Georgetown Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Team.
After graduating from Georgetown, Professor Tai worked as the editor-in-chief of the International Review for Environmental Strategies, a publication by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. Professor Tai has also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Professor Tai then worked as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, briefing and arguing cases involving a range of issues, from the protection of endangered cave species in Texas to the issuance of dredge and fill permits under the Clean Water Act. From 2013-2014, Professor Tai served as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow as a researcher in the Federal Judicial Center.
Professor Tai actively represents amici in federal circuit court and Supreme Court cases. During the summer before joining the Wisconsin Law School faculty, Professor Tai teamed up with several other law professors to work on two Supreme Court amicus briefs: one for a group of legislators in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., No. 05-0848, and another for a group of scientists in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 05-1120. Professor Tai still continues this work, representing commercial fishers in Entergy Corp. v. Environmental Protection Agency, Nos. 07-588, 07-589, 07-597; organic farmers in Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475; former senior environmental agency officials in Decker v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center, Nos. 11-338, 11-347; and prominent climate scientists in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, D.C. Cir. Nos. 15-1363 et al.
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Stephan Manning
Associate Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston
Stephan Manning is Associate Professor of Management and co-founder of the Organizations and Social Change Research Group at the College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston. His research mainly covers three areas: sustainability standards, global outsourcing, and project-based organizing. He has done field research in various countries, including China, Germany, Guatemala, Kenya, Romania, South Africa and the United States. His research has been published in numerous top-tier academic journals. He teaches international business and strategy at the undergraduate, master and PhD level. He has specific industry expertise in automotive engineering, coffee production, global business services, and film-making. He is also founding co-editor and author of the Organizations and Social Change Blog, and has written for The Conversation, The Broker and other platforms.
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