Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black studies, Swarthmore College
My name is Dr. Edlin Veras. I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black studies at Swarthmore College where I conduct research on and teach about anti-Blackness, and migration in the US and Caribbean. I earned my PhD in Sociology with a specialization in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of South Florida in 2021. My work has been supported by the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program. I have been actively engaged in research on Haitian migrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic since 2017. I have been published in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and am currently finishing my book manuscript on Haitian Migrant Laborers in Dominican Republic’s northern coast.
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Professor of Digital Marketing, University of Groningen
Edlira Shehu joined the Department of Marketing at RUG in February 2023. Previously, she worked in Universities in Denmark and Germany. Edlira obtained her PhD and her state doctorate at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Edlira's research focuses on a broad range of topics along three areas: digital advertising, multichannel retailing, and nonprofit marketing. Her research uses quantitative methods to solve empirical problems and has high academic as well as managerial and societal relevance. Her work has been published in leading journals of the field, such as Journal of Marketing Research, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Retailing, and Research Policy. She is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Retailing. Prior to joining academia, Edlira worked in different management positions in the field of marketing analytics.
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Assistant Professor in Environmental Forensics, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Edmond Sanganyado is a highly accomplished environmental toxicologist and a dedicated educator currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences at Northumbria University. Prior to joining Northumbria University, Dr. Sanganyado was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Marine Science at Shantou University in China, where he also completed his postdoctoral research fellowship. During his time at Shantou University, he was honored with the Outstanding Young Talent Award for his exceptional research contributions to the field of marine science.
Dr. Sanganyado's academic journey began with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Chemistry from the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe. He then went on to pursue his PhD in Environmental Toxicology at the University of California, Riverside, as a Fulbright Scholar. His research focuses on the impact of environmental contaminants on ecosystems, specifically in marine environments.
In recognition of his significant contributions to environmental science and sustainability, Dr. Sanganyado was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Environmental Sciences. His commitment to fostering scientific collaboration and leadership led him to be elected as a member of the Global Young Academy, an organization dedicated to empowering young scientists and scholars from around the world.
Dr. Sanganyado is also passionate about promoting scientific research and education in his home country. As a testament to his dedication, he is currently serving his second term as the President of the Zimbabwe Young Academy of Sciences, where he works to strengthen the capacity of young scientists in Zimbabwe and beyond.
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Professor of Neurology, Radboud University
Edo Richard is professor of neurology at Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, The Netherlands and the dept of Public Health at Amsterdam University Medical Centre. He combines patient care with research into the prevention of dementia. He leads several large (inter)national randomized controlled trials on risk factor modification to reduce dementia risk. He also addresses ethical issues in prevention and early diagnosis of cognitive impairment.
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Lecturer in Natural Language Processing, University of Edinburgh
I am an assistant professor in Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh and a visiting professor at NVIDIA. Previously, I was a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at Mila - Quebec AI Institute in Montreal. In 2021, I obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge, St John’s College. Once upon a time I studied typological and historical linguistics at the University of Pavia.
My research has been featured on the Economist and Scientific American. The main research foci of my lab are:
- Modular deep learning: I am interested in designing neural architectures that route information to specialised modules (e.g., sparse subnetworks). This facilitates systematic generalisation and conditional computation. It also helps control the model’s behaviour, e.g., mitigating its hallucinations.
- Efficient architectures: The goal is to make language models more efficient by compressing their intermediate representations and memory. As a side effect, this also makes them break free from tokenizers and learn hierarchical abstractions over raw data.
- Computational typology: I wish to understand how language varies, across the world and its cultures, with the help of computational tools. Multimodal models in particular give us an powerful tool to study how form depends on grounded, embodied representations of meaning and function.
My research earned a Google Research Faculty Award. I received two Best Paper Awards at EMNLP 2021 and RepL4NLP 2019. I am a board member of SIGTYP, the ACL special interest group for computational typology, a member of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), and part of the TACL journal editorial team.
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Chercheur au Square Research Center et à la Chaire Economie du Climat, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
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Chargé de recherche, Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI), Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
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Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne
I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne
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Eduardo Velloso is a Research Fellow at the Microsoft Research Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Eduardo holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. His research aims at creating future social user experiences combining novel input modalities such as gaze, body movement, touch gestures, etc. His latest work has investigated eye-based interaction with smart watches, multimodal combinations of gaze, and eye control of video games.
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Profesora asociada, IE University
Estudió Ingeniería Técnica Industrial en la Universidad del País Vasco. Completó el programa SEP (Senior Excutive Program) en ESADE Business School de Barcelona (2005 – 2006) y, en 2007 obtuvo el Master en Gestión de Recursos Humanos también por ESADE. Posteriormente en 2012 obtuvo el Master Executive Coaching and Management por la IE Business School de Madrid.
Fundó su propio negocio ABELETXE, entonces un pequeño hotel rural y restaurante ahora completamente reformado se ha convertido en un espacio singular dedicado a la celebración de eventos en el País Vasco. Es patrona y fundadora de ‘Mountaineers for Himalayas by Edurne Pasaban’ donde se trabaja por el desarrollo de proyectos relacionados con la educación de los niños y niñas del Himalaya.
Con 18 años en Ecuador comenzó a realizar ascensiones a montañas de 6000 metros y finalmente en 1998 viajó a Himalaya por primera vez. Desde entonces Edurne no ha dejado de realizar diferentes expediciones a montañas de más de 8000 metros, coronando la cumbre del Shisha Pangma en 2010 y convirtiéndose así en la primera mujer en el mundo en ascender los 14 ochomiles del Planeta.
En la actualidad Edurne combina su carrera deportiva con su carrera profesional como conferenciante y coach en empresas tanto nacionales como internacionales. Organiza charlas, formaciones y talleres diseñados a medida, en las que acompaña a equipos y personas, hacia sus propios objetivos a través de sus experiencias como alpinista.
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Professor in Southeast Asian Politics, Australian National University
I am a specialist in the politics of Indonesia, and president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia.
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Reader in Psychology, University of the West of Scotland
I am an environmental psychologist specialising in the role of the learning environment in the educational process and environmental design within healthcare and work environments. Recent projects have focused on dementia-friendly design in care homes and identifying and evaluating the impact of new school buildings on students and teachers
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Professor of Climate Science and Meteorology, University of Lincoln
Edward Hanna is Professor of Climate Science and Meteorology in the College of Science. He is current lead PI of 3 multi-institute NERC grants, and Lincoln PI of a further NERC grant, with a combined value ~£2.5 million. He serves as Co-Chair of the World Climate Research Programme Climate & Cryosphere (WCRP CliC) project's Scientific Steering Group, and is the WCRP representative on the Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level (ISMASS) expert group.
Edward received a BSc in Planetary Science (First Class Honours) from University College London in 1995 and completed a PhD in Satellite Remote Sensing of Antarctic Sea Ice and Climatic Couplings at the University of Bristol in 1998. This was followed by postdoctoral research in the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading between 1998 and 2000 before being appointed as Lecturer in Meteorology at the Institute of Marine Studies, University of Plymouth in 2000. In 2003 Edward was appointed as Lecturer in Climate Change at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006, Reader in 2010 and was awarded a personal chair in 2013, serving as Deputy Head of Department 2013-16.
Edward has published >140 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including 5 papers in Nature (1 as lead author), 2 in Nature Climate Change, 2 in Nature Communications, 1 in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment as lead author, and 1 in Science. Together his papers have attracted >16,900 citations (H index 61) according to Google Scholar. He was listed in the top 2% of most cited scientists in his research field in a 2020 Stanford University survey. He has led an international team to reconstruct Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance, the results of which have been used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on which he was a Contributing Author on their Fifth Assessment Report. He has also contributed as an author to many Arctic Report Cards of the US National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Another key research interest is investigating possible links between Arctic Amplification of global warming and the occurrence of extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes. Hanna is a founding member of an international working group on Arctic climate change-mid latitude extreme linkages, led by Dr. James E. Overland of NOAA. As part of his climatological research Edward has developed the concept of the Greenland Blocking Index related to North Atlantic polar jet stream changes, as a key driver of the recently increased Greenland ice melt. Active collaborations include with the Met Office, several other European meteorological institutes, and NOAA.
Edward is a regular organiser of or invited participant in international workshops and conferences, and has given multiple invited lectures in Denmark, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and the USA. He lead-organised ISMASS international research workshops on ice-sheet mass balance and climate change in Davos, Switzerland, in June 2018, and Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2022, and co-organised an international research workshop on Arctic-midlatitude climate linkages in Lincoln in Sept. 2023. He also co-led the "Moana Water of Life: Navigating Climate Change for Planetary Health" international conference in Lincoln in Aug/Sep 2019.
Edward is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and a member of the Climatological Observers Link and maintains a weather station at Newark.
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Senior Research Scientist, Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Edward Martey (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6933-3685) is an Agricultural and Applied economist at the CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute with 12 years of professional experience. He is a visiting Research Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a 2022 Visiting Fellow, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Structural Transformation of African and Asian Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAAARS+) program. He received his BSc (Agricultural Economics), MPhil (Agricultural Economics), and PhD (Agricultural and Applied Economics) degrees from the University of Ghana and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, respectively. He is currently the Head of the Social Science and Biometry Section of CSIR-SARI. His research, development, agricultural economics, and operational work cover a range of policy-relevant questions related to poverty, development, and commercialization in Africa. Specifically, his recent research focuses on impact assessment of agricultural technologies, energy, agricultural and rural development, time poverty, and economic valuation using choice experiments.
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PhD Law Student, University of New England
Edward Musole is a multifaceted professional with a diverse educational background, encompassing law, business, and writing. Currently serving as a Lawyer in Western Australia, Edward is also pursuing a Ph.D. in Law at the University of New England. With a Master's in Writing from Swinburne University of Technology Australia and a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Zambia, Edward brings a unique blend of legal expertise and strategic management skills to his work. His research interests revolve around the intersection of technology and law, particularly focusing on privacy laws in Australia and the implications of privacy invasive technologies. With strong skills in legal research, analysis, and communication, Edward is poised to make significant contributions to the legal field and beyond.
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Professor of Performance and Visual Culture, Head of School of Art and Design, UNSW Sydney
PHD, Macquarie University
Ba Hons Macquarie and University medalist in Literature.
Member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts (2013-2015).
From 2007-2011, President of PSi (Performance Studies international)—the international professional association of performance studies scholars.
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Senior Lecturer in Planning and Development, Cardiff University
My professional background is in planning and development consultancy and I hold professional qualifications from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Royal Town Planning Institute. I also hold a PhD in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge.
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Reader and Research Director in the School of Education, University of Strathclyde
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Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
I have an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Journalism degree from the University of Western Ontario. I am currently a fellow at Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University. I have held that position since 2011.
I have been awarded three year-long fellowships: the Southam Fellowship at Massey College at the University of Toronto in 1986-87;the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT and Harvard in 1996-1997, and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy in 2006. This award is a collaborative project of the Atkinson Foundation, the Honderich Family and Toronto Star. The focus of my fellowship was a series of articles on how climate change is reshaping the Arctic.
Since 2009, I have been a contributing writer for Yale Environment 360, an international online journal offering opinion, analysis, reporting, and debate on global environmental issues by scientists, journalists, environmentalists, academics, policy makers, and business people. Yale 360 is published by Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. To view my articles, go to: http://e360.yale.edu/authors/ed-struzik
Since 2016 I have been a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, a citizens' organization dedicated to the long-term environmental and social well-being of northern Canada and its peoples. CARC has been a major voice on Arctic issues for the past 40 years.
I have written five books, four of them on the Arctic. Future Arctic, Fields Notes From A World on the Edge was published by Island Press in Washington D.C. in 2015. I have also contributed chapters to several other books. Two of the most recent are: Reflections of Canada, Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150 years, (Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, 2017) and It’s All Happening So Fast, which was published in 2017 by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
I have played the role of advisor for the World Wildlife Fund of Canada’s Arctic Program. I was also on one of the selection committees for the International Polar Year conference that was held in Montreal in 2012. The IPY From Knowledge to Action Conference was one of the largest and most important scientific conferences for polar science and climate change, impacts and adaptation. Keynote presentations, thought-provoking panel discussions and workshops involved hundreds of scientists from around the world.
My long list of awards includes the U.S.-based Grantham Prize for environmental writing, the Michener Deacon Fellowship in Public Policy and the Sir Sandford Fleming Medal, which goes to one person each year who has made an outstanding contribution to the understanding of science in Canada.
My articles on the Arctic have appeared in journals such as Foreign Policy Review, Arctic, Conservation Biology, The World Policy Institute’s Arctic-in-Context and Conservation Biology, to name just a few
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies, King's College London
He researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature in its most capacious designations. His first book Emergent Worlds was published by New York University Press in 2018. He edited an essay collection entitled Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture, which appeared on Edinburgh University Press in 2022. He is currently writing a biography of Moby-Dick.
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Associate Professor, School of Business, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Affiliate Researcher/Clyde Valley Archaeological Research Framework Engagement Officer, University of Glasgow
Recent Qualifications
Oct 2020 - Oct 2024 - PhD in Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Dissertation title: ‘Repopulating the Braes: Shieling practice, upland seasonal industries and agricultural practice in post-medieval Scotland’. Supervised by Dr Michael Given, Dr Rachel Opitz and Prof. Sian Jones.
Recent Employment
Clyde Valley Archaeological Research Framework Engagement Officer at Archaeology Scotland (2024 - Present)
Independent Archaeologist (2024)
Excavations Director on the University of Glasgow Glencoe Field School (2023 - Present)
Lead Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Glasgow (2023-2024)
Research Leave Lecturing Cover at University of Glasgow (2022-2023)
Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Glasgow (2020-2024)
Research
My recent research has focused on settlement, transhumance and the perception and management of upland landscapes in Highland Scotland. In 2021 and 2022 I directed surveys of shieling landscapes in Glencoe, Canna and Mar Lodge, and excavations of shielings and associated features in Glencoe. In 2023 I directed the excavation of the 'Summerhouse of MacIain' and brought to report stage the artefactual assemblages from that site. In 2024 I was co-director of the excavation of the settlement of Achnacon, in partnership with Derek Alexander from the National Trust for Scotland.
Previously I have researched and published on the archaeology of modern and contemporary urbanism, wastelands, edgelands and anti-elite narratives of urbanism in the post-enlightenment city, and the role of prehistoric monuments in contemporary urban landscapes with a focus on their placemaking value and their role as 'timeless' monuments within rapidly changing landscapes.
I have broader interests in post-medieval and contemporary archaeology and am a member of the Society of Post Medieval Archaeology, the International Network for Contemporary Archaeology in Scotland, the Wasteland Working Group, and am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. I maintain a broader interest in Scottish Archaeology and have worked on excavations from prehistoric burial monuments to 20th c Tennement sites.
I have also worked extensively on excavations in Central Italy and was Topographer then Chief of Topography on the Gabii Project run by the University of Michigan from 2018 to 2023. In this role was involved in the publication of an article in Antiquity on redefining classical urbanism.
I have also held a variety of short term research assistant and consultant posts on projects on topics from remote sensing and agriculture, to computer learning and archaeological survey, to geophysics of the Antonine Wall.
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Edge Hill University
If you think you or someone you know suffers from prosopagnosia/faceblindness (i.e., regular difficulties when recognising faces they should), then please get in touch with me if you would like to be tested for the condition at [email protected]
I’m a psychologist who is interested in vision in those with intact face recognition skills, neuropsychological (i.e., brain damage) and neurodevelopmental (i.e., lifelong problems in certain aspects of cognition) groups. A significant proportion of this work has focused on individuals who suffer from developmental prosopagnosia, a lifelong condition characterised by severe difficulties recognising facial identity. Unfortunately, most of the people who believe they have prosopagnosia will not receive a diagnosis using current approaches to testing. I hope to remedy this through my latest research (Burns et al., 2022). I also do work with aphantasia (people who can't visualise imagery in their mind) and developmental co-ordination disorder (people who have trouble with movement).
I am also interested in how we perceive a face when it is viewed with other faces nearby. This can often lead to a phenomenon called a cheerleader or friend effect, where the presence of others can make us appear more attractive or trustworthy. My recent paper (Burns et al., 2021, Cognition) drew many of these effects together in a framework that will help authors understand the myriad of influences on such phenomena.
Please get in touch with me at [email protected] if you have any questions about my work, or would like to study for a fully funded PhD (open to candidates worldwide). PhD applications are often open near closing dates in January or summer.
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Lecturer in Psychological Science, University of Bristol
Edwin’s research interests are best summarised as the quantitative exploration of development, both within individuals and in populations. Broadly, he investigates how affective and cognitive faculties impact each other, and how they are affected by the environment. Edwin triangulates problems with narrowly focussed experiments aided by computational models of behaviour, with machine learning to find complex patterns in large secondary datasets, and with agent-based population simulations.
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PhD Candidate, Geotechnical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
I am a doctoral student at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi. I hold a masters degree in Geotechnical Engineering, which I completed with distinction from the National Institute of Technology Silchar in 2022.
My PhD research is focused on the problems encompassing construction of roads in hilly areas particularly in Himachal Pradesh and the analysis of landslides resulting from combined effect of rainfall and non-engineered road cuts.
My interest lies in understanding the complex interplay between the environment and civil engineering in the context of hilly terrains. Through my research, I aim to contribute to the sustainable development of infrastructure in these challenging areas.
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Director of University of Kent's Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research www.cybersec.kent.ac.uk. Research in formal methods (new book: Refinement in Z and Object Z 2nd edition, Springer 2014).
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PhD Candidate in Media Studies, Western University
Effie Sapuridis (she/her) is a Media Studies Ph.D. candidate at Western University and an Adjunct Professor at Adelphi University. Her research focuses on new media platforms, digital storytelling, feminist ethics of care, and data justice. Additionally, she is the Outreach and Communications Editor for Transformative Works and Cultures and the Reviews Editor for the Journal of Fandom Studies.
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Associate Professor Efrem Castelnuovo joined the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in 2014.
Prior to joining the Melbourne Institute, Efrem has held positions at the University of Padova, and has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Bologna, Brescia, Rome Tor Vergata, and the Halle Institute for Economic Research.
Efrem earned a PhD in Economics from the Bocconi University (2004), and has been Associated Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics since 2013. His research agenda centres on the role of nonlinearities for the transmission of structural shocks, the identification of common factors across countries, and the empirical validation of structural DSGE models.
He has published his research in a number of international journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Economic Journal, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Economics Letters.
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Researcher of Conservation, University of Oxford
I joined WildCRU in 2017 as the course coordinator/lead tutor of the Recanati-Kaplan Centre Post Graduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice. I obtained a M.Sc. in Ecology and a separate M.Sc. in GIS both from Wageningen University. After that I worked extensively in conservation in the Caribbean and Africa, predominantly with the Zambian Carnivore Programme on the conservation and research of large carnivores in various ecosystems within Zambia. My Ph.D. focused on predator-predator relations and non-lethal effects from predators on prey in Liuwa Plains National Park, Zambia with professor Scott Creel at Montana State University.
I have a passion for anything wildlife and sharing knowledge. My current research interests are focusing on predator-prey relationships and uncertainty in population estimates.
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Anglia Ruskin University
Dr Dagilyte is an expert in European Union (EU) constitutional, human rights, and internal market law. Educated in Lithuania, Sweden and the United Kingdom, she has also trained at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. Dr Dagilyte's research focuses in particular on European solidarity, EU citizenship and human rights, free movement of persons and welfare state. She has given conference papers and published in these areas internationally.
Besides EU law, Dr Dagilyte is also interested in legal education, in particular using technology for teaching, learning and assessment. She develops her interest in legal education as a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Law Teachers. In 2015, Jisc listed Dr Dagilyte among Top 50 UK higher education social media influencers.
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Research Innovation and Sustainability (CERIS), Atlantic Technological University
Dr. Ehiaze Ehimen is a Senior Research Fellow in Developmental Sustainable Energy Systems at Atlantic Technological University, Sligo. He completed a PhD in Physics (Energy Systems) from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in 2010, prior to which he had a European MSc in Environmental Technology and Management from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Dr Ehimen has worked extensively on a range of renewable energy, environmental technology, waste utilisation and bio-processing optimisation projects in a variety of research projects, roles and institutions in different European countries. He is currently the coordinator and lead PI of the Irish Research Council ( IRC) COALESCE award funded CEANGAL project which is focused on transnational research collaboration to afford improved renewable energy uptake in Sub-Saharan African communities, Ehiaze is also the coordinator and principal of the Sustainable Energy Authourity of Ireland (SEAI) funded MOBILISE project which researches economic, political, and technological factors affecting the implementation of energy efficiency measures in Traveller communities in Ireland. Previously, he was the Project Coordinator for the Rep. of Ireland for the EU INTERREG VI Renewable Engine project (2018-2021). Here, in collaboration with a local SME, Organic Power, he contributed to the development of a small scale AD plant for decentralised gas and electricity generation. He was also a PI on the EU NPA funded SYMBIOMA project (2019-2022) which supported bio-based industries in sparsely populated EU Atlantic regions with mechanisms for valorising their waste streams.
Previously, Dr. Ehimen worked an Researcher at Flemish institute of Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium investigating enzymatic process optimisation and intensification routes (FP7 BIOINTENSE project), and at Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark on the EU INTERREG 4A funded “Large Scale Bioenergy Lab” project and the EU regional fund project “Algae Innovation Centre”.Dr Ehiaze Ehimen, ATU’s Senior Research Fellow,
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Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Dr. Ehsan Noroozinejad is a Senior Researcher at the Urban Transformations Research Centre, where he specialises in Smart and Resilient Construction. With a wealth of experience, Dr. Noroozinejad previously held a prestigious position at UBC Smart Structures in Canada before joining the UTRC. As the director of the Resilient Structures Research Group, Dr. Noroozinejad has spearheaded groundbreaking advancements in the field of structural engineering alongside an esteemed team of international researchers. His notable contributions are exemplified by his role as the Founder and Chief Editor of the International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering. Additionally, he holds esteemed positions as an Associate Editor for several distinguished journals and serves as the Engineering Editor for ASCE Natural Hazards Review. Dr. Noroozinejad's prolific and influential academic career is underscored by the publication of over 140 high-impact journal papers,7 books in collaboration with esteemed publishers, and various patents. He is also a co-founding Editor of the Data-Centric Engineering Book Series published by De Gruyter. His research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including smart materials and structures, resilience-based design, artificial intelligence, modular construction, and digital twins in construction. Dr. Noroozinejad's exceptional contributions have been recognised through numerous national and international awards, notably including the prestigious 2022 ASCE Associate Editor Award, which commends his exemplary service in enhancing ASCE's publication activities.
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Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California
Eileen Crimmins, PhD, is a University Professor and the AARP Chair in Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health, one of the Demography of Aging Centers supported by the U.S. National Institute on Aging. She is also a Director of the Multidisciplinary Training in Gerontology Program and the NIA-sponsored Network on Biological Risk. Crimmins is a co-investigator of the Health and Retirement Study in the U.S. Much of Crimmins’ research has focused on changes over time in health and mortality. Crimmins has been instrumental in organizing and promoting the recent integration of the measurement of biological indicators in large population surveys. She has served co-chair of a Committee for the National Academy of Sciences to address why life expectancy in the U.S. is falling so far behind that of other countries. She has co-edited several books with a focus on international aging, mortality and health expectancy: Determining Health Expectancies; Longer Life and Healthy Aging; Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-old Population; International Handbook of Adult Mortality; Explaining Diverging Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries; and International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages: Dimensions and Sources. She has received the Kleemeier Award for Research from the Gerontological Society of America and the Taeuber award for research from the Population Association of America.
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Assistant Professor, School of Communications, Dublin City University
Eileen Culloty is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications and deputy director of the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy, and Society. Her research interests concern disinformation, media literacy education, and public media. Her book, co-authored with Jane Suiter, Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media (2021) was published by Routledge. Eileen coordinates the Ireland Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory and is co-chair of Media Literacy Ireland, the national association of media literacy facilitated by Coimisiún na Meán.
She is also an member of the working-group developing the National Counter Disinformation Strategy, the EDMO working-group on media literacy standards, Meta's working group on Digital Citizenship, and the steering group of iHealthFacts. Eileen is currently involved in the following projects: Local Media for Democracy (European Commission), TeamLit: Teacher education in digital and media literacy (EMIF), ProMS: Promoting Media Literacy and Youth Citizen Journalism through Mobile Stories (Creative Europe).
She previously worked on H2020 Provenance and led a Broadcasting Authority of Ireland project investigating the diversity of public service media during Covid-19, the implementation of EU Code of Practice on Disinformation during Covid-19, and a Science Foundation Ireland outreach project on vaccine misperceptions.
Eileen's research has been published in Journalism, European Journal of Communication, Environmental Communication, Digital Journalism, and Critical Studies on Terrorism. Her co-authored paper on social media and political communication was awarded 3rd place in the International Communication Association's Top Three Faculty Papers for 2018. She has a PhD in communication studies from DCU.
Her research interests include public good aspects of media including the impact of disinformation and its countermeasures, public interest news and media, public understanding of media (media literacy), and policy responses to changes in the media environment.
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