Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hamilton College Originally from New York City, Alexandra Plakias graduated from Hamilton College in 2002 before moving to Santa Cruz, Calif., where she received a master’s from the University of California. She then completed her doctorate at the University of Michigan and spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland. Her research focuses on issues in moral psychology, such as the role of evolution and culture in our moral values. She has also written about moral relativism and about the role of empirical research in philosophical theorizing.
PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham; Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University Amy Eaglestone is a political scientist and democracy practitioner. She is currently finishing her PhD at the University of Birmingham and is a visiting Lecturer at Leiden University. She is an assistant editor at the Review of Democracy. Before embarking on her academic journey, Amy held progressively responsible position within the field of democracy development, working for international development organizations and the United Nations. Her research interests focus on comparative politics, (de)democratization, and political parties, and include but are not limited to political polarization, citizen participation, and democracy promotion. Her regional focus is Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Moldova and Georgia in particular.
Professor of Strategy and Innovation, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Amélie Cloutier is a professor in the Department of Strategy, Social and Environmental Responsibility at ESG UQAM (Montreal, Canada) since June 2020. She holds an MBA in management as well as a Ph.D. in administrative sciences from Laval University. Her main research interest is collaboration in innovation, focusing on its brakes and levers in different contexts. She is the author of several conferences and her work has been published in the International Journal of Innovation Management and Managing Sport and Leisure. A corporate background, including the role of competitive intelligence advisor, preceded her transition to the academic field.
Research associate professor, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Amandine Cornille's academic journey includes a Master's at ENS Ulm (France) and a PhD at Université Paris Sud (2009-2012). She completed postdocs at Uppsala University (2013-2015) and ETH Zurich (2015-2017). In 2017, she became a CNRS researcher at Université Paris-Saclay. In 2024, she is appointed Associate Professor at NYUAD to continue her work on the ecology and (epi-)genomic bases of the response of crop trees and their wild relatives to global changes (climate change and parasite outbreak). Amandine Cornille integrates laboratory experiments, fieldwork, modeling, and population genomics to study plant diversity and adaptation to their environment, focusing on domesticated fruit trees and their wild relatives. Her work has been published in top journals, including Trends in Genetics, Trends in Plant Science, PloS Genetics, Nature Communications, and Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Applications. She actively engages in outreach and participative science programs. Amandine Cornille received the PhD Young Researcher award (2009) and multiple national and international research grants (ATIP-CNRS Inserm, ANR JCJC, BNP Fondation Paribas “Climate and Biodiversity Initiative,” European LEADER, Europe H2020…). She was awarded the CNRS Paoletti Prize in 2020 for her contributions to biology.
Professor and Clinical Psychiatrist, Cardiff University Professor Arianna Di Florio is a researcher and clinical psychiatrist at Cardiff University. Her research investigates the impact of reproductive events such as the menstrual cycle, childbirth, and menopause on psychiatric disorders. In her clinical practice, Professor Di Florio offers a free-of-charge service providing second opinions for women with bipolar disorder and patients experiencing severe psychiatric disorders associated with reproductive events. She is the founder of the Reproductive Mental Health Clinical and Research Programme at Cardiff University, as well as lead of the Bipolar Disorder Genomics Research Group within the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics.
