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Ashirafu Miiro
PhD candidate, Rhodes University
Msc. Chemistry: Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
PGDE Certificate, Chemistry, Dartmouth College, USA
Visiting researcher at Rhodes University, South Africa
Visiting researcher at Slovenská technická univerzita v Bratislave (STU)
Disciplines
Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry
Skills and expertise
Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Chemical Analysis
Analytical Chemistry Instrumentation
Chromatography
Mass Spectrometry
Sample Preparation
Analytical Method Development
Instrumental Analysis
Environmental Analysis
Method Validation
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
Extraction
Liquid Chromatography
Method Development
Chromatographic Method Development
High Pressure Liquid Chromatography
Solvent Extraction
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Ashish Sharma
Post-doctoral researcher, University of Notre Dame
I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame working with Dr. Joe Fernando and Dr. Alan Hamlet. I received my Ph.D in regional climate modeling from Arizona State University in 2012 working with Dr. Huei-Ping Huang.
My research interests lie in atmospheric sciences and land/ocean-atmosphere interactions at a range of spatial scales (regional to local) that are relevant to the management of human and natural systems. My aim is to create a new generation of high-resolution climate models capable of resolving relatively small-scale processes and impacts in a sufficiently physically based way that they can be used for future climate predictions with increased confidence. I perform targeted dynamical downscaling experiments with the overarching goal of creating "bridges" between global, regional and micro-scale modeling.
Research Interests:
Regional climate modeling: Land/ocean/lake-atmosphere interactions, lake breeze, UHI effect, land data assimilation, hydrometeorological extremes
Microscale modeling: Climate modeling at hyper-local scales (~m scales)
Climate adaptation and mitigation: Interactions between urban ecology and urban heat island in a changing climate
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Ashlea Coen
PhD Candidate, School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology
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Ashleigh Gallagher
Senior Lecturer, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
I am a social psychologist whose research interests include emotion, culture, group dynamics, and gender. I have a long-standing interest in bridging the academic-"real world" gap. I have worked both inside and outside academia as a lecturer, public policy researcher, and research consultant. Whether in the classroom or the conference room, I enjoy communicating psychological science to a wide audience. Along with co-author Dr. Patrick Gallagher, I have co-authored a book on doctoral-level psychology careers outside academia. Together with co-author Dr. Janet Boseovski, I am currently writing a book on body image development in early to late childhood and the importance of the mother-daughter relationship in this process.
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Ashleigh Hamilton
Academic Clinical Lecturer, Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast
Dr Ashleigh Hamilton is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast. She graduated from Medicine with Honours at Queen’s University Belfast in 2010, and worked as a junior doctor in hospitals across Northern Ireland and New Zealand, before taking up a training post in Medical Oncology at the Northern Ireland Cancer Centre in Belfast in 2016. After completing a PhD in Cancer Epidemiology from 2019 to 2022 at Queen’s University, she has recently taken up her current post with a view to developing a career as a Clinical Academic. She splits her time between the Northern Ireland Cancer Centre where she works as an Oncologist, and Queen’s University, where her research focuses on early onset cancers.
Her research focuses on early onset colorectal cancer. Currently she is investigating the molecular epidemiology and survival of early onset colorectal cancer, along with qualitative research into the experience of patients with the disease.
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Ashleigh Kropp
PhD Student, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University
Ash is a PhD student in the Grinter lab primarily working on elucidating the structure and function of the hydrogenases in Mycobacterium smegmatis. She completed her undergraduate, Honours, and Masters of Philosophy degrees at the University of Melbourne/WEHI, writing her thesis on the structural and functional role of specific human kinases that are involved in numerous cancers. In late 2019, Ash joined the Greening lab at Monash as a research assistant and then began her PhD in the Grinter lab in February 2022.
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Ashleigh Rak
Research Nurse Coordinator, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Ashleigh Rak is a Research Nurse Coordinator at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute where she works with the Vaccine Uptake group. Ashleigh holds an honorary appointment with the Royal Children’s Hospital.
Ashleigh has completed her Master of Public Health at Monash University. She is passionate about working with paediatric and maternal populations.
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Ashley Bosa
Postdoctoral Researcher, Hazards and Climate Resilience Institute, Boise State University
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Ashley Carter
PhD Student in Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
Ashley Carter is a third-year PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on LGBTQ+ issues, including diversity initiatives within media organizations. Ashley also works as a freelance writer for Triathlete and competes nationally in the sport.
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Ashley Collar
PhD Candidate in Sociology & Associate Lecturer in Criminology at MMU, University of Manchester
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Ashley Gluchowski
University Fellow and Clinical Exercise Physiologist, School of Health & Society, University of Salford
Ashley is a clinical exercise physiologist (CSEP-CEP) and certified special population specialist (NSCA-CSPS).
Ashley holds an BMSc with an honours specialisation in Medical Science (from Western University in Canada) and a MSc also in Medical Science (specialisation in pharmacology and physiology from McMaster University in Canada).
Ashley went on to work in clinical trials research in cardiovascular surgery (including coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgical techniques and pharmacological interventions at the Population Health Research Institute in Canada).
Her mixed-methods PhD focused on the effects of very heavy load chronic eccentric resistance training in resistance-trained older adults (Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand).
Her first post-doc position and research fellowship looked at the awareness, knowledge, and implementation of the strength component of the UK’s Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines (University of Manchester in the UK).
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Ashley Haller
Research Technician at RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse), University of Manitoba
Ashley is a gender-based violence research technician at RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse), housed at the University of Manitoba. She has coordinated several research projects that seek to understand and address gender-based violence in Canada, including those funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Her educational background includes a Master of Human Rights degree from Robson Hall Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in political science and writing and communications from the University of Winnipeg. In her spare time, Ashley volunteers with various gender equality groups, including the Gender Rights Specialized Team at Amnesty International Canada.
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Ashley Perl
Fellow, Dalla Lana Fellowship in Journalism and Health Impact, University of Toronto
Ashley Perl is a journalist covering climate, environment, science and policy. She has a master of science degree in sustainability from Stockholm University and is a fellow in the Dalla Lana Fellowship in Journalism and Health Impact. Ashley is from Toronto, has worked in Japan, the Philippines and Sweden, and is currently based in Stockholm.
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Ashley Quigley
Senior Research Associate, Global Biosecurity, UNSW Sydney
Ashley is a Senior Research Associate with the Kirby Institute’s Biosecurity Program, led by Professor Raina MacIntyre. She is the Epi Team Lead for EPIWATCH, which is an open-source intelligence tool which harnesses the power of AI and open-source data to capture early epidemic signals globally and rapid epidemic detection, leading to the prevention of global spread.
Prior to joining the Biosecurity Program, she managed a clinical research organization in Australia and has worked extensively on rapid diagnostic measures for infectious diseases, predominantly XDR and MDR-TB. She received her BSc, BSC Hons and MSc in South Africa.
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Ashley Roccapriore
PhD Candidate in Business, University of Tennessee
Ashley Y. Roccapriore is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Haslam College of Business at The University of Tennessee. Her research focuses on how stakeholders make decisions about entrepreneurs that enable them to obtain the resources they need to start, grow, and sustain their venture, as well as how firm and investment failure, interpersonal relationships, and context influence both stakeholder and entrepreneur decision making.
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Ashley A. Mattheis
Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University
Ashley A. Mattheis is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University and an affiliate of the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) at Swansea University. Her work brings together cultural studies, media studies, and rhetorical criticism, through the lens of feminist theory to explore the material effects of technology and cultural production and consumption online. Her areas of inquiry include the digital cultures of the ‘Momosphere,’ the Alt-Right, the ‘Manosphere,’ and #Tradwives with a goal of better understanding how gendered logics are used to promote racial hate, discrimination, and to promote violence. Her publications include: Atomwaffen Division and its Affiliates on Telegram: Variations, Practices, and Interconnections a report for the Resolve Network, “#TradCulture: Reproducing Whiteness and Neofascism through Gendered Discourse Online,” in the Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness,” “Shieldmaidens of Whiteness: (Alt)Maternalism and Women Recruiting for the Far/Alt-Right,” in the Journal for Deradicalization, and ‘The Greatness of Her Position’: Comparing Identitarian and Jihadi Discourses on Women, a report published by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Ashley L. Landers
Assistant Professor of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University
I am an Assistant Professor of Human Sciences in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. I conduct research in partnership with First Nations Repatriation Institute that focuses on the health and well-being of Native American families impacted by family separation via foster care and adoption. I have published 31 articles on family separation, child welfare, and reunification. This scholarship is used to achieve social change in response to identified needs within the Indigenous community. This includes being cited by Justice Neil Gorsuch in his Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act (2023); in The Supreme Court of the United States Tribal amicus brief in the case of the Cherokee Nation, Oneida Nation, Quinault Indian Nation, and Morongo Band of Mission Indians vs. Chad Evert Brackeen (2021); and in The Supreme Court of the State of Washington by Justice Montoya-Lewis (2020).
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Ashley M Hopkins
NHMRC Investigator Fellow, leader of the Clinical Cancer Epidemiology Lab, Flinders University
I am a NHMRC Investigator Fellow and leader of the Clinical Cancer Epidemiology Lab at Flinders University. The Clinical Cancer Epidemiology Lab aims to deliver actionable prediction strategies and breakthroughs that improve the lives of patients with cancer. We will achieve this through epidemiological research which honours the contributions of patients who have enrolled their clinical data and experiences to science.
Our research group is always interested in identifying and working with PhD and Honours students. Projects would be suitable to students with an undergraduate degree in pharmacy, medical sciences, biostatistics or the like, with an interest in precision oncology and clinical epidemiology. Please contact me if you are interested.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours
Registered pharmacist in Australia
Doctor of Philosophy
Honours, awards and grants
NHMRC Investigator Fellow - (2022-2026)
SA Young Investigator Tall Poppy - 2021
Certara New Investigator Award, ASCEPT-ASPA 2020
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for ECRs - 2019
NBCF postdoctoral research fellow – (2017 - 2021)
Key responsibilities
Senior Research Fellow in Pharmacolgy – Flinders University
Leader of the Clinical Cancer Epidemiology Lab
Chair of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Epidemiology Group
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Ashley Robertson Preston
Assistant Professor of History, Howard University
Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston is an Assistant Professor of History at Howard University and Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Dr. Preston's research interests focus on the activism of Black women during the early twentieth century particularly the work of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. She is the author of Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State which examines how the educator rose to prominence while fighting for equality at the height or racial unrest in the state. Dr. Preston's past positions in the field of Public History include serving as director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation-National Historic Landmark at Bethune-Cookman University while she also was an archives technician for the National Archives for Black Women’s History at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site. Educated at Howard University (PhD), Temple University (MA) and Bowie State University (BS), her research has been published in The Journal of African American History, Journal of Black Studies, and The Journal of Negro Education.
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Ashley S. Deeks
Professor of Scholarly Research in Law, University of Virginia
Ashley Deeks joined the Law School in 2012 as an associate professor of law after two years as an academic fellow at Columbia Law School. Her primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of international law, national security, intelligence and the laws of war. She has written articles on the use of force, executive power, secret treaties, the intersection of national security and international law, and the laws of armed conflict. She is a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law and the American Law Institute, and she serves as a contributing editor to the Lawfare blog. Deeks also recently served as White House associate counsel and deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council while on leave from the Law School. She is a senior fellow at the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare, and a faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center.
Before joining Columbia in 2010, she served as the assistant legal adviser for political-military affairs in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where she worked on issues related to the law of armed conflict, the use of force, conventional weapons, and the legal framework for the conflict with al-Qaida. She also provided advice on intelligence issues. In previous positions at the State Department, Deeks advised on international law enforcement, extradition and diplomatic property questions. In 2005, she served as the embassy legal adviser at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, during Iraq’s constitutional negotiations. Deeks was a 2007-08 Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow and a visiting fellow in residence at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Deeks received her J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as comment editor on the Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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Ashok Prasad
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University
Dr. Ashok Prasad joined the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2009.
Dr. Prasad’s undergraduate degree (a B.Sc.(Hons) in Physics) was from St. Stephens College, Delhi University in 1985. He then moved to studying Economics and earned a MA from the Delhi School of Economics, in 1987. He taught economics in Khalsa (E) College of Delhi University till 2001. However, his love for physics inspired him to join Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) in 2001 for a Ph.D.
At Brandeis he worked with Professor Jane’ Kondev on biologically inspired problems in soft matter. After graduating in 2006 he joined the computational immunology group of Prof. Arup Chakraborty at MIT as a postdoc, where he worked on thymocyte selection and T cell activation till he joined CSU in 2009.
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Ashton De Silva
Professor of Economics, RMIT University
Ashton is an industry-engaged academic who works across several areas, including the economics of local regions and households. He also applies his skills to explore how policies impact our society.
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Ashutosh Kumar
Assistant Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
I am currently working as an Assistant Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi), India. I have worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Durham University UK and I obtained PhD degree from IIT Bombay and am the recipient of the IIT Bombay Best PhD thesis award. I am the recipient of the Royal Society London, United Kingdom International Exchanges Award and IACMAG John Carter Award – 2022 from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), AZ, USA. I am a DAAD fellowship awardee from Germany and also served as a 2016 DAAD Young Ambassador for DAAD India. I have experience working in multi-national teams through the Transport Africa project and Seismic safety of Kathmandu’s historic urban infrastructure investigating the causes of the collapse of UNESCO World Heritage sites in Nepal. I have published over 40 papers in various Journals of International repute and various conferences. My research encompasses highly relevant areas of civil engineering:(1) Soil-structure interaction (2) Unsaturated soil mechanics for pavements and landslides (3) Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (4) Use of sensing techniques for geotechnical engineering applications.
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Ashwini Sehgal
Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Ashwini Sehgal is a nephrologist and clinical researcher, and director of an NIH-funded center grant designed to train lay people to deliver interventions in randomized controlled trials. He led several NIH-funded randomized controlled trials of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions to improve patient outcomes related to a number of complex topics, including hemodialysis leg cramps, nutritional status in renal failure, phosphorus intake among dialysis patients, adequacy of dialysis, and access to kidney transplantation. He recently completed studies that i) utilized navigators to enhance access to transplantation and ii) determined the impact of directly observed fluoxetine treatment for depression in hemodialysis patients.
Dr. Sehgal is also the Duncan Neuhauser Professor of Community Health Improvement at Case Western Reserve University, Co-Director of the Case Western Center for Reducing Health Disparities, and Associate Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine for nephrology and hypertension.
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Asia A. Eaton
Professor, Florida International University
Asia Eaton is a feminist social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Florida International University (FIU), where she directs the Power, Women, and Relationships (PWR) Lab. She is the Director of the new psychology Ph.D. track in Applied Social and Cultural Psychology. Since 2016 Asia has served as Head of Research for Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), which is working to understand and end the emerging epidemic of nonconsensual porn in the U.S.
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Asieh Hosseini Tabaghdehi
Senior Lecturer in Strategy & Business Economy, Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London
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Asif Husain-Naviatti
Visiting Fellow in International Climate Governance, Columbia University
Mr Husain-Naviatti is a Visiting Fellow at Columbia University in the City of New York and Writer on international climate governance. He has over 25 years of international experience at the UN and World Bank on sustainable development in multiple field and development contexts. He was educated at Oxford (Musicology) and Columbia Universities (Economic Policy Management)
He is an expert on multilateral governance in highly politicised development contexts, with particular interest in reconciling conflicting development and political objectives. He has high-level strategic and diplomatic experience in the UN as an intergovernmental convener, negotiator and relationship builder, and as a multilateral and interagency coordinator between UN member states, civil society, private sector and other institutions, on a broad range of sustainable development issues, led by governments.
His previous career highlights include appointment as Secretary of the Advisory Commission on UNRWA (a Commission of the UN General Assembly), and Head of Secretariat for eight years. This was a senior management role at the heart of the Middle East conflict situation. He was noted for guiding divergently opposing viewpoints towards consensus on strategic, policy, operational and financial issues in a politicised and volatile context. He was previously appointed Senior Adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on AIDS in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations. This was the Secretary-General’s legacy issue, at a noted time of sea change in the international fight against AIDS, much being attributed to the Secretary-General’s leadership and Call to Action under Mr Husain-Naviatti’s management and coordination.
His experience on climate change includes sustainable forestry in Latin America, coastal zone damage mitigation in the Pacific (an economic perspective linking with social challenges), water resources management in the Middle East (riparian agreements with peace and stability connotations) and a range of interagency climate change, environmental management and disaster response issues in the Philippines. He is also an International LEAD Fellow on Sustainable Development, which incorporated leadership training on climate governance and green energy.
He currently holds select directorships including Barboteca Corporation on sustainable forestry in Central America, and is Chair of Directors of the Mylnhurst Group including the highest-achieving independent Preparatory School in the region, according to the Sunday Times ranking. He has recently published academic and policy commentaries on international climate governance through the Alternative Policy Solutions project under the auspices of the American University of Cairo among others and is a columnist contributor on climate to the Yorkshire Post.
Mr Husain-Naviatti is married with two children. He is an avid pianist in his spare time, and lucky enough in his youth to have performed in concerts, on television in the UK and a tour of Japan in 1983. He was awarded an arts grant by Grotrian-Steinweg in the form of a full-size concert grand piano at the age of 16.
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Asim Ali
Instructor of Information Systems Management, Auburn University
Dr. Asim Ali holds a bachelor’s degree in software engineering, a master’s degree in information systems management, and a Ph.D. in adult education from Auburn University. As the Executive Director of the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Dr. Ali advances the center’s mission of providing professional development programs, services, and resources to enhance instructional innovation and support scholarly and creative activities. Dr. Ali oversees a team of more than 90 professionals, graduate students, and staff members across the center’s various units, which include Auburn Online, Biggio Teaching, Biggio Technology, Biggio Testing, and Engaged and Active Student Learning, or EASL, classrooms, and classroom buildings.
Dr. Ali also co-leads work on artificial intelligence for the Office of the Provost to build faculty capacity for understanding and implementing AI in teaching and learning. Dr. Ali has modeled implementation of generative AI for students in the introduction to information systems course he teaches to business students. He has been an invited keynote speaker and presenter at national conferences and by several universities.
As the founding Director of Auburn Online from 2014-2019, Dr. Ali strengthened the University’s role in eLearning by providing central resources to support faculty in the development and instruction of online education, expanding the University’s online course offerings by more than 300 percent.
I'm 2023, Dr. Ali led the development of a fully-online, self-paced course for the higher education community, "Teaching with AI" which has been licensed by the Southeastern Conference for all 14 member institutions in a first-of-its-kind partnership. The course is also used at about 15 other universities and colleges by hundreds of faculty.
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Asit Kumar Mishra
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Galway
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Sustainable & Resilient Structures Research Group of the School of Science and Engineering at the National University of Ireland, Galway. My research focuses on optimising indoor conditioning energy while improving occupants’ indoor experience, towards comfortable, healthy, smart, low energy buildings. My interests include indoor climate quality in healthy, low energy buildings, occupant thermal comfort, HVAC systems, IoT in the built environment, and human thermoregulation.
I am currently working as a part of the HEAT CHECK project. The project aims to investigate the relationship between energy consumption, indoor environmental quality, occupant behaviour, and occupant comfort in residential buildings through a combination of in situ monitoring and building performance simulations. The goal is to improve energy audit and energy certification procedures, with the DEAP and NEAP energy compliance tools in mind. In the long term, the findings are expected to lead to comfortable and energy-efficient homes utilizing high performance renewable solutions.
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Asma Gharbi
Associate Lecturer at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Université de Carthage
Dr Asma Gharbi is associate lecturer at the Ecole Nationale d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme de Tunis (National School of Architecture and Urbanism), where, since 2018, she has been teaching architecture studios as well as delivering seminars. Since February 2022, she has been a member of Governance and Territorial Development research laboratory .
She is a dedicated researcher specializing in architectural morphological dynamics and their social and cultural interactions. With a keen interest in the built environment, she pursued a fellowship with the University of Liverpool focusing on the preservation and valorization of cultural heritage and architectural form.
Driven by a passion for understanding how architectural structures evolve and interact within societies, she has delved into the intricate relationship between urban morphology and cultural contexts. Her research delves into the nuanced layers of architectural evolution, exploring how built forms shape and are shaped by societal values, historical narratives, and cultural identities.
Her interdisciplinary approach bridges the realms of architecture, sociology, and cultural studies, offering valuable insights into the intricate interplay between form, function, and social meaning in urban landscapes.
Between 2010 and 2017, Asma taught urban studio at Institut supérieur des technologies de l’environnement de l’urbanisme et du bâtiment (ISTEUB) in. After obtaining her PhD in Architecture and Morphology from the Doctoral School in Architectural Sciences and Engineering of Tunis (EdSIA), she has been focusing on morphological regeneration in newly marginalized contexts. In addition to her academic work, Asma is a leading expert in the field of territorial development. Moreover, she serves as a volunteer architect with various Tunisia NGOs (Toit digne, JCI), into which she brings her expertise in heritage enhancement and territories promotion.
Since her appointment as research partner in the Heritage Borders of Engagement Network (ENGAGE) in April 2021, Asma’s research has focused on morphological landscape transformations related to urban and architectural identity, heritage management in Tunisia, and the roles that government and civic stakeholders play in it. Asma’s current research revolves around cultural identities, territories and architectural forms. Her aim is to understand where existing strategies and mechanisms of cultural heritage management fail to take into account the local dynamics of territories that have been abandoned or marginalized.
Asma’s research project for the University of Liverpool Virtual Fellowship Programme is entitled Decision-making and citizens participation in the management of El Kef’s heritage: barriers and opportunities. Asma aims to investigate, at both higher decision-making as well as grassroots level, the factors that currently hinder the exploitation of Kef’s economic and tourism potential. By interrogating current orientations in local development, heritage management and tourism promotion, and exploring El Kef people’s perceptions and aspirations with regard to the medina - the historic centre rich in Islamic, Christian and Jewish heritage - Asma aims to identify issues, requirements and opportunities that should crucially inform future decision-making for the city’s cultural heritage management and sustainable development. The methodologies used include regional-scale SWOT analysis, through which she will define the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for El Kef’s region, policy document review in order to understand planning strategies and decision-making orientations at various levels, and identify any misalignment or lack of alignment, interviews and questionnaires with key stakeholders, with the aim to record requirements and aspirations for the future, and participant observation, to observe and record user activities and life patterns.
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Assefa Leake Gebru
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Strategic Studies , Mekelle University
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