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Mandy Doria
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Mandy Doria, MS, LPC, NCC, RYT-200 is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychiatry. She is a therapist in the Stress, Trauma, Adversity, Research and Treatment (START) Center with 12 years of experience providing mental health care to children and adults in a variety of community, school, home, and college settings. In addition to CBT, DBT and ACT, Mandy incorporates mindfulness and trauma-informed mindful movement and somatic approaches into her therapeutic work and practices from a person-centered, relational, and strengths-based framework. She directs the Past the Pandemic program, which has supported the healthcare workforce since March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and she has presented extensively on mental health education, suicide prevention, grief, mindfulness, stress management and burnout.
My counseling encompasses a humanistic, grounded approach that treats the client as a whole person. I help the person uncover and be empowered to use one's own natural resources, strengths, and abilities to cope with whatever he/she is facing. I create a safe, calm and open environment that allows one to make connections, explore alternate perspectives, and promote growth and personal wellness in creative and effective ways. As a Registered Yoga Teacher, I incorporate breathing techniques, emotional regulation, meditation and mindfulness into my work with clients. I offer approaches such as CBT, DBT, Assertiveness, and other Gestalt and relational therapies. I work creatively with the person to find one's own form of expression and what works to communicate in the session. I am most effective in dealing with anxiety, depression, self esteem, relationships, and identity formation and exploration. I enjoy helping people through the phases and transitions of life.
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Manfred Kets de Vries
Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organisational Change, INSEAD
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries is the Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organisational Change and the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at INSEAD. He brings a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organisational change. Bringing to bear his knowledge and experience of economics (EconDrs, University of Amsterdam), management (ITP, MBA, and DBA, Harvard Business School), and psychoanalysis (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association), he scrutinises the interface between international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic psychiatry. His specific areas of interest are leadership, career dynamics, executive stress, entrepreneurship, family business, succession planning, cross-cultural management, team building, coaching, and the dynamics of corporate transformation and change. Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries directs The Challenge of Leadership Executive Education programme.
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Mangor Pedersen
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Auckland University of Technology
I am an Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology (AUT - Department of Psychology and Neuroscience) and the Associate Head of Research at the AUT School of Clinical Sciences. My research interest is developing and validating new technologies for quantifying human brain networks using brain imaging methods, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), complex network science and dynamical systems theory. These approaches have significantly contributed to our ability to model brain dysfunction in people with epilepsy and traumatic brain injury. I currently hold the HRC Emerging Researcher Grant. I am the AI lead of the $30 million Australian Epilepsy Project and a core member of the AUT Traumatic Brain Injury Network and the AUT BioDesign Lab. I received the AUT Excellence Award Emerging Researcher in 2021; the University of Melbourne early-career fellowship in 2018; the American Epilepsy Society Young Investigator Award in 2017; and the John Milne Neuroscience Award for best departmental PhD thesis at The University of Melbourne in 2016. I have presented my work at multiple international conferences and have been invited to present my work at universities in Asia, Europe, and the US.
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Manina Jones
Professor, Department of English, Western University
Manina Jones is Chair and Full Professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. She specializes in Canadian literature and popular culture, especially detective fiction.
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Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations/Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Miller is currently on leave from the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where she is a tenured associate professor of international relations, and the director of the Rising Powers Initiative at the Pardee Center. She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. An expert on India, China, South Asia, and rising powers, she is the author of Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021, shortlisted for the 2022 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations) and Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013). Miller is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020), a monthly columnist for the Hindustan Times, and a frequent contributor to policy and media outlets in the United States and Asia.
Miller has been a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, a fellow at the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, a visiting associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed and policy journals, and chapters in edited books. She received a BA from the University of Delhi, an MSc from the University of London, and a PhD from Harvard University. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University.
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Manjeet Ridon
Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University
Dr Manjeet Ridon is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, which was awarded for her strategic leadership in international Higher Education and across a number of areas, including teaching and learning, international partnership developments and Transnational Education (TNE).
Dr Ridon is the Associate Dean International for the faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities at De Montfort University (DMU) and currently undertaking a secondment as the Head of DMU London, with responsibility for the set-up and launch of DMU’s London campus. This is an exciting new campus development that will open in September 2025 and will focus exclusively on delivering high-quality postgraduate education in the heart of London.
Previously, from 2019-2022, Dr Ridon was instrumental in the set-up and launch of DMU Dubai in the UAE, and DMU's first overseas branch campus development. During this time, as both the project and academic lead, and as the inaugural provost (2021-2022), Manjeet led on the appointment of a teaching team, and ensuring the first academic year of the campus was a success.
Dr Ridon is also the institutional lead for developing strategies for embedding sustainability and employability in international partnerships and TNE activity. As a member of the University’s Sustainability Committee, Dr Ridon works closely with the DMU Sustainability team and has delivered on carbon literacy initiatives with international students and external businesses and university partners. Dr Ridon is a Carbon Literacy facilitator and trainer and has delivered training and taster sessions with DMU students and staff. When Dr Ridon was leading the DMU Dubai campus project and as provost of the Dubai campus she led a training initiative for all academic staff teaching at the campus and students at the campus to undertake carbon literacy training. The success of this initiative led to the Dubai campus achieving bronze status accreditation from the Carbon Literacy Project, https://carbonliteracy.com/
Dr Ridon is the chair of the DMU India Advisory Board, which facilitates structured engagement between the University, and Indian businesses and institutions based in India, and British business in the East Midlands. As chair of this Advisory Board, she oversees special initiatives for international students from India and staff at De Montfort University, who have a vested interest in India. For example, student-led celebrations to mark India’s 75th anniversary of independence. As Chair of this Advisory Board, Dr Ridon also welcomes partnership opportunities with other institutions in the Leicestershire region who have an interest in India, and thereby ensure DMU is able to fulfil its civic mission of representing the wider Indian community in Leicester.
Recently, as a member of the Decolonising DMU Expert Group, Dr Ridon contributed to the creation of a Staff Toolkit This toolkit is for staff interested in adapting their teaching for international students with reference to the Decolonising DMU programme – a programme which aims to reduce racial disparity and promote cultural diversity in higher education - and supporting academic activities to encourage an increased awareness of this institutional priority.
Dr Ridon’s research focuses mainly on literary and cinematic representations of myth in the literature and film of South Asian diasporic women writers and filmmakers in Canada and the USA. This specialised focus is contextualised within a wider interest in the contemporary cultural production of other ethnic and minority groups in North America, in particular the literature of African-American and Native American writers. Dr Ridon’s PhD was awarded prestigious funding by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Canadian Studies Foundation in the UK, and achieved at the University of Nottingham in 2015.
Dr Ridon has more than 20 years’ experience of working in international higher education and a TNE specialist, having worked at several universities in the UK and in positions based overseas, such as India and Uzbekistan.
Research interests:
Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching in International Higher Education
Internationalisation
Decolonisation in Higher Education
African-American literature - 19th century and 21st century
South Asian North American literature
Contemporary women's literature
Postcolonial theories and Decolonisation studies
Cultural studies and critical theory
Transnational Education research
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Manlin Cai
PhD student, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Manlin Cai is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include family and work, gender, migration, and social inequality in Canadian and Chinese societies.
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ManMohan S. Sodhi
Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, City St George's, University of London
Professor Sodhi is a professor in operations and supply chain at the Bayes Business School. His research interests lie in supply chain management, in particular in supply chain risk and in supply chain sustainability in a variety of sectors including agriculture, airlines, chemicals, and electronics. In his co-authored book, Managing Supply Chain Risk (Springer), he includes case studies on companies as diverse as Boeing and Samsung Electronics. Prior to joining Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in 2002, he worked in a startup in Silicon Valley and in management consulting, including at Accenture, and has worked with clients in many sectors.
He is currently Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management (POM) journal. He has published in numerous academic and managerial journals, including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Harvard Business Review, and Sloan Management Review.
Prof. Sodhi received his Ph.D. in management science from the UCLA Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994. Subsequently, he taught operations management at the University of Michigan, Ross Business School, where the Sloan Foundation funded his research in the trucking industry. Prof. Sodhi also had a visiting position at the Indian School of Business (ISB) as the Founding Executive Director of the Munjal Global Manufacturing Institute. He is also an elected lifelong Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society, and also Fellow of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) and the Operational Research Society (FORS).
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Manoel Gehrke
Research Fellow with the Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation, University of Birmingham
Manoel Gehrke is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability & Representation (CEDAR). He specialises in comparative politics and political economy, with a focus on Latin America. His research interests include political corruption, contemporary threats to democracy, and the political economy of environmental degradation.
Gehrke's current book project investigates how political elites' reactions influence the effectiveness of anticorruption policies in Brazil. He is also working on cross-national projects that examine the political consequences of corrupt politicians being convicted and the use of nepotism in public employment as a tool for political bargaining in Brazilian municipalities. In addition, Gehrke has studied the ways in which political parties in Colombia evade controls to prevent electoral fraud.
Gehrke's research on the political economy of environmental degradation includes examining the effects of political favoritism and law enforcement tools on environmental crimes.
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Manoj Joshi
Professor of Climate Dynamics, University of East Anglia
I'm a professor in the Climatic Research Unit, part of the School of Environmental Sciences. I do research on climate dynamics, which is about understanding the circulation and variability of the climates of Earth and other planets, and how they can change over time.
A strong focus of my research is understanding how our climate will change over the coming century with the addition of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. I carry out my research using a range of techniques from simple conceptual ideas to large state-of-the-art global circulation models.
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Manoj Misra
Associate Professor of Sociology, Western Connecticut State University
As an Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Connecticut State University, and having been born in Bangladesh, I have a deep, personal understanding of the country's social and political landscape. I have published academic articles and op-eds on various issues in Bangladesh, including politics, the economy, and the environment. My close watch on political developments, combined with my academic expertise, uniquely positions me to offer informed perspectives on the necessary steps to restore and strengthen democracy in Bangladesh.
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Manolis Plionis
Professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ; Director and President of BoD of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
A. GENERAL
• Born in Athens 13/7/1960. Married with one son.
• Spoken languages: Greek (mother tongue), English, Italian, Spanish
• PhD in Astronomy, University of Sussex (1989) [supervisor Prof J.D. Barrow]
• Memberships: International Astronomical Union, Hellenic Astronomical Society (founding member) and the Hellenic Society of Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology (founding member), Europlanet Society
• Prices/Awards: (a) British Council Fellowship (1988-1989), (b) Human Capital & Mobility Fellow (early Marie Curie) - (1994-1996).
B. CURRENT POSITIONS:
• Professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Director and President of BoD of the National Observatory of Athens (2017-2020, 2021-2025)
C. LEADERSHIP OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS/CONSORTIA/COMMITTEES
• Coordinator of the National Network for Climate Change-CLIMPACT
• President of the State Thematic Committee on Climate Change, Energy and Sustainable Mobility
• Director of the Governing Board of the Panhellenic Geophysical and Climate Change Observatory – PANGEA of NOA.
• Member of the European Space Science Committee (ESSC-ESF), by selection.
• Member of the Greek National Committee for Astronomy
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the The Ultimate XMM Extragalactic X-ray Survey (XXL) project and of the Steering Committee of the corresponding International Consortium.
• Member of the Sci. Committee of the International collaboration: Cosmology with HII galaxies
• Member of the BoD of NOHSIS Technology & Science Museum (2016-2019, 2020-2022)
D. RESEARCH ACTIVITY
• Scientific Interests: Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics & Climate Change and Natural Disaster management.
• Publications: >245 scientific publications, out of which >150 in International Refereed Journals (according to NASA/ADS), 2 reviews in Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, 95 in conference proceedings. >40 articles in newspapers & newsletters
• Citations: Total Citations (NASA-ADS): >4400 (h-index: 37), (Google Scholar): >5800 (h-index: 45).
• Student PhD Supervision: Supervision of 9 completed PhD theses.
• Scientific Journal Editor: Member of the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Modern Physics D
• Referee of Scientific Programs for the: Greek State Funding Agency, Mexican CONACYT, Spanish CONICET, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), European Science Foundation, etc
• Referee for peer-review Journals: MNRAS, Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics, etc
• Conference Proceedings Editor:
1. “Large Scale Structure in the X-ray Universe” eds. Plionis, M. & Georgantopoulos, I., Atlantic
Sciences, Paris (ISBN 2-84394-227-6),
2. “2nd Hellenic Cosmology”, eds. Plionis, M. & Cotsakis, S., (ISBN: 1-4020-0808-2, Kluwer, ASSL 276),
3. “Multiwavelength Cosmology”, ed. Plionis, M. (ISBN:1-4020-1971-8, Kluwer, ASSL 301).
4. “The Panchromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure», Springer LNP, eds. Plionis, M., Lopez-Cruz, O. & Hughes, D., ISBN: 978-1-4020-6940-6, LNP Vol. 740 (2008)
E. FUNDING
• Research Funds awarded through competitive calls by European, Hellenic or Mexican agencies sum up to a total of more than ~1.000.000 €
• Development funds as President of NOA (European Investment Bank, ESPA-Prefectures, European RRF, etc): ~70.000.000€
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Manpreet K Dhami
Senior Researcher, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
My research trying to understand how species interactions lead to the diversity we observe. I study microbial communities in a diversity of environments, including soil, flowers, birds, and insects.
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Mansour Haeryfar
Professor of Immunology, Western University
Dr. Mansour Haeryfar is a Full Professor of immunology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and also currently serves as the President of the Canadian Society for Immunology (2023-2025). His team investigates anticancer and anti-pathogen immunity with a focus on designing novel and effective immunotherapeutic modalities.
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Mansour Solaimanian
Research Professor, Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, Penn State
Research focuses on pavements and bituminous materials including recycled and new materials in pavements.
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Manu Lekunze
Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Dr Manu Lekunze is a lecturer in international relations. He studies the security of states in the continually changing domestic, regional and international environments.
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Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Ecosystem ecologist, Spanish National Research Council, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Manuel García Ortiz
Doctorando en Derecho. Especializado en Bioética y Derecho de la Discapacidad, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
FORMACIÓN
LICENCIADO EN FILOSOFÍA por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2002.
MÁSTER en derechos fundamentales. Especialidad en Derechos Humanos, Bioética y Bioderecho en la Fac. de Derecho de la UNED. Febrero 2020
TFM. Marco normativo y prácticas sociales hacia las personas con discapacidad a lo largo de la historia. Calificado con Matrícula de Honor.
DOCTORANDO EN DERECHO en la Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha. En fase de redacción de la tesis doctoral: “Elementos históricos y sociales del desarrollo de las regulaciones jurídicas sobre las personas en situación de discapacidad” en el marco de la línea de investigación de derecho público (6 1410 - DERECHO PÚBLICO UCLM) en el departamento de Derecho Administrativo de la UCLM
Estancia predoctoral investigadora en el instituto de investigación JusGov. Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho (julio 2022). Sobre las regulaciones jurídicas referidas a las personas con discapacidad en la historia de portugal
Certificado de Aptitud Pedagógica (CAP) por el Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en 2003.
EXPERIENCIA DE TRABAJO
- Junio 2019 – Actualidad. Dinamizador del Programa de Autonomía personal en la Confederación Española de Personas con Discapacidad Física y Orgánica (COCEMFE), Área de Accesibilidad y Vida Independiente. Miembro y secretario de la comisión de Autonomía personal del Comité Español de Representantes de Personas con Discapacidad (CERMI)
- Enero 2022 – Actualidad. Dinamizador del Programa de viviendas de transición a la vida independiente
- Noviembre 2010 – Junio 2019. Técnico de formación y empleo en la Confederación Española de Personas con Discapacidad Física y Orgánica (COCEMFE), desarrollando funciones de dinamización de la formación interna de las entidades de la confederación a través de la Universidad Técnica de COCEMFE.
- Jul. 2008 – Nov. 2010: Coordinador de formación del convenio entre Instituciones Penitenciarias y la Fundación La Caixa para el Organismo Autónomo de Trabajo Penitenciario y Formación para el Empleo, programa para la formación e inserción laboral de personas privadas de libertad en régimen ordinario.
- Nov. 2006 – Jul. 2008: Coordinador del proyecto Aula de Intermediación Laboral para Personas con Discapacidad en el Ámbito rural de la Consejería de Familia y Asuntos Sociales de la Comunidad de Madrid, gestionado por COCEMFE. Coordinación, orientación e intermediación con empresas a través de itinerarios personalizados de inserción.
PUBLICACIONES
- Necesidad de una estricta neutralidad hacia las personas con discapacidad en la regulación de la muerte asistida. Anales del derecho y de la discapacidad. Fundación Derecho y Discapacidad. CERMI. Nº7 julio 2022. Año VII. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hIjqVGwV4nfCn5nz5KdPbHeJYgUyr2RM/view?usp=sharing
- Diseño Universal del Ocio (DUO). Una guía para apoyar la gestión de un ocio inclusivo en las entidades de COCEMFE. 2022. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aHTLBsx3TITy6QGnOYRw7XRo4joW9iR29nKQYuBfwOE/edit?usp=sharing
- Regulación de la muerte asistida en el estado español: posibles efectos adversos sobre los derechos fundamentales de las personas con discapacidad. Bioética y debate. 2021;27(91):14-19. Instituto Borja de Bioética, Universidad Ramón LLull. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e0Uf2GdGD3XNlP7GKBkRTV7U8ye_U2n3/view?usp=sharing
- Participación en el proceso de estudio y elaboración del documento “Libro Blanco de la Discapacidad Orgánica”. https://www.cocemfe.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/libro-blanco-discapacidad-organica.pdf
- Cuestiones bioéticas y biojurídicas sobre asistencia personal y asistencia sexual. Webinario del Ciclo "Discapacidad, Autonomía y Cuidados" de la Fac. de Psicología de la Universidad de la República de Uruguay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUO2htfYCo&t=23s
- AccesibilidApp, una herramienta para la sensibilización y el conocimiento sobre accesibilidad universal. Revista Asociación Española de Profesionales de Accesibilidad Universal (ASEPAU) nº 5 abril 2021.
http://www.asepau.org/sites/default/files/pdf/articles/7_asepau05_accesibilidapp.pdf
- Derechos de las personas con discapacidad en un contexto de recursos limitados durante una situación de emergencia sanitaria. Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética. Núm. 15 (2021). https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/bioetica-revista-iberoamericana/article/view/13474
- Demarcación ética y jurídica entre la asistencia personal y la asistencia sexual en un contexto de vida independiente. Revista Zebitzuan de Trabajo social. Nº 73. Dic. 2020 http://www.zerbitzuan.net/documentos/zerbitzuan/Demarcacion_etica_juridica.pdf
- VVAA. Guía práctica: Análisis de casos prácticos sobre intervención policial con personas con discapacidad, Asociación a favor de personas con discapacidad de la Policía Nacional (AMIFP) https://www.amifp.org/media/download/66283
- “Neutralidad de la regulación de la muerte asistida hacia las personas con discapacidad”. Comunicación presentada en el V Congreso Internacional “Europa sociedad abierta” del Seminario Italoespañol de la Red europea de investigación jurídica. Dic. 2020. https://youtu.be/ApFV6Ry9UNw?t=6596
-- Riesgos de vulneración de los derechos fundamentales de las personas con discapacidad en relación con las crisis sanitarias. Revista Bioética y Derecho. Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho (OBD) de la UAB. 2020 https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/RBD/article/view/31775
- Las Tecnologías de Apoyo en la Smart City desde un Enfoque Social. Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (RISTI) 2020 https://tinyurl.com/yyw5r9o6
- Barreras de acceso a la educación inclusiva para las personas con discapacidad: el acceso efectivo a los productos de apoyo. Comunicación de ponencia específica en las I Congreso "Derechos Humanos y Vulnerabilidad". Publicado junto a otras comunicaciones en el libro En tiempos de vulnerabilidad. Ed. Ana María Marcos del Cano. Editorial Dykinson. 2020 https://www.dykinson.com/libros/en-tiempos-de-vulnerabilidad/9788413247489
- Ponencia inaugural I Jornadas InnovaUDIMA con Tecnología Educativa. Educación inclusiva: autofabricación de productos de apoyo para la adaptación del puesto de estudio. 2019 https://youtu.be/m8J3z1Ty1MA?t=956
- COCEMFE. (2019). Metodologías y enfoques inclusivos en la educación: guía para el conocimiento de nuevas metodologías de enseñanza y aprendizaje. Madrid: COCEMFE. https://www.cocemfe.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/COCEMFE-Guia-Metodologias-enfoques-inclusivos-Educacion-2019.pdf
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Manuel Pastor
Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Dr. Manuel Pastor is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He currently directs the Equity Research Institute at USC. Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change at USC.
Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities. His forthcoming book, Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future (co-authored with Chris Benner), delves into the pivotal role of California’s Lithium Valley in the “lithium gold rush” and its broader implications for climate challenges, justice, and democracy. In 2021, he published two new books, Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter (co-authored with Chris Benner) and South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. (co-authored with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo). His previous 2018 book, State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Means for America’s Future was lauded in a New York Times review as “concise, clear and convincing.”
Pastor’s previous book, Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America’s Metro Areas, co-authored with Chris Benner (UC Press 2015), argues how inequality stunts economic growth and how bringing together equity and growth requires concerted local action. Combining data, case studies, and narratives on multi-sector collaborations in 11 metro regions, the book offers a powerful prescription not just for metros but for our national challenges of slow job growth, rising economic inequality, and sharp political polarization. He also co-edited the book, Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration with John Mollenkopf (Cornell University Press 2016), which offers a comparative study and detailed analyses of immigrant incorporation efforts across seven different U.S. metro regions.
His previous volumes include: Just Growth: Inclusion and Prosperity in America’s Metropolitan Regions, co-authored with Chris Benner (Routledge 2012), advances the idea that growth and equity can and should be linked, offering a new path for a U.S. economy seeking to recover from economic crisis and distributional distress; Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (W.W. Norton 2010; co-authored with Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh), documents the gap between progress in racial attitudes and racial realities and offers a new set of strategies for both talking about race and achieving racial equity; This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity are Transforming Metropolitan America (Cornell University Press 2009; co-authored with Chris Benner and Martha Matsuoka) highlights a promising set of organizing efforts across the U.S.; Staircases or Treadmills: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy (Russell Sage 2007, co-authored with Chris Benner and Laura Leete) which offers a critique of current employment strategies and argues for a new “high road” approach to connecting demand and supply in labor markets; and Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together (University of Minnesota Press 2000; co-authored with Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza), a book that has become a standard reference for those seeking to link neighborhoods and regions.
Pastor was the founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was also the Director at the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). He has received fellowships from the Danforth, Guggenheim, and Kellogg foundations, and grants from the Irvine Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the W.T. Grant Foundation, The California Endowment, the California Air Resources Board, and many others. Pastor speaks frequently on issues of demographic change, economic inequality, and community empowerment and has contributed opinion pieces to such outlets including the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee, and The Hill, among many others.
In January 2002, he was awarded a Civic Entrepreneur of the Year award from the California Center for Regional Leadership. He has previously served as a Public Member of the Strategic Growth Council in California, as a member of the Commission on Regions appointed by California’s Speaker of the State Assembly, and as a member of the Regional Targets Advisory Committee for the California Air Resources Board. Pastor received the Liberty Hill Foundation’s Wally Marks Changemaker of the Year award for social justice research partnerships in 2012. He received the Champion for Equity Award from the Advancement Project in 2017 for his work with community-based organizations fighting for social change. In 2022, Pastor was elected to the American Academy for the Arts and Sciences for his work in Public Affairs and Public Policy. In recognition of his impactful work, in 2024, Pastor was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the region’s most significant civic leaders in their inaugural series, L.A. Influential.
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Manuel Peinado Lorca
Catedrático emérito. Director del Real Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad de Alcalá
MANUEL PEINADO LORCA (GRANADA, 1953)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3960-1092?lang=en
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Manuel Varlet
Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
My research investigates the perceptual-motor processes underlying human performances and their changes across the lifespan, with expertise and pathologies, using behavioural, neuroimaging and brain stimulation methods. I am particularly interested in identifying the neural, informational and biomechanical mechanisms that support and enhance agent-environment and multi-agent coordination. I employ a range of motion capture, EEG, TMS, tDCS/tACS and virtual reality technologies to investigate these perceptual-motor processes, as well as a wide variety of contemporary linear and nonlinear time-series analysis and dynamical modelling techniques.
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Manuel Ángel Gómez Cruz
Professor of agricultural policy, agroecology and agricultural economics, University of Chapingo
Professor of agricultural policy, agroecology and agricultural economics.
Agricultural engineer specializing in agricultural economics from the National School of Agriculture, he completed a doctorate in agricultural economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. It has created several research centers including the Agriculture-Industry Research Program, the Center for Economic, Social and Technological Research on Agroindustry and World Agriculture (CIESTAAM), the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Comprehensive Rural Development (CIIDRI), and the doctorate in economic-agroindustrial problems, all of them at the Chapingo Autonomous University (UACh). He is founder of the Chapingo Organic Tianguis and the Mexican Network of Organic Tianguis and Markets. He is a researcher and coordinator of CIIDRI. He has more than 70 books as author and co-author, including:Citricultura orgánica con enfoque agroecológico: un modelo exitoso en el Norte de Veracruz (CEDRSSA, 2022), Guía agroecológica para la producción de naranja orgánica (UACh, 2021 y 2017), TLC y agricultura. funciona el experimento? (UACh, 1996).
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1410-3054
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel-Cruz-5
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Manuela Dantas
Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, California State University, Northridge
Manuela M. Dantas is an assistant professor at the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics of California State University, Northridge. Her research interests include financial accounting, ESG investing, greenwashing, behavioral finance, banking, and political science.
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Manuela Jorg
Research Fellow & Lab Head in Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
I started my career with an apprenticeship as a chemical lab technician at Ciba Specialty Chemicals. After a few years working in industry, I then obtained a Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and the University of Basel, respectively. While being interested and trained as an organic chemist, I have always been extremely passionate about the application of chemistry within the health sciences. Therefore, for my PhD I have specialised in Medicinal Chemistry as I want my research to contribute to improving health within our society. Currently. I am a Monash-Newcastle University research fellow and lab-head in the Medicinal Chemistry Theme at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. My research interests are in the development of chemical probes and small molecule drugs.
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Manuelle Malot
Directrice Carrières et NewGen Talent Centre, EDHEC Business School
Manuelle Malot est Directrice Carrières et Prospective de l'EDHEC Business School depuis plus de 20 ans. Spécialiste de l'insertion professionnelle, elle réalise des bilans et diagnostics de compétences auprès de jeunes diplômés et cadres dirigeant, conseille et accompagne les entreprises dans leur politique de recrutement, de fidélisation et d’engagement.
Elle a fondé en 2012 le NewGen Talent Centre, centre d’expertise sur les motivations, comportements et compétences des nouvelles générations. Elle est l’expert des graduate programmes d’entreprise en France sur lesquels elle a publié plusieurs études, articles et ouvrages et anime des conférences en France et à l’étranger.
Manuelle Malot est diplômée de l'EDHEC et d’un 3ème cycle du CELSA Université Paris IV Sorbonne en sciences de l'information et de la communication. Elle contribue régulièrement en tant qu’expert carrière sur plusieurs supports.
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Mar Hicks
Associate Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia
Hicks does research on the history of computing, labor, technology, and queer science and technology studies. Their work studies how collective understandings of progress are defined by competing discourses of social value and economic productivity, and how technologies often hide regressive ideals while espousing "revolutionary" or "disruptive" goals. Their research investigates everything from how power and AI intersect, to the long history of transphobic algorithmic bias, to the connections between gender and technological change.
Hicks’s current work focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA people change the core narratives of the history of computing in unexpected ways. They are currently working on a book about the gendered nature of digital infrastructure and the intersections between queerness and resistance in the history of digital computing. Hicks's multiple award-winning first book, Programmed Inequality (MIT Press, 2017), looks at how the British lost their early lead in computing by discarding women computer workers, and what this cautionary tale can tell us about current issues in high tech. Hicks is also co-editor of the book Your Computer Is On Fire (MIT Press, 2021), a volume of essays about how we can begin to fix our broken high tech infrastructures.
Before joining UVA, Hicks was Associate Professor of History of Technology at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2018-2019. Hicks holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Duke University in History, and a B.A. in History from Harvard. More information about their work can be found at: marhicks.com.
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Mara Cameran
Researcher in financial accounting, Bocconi University
Tenured Researcher of Accounting at Bocconi University, Italy. Italian CPA (Dottore Commercialista) and Chartered Auditor (Revisore contabile). Member of the Standard Setting Boards’ Nominations Committee to manage the selection process for members of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) and the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA).
Her research interest is focused on the regulation and the functioning of the audit market and on the developing of the auditing process inside teams. She is also interested in the ethical and equality dimensions related to the accounting profession.
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Mara Violato
Associate Professor, Health Economics, University of Oxford
Mara is an Associate Professor at the Health Economics Research Centre in the University of Oxford. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy; an MSc in Economics from the University of Glasgow; a PhD in Economics from the University of Dundee; and a Doctorate in Economics from the University Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
Mara’s research contributes to two complementary aspects of the health economics discipline. The first aspect relates to investigations of economic-driven inequalities in health outcomes and healthcare utilisation, through the statistical and econometric analysis of large and complex observational survey data and linked healthcare administrative datasets, in order to inform clinical practice and wider policies to reduce inequitable differences in people’s health status. The second aspect refers to the economic evaluations (for example, cost-effectiveness analysis) of health treatments/healthcare delivery models alongside randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in order to identify those treatments/programmes that represent good value for money in a healthcare system which increasingly is under financial strain. The development of a more equitable and efficient healthcare sector is therefore an important perspective that underpins all of her economic research across several disease areas.
She is particularly interested in the economics of mental health, especially in children and young people, as well as the analysis of health-related quality of life in large multi-country surveys. In addition, she has recently developed an interest in behavioural economics. She is currently engaged in several projects in these areas, which are funded by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research and the EuroQol Foundation.
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Mara-Daria Cojocaru
Privatdozentin, Munich School of Philosophy
Mara-Daria Cojocaru's main research interests include: political philosophy and theory, philosophical pragmatism, (animal) ethics, philosophy of emotion and intellectual virtues.
She has taught at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, the Munich School of Philosophy, the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Graz University, and she has been visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield, the University of Brighton and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Currently, she is establishing a new project on “animal-assisted philosophy” – a blend of philosophical and creative writing that is not just about, but with and for other animals.
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Marc C-Scott
Marc C-Scott is a lecturer in screen media and coordinator for both the Bachelor of Screen Media at Victoria University (https://www.vu.edu.au/courses/bachelor-of-screen-media-absn).
Prior to his position, Marc taught at many institutions in the areas of digital media, video production, motion graphics, visual effects, web technologies along with project and research methodologies.
He has been active in the area of digital media since 1996, completing a Bachelor of Design (Multimedia) with Honors at Swinburne’s National School of Design in 2004.
Marc is currently completing a PhD, which uses a historical comparative approach, in investigating the changes of the television industries within Australia, United Kingdom and United States.
His research interests are within television (history, institutions and new broadcast methods), cross-media, cross-platform media and the use of new digital media services.
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Marc Collinson
Teaching Associate in Political History, Bangor University
Dr Marc Collinson teaches contemporary history and politics. An active political historian of post-war Britain, Marc is interested in electoral phenomena (including by-elections), political parties, and policymaking. He is currently writing a study of Smethwick in electoral politics, c. 1955-1970. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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