Professor, Massey University
My research interests include epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, birth defects epidemiology, public health, health surveillance.
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Professor of Human Computer Interaction, Stockholm University
Professor Barry Brown is a research Professor at Stockholm University and a Professor at the University of Copenhagen, within the HCC group. At Stockholm he helps to run the STIR group – Stockholm technology and interaction research group. His two most recent books have been published by Sage and MIT Press, focusing on how to research the use of digital technology, and the study and design of leisure technologies. His research has been covered in the international press including the Guardian, Time, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Voice of America and Fortune Magazine.
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Director of The Graduate School of Sport and Professional Practice, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Power Systems Engineering, University College Cork
Dr. Barry Hayes is a Senior Lecturer in Power Systems Engineering at UCC. Prior to joining UCC in 2018, he was a Lecturer at the University of Galway (2016-2018), and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at IMDEA Energy in Madrid (2013-2016). He holds a PhD in Electrical Power Systems Engineering from the University of Edinburgh (2013), and has held visiting researcher positions at National Grid UK (2011) and at the University of Tennessee (2016).
Barry leads a research team at UCC focused on the grid integration of sustainable energy technologies, and the operation and planning of future power systems.
Barry is a Funded Investigator in the SFI MaREI Centre and has active research collaborations with the Irish energy industry and with international academic partners. He has given invited talks and keynotes in USA, UK, Spain, France, Croatia, Ethiopia, Japan, and China, and contributes regularly to public science and technology communication through Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ.
Barry is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and is involved in the development of new IEEE standards on smart grid interoperability. Barry also works with energy communities around Ireland, providing technical advice on the development of community-owned renewable energy projects.
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Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway University of London
I hold degrees from Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Columbia University. My research interests include critical theory; representations of the Holocaust in film and television; theories of mass culture; urban studies; postmodernism; post-classical Hollywood; film genre, especially the Western, science fiction film, war films.
My major publications are Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and Post-Classical Hollywood: Film Industry, Style and Ideology since 1945 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). The essay collection Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film (co-edited with Robert Eaglestone) was published in December 2007.
Recent and forthcoming shorter include essays on Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and the Holocaust; "revisionist" Westerns; suburban sexualities; narrative reversal as redemption in Holocaust film; Chris Marker’s politics; urban apocalypse and the theory of Michel de Certeau; time and narrative in The Lord of the Rings; national identity in George Lucas’ American Graffiti; the political unconscious of TV sitcoms; contemporary Holocaust film; and the theorisation of screenwriting.
I am currently preparing Darkness Visible, a study of Holocaust film.
I am also a practicing professional screenwriter. My original short screenplay Torte Bluma was filmed in New York in summer 2004, with a cast: including Stellan Skarsgaard and Simon McBurney, and premiered at the 2005 Edinburgh Film Festival. Torte Bluma was judged Best Drama at the 2005 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and Best Film at the 2005 Palm Springs International Shorts Festival. Torte Bluma can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKaEEie66ZI. I am the co-creator and co-author of the 6-part ITV drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles (airing Autumn 2015).
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Professor of Youth Development Leadership, Clemson University
Dr. Barry A. Garst is a Professor of Youth Development Leadership and the Coordinator of Youth Development Programs in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University. Dr. Garst currently teaches graduate courses on program assessment and evaluation, creative and ethical leadership, employee and volunteer management, and nature as a developmental context for children and adolescents.
A nationally recognized summer camp scholar, Dr. Garst's applied research focuses on critical and emerging issues facing the out-of-school time community of youth, staff, parents, alumni, and program providers. Recent research has explored overparenting, parent anxiety associated with camp experiences, programs serving military-connected youth and families, summertime food insecurity, and camp health care practices to reduce the spread of communicable diseases including COVID-19.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine engaged Dr. Garst as an expert on youth out-of-school time experiences. From 2018 to 2019, he served on a consensus study committee to synthesize the state of the research evidence associated with the summertime experiences of children and adolescents in the areas of education, health, and safety outcomes.
Prior to joining Clemson University’s faculty, Dr. Garst was the Director of Program Development and Research with the American Camp Association from 2008 to 2014, providing leadership to research, education, and business development initiatives. From 2001 to 2008, he was an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist with Virginia Tech responsible for camp research and evaluation, curriculum development, and faculty and staff training and development.
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Professor of Political Science, Director of the Elections Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Barry C. Burden is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Director of the Elections Research Center and is the Lyons Family Chair in Electoral Politics.
His research and teaching are based in American politics, with an emphasis on electoral politics and representation. He is co-editor of The Measure of American Elections, author of Personal Roots of Representation, and co-author of Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government. Burden has also published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, and Electoral Studies.
Burden is affiliated with the La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, and the Election Administration Project.
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Associate professor of Wildlife Conservation & Zoonotic Epidemiology, University College Dublin
Barry McMahon was appointed a Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation & Zoonotic Epidemiology in the UCD School of Agriculture & Food in 2011. Previously, he had been a post-doctoral researcher examining the interaction between agriculture and biodiversity. His current research focuses on diseases, including antimicrobial resistance, that are reservoired in or disseminated by wild birds and mammals. In addition, Dr McMahon continues to explore the interactions between agriculture and biodiversity. In addition, Dr McMahon is interested in understanding the population biology of Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus hibernicus) in Ireland and this research contributed to the Red Grouse Species Action Plan 2013. Overall, the theme of Dr McMahon's research relates to the One Health initiative.
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Lecturer (Indigenous Knowledges) , Charles Darwin University
Bartholomew Stanford is a Torres Strait Islander and Lecturer (Indigenous Knowledges) at Charles Darwin University. He obtained a PhD in Political Science from Griffith University in 2022. His research is focused on Indigenous politics and representation, native title, and political parties. Bartholomew is currently studying agreement-making between Indigenous groups and State and Territory Governments in Australia.
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Profesor de Finanzas y Turismo, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Bartolome Deya Tortella is PhD in Economics by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). He has published several research papers in international journals like Water Resources Research, Water, Journal of Environmental Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Water, Advances in Accounting, Management Research, The European Accounting Review, between others. He has participated and participates consecutively since 2001 in a total of 10 research projects at both national and international level. Has made contributions in several national and international conferences. Has made several research visits at prestigious investigation centers like Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Arizona State University – (USA). In July 2004 he received First Prize for Financial Studies in Human Resources Area (Centro de Estudios Financieros). He is reviewer of several international reviews like Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Economics, European Accounting Review, among others.
Nowadays he is a full professor in the Department of Business Economics in the area of Financial Economics and Accounting in the University of Balearic Islands, from October 1997. He is also coordinator of several international conferences (International Conference Tourism China-Spain, International Conference of Digital Tourism, etc). He has been also the coordinator of the Melia Hotels International Chair. He has held various management positions of responsibility since March 2004 like vice dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business and Dean of the Faculty of Tourism. Actually is the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Tourism.
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Chercheuse postdoctorale, Institut du Cerveau (ICM)
Née en Turquie, j'ai déménagé en France pour poursuivre mes études supérieures. J'ai obtenu une double licence en sciences cognitives et en psychologie à l'Université de Lyon 2. Par la suite, j'ai été admise à l'École Normale Supérieure de Paris, où j'ai complété un master de recherche en sciences cognitives. J'ai poursuivi ma carrière académique en effectuant ma thèse à l'Institut du Cerveau, me spécialisant dans les domaines de la conscience et du sommeil. À l'heure actuelle, je travaille en tant que chercheuse postdoctorale à l'Institut du Cerveau, continuant ainsi mes recherches dans le domaine de la neuroscience cognitive.
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Associate professor, King's College London
Associate professor of Strategy at King's Business School and an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Research interests: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Digital Innovation.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University
Bashar Hassan, M.D., a postdoctoral research fellow in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health (CTH) and the University of Maryland Medical Center's R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
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PhD Candidate, Department of English Language and Literatures, Queen's University, Ontario
Basmah Rahman is a Ph.D. Candidate at Queen’s University in the Department of English Language and Literatures. She completed her MA in English at McMaster University, and did her BAH and B. ED at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on Canadian Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) literature and intersections of identity representation within public education systems. Basmah is interested in anti-racist and anti-oppressive teaching pedagogies that centre community engagement.
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University
Bassam Khoury is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology at McGill University, and he heads the McGill Mindfulness Research Lab (https://mcgill.ca/mmrl/), where he and his team conduct research on advancing the theory, research, and applications of mindfulness and compassion. The global aim of the research is to make a deep lasting change on both individuals and societies by embracing new ways of interacting with oneself, other people, and the natural environment including animals through the practices of mindfulness and compassion. Prof. Khoury published numerous papers on mindfulness and compassion in leading journals in the domains of clinical psychology and physical/medical health. His work (59-papers, 5 book-chapters) has gained international recognition, was cited over than 5700 times and was selected by the University of Cambridge's Insights for Impact Report; a report published by the department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge citing the most impactful research papers in psychology worldwide. Furthermore, his work was ranked 67th worldwide on Web of Science in the category of clinical psychology. Dr. Khoury have also been recognized through multiple awards and nominations, including the Association of Psychological Science Emerging Scholars Rising Stars Award, and William Dawson Scholars Award.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University
Bassel Abdelkader, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at McMaster University. His passion lies in developing innovative solutions to address pressing environmental challenges. He specializes in exploring sustainable technologies for water purification, energy generation, and carbon capture. His expertise spans various methodologies and techniques aimed at enhancing environmental sustainability and mitigating the impacts of climate change. Currently, Bassel is working on a groundbreaking project focused on ocean carbon capture through the utilization of bipolar membrane electrodialysis. This pioneering research aims to harness renewable energy sources to facilitate the removal of carbon dioxide from ocean waters, thereby combating ocean acidification and its detrimental effects on marine ecosystems. Bassel currently holds one US Patent and has published over 10 papers in highly-ranked journals.
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Professor of Dermatology, University of Lome
I have been a dermatologist since 2009, and am head of the dermatology department of the CHR Tsévie.
I am a teacher at the University of Lomé.
My area of expertise is:
cutaneous NTDs
severe toxidermia
cutaneous cancers
HIV/AIDS
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Assistant Professor, Cyber Security, Monash University
Bayu Anggorojati is an Assistant Professor in Cyber Security at Monash University, Indonesia. He holds a PhD in Access Control for IoT and Cloud systems, and a Master Degree in Mobile Communication from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2015 and 2007 respectively. During his appointment as research associate at Aalborg University, Bayu was involved in several European funded projects in the area of RFID middleware, tele-health for elderly people and IoT Cloud platform.
Before joining Monash Indonesia, he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science in Universitas Indonesia (UI). His research interests include computer networks and security, information security, blockchain, security aspect in machine learning, human aspect in cybersecurity and security education.
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Associate professor, Università di Torino
After ten years at the University of York, where she did her PhD and two postdocs in ancient proteins between Archaeology and Chemistry, Beatrice was awarded a position from the Italian Government under the "brain-gain/Rita Levi Montalcini" scheme.
She is now an associate professor in "Research Methods for Archaeology" at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin. She has a lab for molecular archaeology and palaeontology, focusing especially on palaeoproteomics. Her research and her teaching include both the natural sciences and the humanities (archaeology, anthropology and cultural heritage).
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Masters student, Psychoeducation, Université de Montréal
Beatrice is a student, soon to be completing her Masters in Psychoeducation at University of Montreal. Doing both clinical and research work during her studies, she is driven to learn from her mentors and to develop as a well-rounded researcher and professional on the field. Her general area of interest includes identifying and implementing healthy lifestyle habits that can act as protective factors in an individual's life in hopes to improve overall well-being. Her current area of focus is investigating preschoolers raised with a bedroom television and later risk outcomes and the role of sport participation during childhood on this relationship.
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Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, Monash University
Beatrice Trefalt is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at Monash University. She is a historian who works on post-war Japanese history, specialising in wartime experiences and their legacies. Her doctoral thesis examined the return to Japan of so-called stragglers (soldiers who did not know the war was over) until 1975. She has also written on war crimes trials, and on the search for human remains. Her latest publication is Trefalt, B. (2024). The 1955 Japanese mission to New Guinea: War remains and the politics of commemoration in the wake of the Asia-Pacific War. Human Remains and Violence : An Interdisciplinary Journal, 9(2), 60–75. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.9.2.4n
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Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
Dr Beatrice M’mboga Akala is a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Education, Curriculum and Social Studies Division. She specialises in human rights and democracy in education, research in education, curriculum, rurality and transitioning to higher education, policy and gender.
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Professor, Aquatic ecology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
I am a professor of aquatic ecology (limnology) working primarily on lake. In my lab we focus on the biodiversity and functioning of the communities in lakes, primarily amongst the plankton. I am also currently Co-director of the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie (GRIL), an FRQNT-funded research network with university members across the province of Québec.
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Profesora Titular de Universidad. Área de Filosofía Moral, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Profesora del área de Filosofía Moral en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Docencia en la Facultad de Humanidades (Campus de Lugo), en estudios de Grado, Máster y Doctorado
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Senior Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
I am an expert in stratospheric processes and their links with weather and climate.
I am a senior researcher at AOPP in the Physics Department and also affiliated to the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS).
My research interests include understanding the role of stratospheric mechanisms for weather and climate prediction, as well as the use and development of alternative techniques to include such mechanisms in state-of-the-art Earth System Models.
I have previously worked as a Senior Researcher at the University of Reading and at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. I keep active collaborations with ECMWF, where I also worked for several years on model improvements for the stratosphere and assessment of corresponding impacts at different timescales.
Before that I obtained a Marie Curie personal Fellowship that I carried out at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), right after being a NERC Research Fellow at the University of Leeds.
As part of WCRP activities, since 2012 I lead a group of top international scientists working on Brewer-Dobson Circulation research for the SPARC Reanalyses Intercomparison Project (SRIP).
I have HE teaching experience at graduate and undergraduate courses, have designed and taught courses on “Climate and Weather Prediction Models”, “Intelligent Instrumentation” and “The Ozone Layer”, among other topics.
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Assistant professor of Physics, Stockholm University
My research covers four different areas:
-The Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations project (VASCO)
-Structure and coevolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies.
-The Unified Model of AGN.
-Searches for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence, optical SETI.
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Profesora de Fotografía y Estética, Universidad CEU San Pablo
Doctora en Comunicación y Licenciada en Historia del Arte. Ha impartido docencia en diversas asignaturas relacionadas con la fotografía en la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Comunicación de la Universidad CEU San Pablo, así como en másteres. Integra la docencia universitaria con la investigación, especializándose en fotografía de moda y fotografía documental en España como piedra angular. La doctora Guerrero desarrolla su actividad docente simultáneamente con su actividad en la gestión: es directora del Master Oficial en Comunicación Moda y Belleza, organizado en colaboración con el grupo editorial Unidad Editorial (Telva/Yo Dona).
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First Nations Senior Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research
Beau Jayde Cubillo obtained a PhD, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University, 2023, Bachelor of Nutrition (First Class Honours), Monash University 2018 and a Bachelor of Human Nutrition, Flinders University 2016.
He is a (Larrakia and Wadjigan) First Nations Senior Research Fellow within the Wellbeing & Preventable Chronic Diseases (WPCD) Division at Menzies.
Cubillo has expertise and experience in research related to Indigenous nutrition, health, and wellbeing in addition to qualitative and Indigenous Research Methodologies. His research is primarily focused within the Northern Territory and has emphasised community engagement, reciprocity and translation to community programs and policy. His research has focused on conceptualising how nutrition, health and wellbeing in connected to Indigenous food systems from Indigenous perspectives. He also leads programs of research on the Indigenous commercial determinants of health.
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, New York University
Franks’s research and teaching lie at the intersection of environmental and animal protection, specializing in animal behavior, aquatic animal welfare, quantitative methods, and human-animal relationships. The core questions driving her work are: (i) How are animals affected by the Anthropocene? and (ii) How can the study of animal behavior and our understanding of animals provide valuable responses to the demands of the Anthropocene? In addition to publishing scholarly articles, commentaries, and book chapters on these topics, she had co-edited a special issue in Animal Behavior and Welfare for the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
Prior to joining NYU, Franks was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia where she was awarded the Killam Research Prize. She is an Associate Editor for the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Dr Becky Freeman is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. With over twenty years of experience working in the tobacco control field she is well versed in program and policy best practice. She is an established authority on the potential of the Internet to circumvent tobacco advertising bans and has pioneered research methods in tracking and analysing online social media content. Her primary research interests include tobacco control and how online and social media influence public health.
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Materials Scientist and SUSTAIN Impact & Engagement Manager, Swansea University
Becky Waldram is a Materials Scientist at Swansea University, with a research focus on metallurgy and corrosion. She works within the SUSTAIN Future Steel Manufacturing Research Hub as the Impact & Engagement Manager, across the Hub themes of Carbon Neutral Iron & Steelmaking and Smart Steel Processing.
Becky completed her EngD on the topic of corrosion, investigating the behaviour of nickel-plated steel under various environmental conditions. She is also involved in public outreach and engagement to introduce the next generation to Materials Science & Engineering.
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Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Bee Boileau is a Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and works in the Retirement, Saving and Ageing sector. Her current research focuses on household wealth and labour market activity at older ages, as well as on analysis of the UK government's spending decisions.
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Assistant Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago
Behzad Ebrahimi is a faculty member, researcher, and a clinical physicist, specialized in medical imaging and radiation therapy. His research is dedicated to understanding the dynamics of cancer, using statistical analysis of imaging data to explore patterns in pathological markers. By bridging the gap between medical imaging research and radiation therapy, Ebrahimi's work contributes to enhancing the accuracy and effectiveness of cancer treatments.
Ebrahimi holds degrees in both Physics and Biomedical Engineering. His academic journey included postdoctoral research at Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medical School's MGH, where he concentrated on physiological and functional imaging. He also completed a Medical Physics - Radiation Therapy residency at the University of Miami and has been a faculty member in the Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology and the graduate program in Medical Physics at the University of Chicago since 2019.
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