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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Senior Research Specialist, Human Sciences Research Council
I am a Senior Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), focusing on substance use and violence among adolescents, women, and marginalized groups. My research aims to identify effective interventions and support mechanisms for these populations. I served as a Co-Investigator and Project Director for a national survey on gender-based violence, which examines women's experience of violence and men's perpetration of violence.
As Principal Investigator, I also lead a study on the availability of treatment services for adolescents in high schools, exploring the roles of educators and parents in promoting help-seeking behaviors. This research seeks to strengthen support networks for youth struggling with substance use.
Other roles include that of a PI for the Integrated Bio-behavioral Surveillance Survey 3 (IBBSS3) in Lesotho, a project focusing on the health needs of vulnerable populations. I’ve previously contributed to IBBSS efforts in South Africa and Lesotho, gathering critical data for tailored health services.
I also mentor HSRC interns and serve as an external examiner for the University of the Western Cape’s School of Public Health and the South African Research Ethics Training Initiative at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Associate Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee
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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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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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Postdoctoral research associate, UNSW Sydney
I am a physical oceanographer based at the Centre for Marine Science & Innovation (CMSI), UNSW Sydney. I completed my PhD from UNSW Sydney in 2022 (August 2018 - August 2022). Following this, I started working as a postdoctoral researcher at CCRC and CMSI, UNSW Sydney, as part of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) program.
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Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia
Zhihao Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing area at the Darden School of Business, where he teaches the marketing core course for the full-time MBA program. Drawing from academic training and research experience from both consumer behavior and cognitive neuroscience, he pursues a diverse and interdisciplinary research agenda revolving around consumer decision-making. In particular, he focuses on understanding the cognitive, computational, and neuroscientific mechanisms by which memory and knowledge (e.g., of brands, products, services, or social interactions) shape decisions. He also has a keen interest in using neuroscience to inform real world problems at the intersection of marketing and law, for example trademark and copyright infringement.
His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications, and Current Biology. Some of his past research has been covered by major media outlets such as BBC News, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, The Times of India, and China National Radio, as well as by practitioner-oriented outlets such as Ipsos Views and World Trademark Review. His research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging.
Before joining Darden, Zhihao was a postdoctoral scholar at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He received his undergraduate degree from Tsinghua University (with honors) and his Ph.D. from Yale University’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. He is also an assistant professor by courtesy at the Department of Psychology at UVA.
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Research Fellow, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University
Dr. Zhiwei Xu is a mid-career researcher and co-leads the Ethos project (https://www.griffith.edu.au/research/climate-action/climate-transitions/health/ethos-project). His primary research interest is to identify and quantify the health impacts of heat and develop accessible and sustainable adaptation strategies.
Dr Xu is among the top 2% most-cited scientists worldwide in Environmental Sciences (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6). As of September 2024, he has a Google Scholar H-index of 46 and has been cited over 7,000 times, including citations in the latest United Nations (UN) IPCC report (ISBN 9781009325844) and over 100 policy documents from the UN, WHO, World Bank, European Union, governments of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Nepal, and USA, and think tanks.
The citations in the IPCC report and policy documents have led to his research being used to inform policies. For instance, the EKLIPSE report (ISBN 978-1-906698-62-1) has informed the planning of nature-based solutions for building climate-resilient cities in Europe; the AIHW report (ISBN 978-1-922802-07-1) is informing the development of environmental ecosystem accounts for protecting the health of Australians.
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Professor of Marketing, Miami University
Dr. Zhiyong Yang is a Professor of Marketing at the Farmer School of Business, Miami University. Before entering academia, Zhiyong spent over 10 years in industry, holding a number of industry positions, including project manager, marketing manager, and vice-president with major corporations.
Zhiyong’s research interests are mainly in family decision making and cultural psychology, with a focus on two areas: (1) how parenting strategies exert long-lasting effects on children’s consumption patterns, and (2) how situationally activated cultural identity (e.g., self-construal, sense of power, local-global identity) affects consumer decision making. Zhiyong’s work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Having published over 50 articles in leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Zhiyong serves on the guest editorship and the editorial review boards of several reputed journals, including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. Zhiyong's research has been funded by Statistics Canada, Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture of Canada, and the Association for Consumer Research. He also received competitive research awards from Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, the University of Texas-Arlington, and Cardiff University.
Zhiyong serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Research, a guest editor for Industrial Marketing Management, and is on the Editorial Review Boards of several other journals, including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. Zhiyong’s research has been funded by Statistics Canada, Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture of Canada, and the Association for Consumer Research. He also received competitive research awards from Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and Cardiff University in UK.
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Senior Lecturer, Business School, University of Newcastle
Zhongtian Li completed his Master of Business (Research) in 2016 and PhD in 2020 at Queensland University of Technology. His research interests range from climate change to corporate social responsibility. His papers have been published in well-respected journals like Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal and Accounting Research Journal. Prior to returning to Australia in 2015, he briefly worked in overseas.
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PhD researcher, Coventry University
Zhongwei's PhD project aims at building a seamless, globally-applicable framework for assessing past, present and future fire weather extremes. Focus will be given to a series of important, often overlooked, conceptual and technical challenges in event attribution, including validation and bias-correction of climate models. Further case studies will demonstrate the value of linking attribution of recent wildfire events with future risk assessment.
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Research Fellow, Monash University
Zihong Deng is a research fellow with Monash CYPEP and has completed her PhD on children's agency and wellbeing at the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre.
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PhD candidate , Leiden University
I am a PhD student in archaeology and I am interested in understanding the dietary evolution of human population from Later Stone Age to the Neolithic in Northwest Africa. My research focuses on the application of both traditional and novel isotopic techniques to investigate past diets, with a particular emphasis on the use of zinc stable isotopes in teeth enamel. This approach aims to answer key questions about dietary transitions during pivotal periods of human evolution, such as the shift from hunting and gathering to food production in Morocco.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell University
I am clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at both Cornell and Columbia Universities. I graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with my MD degree, and then completed psychiatry residency at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. I then completed two fellowships in forensic psychiatry at Columbia University. I currently teach at both institutions, treat patients, and conduct research. I also serve as a forensic psychiatrist and teach this discipline to medical students and psychiatry residents and fellows.
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Director Clinical Epidemiology Center, VA St. Louis Health Care System, Washington University in St Louis
Dr. Al-Aly a physician-scientist; he directs the Clinical Epidemiology Center and serves as the Chief of Research and Development Service at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System. He is a senior clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in Saint Louis. He has several research interests including pharmacoepidemiology, environmental epidemiology, global health, and most recently short- and long-term effects of COVID-19 on health outcomes.
He led work which provided systematic characterization of the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (also called Long Covid) and subsequently characterization of the increased risks of cardiovascular disease, neurologic disorders, diabetes, dyslipidemia, kidney disease, and gastrointestinal disorders following SARS-CoV-2 infection. His laboratory was the first to produce evidence characterizing the effects of vaccines on Long Covid, the health consequences of repeated infections with SARS-CoV-2, and the effect of antivirals on the short- and long-term outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Dr. Al-Aly co-chaired the U.S. Biden-Harris Administration committee that developed the National Research Action Plan for Long Covid. He serves on the US Government Interagency Long Covid Coordination Council. He advised the Chief Science Advisor of Canada (Mona Nemer – Government of Justin Trudeau) on Long Covid strategy. He currently serves on a consensus committee at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine looking at the long-term health effects stemming from COVID-19 and their implications for the U.S. Social Security Administration. He is also a member of the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force for data and innovation.
Dr. Al-Aly's work is published in prestigious medical journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet and several others. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited more than 100,000 times. His work is frequently featured in major national and international media outlets including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times, NPR, BBC, CNN, the Guardian, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, the Atlantic, Rolling Stones, Scientific American, Science Magazine, Nature Magazine, and several others. Several of his studies on Long COVID have generated exceptionally high public and media engagement, ranking in the top 10 of more than 23 million research papers ever tracked by Altmetric, a firm that monitors public engagement in academic research.
Dr. Al-Aly serves on multiple national and international committees and boards, and on multiple editorial boards and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology – the flagship journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Profile: https://outlook.wustl.edu/real-world-reflections/
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Lecturer in Advertising and Marketing Communications, University of Greenwich
Dr Zizheng Yu is a lecturer in Advertising and Marketing Communications. Zizheng joined the University of Greenwich in September 2022. Before the appointment at Greenwich, he worked as an associate lecturer in JOMEC, Cardiff University and a MA dissertation supervisor at King's College London. He taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate subjects in the fields of advertising, media and communication and digital humanities.
Before entering academia, Zizheng worked for the Country Garden Real Estate in China as a Senior Brand Manager; as a Journalist in Chinese Southern Daily in Foshan, and UK Chinese Journal in London; as a Research Associate in China Current Network. Zizheng is the vice-president of UK-China Media and Cultural Studies Association (UCMeCSA), and also a member of IAMCR, ICA, ECREA and MeCCSA. His previous works can be found mainly in Chinese Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Media International Australia, and JOMEC Journal.
One of his latest research projects “The emergence of algorithmic solidarity: unveiling mutual aid practices and resistance among Chinese delivery workers” has sparked heated debate both inside and outside the academic circle, and it was reported by WIRED recently: “China’s Gig Workers Are Challenging Their Algorithmic Bosses”.
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Instructor in psychiatry, clinical psychologist and director of training at Lifeline for Kids, UMass Chan Medical School
Zlatina Kostova, PhD, is an instructor in psychiatry, a clinical psychologist and director of training at Lifeline for Kids, a trauma training center at UMass Chan for children and families. With a strikingly multidisciplinary and multicultural education, she had specialized in childhood trauma and evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents. Dr. Kostova is an international trainer in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), an Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) qualified teacher and she is also a certified trainer for teaching trauma-informed curricula developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN).
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