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Zachary Greene
Reader in Political Science, University of Strathclyde
I joined the faculty in 2015 as a Chancellor's Fellow. Before moving to Scotland, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher on the C2 project as a part of the SFB 884 "Political Economy of Reforms" research centre at the University of Mannheim from Summer 2012 to 2015. I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in 2012.
My research explores the causes and consequences of intra-party politics for elections, government behaviour and public policy. My personal website contains additional information regarding my recent publications, replication datasets and ongoing projects.
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Zachary Handlos
Atmospheric Science Educator, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zachary Handlos, Ph.D., is a senior academic professional within the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech. He teaches meteorology, coordinates educational outreach and facilitates the CEISMC “Into the Storm: Analysis and Forecasting of Hazardous Weather” Georgia Tech Summer camp. His research is in the fields of synoptic meteorology and atmospheric science education. Handlos has a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
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Zachary Robichaud
Assistant Professor, Retail Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
Zachary Robichaud is an Assistant Professor, double alumnus and Ph.D. in Management Student at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. His current research focuses on generational cohort participation in the digital marketplace, smart retail integrations, ethical/sustainable consumption, and accelerated technology adoption/innovation throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. His research has gained recognition at global conferences and has been published in reputable peer-reviewed journals. Prior to joining TMU, Zachary worked for over 15 years in fashion and retail-related industry roles.
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Zachary Witkower
Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
I investigate fundamental questions about the emergence and utility of nonverbal behavior for the communication of emotion, personality, and social rank. I rely on a variety of methods, including structured group interactions, human-robot interactions, experiments, and longitudinal designs, while leveraging different measurement and analytical techniques including automated and manual nonverbal behavioral coding, peer-reports, machine learning, and psychophysiology. To examine the generalizability of my research findings, I explore these questions around the globe and across ages, including in non-western and small-scale traditional societies, and children as young as two.
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Zack Ditch
Lecturer in Media and Doctoral Researcher, Nottingham Trent University
I am a Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer (Media and Communication Studies - across three academic years) at Nottingham Trent University. My current research practice is largely centred around gender and queer-based studies, whilst my academic background has been focused around theatre and performance studies. My doctoral project, titled: 'Locating Regional Cultures of Drag in Medium-Sized English Cities: An Ethnographic Case Study of Nottingham’s Drag Scene', sits between fields of: gender-based, cultural, queer, performance-based, and ethnographic research. It ethnographically explores the socioeconomic dimensions of regional and lesser-metropolitan drag scenes in the UK (physically and virtually), with specific focus on the infiltration of neoliberal ideologies. Observations are made around: socioeconomic dimensions of drag scenes and their geographic positioning, historical shifts relating to queer visibility within queer communities, and the experiential qualities observed by those constructing UK drag scenes.
I have experience in publishing within UK-based journals, and I currently have a chapter in the final stages of peer review for a drag-performance based edited collection to be published by the University of Delaware (USA).
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Zack Kowalske
PhD Researcher, Staffordshire University
Zack Kowalske serves as a Crime Scene Detective with the Roswell Police Department (Georgia, United States), where he has spent the majority of the past 15 years assigned to the Crime Scene Investigations Unit. Mr. Kowalske holds a Masters of Science with a Concentration in Forensic Science, and a Bachelor of Science in Investigative Forensics with a Minor in Terrorism and Critical Infrastructure. He is a PhD Researcher with Staffordshire University, completing his Doctoral dissertation research in Forensic Science focusing on the discipline of bloodstain pattern analysis.
A graduate of the National Forensic Academy (US), he was awarded the Dr. William Bass Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Forensic Investigations. Mr. Kowalske was first certified as a Crime Scene Investigator by the IAI in 2007 and then obtained the IAI certification of Crime Scene Reconstructionist. Concentrating on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Shooting Incident Reconstruction, he has been court-qualified as an expert witness in Crime Scene Investigations, Crime Scene Reconstruction, Crime Scene Analysis, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Shooting Reconstruction, and Physical Fit Examination. Mr. Kowalske is an active member of the IAI, AAFS, and IABPA, serves on the ACSR Board of Directors, and is a sitting member of the Federal OSAC Subcommittee on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis. He has published both Journal and Magazine articles on Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction topics. Outside of his Police Agency Career, Mr. Kowalske conducts private forensic casework for prosecution and defense clients and teaches with his consulting firm, Foxen Forensic Laboratories.
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Zackary Okun Dunivin
Postdoctoral Fellow in Communication, University of California, Davis
Zackary has PhD in Sociology and Complex Systems from Indiana University. They mostly use large scale and crowdsourced data to study culture and culture. Recently they've been using LLMs to do social science and studying them as sociocultural objects.
Research & teaching interests:
culture; social AI; complexity; organizations; networks; text analysis; computational social science
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Zahid Shahab Ahmed
Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
Dr Zahid Shahab Ahmed is a researcher focusing on peace and security in South Asia and the Middle East.
His work examines the impacts of sectarianism and violent extremism on domestic, regional and global peace and security. He is also engaged in research and educational projects on countering violent extremism.
A Pakistani citizen, Dr Ahmed brings a much-needed citizen’s perspective to research on the country. He also brings rich grassroots level experience in the development sector in Asia to his research.
He has worked on numerous research assignments with Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Commonwealth Foundation, United States Institute of Peace, Transparency International, Global Integrity, and International Centre for Nonviolent Conflict during a decade long engagement with the development sector.
Dr Ahmed has published and presented papers on a wide range of issues, such as foreign policy, international organizations, Islam, peace and conflict, regionalism, and regional security. His recent papers have looked at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, and Pakistan’s relations with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Dr Ahmed received his PhD in the area of Political and International Studies from the University of New England (UNE) in Australia. He has an MA in Peace Education from the United Nations mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica), and an MA in Sociology from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (Pakistan).
During 2013-2015, he served as Assistant Professor at the Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad. He has previously taught at University of New England (Australia), Charles Sturt University (Australia), Iqra University (Pakistan) and Allama Iqbal Open University (Pakistan).
In July 2018, he presented a paper at the 25th World Congress of Political Science in Australia.
He has an excellent record of publications. He is the author of Regionalism and Regional Security in South Asia: The Role of SAARC (Routledge, 2013). He has published in prominent academic journals, including Democratization, Third World Quarterly, Asian Studies Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Global Policy, and Middle East Policy. He is regularly invited to write opinion pieces and do media commentary.
In recognition of his research, Dr. Ahmed has received several prestigious research awards/grants, such as Mahbub ul Haq Research Award (Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka); Conflict Transformation Award (WISCOMP, India).
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Zahir Irani
Professor of Sustainable Operations Management and Founding Dean of College, Brunel University London
Zahir is Professor of Operations and Information Management in the Brunel Business School, which he joined in August 2006 as the Head of School. Prior to this, he was the Head of the Department of Information Systems and Computing (now, Department of Computer Science). He completed a BEng (Hons) at Salford University before then accepting a research position where he completed a MPhil. His has a PhD from Brunel University in the area of investment evaluation before undertaking his leadership development at the Harvard Business School.
During 2014, Professor Irani enjoyed a full time secondment to the Cabinet Office, where he was a Senior Policy advisor. He currently maintains strong links across several Government departments and often advises on matter.
Zahir’s research interests are multidisciplinary in nature, and developed from early work on the area of evaluating investments in Manufacturing Information Systems through to more recent works in Transformational Government. He has received significant levels of funding from across the world as Principal Investigator, including from the UK Research Councils (EPSRC, ESRC), European Commission, Qatar Foundation, Australian Research Council and QinetiQ. He also publishes in leading scholarly journals. Zahir manages to find time to write press and thought leadership pieces on higher education and graduate employability that have appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times (FT), Thomson Reuters, University Business, Research Foresight and Times Higher Education (THE).
Under his leadership, Brunel Business School received the 2013/14 Times Higher Award – Business School of the Year.
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Zahra Stardust
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
Zahra Stardust is a porn studies scholar interested in the regulation of sexual cultures. Her work specialises in sexual media and sextech, focusing on the politics of sexual content moderation (including the production, distribution and regulation of explicit media), and the development of community-led, social justice sextech. Her first book Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation and Resistance (Duke University Press, 2024) explores the clash between indie porn producers, governments and big tech. Her next co-authored book, Sextech: A Critical Introduction (Polity Press, 2025), explores key debates in sextech design, manufacture and governance. Zahra is a Lecturer in Digital Communication at the Queensland University of Technology, an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an Associate Researcher at the Sex Tech Lab at the New School.
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Zahra F. Islam
Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne
Postdoctoral research fellow in plant-soil microbiomes in agriculture.
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Zahraa Kapasi
Researcher at SCRAP Weapons, SOAS, University of London
Zahraa Kapasi is a consultant for SCRAP Weapons, a project housed at SOAS University of London, which advocates for General and Complete Disarmament, and is also a researcher on the United Nations War Crimes Commission. At SCRAP Weapons she focuses on youth engagement and strategic outreach, with a particular interest in cultural diplomacy, interfaith dialogue on disarmament and archival research. She is an alumnus of SOAS University of London with a Masters in International Studies and Diplomacy.
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Zain Mohyuddin
Research associate UK in a Changing Europe, King's College London
Zain Mohyuddin is a Research Associate at UK in a Changing Europe. He has PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on electoral behavior in advanced democracies.
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Zainab Tahir
Marine Heritage Analyst and PhD Candidate, Flinders University
I graduated from Hasanuddin University in South Sulawesi, majoring in Archaeology and
School of Earth and Environmental Science, James Cook University, Australia, focusing
on Marine Protected Area Management. I am working as a Marine Heritage Analyst for the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Republic of Indonesia. My major responsibilities are conducting assessments for underwater site management, overseeing collections, and supervising the management activities of the Marine Heritage Gallery in Jakarta and underwater artifacts storage in Cileungsi, West Java.
Currently, I am a Ph.D. candidate at Flinders University with a research focus on Underwater Cultural Research Management for shipwrecks and their associated cargoes.
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Zainab Younes
PhD Candidate in the Division of Social Sciences, London South Bank University
Zainab Younes is a PhD candidate at the Division of Social Sciences at LSBU, specialising in International Relations, with a regional focus on the Middle East. Her research explores foreign intervention and soft power in Lebanon. Before begining her PhD, she was a Beriut,-based researcher and commentator on political affairs relevant to the region. She has a Politics and History degree from SOAS, and her wider research interests include the politics and history of the Levant, great power politics, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Zane Davids
Lecturer and Researcher in Information Systems, University of Cape Town
Zane Davids is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Completed his PhD in Information Systems in 2017 at UCT. His research focus is on the use of Information Systems in education specifically in underdeveloped communities. The aim is to identify pertinent technological challenges faced in education when integrating technology into the curriculum. To also offer solutions that can address these challenges and promote quality education for all students. Ultimately, to drive social change and national development.
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Zanele Nyoni- Wood
Lecturer, Law School, Lancaster University
Zanele is a Solicitor and Lecturer of Clinical Legal Education. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As a Solicitor, Zanele specialises in family law. Prior to joining academia, Zanele worked for a firm of solicitors based in West Yorkshire where she primarily undertook family law work.
Zanele is also a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool. The title of her thesis is 'Same-sex Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Barriers to the Realisation of Marriage Equality'.
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Zanna Chase
Professor, University of Tasmania
Zanna Chase's research focuses on the interaction between chemical cycles and biological activity in the oceans, and how these are affected by climate. Understanding of these interactions, both in the modern ocean and the paleo-ocean, is necessary to predict the oceans' response and contribution to future climate change. She is particularly interested in the role of iron as a key micro-nutrient to support biological productivity. Prof Chase uses a variety of geochemical proxies in sediment cores, including long-lived, naturally occurring radioisotopes to reconstruct productivity and dust flux, and redox-sensitive metals to reconstruct ocean oxygenation.
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Zara Molphy
Head of Research Programmes, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Zara Molphy is Research Program Manager in RCSI Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology based at Dublin’s largest maternity hospital, The Rotunda. In this role, she manages a number of regulated clinical trials in obstetrics, gynaecology and neonatology. In addition to this, she oversees and delivers a wide range of education, public patient engagement and outreach initiatives funded by Science Foundation Ireland, Health Research Board and The Rotunda Foundation.
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Zara Saunders
PhD Candidate, Australian Catholic University
Zara Saunders is a PhD Candidate working in the Gender and Women’s History Research Centre in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. She has a keen interest in cultural, media and women's history.
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Zarin Machanda
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology, Tufts University
Zarin Machanda's research revolves around understanding the factors that shape the quality and development of social relationships among wild chimpanzees. Her work so far has focused mostly on the evolution of male-female relationships, male-male cooperation (especially cooperative hunting), and how chimpanzees use communication to mediate social relationships. Most recently, she has started a long-term project to study infant and juvenile chimpanzees and how they develop sex-typed adult behaviors. Zarin is the Director of Long-term Research at the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, an organization that for the last 30 years has conserved and protected the Kanyawara community of chimpanzees living in Kibale National Park, Uganda. She is also on the Board of the Kasiisi Project, a community development organization in Uganda that works with over 9000 school children living around Kibale National Park. Zarin holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biology.
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Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research broadly focuses on race, wealth, culture, and urban studies. She leverages her skills in mapping, statistics, policy analysis, qualitative data analysis, and social theory to study how culture contributes to the racial wealth gap, racial exclusion in higher education, and the relationship between racial composition and gentrification.
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Zdenka Kuncic
Professor of Physics, University of Sydney
Professor Kuncic was awarded a BSc with first class honours in physics from the University of Sydney and a PhD in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, UK. She now leads a distinctively interdisciplinary research program at the interface between physics, medicine, biology, neuroscience and engineering. Her research focuses on developing and applying physics and physics-based approaches to challenging problems that can only be addressed with highly multi-disciplinary perspectives and strategies.
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Zdenka Myslikova
Postdoctoral Scholar in Clean Energy Innovation, Tufts University
Zdenka Myslikova is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Fletcher School interested in clean energy technology innovation and climate policy. In her doctoral research, she assesses energy technology innovation ecosystems in selected countries in Latin America.
She is excited about what we can achieve in clean energy innovation and decarbonization of our energy systems when we join forces across nations. Her areas of focus include global clean energy technology innovation, energy innovation metrics, joint efforts of Mission Innovation countries, and greening the Belt and Road Initiative.
Zdenka holds a master’s degree in economics from the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico, and before starting her doctorate, she served at Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Zeineb Bouhlel
Research Associate, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University
Zeineb has a diverse background in research and in communication, mostly related to environmental sciences and in science-policy contexts. She graduated from the University of Carthage as an agriculture engineer, with a concentration in water resources and the environment. She holds a MSc and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Quebec at Rimouski with a concentration in aquatic chemistry, where she worked with different research teams in Canada, Spain, France, Brazil, Turkey, and the United States. Zeineb was also a research assistant at the University of Quebec in Montreal and her research was mainly focused on aquatic bacteria and water biochemistry.
Apart from academia, Zeineb has worked with a North American think-tank on Water, the Great Lakes Commission. Her role as a Government of Quebec Intern (Ministry of International Affairs), was to participate in communication and in sustainable development projects as well as in building intergovernmental relationships between the member states and provinces.
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Zelinna Pablo
Senior Research Fellow, Torrens University Australia
Dr. Zelinna Pablo is a full-time senior researcher who analyses the complex interactions between people, organisations and technology using qualitative techniques. Zelinna's use of social theories in multi-disciplinary fields including construction and information technology allows her to explore human and social dimensions that tend to be obscured in technical and material phenomena. By interrogating a discipline's mainstream research perspectives, she has successfully published in diverse fields like organisation studies, construction management, political science, governance and information technology. Zelinna completed postgraduate studies at the University of Amsterdam with distinction, under a full scholarship from the European Union. She then pursued her PhD in Economics and Commerce with a concentration on organization and management theory at The University of Melbourne, under an Australian Postgraduate Award.
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Zelinna Pablo1
Senior Research Fellow, Torrens University Australia
Dr. Zelinna Pablo is a full-time senior researcher who analyses the complex interactions between people, organisations and technology using qualitative techniques. Zelinna's use of social theories in multi-disciplinary fields including construction and information technology allows her to explore human and social dimensions that tend to be obscured in technical and material phenomena. By interrogating a discipline's mainstream research perspectives, she has successfully published in diverse fields like organisation studies, construction management, political science, governance and information technology. Zelinna completed postgraduate studies at the University of Amsterdam with distinction, under a full scholarship from the European Union. She then pursued her PhD in Economics and Commerce with a concentration on organization and management theory at The University of Melbourne, under an Australian Postgraduate Award.
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Zelna Booth
Pharmacist and Academic Lecturer (Pharmacy Practice Division, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of the Witwatersrand), University of the Witwatersrand
I qualified with a Bachelor of Pharmacy (with distinction) in 2011, undertaking immediate postgraduate studies and graduating with a Master of Pharmacy (with distinction) degree in 2014 at the University of the Witwatersrand. After practicing as a qualified pharmacist, I returned to academia as a full-time lecturer on the undergraduate Bachelor of Pharmacy degree, in the Division of Pharmacy Practice. I am currently undertaking a PhD in the field of natural products, with focus on traditional medicinal plants used in the treatment of infectious diseases in South Africa and the implications of combination use of these traditional remedies with conventional antimicrobials.
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Zena Assaad
Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Australian National University
Dr Zena Assaad is a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University and is also a Trusted Autonomous Systems fellow and an Australian Army Research Centre fellow. Her research explores the safety of human-machine teaming and the assurance and certification of autonomous systems and AI. Dr Assaad is the founder and chair of the Australian national community of practice for UAS and AAM research. She received the 2023 Asia Pacific Women in AI Award for Defence and Intelligence, the 2023 Women to Watch in Emerging Aviation Technologies Global Award from Women and Drones and was named one of the '"100 Brilliant women in AI Ethics" for 2023 as a result of her work around safety and assurance of AI. She was also Top 5 Science Resident with the ABC in 2023 and is the co-host of the Algorithmic Futures podcast.
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Zerina Kapetanovic
Acting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
I an an Acting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research. I received my PhD at the University of Washington in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2022. I was advised by Professor Joshua Smith and a member of the Sensor Systems Lab. My research is focused around wireless technology such as battery-free sensing, low-cost low-power communication and IoT systems. I am very passionate about using technology to help solve the many environmental issues we face as a world today. My first step towards this was in 2015 when I joined Microsoft’s FarmBeats team to work on developing an end-to-end IoT system to enable data-driven agriculture solutions, which is used by farmers worldwide and an ongoing effort.
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Zhe Li
Postdoctoral Researcher in Earth System Science, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Zhe Li is a Postdoctoral Researcher at UCAR Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), working on atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions and climate dynamics using observations, reanalyses, fully-coupled climate models, and machine learning techniques.
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Zhebin Yu
Postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
My research focused on the importance of the urban environment, particularly air pollution on respiratory health in children and young people.I'm also interested in investigating the joint effect of the urban environment using exposome-wide approaches.
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Zhen Han
Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Sacred Heart University
Zhen Han is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science and Global Affairs Department of the Sacred Heart University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where research for this paper was conducted. He has also served as a Lecturer in the Political Science Department at the University of British Columbia and Research Fellow in the Canadian Centre of International Peace and Security Studies. His research focuses on rising powers, China and economic interdependence, and he has published on these topics in journals including Asian Security, Chinese Journal of International Politics and World Economy and Politics.
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Zhengxing Li
Ph.D. Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Zhengxing Li, a Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering advised by Dr. Joseph Wang, has demonstrated remarkable leadership in developing a biohybrid microrobots platform for in vivo biomedical applications. His work currently focuses on regulating colonic cytokine levels and epithelial barriers in inflammatory bowel disease, and actively delivering drug-loaded nanoparticles to inhibit lung metastasis progression. These contributions have significantly advanced the field’s understanding. Li’s collaborative efforts have been crucial to his success, resulting in 13 published articles and six manuscripts under review in prestigious journals like Nature Materials. Additionally, Li, as a member of the Elsevier review board, has completed five independent reviews, and actively participates in key international conferences like MRS, ACS, and Pittcon to share his insights and gather new knowledge. A dedicated mentor, Zhengxing is committed to guiding junior students towards their own research success, demonstrating his leadership and dedication to scientific advancement.
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Zhenpeng (Frank) Zou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of the Environment at the University of Queensland. My research interest and expertise lie in an intersection of quantitative analysis, spatial analysis, data science, and social sciences. Trained as an urban planner and social scientist, I examine a range of research topics in housing and transport that are deeply linked with economic growth, environmental sustainability, and social justice. My current work focuses on the broader economic, environmental, and social impacts of the sharing economy and other emerging urban technologies.
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