Lecturer in Remote Sensing , Cranfield University
Daniel Simms graduated from the University of Plymouth in 2000 and worked as a GIS technician for Jacobs Babtie before studying for an MSc in Geographical Information Management at Cranfield. After working as the Spatial Data Manager for Kent County Council, he returned to Cranfield in 2004 to work on a UK Government project on illicit crop monitoring. The project delivered science-based support for decision makers through the integration of multi-resolution satellite and airborne imagery, digital photogrammetry, ground data collection and analysis. During the 6 year project he gained field experience in the operation and deployment of satellite receiving stations, collection of aerial photography and crop data.
Since 2009 Dr Simms has been involved in projects supporting the UNODC in monitoring of illicit crops; the dissemination of soil and terrain data through open web standards as part of the European contribution to a Global Soil Observing System (eSoter); and the integration of spatial hazard datasets based on future projections of extreme weather events as part of the CREW (Community Resilience to Extreme Weather) interdisciplinary project.
Current activities
Dr Daniel Simms is a specialist in applied remote sensing and GIS, researching the integration of imagery and spatial data for land and agricultural information
His interests are in the area of applied remote sensing for improved land and agricultural information. He is currently researching crop detection and cultivation estimation from field to regional scale through the integration of satellite and aerial imagery with ancillary spatial datasets. Of particular interest is the development of methodologies for deriving accurate and timely information from remotely sensed data with a minimal requirement for ground-based sampling.
Dr Simms lectures on the Geographical Information Management MSc Programme and has delivered training in remote sensing and GIS techniques to Afghan nationals under UN-sponsored capacity building projects, and ground data collection for the UK component of the 2013 EU LUCAS survey.
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Associate Professor of Health Policy, Ohio University
“People are sometimes surprised to learn that a political scientist is on faculty at a medical school,” Skinner said. “But politics is at the heart of the policy process, and shapes everything from how professional relationships are formed to changes in our health care system. We need to be politically astute to make good policy, and we need physicians to be involved in these decisions.”
Skinner teaches a range of subjects, from the nuts and bolts of Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act, to more recent questions about cost, access, and quality in American health care, including in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. His teaching often emphasizes the challenges of navigating a political culture that is often at odds with what we know about best practices for delivering high quality health care to more and more Americans, as well as the complexity of the American health care system itself, which has a long history that is difficult to simply rework.
Skinner oversees a required rotation that teaches fourth-year medical and other health professions students about the foundations of health care policy and politics, and co-directs the osteopathic profession’s national health policy fellowship, which trains mid-career osteopathic medical professionals about policy formulation, development, and advocacy. This experience has informed his understanding of how medical education, residency, and professional practice shape health professionals’ understanding of policy. He is currently writing a book on the history of physician advocacy and activism.
Skinner provides a level-headed, balanced approach to policy in the political arena and can speak expertly on many topics, including the successes of--but also challenges presented by--the Affordable Care Act; the prospect of establishing a national health care system; the politics of American hospitals; and the role of physicians in policy, from climate change to reproductive health care. He is also deeply engaged in health policy within Ohio, and can speak to a wide range of topics and controversies.
Skinner has significant professional experience in political communication, both as a consultant on political campaigns and as a scholar, which has led him to emphasize the importance of effective messaging and rhetorical strategy in health politics and policy, and public health.
Prior to joining Ohio University, Skinner taught at Capital University in Ohio, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and City University of New York-Hunter College. He speaks regularly about health care and politics throughout North America and beyond, including as a Visiting Professor at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary.
Skinner is Editor-in-Chief of World Medical & Health Policy, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal; Co-Director of the Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship, a national policy training program for osteopathic professionals; and Director of Ohio University’s Comparative Health Systems--Cuba program, in which Ohio University students travel to Cuba to learn about the Latin American country’s health care system. Skinner also hosts "Prognosis Ohio," a weekly podcast about health and health care in Ohio, affiliated with the Central Ohio NPR radio station, WCBE.
In addition to many peer-reviewed articles published in journals such as The Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law; The Journal of Rural Health; The Journal of Medical Humanities; The Review of Politics; and Public Administration Review, Skinner is author of Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), co-editor (with Ohio University professor Berkeley Franz) of Not Far From Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio (Ohio State University Press, 2019), and author (with Franz and UMASS sociologist Jonathan R. Wynn) of The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities (University of Chicago Press, 2023).
Skinner earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in political science from City University of New York, The Graduate Center.
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Deputy Director of the French-German Institute for Environmental Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
I am an Associate Professor at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. My current research focuses on the intersection of values and policy relevant science, especially as it relates to climate change and public health. I am the author of Philosophy and the Precautionary Principle: Science, Evidence and Environmental Policy (2015, Cambridge University Press), and am currently the primary investigator of a 5-year research project on climate change and risks of societal collapse funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Daniel Tichenor is a Philip H. Knight Chair, a professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. His research focuses on immigration and refugee policy, social movements, the American presidency, Congress, political parties, and youth politics. He has published seven books and more than 80 journal articles and book chapters. His books include Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control (Princeton University Press), Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics (University of Chicago Press), with Sidney Milkis, and Democracy’s Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency (Oxford University Press), with Alison Gash. His forthcoming book is Unsettled: Governing Immigration in a Polarized Nation (Princeton University Press).
His research awards include the American Political Science Association’s Gladys Kammerer Award, Jack Walker Prize, Mary Parker Follette Award, Polity Prize, and Charles Redd Award. He has been a fellow at Princeton’s School of Policy and International Affairs, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Abba Schwartz Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and a research scholar at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. He was named to the inaugural class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2015. He is the recipient of the A.J. Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and the 2020 Williams Fellowship for “exceptional and innovative teaching.”
He has testified and provided expert briefings to Congress on immigration reform and history, and provided commentary and essays for National Public Radio, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Utne Reader, and The Nation.
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Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Treisman is a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
A graduate of Oxford University (B.A. Hons.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.), he has published six books and many articles in leading political science and economics journals including The American Political Science Review and The American Economic Review, as well as in public affairs journals such as Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy.
His research focuses on Russian politics and economics as well as comparative political economy, including in particular the analysis of democratization, the politics of authoritarian states, political decentralization, and corruption.
A former editor of The American Political Science Review, he has served as associate editor or on the editorial boards of the journals Post-Soviet Affairs, Comparative Political Studies, Economics and Politics, Politeia, and the Russian Journal of Economics.
He has served as a consultant for the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and USAID. In Russia, he has been a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Higher School of Economics and a member of the Jury of the National Prize in Applied Economics. At UCLA, he has served as acting director of the Center for European and Russian Studies.
He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, as well as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford). He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His latest book, co-authored with Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century (Princeton University Press, 2022), was one of the “Best Books of 2022” (The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs), “Best Political Books of 2022” (Financial Times), and “Books That Made Us Think in 2022” (The Atlantic, Moment). It has been translated into 14 languages. The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev (The Free Press, 2011) was one of the Financial Times’ “Best Political Books of 2011.” It won the Prix Guido et Maruccia Zerilli-Marimo de l’Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Paris, and the Arthur Ross Book Prize Bronze Medal, New York.
Since 2014, he has been the director of the Russia Political Insight Project, an international collaboration funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to investigate political decisionmaking in Putin’s Russia. This resulted in the publication of The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia (Brookings Institution Press 2018).
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Senior Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics, Imperial College London
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Fluid Mechanics Section in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. My research focuses on the complex mechanics of turbulent multiphase flows in civil and environmental engineering problems, such as the transport of plastics/litter in rivers or the hydraulics of high-head hydraulic structures. I am also interested in the role and risks of water infrastructure in the context of climatic and anthropogenic futures.
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Senior Lecturer in English, University of Winchester
Daniel Varndell is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Winchester. He specialises in twentieth century fiction - especially what is loosely referred to as the 'modern' period (1850-1950), and what is (even more loosely) referred to as 'postmodernism'. He also teaches courses on psychoanalysis, film, critical theory, and intertextuality.
Daniel is an interdisciplinary scholar, and has published many articles and chapters on film, including two books: 'Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze, and the Grandfather Paradox' (in 2014) and 'Torturous Etiquettes: Film Performance and Social Form' (in 2023). He has given talks at conferences across North America, Europe, and the UK.
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Senior Research Associate Engineer, The Ohio State University
Daniel Veghte earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 2010, followed by a Ph.D. in Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 2015. After finishing his Ph.D., he worked at the Penn State Materials Characterization Laboratory where he helped manage the SEM and FIB systems. Daniel came to CEMAS in 2018 following his postdoctoral work at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he studied atmospheric particles collected from field sites across the globe. His work at PNNL utilized in-situ electron and X-ray microscopy to probe the influence of different atmospheric conditions on particles.
Throughout Daniel’s career, he has developed instrumentation used for collecting and analyzing aerosol particles, leading to a wide range of knowledge in conventional and novel sample preparation techniques. He has analyzed many different materials through working in two different user facilities, where he managed instrumentation and tackled projects ranging from high-resolution analysis to complex in-situ experiments.
Outside the lab, Daniel enjoys exploring the outdoors through hiking, camping, snow sports, and disc golfing. When the weather does not cooperate, he spends his time playing board games and building things from whatever he has on hand.
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Bradford
I am a dedicated researcher currently working as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Bradford. My research interests involve examining the negative impacts of both sport-related concussion and physical pain, and attempting to provide a more nuanced explanation as to why many athletes that undergo these go on to have poor mental health, impaired cognitive ability, and reduced quality of life.
I have also completed a PGCTHE, alongside engaging in teaching responsibilities within my department and therefore have demonstrable ability to teach in higher education. As well as publishing in academic journals and presenting at conferences, I am also a believer of researchers being impactful beyond this traditional method and have demonstrated engaging with the public via website articles and podcast appearances.
Education and Qualifications
University of Bath
• MRes (Hons) Psychology – Merit (2019)
Edge Hill University – Ormskirk
• BSc (Hons) Sport & Exercise Psychology – 1 (2017)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education – Distinction (2021)
• PhD titled “Understanding the impact of sport-related concussion and physical pain on mental health, cognitive ability, and quality of life.” (2023)
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Associate Professor of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto
I am an Associate Professor Teaching Stream in Computer Science at University of Toronto Mississauga. I teach Intro Programming, Intro CS, Theory of Computation, Systems Programming, Data Structures, Principles of Programming Languages, Algorithms, Computer Science Education Research, and Operating Systems.
I have a PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto in Computer Science Education. My dissertation focused on evaluating Peer Instruction (PI) as a pedagogical approach for teaching CS courses.
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Associate Professor in Communication & Public Policy, Michigan State University
Daniel Bergan specializes in public opinion and experimental work on advocacy campaigns. He uses field experimental designs to test the impact of citizen contacts to policymakers on public policy. In recent work, he has also explored the sources of partisan polarization in public opinion. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Communication, and other journals.
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Senior Researcher in Chronobiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina
Daniel Eduardo Vigo was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. He received his medical degree in 1998 and completed his specialty in Internal Medicine in 2003. He obtained a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires in the area of Physiological Sciences in 2007. As a Visiting Research Fellow, he conducted his post-doctoral training at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), being involved in the Mars500 project (Russian Academy of Sciences, European Space Agency). He directs the Laboratory of Chronophysiology at the Biomedical Research Institute from the National Research Council (CONICET) and Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), where he holds a position as Independent Researcher and Senior Professor. His basic research interests are the study of complexity in biological rhythms; the chronobiological aspects of autonomic, emotional, and cognitive functions; the sleep-wake cycle in different human groups and complex chronic diseases; and life sciences in space and space analogues. He coordinated in Argentina the European Space Agency operational tests of the Tempus-Pro device deployed in Antarctica, and he currently directs the project “Chronobiology of Antarctic isolation: the use of Belgrano II Argentine Antarctic station as a space analogue”.
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Associate Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College
Dan is Associate Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College. He teaches behavioral economics, game theory, and microeconomics and his research is on media, sports, polarization, and socially responsible capitalism. He lives in Brunswick, ME with his spouse and two sons and is originally from Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Associate Professor of Social Studies Education, University of North Texas
Daniel G. Krutka is a former high school social studies teacher who is now Associate Professor of Social Studies Education and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education & Administration at the University of North Texas. He researches intersections of technology, democracy, and social studies education. He has over 75 publications in prestigious journals such as Teachers College Record, Computers & Education, and Theory & Research in Social Education. He is co-editor for the Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE)—Social Studies journal, hosts the Visions of Education podcast, and is founder of the Civics of Technology project (https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/). In his teaching, he critically inquires alongside students for just, multiracial, and technoethical democracy.
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Professor of German, University of Tennessee
Daniel H. Magilow is Lindsay Young Professor of German as well as an affiliated faculty member with the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Jewish Studies, the Cinema Studies Program, and the Department of History. He earned his BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and his MA and PhD in German from Princeton University. With Helene Sinnreich, Dr. Magilow serves Co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He serves on the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he was the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow in 2005-2006.
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Associate Dean of Research, College of Education, University of Texas at Arlington
Daniel H. Robinson is Associate Dean of Research and the K-16 Mind, Brain, and Education Endowed Chair in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Robinson has served as editor of Educational Psychology Review (2006-2015), as associate editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology (2014-2020), as an editorial board member of nine journals, and currently as editor of Monographs in the Psychology of Education: Child Behavior, Cognition, Development, and Learning, Springer Publishing. Dr. Robinson was a Fulbright Specialist Scholar at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Lecturer in Political Theory and Philosophy, Newcastle University
I'm a political theorist at Newcastle University. Last year I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's Center for Ethics and before that I studied in Oxford, Toronto, and Frankfurt.
My main research interest is in democratic theory; I interpret and evaluate novel forms of representation and participation. I also work on the history of political thought and comparative political theory.
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Associate Professor in Data Science, University of Bristol
I am a statistician with extensive experience in Data Science and Bayesian methods. I have made contributions to applied research spanning Genetics, Population Health, Cyber Security, Digital Health Records, and more. I work on the boundary of statistical and machine learning methodology and application to real-world data science problems.
I have received a Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Research fellowship and have led the development of a "Data Science Toolbox" Masters course. I am co-director of COMPASS - the EPSRC Computational Statistics and Data Science at the University of Bristol, hosted by the Institute of Statistical Sciences.
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Faculty Lecturer, International Relations, McGill University
My research specialization focuses on political violence in southern Africa. My teaching focuses on Africa and the Middle East.
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Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale Divinity School
Daniel Martinez HoSang is a Professor of Ethnicity Race and Migration and American Studies and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science and serves on the Education Studies Advisory Committee.
His most recent book is A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone (University of California Press, 2021).
HoSang is the co-author (with Joseph Lowndes) of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and the author of the author of Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (University of California Press, 2010) which was awarded the 2011 James A Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
He is the co-editor of three volumes: Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines (with Kimberle Crenshaw, Luke Harris and George Lipsitz) University of California Press, 2019; Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice (co-edited with Ramon Gutiérrez and Natalia Molina), University of California Press, 2019; and Racial Formation in the 21st Century (with Oneka LaBennett and Laura Pulido) University of California Press, 2012).
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Professor of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Ibadan
Professor Daniel Oladimeji Oluwayelu is a veterinarian with MSc (veterinary microbiology) and PhD degrees from the University of Ibadan. He was appointed a lecturer II in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Ibadan in July 1995 and became a professor in October 2016.
A seasoned academic with 25 years of teaching experience at the university level, Professor Oluwayelu has published extensively in the different fields of veterinary microbiology including virology, bacteriology and mycology. He has over 100 scientific publications comprising articles in peer-reviewed, high-impact journals, technical reports and conference papers to his credit.
Professor Oluwayelu’s current research interests are viral diseases of livestock, companion animals and wildlife as well as arboviruses, emerging viruses and viral zoonoses at the human-animal-environment interface. He employs both classical virology and genomics techniques for the surveillance and diagnosis of these diseases. He is a member of several learned societies including the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, International Society for Infectious Diseases, American Society for Microbiology and American Society for Virology. He is also a Fellow of the College of Veterinary Surgeons, Nigeria (FCVSN).
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Instructor of American Politics, United States Military Academy West Point
Major Daniel P. Colletti is an Instructor of American Politics in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. His research interests include National Security Policy, Education Policy, Housing Policy, and Real Estate Investing.
Daniel commissioned as a Quartermaster Officer in 2012 from Florida State University where he earned a bachelor’s in science in economics and philosophy. Daniel has served in multiple tactical brigades including the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (3/1 IBCT), 1st Infantry Division and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Germany. In the former, he served a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan as an Operations officer and platoon leader. He has also served in various positions including company commander, battalion chief of operations, and battalion chief of logistics. Daniel graduated from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs a master’s in public administration, concentrating in international security policy, with regional specializations on the United States and on Russia and the former Soviet Union.
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Profesor de Geografía, Universitat de Lleida
Daniel Paül es doctor en Geografía y profesor agregado del grado de Turismo de la Universitat de Lleida. Coordinador del Máster en gestión de áreas de montaña. Sus principales líneas de investigación se centran en aspectos relacionados con la gestión de la imagen de la ciudad, especialmente en dos ámbitos: (1) la imagen proyectada por turistas en las redes sociales y (2) la imagen percibida por los ciudadanos en su vida cuotidiana. Ha publicado varios artículos y capítulos de libro sobre esta temática. Igualmente, es investigador principal del grupo de investigación consolidado “Territori i Societat” de la Generalitat de Catalunya (2021 SGR 01369).
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Teaching Fellow in American Literature, University of Leicester
My PhD is in American literature, specifically the work and career of contemporary author Cormac McCarthy. Since completing my PhD, I have written on Marilynne Robinson, Jaime Hernandez, and Emily St John Mandel.
My current research focus is on literary editing, publishing, and awards culture in the twentieth century through a case study of the work and career of Random House author Albert Erskine. My most recent article examines Erskine's work with Ralph Ellison on Invisible Man, and future articles will draw on archival material to explore Erskine's work with Malcolm Lowry, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Cormac McCarthy.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Purdue University
Dr. Schiff is an Assistant Professor of Technology Policy at Purdue University’s Department of Political Science and the Co-Director of GRAIL, the Governance and Responsible AI Lab.
As a policy scientist with a background in philosophy, he studies the formal and informal governance of AI through policy and industry, as well as AI's social and ethical implications in domains like education, manufacturing, finance, and criminal justice. His interdisciplinary and mixed methods research addresses topics such as industry standards and organizational practices for AI ethics, public and elite opinion and influence dynamics in the policy process, the development of social responsibility attitudes amongst future computing and engineering professionals, and the role of the public in governing emerging technologies.
At GRAIL, he focuses on fostering interdisciplinary research collaborations to study AI's social, policy, and ethical implications using diverse theoretical approaches and rigorous methods. He works with many passionate and talented graduate and undergraduate students, academics, and practitioners.
His work also includes the development of interdisciplinary coursework focused on technology, policy, and ethics, and he maintains a key interest in engaging with members of the public, stakeholders in civil society and industry, and policymakers to share best practices, learn from others, and have applied impact that can benefit society. He aims to make his research accessible and relevant.
For example, Dr. Schiff served as the founding Responsible AI Lead at JP Morgan Chase & Co., the most Globally Systematic Important Bank (GSIB). He also served as Secretary of the IEEE 7010-2020 standard, the first AI ethics industry standard, focused on the impacts of AI on human well-being, and remains engaged in international, national, and subnational AI policy efforts. Before then, he worked for several years in the non-profit K-12 education sector as the Director of Research, Evaluation, and Planning at the Philadelphia Education Fund.
Dr. Schiff studied Philosophy at Princeton University, focusing on robotics and intelligent systems, before completing a Master’s in Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and PhD in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
You can see his work in venues across various disciplines, including Policy Studies Journal, Science and Public Policy, Public Administration, Technology in Society, Review of Policy Research, AI & Society, the International Journal of AI in Education, IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society, the Journal of Engineering Education, the AMA Journal of Medical Ethics, and Nanotechnology, and you can reach him at dschiff "at" purdue "dot" edu or at @dan_schiff.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Dayton
After studies in Theology and Philosophy at Notre Dame, I completed Master’s and Doctoral degrees at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School under the tutelage of Anne Carr, David Tracy and Robert Schreiter (from the Catholic Theological Union). I have written on Edward Schillebeeckx’s theology and am now pursuing projects on the theology of history and theological reflections on Catholic higher education. I have served as a department chair (or associate chair) for 13 years at different institutions.
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Senior Assistant Professor, Università di Bologna
Daniela Bolzani is Senior Assistant Professor in management at the University of Bologna. She received her Ph.D. in General Management in 2013 working on her dissertation “Internationalization intentions: Micro-foundations and psychological distance perceptions in immigrant and non-immigrant entrepreneurs”. Between 2013 and 2017 she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Management and at the Department of Education Studies of the University of Bologna, as a research team member in European projects in the domain of entrepreneurship and technology transfer. She has been a visiting scholar at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder – USA (2013) (invited by Prof. M.D. Foo) and at HEC Paris – France (2016) (invited by Prof. T. Åstebro).
Before starting her Ph.D., Daniela worked as a professional for around five years in the fields of financial audit and international development in Europe and Africa.
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Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Surrey
Dr. Daniela Carta received her degree in Chemistry from University of Cagliari, Italy and her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK working on sol-gel materials for biomedical applications. She has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cagliari, Italy on sol-gel synthesis and characterization of metals/alloys and functional oxide nanoparticles dispersed in highly porous matrices and as a Research Fellow at the NanoGroup at the Nanofabrication Centre, University of Southampton, UK, working on nanodevices for memory applications based on thin film oxides.
In November 2016 she was appointed as a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. Her current research is focussed on fabrication of phosphate-based glasses and gels for tissue engineering using in-solution techniques (coacervation and sol-gel) for bone regeneration and wound healing. Dr Carta has received funds from EPSRC, UKRI, MRC and Royal Society of Chemistry.
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PhD student at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich
Daniela Mahl is a PhD student at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Her research interests include conspiracy theories and misinformation in digital platform environments, science communication, and computational social science (CSS) methods.
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Researcher, Oceans Regions Programme, University of Pretoria
Daniela Marggraff is a researcher at the Ocean Regions Programme, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria. She is also an assistant lecturer, foreign policy analysis and diplomacy, for second-year students at the University of Pretoria.
As a PhD student, Daniela's research focuses on the foreign policy of small island developing states (SIDS) in the context of major power competition in the Indo-Pacific. The research challenges the common perception of SIDS as passive players in global dynamics. Instead, it argues that these nations are critical actors with a distinct form of power. Rather than being constrained by a power deficit, SIDS wield alternative influences that enable them to actively shape their international environment.
Daniela has published a few op-ed/research briefs here (including but not limited to):
https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/915/breaking-the-surface-exploring-and-illuminating-ocean-regions_5-february-2024.zp252650.pdf
https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/915/6_op-ed_22-july-2024.zp253692.pdf
https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/915/unseen-realities-the-states-that-are-missing-from-our-maps_9-may-2024.zp252655.pdf
https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/915/4_research-brief_21-august-2024.zp254770.pdf
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Research Fellow in Energy Transition, University of Toronto Scarborough, University of Toronto
Daniela is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences – University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. Daniela has been engaged on her fellowship project titled “Beyond technological fixes - Fostering justice and equity in the transition to sustainable heating technologies in Canada (FITTING)”. The research critically analyses how governance and politics affect a socially just, inclusive, and equitable access to sustainable and affordable heating technologies in Canada. Daniela has a PhD in Livelihood (international and rural development), and apart from conducting research in energy sector, she has also research interest in issues concerning rural and agricultural development, food security and nutrition, adaptation to environmental and climate change, political economy of service provision, and sustainable, just, and equitable development.
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Uppsala University
Daniela Scaccabarozzi is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Uppsala University (Sweden) and Adjunct Researcher at Curtin University (Australia). Her research spans from pollination biology of plants, focusing on orchids and native crops (i.e., Cacao and Vanilla), to bee biology. Daniela got a dual Ph.D. at Curtin University and University of Naples Federico II, funded by a strategic international scholarship. During her research journey, Daniela got prestigious awards including the post-doctoral Talent-Introduction Program by the Chinese Government and the Endeavour Fellowship by the Australian government.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg
Daniele Silvestro is a computational biologist with expertise in evolutionary and conservation biology. He leads a research team at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland that develops computational methods and software to study evolutionary processes across different organisms including plants, vertebrates, and invertebrate groups.
They also cover new methods and software to predict extinction risk in modern species, to model the dynamics of the ongoing biodiversity crisis, and to optimise conservation efforts using artificial intelligence.
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