Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Florida
Dr. Rincon-Limas received a bachelor degree on Biopharmaceutical Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas in Reynosa, Mexico. He also obtained a Master’s degree in Microbiology and a summa cum laude Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico. He then moved to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to conduct his postdoctoral training in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, where he got training in Neurogenetics and Neurobiology. He got his first Faculty position in the Department of Neurology and the Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and then moved to the University of Florida to join the Department of Neurology at the McKnight Brain Institute. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience and is also a member of the UF Genetics Institute, the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND), and the Center for Neurogenetics.
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Professor of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dietram A. Scheufele is the John E. Ross Professor in Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the Morgridge Institute for Research. Since 2013, he’s also held an Honorary Professorship at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany.
Scheufele’s research deals with the public and political interfaces of emerging science. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, and a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering. He currently serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS) Advisory Committee.
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Research associate at the Institute for Industrial Production, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Research associate at the Institute for Industrial Production.
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Climate Research Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dillon Amaya is a research physical scientist at the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories in Boulder, Colorado. His main interests involve climate variability and change on seasonal-decadal timescales with an emphasis on tropical-extratropical interactions and air-sea feedbacks. His work further includes research into the dynamical drivers behind recent Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves. Dillon's current projects include investigating subseasonal-seasonal (S2S) predictability limits of ocean parameters in the California Current System, with the goal of assisting decision makers responsible for managing sensitive marine ecosystems along the U.S. West Coast.
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Sheffield
Professor Anumba is currently Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sheffield and has worked as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Sheffield Teaching hospitals for 22 years. He is Faculty Director of Clinical Academic Training in Sheffield. He serves on the Council of The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of GB as International Representative coordinating Sub-Sahara Africa. He is Honorary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Cape Town.
Professor Anumba investigates the physiology of human parturition, particularly the role of immunity and inflammation in term/preterm labour and pregnancy complications such as hypertension, fetal growth restriction and stillbirth. He is also investigating new techniques to predict preterm birth by the detection of cervical remodelling changes as well as changes in the vaginal microbiome and metabolome. He runs specialist clinics in Prenatal Diagnosis and Fetal Therapy, Prematurity Prevention, and High-Risk Pregnancy, all of which have research spin outs. One spin out is ECCLIPPx, a research programme that explores electrical impedance spectroscopy and several other innovative techniques and devices for predicting preterm birth. The NIHR Global Health Research Group on Preterm Birth Prevention and Management in LMICs PRIME is another spin out which brought together interdisciplinary researchers from the United Kingdom and South Africa amongst others to address the challenges of preterm birth management in low-middle income countries where its prevalence is highest.
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ALMA Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI), University of Freiburg
Dilshad Muhammad is ALMA Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg, and doctoral student at the University of Freiburg. His doctoral project deals with local governments and the governance of forced migration.
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Director of Professional Practice, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dima Nazzal is a Principal Academic Professional in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She is responsible for project-based learning in the Industrial Engineering undergraduate curriculum, including the capstone senior design course, and the cornerstone junior design course. She is also research director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she was Director of Research and Development at Fortna, Inc., an Engineering Design and Consulting company.
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Associate Professor in Computing, Edinburgh Napier University
Dimitra Gkatzia is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. She is interested in the evaluation of Natural Language Generation systems, and data-driven Natural Language Generation (NLG) for low-resource domains/languages. More recently, Dimitra has been interested in exploring privacy issues in LLMs and exploring how we can use them responsibly. Since 2021, Dimitra is the co-lead of the SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance) AI Theme. Between 2016-2020, Dimitra served as an elected member of the Steering Board of the Special Interest Group in Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN). At Edinburgh Napier, Dimitra is currently leading the Natural Language Processing Group.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University
I am a Roman archaeologist with an outspoken holistic and comparative approach to my work. My research deals with agriculture and economy, but I specialize in all things related to ancient vines and wines. My focus lies on Italy and the Western Mediterranean from Republic to Empire, but I have conducted fieldwork in Italy, Greece, Portugal and Belgium.
I hold a double PhD in Classical Archaeology from the universities of Pisa (Italy) and Ghent (Belgium), and I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the latter institute since 2015. I was a Fellow of the Academia Belgica (and Belgian Historical Institute) in Rome, the Collegio dei Fiamminghi in Bologna, and the DAI in Berlin, and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in the City of New York and Padova University.
My latest work on Roman winemaking in earthenware vessels is scheduled for publication in Antiquity (2024). Recent publications include the edited books Reframing the Roman Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Vine-growing and Winemaking in the Roman World (Peeters, 2023) and Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology (Bloomsbury, 2024). I am a contributor to the upcoming A Cultural History of Wine in Antiquity (Bloomsbury 2024) and The Handbook of Roman Rural Archaeology (Cambridge 2025).
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Associate Professor, Political Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Professor Panagos is a specialist in the study of contemporary political philosophy and Aboriginal rights, with research contributions combining both normative and empirical concerns. He has published work on aboriginality, Aboriginal rights, Aboriginal voting behaviour and resource governance. He is currently working on a monograph on settler states, Aboriginal peoples and the problem of political obligation. he is also engaged in a number of collaborative research projects focused on, first, First Nations and the governance of mineral resources in Canada, and, second, the participation of Aboriginal peoples in elections in Canada and the United States.
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FinTech Capability Lead | Senior Lecturer, Emerging Technologies and FinTech, Swinburne University of Technology
Dr Dimitrios Salampasis is an award-winning global thought leader, educator, researcher, and sought-after keynote speaker, passionate about FinTech innovation and strategy, global affairs and geopolitics, sustainability and emerging technologies nexus.
Dr Salampasis is the FinTech Capability Director, Director, Master of Financial Technologies, and Senior Lecturer of Emerging Technologies and FinTech Innovation at the AACSB-accredited Swinburne School of Business, Law, and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr Salampasis is a Visiting Professor of FinTech at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance, Visiting Professor of FinTech at the University of Québec at Rimouski, Canada, Blockchain and FinTech Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Visiting Faculty at the School of Management in Fribourg, Switzerland, and an Academic Council Member of the Global FinTech Institute.
Dr Salampasis is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow within the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and a member of the CPA Australia Digital Transformation Centre of Excellence.
Prior to joining academia, Dr Salampasis worked in management consulting, legal services, non-profit and public sector being involved in global advisory activities in research and strategy on emerging market geopolitics and technology policy governance, assisting companies in developing long-term strategic focus and sustainable market business strategies.
Dr Salampasis is the recipient of the 2022 Innovation Excellence Award by the Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the 2021 Blockchain Educator of the Year Award by Blockchain Australia and the 2021 Swinburne University Vice Chancellor's Engagement Award - Industry Engagement (Individual).
Dr Salampasis publishes in international peer-reviewed academic journals and books and his work is regularly presented in major international conferences and invited keynote presentations around the world. Dr Salampasis’ research interests revolve around the organizational, human, geopolitical and ESG sides of innovation and open innovation in emerging technologies and FinTech innovation. His areas of specialist expertise, research, teaching, industry engagement, policy and advisory work revolve around the emergence and development of FinTech-enabled business models, Blockchain for business and public sector, corporate sustainability and human rights due diligence, synthetic identity fraud and scams, quantum computing for financial services and public sector, neuromorphic computing for business and public sector, along with the relevant global regulatory, ethical and policy interventions.
Dr Salampasis is regularly involved in advisory work with leading private, public, and governmental stakeholders of the Australian and international FinTech and broader business ecosystem. Dr Salampasis has a strong media presence in Australia and abroad, excellent communication and presentation skills with thought leadership experience presenting at large conferences. Dr Salampasis is regularly providing forward-thinking insights and sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice, furnishing strategic guidance by synthesizing analysis and insights from research across various innovation and emerging technological domains.
Dr Salampasis is a trusted partner to CEOs, C-Level Executives and Board of Directors of leading corporations, start-ups and government officials harnessing the power of emerging technologies to identify solutions that lead global change and impact. Dr Salampasis has been playing an instrumental role in shaping Australia’s FinTech innovation policy and advocacy agenda by participating in working groups, providing expert strategic advice and critical policy analysis, and submitting research-grounded responses to policy consultations.
Dr Salampasis has been actively supporting Australian and international ecosystem stakeholders by identify synergistic opportunities, incubating new strategic opportunities, and curating conversations of policymaking, ESG and regulatory implications and direct impact on business models and organizational transformations.
Dr Salampasis has received international recognition for his global perspective and creative research and thought leadership approach for thinking about innovation, entrepreneurial mindset and the evolution of the emerging and financial technologies landscape, together with, his novel practice-infused curriculum innovation in terms of designing and contextualizing a transformational, industry-relevant and career pathing learning and development experience across multiple modes of delivery.
Dr Salampasis is a dual citizen of Australia and Greece, currently living in Melbourne, Australia.
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Surrey
Dr. Dimitris Akrivos joined the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in Criminology. His research interests lie mainly at the intersection between criminology, law and cultural studies with a particular focus on violent crime, sexual deviance and mental health (as well as their representations in news and fictional media). His current research looks at the social harm associated with stereotypical gender portrayals in advertising, the press and other popular media. He is the lead editor of Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Dimitris completed his PhD in Criminology at City University London in 2015. He also holds an MA in Criminology (City University London), an MA in Crime Fiction (University of East Anglia) and a Degree in Law (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). He has previously lectured at the University of Essex, Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Bedfordshire. He was involved as a data researcher in the Reading the Riots project developed by The Guardian and the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Leicester
I am an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology based at Leicester Diabetes Centre. I have completed my PhD on gut hormone changes after sleeve gastrectomy the most commonly performed bariatric procedure worldwide. My main interests include how to best combine lifestyle pharmacological and surgical treatments for management of obesity and type 2 diabetes. I am also interested in the mechanisms of weight loss weight maintenance and diabetes remission after bariatric surgery and identifying potential treatments for postprandial hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia.
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Associate Professor in Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire
"Theoretical Star formation & Exoplanets" group. His work is mainly theoretical and computational, focusing on the study of the earliest stages of star and planet formation. He teaches a variety of courses (Astrobiology, Stellar Structure & Evolution, Fluid Dynamics) for the Physics, Astrophysics and Mathematics degrees.
Dr Stamatellos' group performs hydrodynamic simulations of star and planet formation using supercomputing facilities locally at UCLan and nationally. He has published more than 60 refereed publications (19 first author) that have attracted more than ~ 4000 citations. He is well known for his research on disc fragmentation and on brown dwarf formation. He has strong experience in analysing and visualising large amounts of computational data, programming within an astronomical context, developing of computational models, and using high-performance computing. He is particularly interested in computational methods and their applications in astrophysics. He has developed an efficient method to capture the thermal and radiative effects in hydrodynamic simulations, that has been used by other groups around the world (e.g. Edinburgh, St Andrews, Beijing, Sheffield, London, Cologne, Munich). Dr Stamatellos has a strong record of student supervision (undergraduate and postgraduate students) and significant teaching experience. He has also established collaborations with East and Southeast Asian countries (China, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam). He has been awarded two Royal Society International Exchanges Awards (for Japan and S. Korea).
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Senior Lecturer in Modern History, City, University of London
Dina Fainberg is a historian of US-Russia relations, Soviet media and propaganda, the Cold War. She held research fellowships at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the Center for the United States and the Cold War at New York University, and the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. Dina is the author of Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the ideological Frontlines, 1945-1991, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2021. Together with Artemy M. Kalinovsky she is the editor of Reconsidering Stagnation: Ideology and Exchange in the Brezhnev Era (Lexington Books, 2016).
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Professor, Political Communication and Arab Media, SOAS, University of London
Dina Matar is professor of Political Communication and Arab media at SOAS. She teaches and researches on critical issues on global media and communication with a focus on the Global South. She is specifically interested in the intersection of communication and politics, political cultures, communication and conflict/.war, social movements and media; digital activism; strategic communication and gender and media in the Arab world.
She is co-author of the Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (Hurst, 2014) and author of "What it Means to Be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood (I.B. Tauris, 2010). She is co-editor of "Narrated Conflict in the Middle East (2013) and Gaza as Metaphor (2016). She is also founding editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (since 2008) and book series editor of "Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa (2022) and the SOAS Palestine Studies Series, both published by Bloomsbury Academic, London. She is co-editor of the Media, War and Conflict journal.
She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a senior visiting research fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre..
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Dinesh Sharma is an author, consultant, and social scientist with a doctorate in psychology and human development from Harvard University. He is an Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, SUNY Binghamton, where he teaches in Harpur College, Psychology and the Department of Human Development. His current teaching work is focused on Human Rights, Globalization, Leadership and the United Nations.
Sharma also teaches about global leadership and the UN at Fordham University at Lincoln Center.
He is the author of "Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President"and "The Global Obama: Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century." He is currently editing a book on Hillary Clinton’s global image, "The Global Hillary: Women's Political Development in Cultural Contexts," due out in June 2016.
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Associate professor in accounting, management control and economics, Audencia
My research interests lie in the broad field of corporate reporting with a particular focus on issues related to sustainability and climate change reporting. My research has been published in various academic journals (such as Journal of Accounting & Public Policy, British Accounting Review, Regional Studies and Accounting Forum) and it has been funded by professional bodies and regulators (such as the UK Financial Reporting Council, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland).
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Lecturer in Sport and Recreation, Auckland University of Technology
Dion Enari is a Lecturer at the School of Sport and Recreation, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology. He also has a PhD from Bond University, Gold Coast with a Master of International Relations and Lefaoali’i (high talking Chief) title from Lepa, Samoa. His research interests include Sport Management, Sport Leadership, mental health, Pacific language, indigenous studies, and trans-nationalism.
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Senior Lecturer in Management Systems, University of Hull
Dr Dionysios Demetis is a Senior Lecturer in Management Systems at the Hull University Business School and a Visiting Professor at Texas A&M University. He holds a PhD on Anti-Money Laundering and Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he taught classes on Information Systems Management, IS Security and Research Methods. While at the LSE, he contributed widely to a number of research deliverables for the European Union, but most importantly to the domain of Anti-Money Laundering for the Spotlight EU project, as well as the GATE EU Project targeting Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. His research on the Risk-Based Approach to Anti-Money Laundering and the 3rd EU Directive has been featured in the IMOLIN select bibliography of the United Nations while his research on ‘Data Growth and the Consequences to Anti-Money Laundering’ has won the Emerald Highly Commended Award from the Journal of Money Laundering Control. For his teaching at the London School of Economics, he was awarded the departmental Teaching Assistant award for Outstanding Contribution based on peer review and student feedback from the Information Systems Department in 2006. During his PhD, he secured three consecutive research scholarships from the LSE.
His book on AML entitled ‘Technology and Anti-Money Laundering’ and published by Edward Elgar is the first book to provide a coherent theoretical structure for Anti-Money Laundering research and practice, based on Systems Theory, and the first book to provide an Information Systems perspective on Anti-Money Laundering. With LSE Professor Ian Angell, he co-authored another book that applies second-order cybernetics to uncover deep-seated epistemological paradoxes in science. The book is entitled ‘Science’s First Mistake’, and it is published worldwide by Bloomsbury.
Dr Demetis has a background in Physics from the University of Crete, as well as an MSc from the London School of Economics on the Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems. Prior to this academic post he was an Adjunct Professor for the California based Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL), where he lectured on the International Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering courses for the university’s online program for about three years. He has also been lecturing for TJSL on Qualitative Research Methodology for both MSc-level and PhD-level students, while advising a number of students in their research. He has given a large number of talks in conferences, and is a regular speaker at Cambridge University at the Annual Economic Crime Symposium.
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Dr Dionysios Demetis is a Lecturer in Management Systems at the Hull University Business School. He holds a PhD on Anti-Money Laundering and Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he taught classes on Information Systems Management, IS Security and Research Methods. While at the LSE, he contributed widely to a number of research deliverables for the European Union, but most importantly to the domain of Anti-Money Laundering for the Spotlight EU project, as well as the GATE EU Project targeting Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. His research on the Risk-Based Approach to Anti-Money Laundering and the 3rd EU Directive has been featured in the IMOLIN select bibliography of the United Nations while his research on ‘Data Growth and the Consequences to Anti-Money Laundering’ has won the Emerald Highly Commended Award from the Journal of Money Laundering Control. For his teaching at the London School of Economics, he was awarded the departmental Teaching Assistant award for Outstanding Contribution based on peer review and student feedback from the Information Systems Department in 2006. During his PhD, he secured three consecutive research scholarships from the LSE.
His book on AML entitled ‘Technology and Anti-Money Laundering’ and published by Edward Elgar is the first book to provide a coherent theoretical structure for Anti-Money Laundering research and practice, based on Systems Theory, and the first book to provide an Information Systems perspective on Anti-Money Laundering. With LSE Professor Ian Angell, he co-authored another book that applies second-order cybernetics to uncover deep-seated epistemological paradoxes in science. The book is entitled ‘Science’s First Mistake’, and it is published worldwide by Bloomsbury.
Dr Demetis has a background in Physics from the University of Crete, as well as an MSc from the London School of Economics on the Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems. Prior to this academic post he was an Adjunct Professor for the California based Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL), where he lectured on the International Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering courses for the university’s online program for about three years. He has also been lecturing for TJSL on Qualitative Research Methodology for both MSc-level and PhD-level students, while advising a number of students in their research. He has given a large number of talks in conferences, and is a regular speaker at Cambridge University at the Annual Economic Crime Symposium.
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Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
I have a Master of Pharmacy and am a registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council as well as a member of my professional body, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. As an academic pharmacist, I teach pharmacy undergraduates and have achieved my Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and obtained Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (now known as Advance HE). I am also the pharmacy course director and equality, diversity and inclusion lead for the pharmacy department. I supervise student-led research in the discipline of pharmacy practice.
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Director, University of Johannesburg
I hold a PhD in palaeo-archaeology from the University of the Witwatersrand. I have a passion for Plio-Pleistocene primates, palaeosciences policy and transformation.
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Coordinateur interministériel IRS ² et GOVSATCOM, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES)
Head of telecommunication and navigation projects since 2017. Management of projects in governmental and civilian/commercial space telecommunications (system/satellite/payload development and R&D), and satellite navigation projects (45 staff). During 13 years, program manager for SYRACUSE 4 (military satcom system) with French Defense, for ATHENA FIDUS (dual satcom system) in cooperation with Italy, for AGORA (civilian French digital divide). During 7 years, system technical responsible in climate change micro satellite (PARASOL), in space telecommunications (technological satellite STENTOR), in navigation per satellite (GNSS- GALILEO). During 7 years, system engineer in science projects (cosmology and stratospheric ballooning).
Auditor of IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale) 52nd national session in 2015-
2016.
Engineer from Sup’Aéro (INSAE, national institute of aeronautics and space) in 1988.
Space systems engineering graduation, delivered by Spacetech University of Delft in 1999.
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Assistant Professor of Finance and Financial Markets, Utrecht University
Dirk works as Assistant Professor of Finance and Financial Markets at the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.). His research is focused on the behavior of financial consumers, financial institutions and financial markets. Examples of recent research topics in the area of consumer behavior involve checkout decisions when confronted with Dynamic Currency Conversion checkout options and switching behavior of bank clients based in deposit rate differentials. An example of a recent project on the interplay of financial institutions and financial markets is a study to the medium-term effects of ESG rating revisions on stock prices.
In addition to his research, Dirk is program director of the MSc. in Banking and Finance at U.S.E. and teaches courses on Investment Management.
Outside academia, he is a member of the Euronext AEX Indices Steering Committee and of the editorial board of the VBA Journaal which is a quarterly journal published by the CFA Society VBA Netherlands.
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Adjunct Professor, Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
My research program focuses on various themes at the intersection of evolution, ecology, conservation biology and genomic science.
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Senior research fellow, Griffith University
Dr Diti Bhattacharya is an emerging leader within human geography with a focus on the study of leisure studies, migration, and sporting cultures. Diti is a Research Fellow in an ARC Discovery Project with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. Her research interests include fitness cultures, sporting geographies, migration, heritage and mobilities. She is currently investigating the ways in which sporting practices and fitness cultures can be used as a social conduit through which marginalised communities experience a sense of belonging and community in Southeast Queensland. Diti is recognised for her interdisciplinary research on women, physical cultures, migration and belonging. Her research has advanced novel theoretical and conceptual frameworks for addressing new challenges arising from the increased attention on migrant women, intersectionality, belonging and leisure activities. Trained as a human geographer Diti specialises post human critical feminist theories, non-representational theory, mobilities and affect and in her work. Her work aims to bring a fresh and intersectional lens on the development of critical postfeminist analysis in the fields of leisure studies, migration and mobilities, specifically within the Australian context.
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Professeur des sciences de l'information et de la communication, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
Divina Frau-Meigs est normalienne, agrégée et professeur à l’université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Boursière Fulbright et Lavoisier, elle est diplômée de l’université de la Sorbonne, de l’université de Stanford (Palo Alto) et de l’Annenberg School for Communications (université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie). Sociologue des médias, elle est spécialiste des contenus et comportements à risque (violence, pornographie, information, paniques médiatiques, radicalisation…). Elle travaille aussi aux questions de réception et d’usage des technologies de l’information et de la communication (acculturation, éducation, réglementation, identité, diversité culturelle…). Elle détient la chaire UNESCO « savoir-devenir à l’ère du développement numérique durable : articuler usages et apprentissages pour maîtriser les cultures de l’information ». Elle a dirigé l'ANR TRANSLIT (convergence entre éducation aux médias, à l'information et à l'informatique). Elle a été un des porteurs du consortium européen ECO qui a pour but de créer des MOOCs à des fins d’usages pédagogiques des médias et du numérique. Elle a piloté également le projet Erasmus+ ECFOLI qui vise à la résolution de conflit par l'éducation aux médias et à l'information (Chypre, Maroc, Palestine, Portugal). Elle a présidé le Défi 8 de l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche "Sociétés innovantes, intégrantes et adaptatives". Elle est à présent présidente de l'ONG Savoir*Devenir (www.savoirdevenir.net), qui porte des projets en Education aux Médias et à l'Information et à la citoyenneté numérique et s'adosse à la Chaire UNESCO "Savoir Devenir à l'ère du développement numérique durable". Savoir*Devenir propose des formations en Education aux Médias et à l'Information et littératie numérique pour les enseignants, les éducateurs, les bibliothécaires et les formateurs. Les projets internationaux remportés par S*D sont: Youcheck! (vérification de faits et littératie visuelle), YouVerify (MOOC et jeux sérieux pour lutter contre la désinformation), Play Your Role (jeux sérieux pour combattre le discours de haine), JAMIL (formation de formateurs et montage de centre EMI en Tunisie), Crossover (pour promouvoir l'algo-littératie). D'autres projets sont en cours: ENID-TEACH (MOOC pour former aux méthdologies numériques), ALGOWATCH (quizz et jeu pour former à l'algo- et IA-littératie), GENDER-ED (pour former aux représentations de genre) et AIDEMEDIA (pour créer un festival d'éducation aux médias et journalisme) A cela s'ajoutent des expertises pour le CoE, l'UE et l'UNESCO ainsi qu'un certain nombre de gouvernements et institutions dans le monde.
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Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Divya Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Binghamton University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the areas of natural resource governance, development, and justice. Her research focuses on multi-actor and multi-level governance, collective action, democratic decentralization, institutional analysis, and justice implications of sustainable development, climate change and conservation reforms.
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Research Fellow, University of Oxford
I am a biologist with an interest in infectious diseases from evolutionary and immunological perspectives.
I study influenza viruses, which naturally circulate in wild waterfowl, but which also spills over into several mammalian species, sometimes causing devastating outbreaks or pandemics. In my previous work, I studied the transmission dynamics and evolution of this virus in wild birds and livestock. Now, as a BBSRC Discovery Fellow, I am studying its evolution and pathogenicity in marine mammals. I focus specifically on two closely-related species of pinnipeds: grey and harbour seals – which happen to exhibit dramatically distinct outcomes due to viral infections.
The idea is to use the avian-seal interface as a kind of “natural experiment” to study how avian influenza adapts to mammals, and the mechanisms underpinning the variation in host susceptibility to disease. This research can help us anticipate and respond to wildlife disease outbreaks and potentially, future pandemics.
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Academic Associate, Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
Diya Uberoi, PhD, LLM, JD, MPhil, BA. is a human rights scholar and advocate, with significant experience working with international and national organizations in the field of health and human rights. Her research interests lie at the intersection of law and public health, with a focus on genetic discrimination, equity in matters of data sharing and access to medicines in low- and middle-income countries. She is the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Policy Anlayst at the CGP and the coordinator of the Genetic Discrimination Observatory.
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Coordinatrice du projet de recherche sur la finance et le climat, Agence française de développement (AFD)
Diplômée d’un double cursus en finance et en statistiques (Paris IV et ENSAE), Djedjiga Kachenoura commence sa carrière dans l’univers de la gestion d’actifs « traditionnels » puis la gestion alternative (HSBC et Allianz) avant de rejoindre la Banque Africaine de Développement en tant que responsable de financement de projets d’infrastructure. Par la suite, Djedjiga rejoint l’Agence Française de Développement où elle est actuellement en charge de la finance climat/finance durable au sein du département « Diagnostics économiques et politiques publiques » : Elle est pilote du dialogue de politiques publiques autour de la transition bas-carbone.
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PhD candidate in Japanese studies, University of Sheffield
I received a BA in Asian and African Studies from Russia's Institute of Practical Oriental Studies in 2012 and a MA in Japanese Studies from the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield in 2015. In 2010-2011, I spent a year at Hosei University in Tokyo as an exchange student. I am currently conducting PhD research on the transformation of Japan's grand strategy towards China and contemporary US-China-Japan trilateral security relations. My articles on Japan's history and foreign policy have been published in Russian and English.
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Principal Consultant, Small World Consulting, Lancaster University
Dmitry has a background in applied mathematics and started his career as an aerospace scientist before moving to sustainability and climate change. He has worked on a range of projects with partners from academia, the private sector, the UK Government and the United Nations. At Small World Consulting, Dmitry leads the portfolio of projects on assessing landscape-level carbon emissions and land use change options to aid carbon sequestration. Recent clients include all UK National Parks, all Welsh AONBs, Cotswolds and Cannock Chase National Landscapes, Cumberland and Westmorland & Furness Councils, and private estates.
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Associate Dean of Faculty, Minerva University
Dollie Davis specializes in International Political Economy and Economic Development. Prior to joining Minerva, she worked as an International Visiting Fellow at a think tank in Taipei, Taiwan where she executed a paper, discussing the impact of Taiwan’s Non-Governmental Organizations on their International Aid, Healthcare, and Political Systems. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Political Economy from the University of Southern California and her M.A. degree in Economics from the University of San Francisco.
Professor Davis taught courses on Economic Development in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. She believes in actively engaging with each student and providing a forum for in-depth discussion about old and new concepts and ideas in every class. Professor Davis teaches the Boom, Bust, and Bubbles: The Free Enterprise System Core Course and the Global Development and Applied Economics Concentration Course.
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