Associate Professor of Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, UMass Lowell Ann Kronrod is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She earned her Ph.D. in Marketing and Cognitive Science of Language from Tel Aviv University, and later completed her education as a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT, Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining UMass Lowell, Ann Kronrod was an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, and then Visiting Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and at Boston University. Ann Kronrod is a marketing researcher with extensive background in linguistics. Her research interests span a wide variety of subjects that can be categorized as marketing communication, consumer behavior, word-of-mouth and pro-social marketing. She often integrates her knowledge of linguistics in her research.
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant with the Centre for Decent Work & Industry, Queensland University of Technology Alicia Feldman is a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at QUT with the Centre for Decent Work & Industry (Faculty of Business & Law). Her research explores employment, industry, and environment, with a focus on governance and sustainability. Alicia holds a Bachelor of Science (Biological Science)/Bachelor of Business (Management), and a Master of Philosophy.
Professor of History, Penn State A. K. Sandoval-Strausz was born in New York City to immigrant parents. He teaches courses in Latino studies, urban history, spatial theory, sociability, and immigration. He is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians. His first book, Hotel: An American History (Yale University Press, 2007), won the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2007 by Library Journal. Click these links for book reviews and interviews featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, The Economist, Bloomberg.com, Reason, Columbia, City Journal, the Glasgow Herald, The Age (Melbourne), Sotsial’nie i Gumanitarnie Nauk (Russian Federation), and Phoenix TV (China). His most recent book, Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Basic Books, 2019), is a transnational history of urban revitalization that won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize, the International Latino Book Award for Best Academic Book, and second place for the Victor Villaseñor Book Award.
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Potsdam Dr. Alexander Araya López was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow for the PROTEST-AIRT project at the University of Potsdam, which explored social movements campaigning for air transport degrowth in Europe. In 2018, Dr Araya López was awarded his first Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for the project RIGHTS UP, which was hosted at Ca' Foscari, University of Venice. The RIGHTS UP project explored the emergence of social movements critical of mass tourism in three European cities, namely Venice, Amsterdam and Barcelona. Dr Araya López has also worked as an invited postdoctoral researcher at La Sorbonne Paris 3, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine (IHEAL), where he studied the media discourses about the opposition against Daniel Ortega's government in Nicaragua. He concluded both his Bachelor and Licentiate degrees at the Universidad de Costa Rica, where he taught Sociology of Media and Communication. He obtained his Ph.D at the Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin in 2014. His doctoral thesis focused on media discourses about graffiti practices in Brazil and Costa Rica. He has extensive expertise on social movements, urban dissent and cross-comparative analysis both within Europe and in Latin America. His research interests include contemporary discussions on protest, radical politics, civil/democratic disobedience and media representations of acts of dissent.
Professor of Geology, University of Ljubljana My main fields of research are Sedimentology and Geomorphology. I am primarily interested in dynamic of fluvial and mass movement processes, recent lake and marine sedimentation and influence on geological setting on geomorphological processes and landforms. Large part of my work is related to field work the leads me from high Julian Alps to the Trst bay in Adriatic Sea. My research is also related to the field of Applicative Sedimentology in order to help other scientific fields (for example provenance analysis of tesserae used in Roman mosaics, and reconstruction of paleoclimate in last 10 000 years). Due to the love of vine, I’m also doing the terroir resarch. Occasionally I also do consulting work in sedimentology for commercial clients. I am active in representing geology to the general public trough popular science articles, interviews and lectures. I am also member of the scientific council of Idrija Geopark that is a part of UNESCO Geoparks Network and scientific member of Notranjska Regional park.
Assistant Research Scientist in Data Science and Microbiology, University of Florida I am a first-generation Mexican American data scientist and microbiologist at the University of Florida. With a Ph.D. in microbiology, my research focuses on the microbial and molecular factors influencing human development and chronic disease, particularly in pediatrics. I leverage multi-omic datasets to enhance early screening and prevention strategies, with the goal of developing predictive tools for better long-term health outcomes.
