Lecturer, University of Cape Town I am the deputy head of department and a lecturer in the Department of Knowledge and Information Stewardship in the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. I hold a PhD in library and information studies from the University of Cape Town. I am an emerging scholar in the area of research impact assessment, focusing on the development of a more holistic framework for such assessment that is relevant to transformative and decolonising contexts.
PhD Candidate, Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape I am a research associate and PhD Candidate at the Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at University of the Western Cape, in Cape Town, South Africa. My research areas of interest include marine social-ecological systems, human dimensions of marine and coastal ecosystems and the marine bioeconomy. I am passionate about science communication and engagement, as well as exploring the role of traditional social-ecological knowledge and local communities in marine conservation.
PhD Candidate in Education, University of California, Los Angeles Abbie Cohen is a PhD candidate at UCLA's School of Education and Information Studies in the Urban Schooling division. Abbie is a critical qualitative researcher focusing on the intersection of youth-serving community-based education non-profits and private philanthropy in public education. She uses participatory methods to explore issues of race, class, power, and privilege in educational institutions and organizations.
Professeure agrégée, Philosophie (épistémologie et philosophie de la médecine), Université de Montréal Aude Bandini est professeure agrégée au département de philosophie. Ses travaux de recherches récent s'inscrivent à l'intersection entre l'épistémologie sociale et la philosophie de la médecine.
Senior Technical Lead of Bioinformatics, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope Alexander Pozhitkov, Ph.D., graduated from the Moscow State University with an M. Sc. in chemistry and molecular biology in 1998. His master’s thesis was on the detection of microorganisms by biochips using 16S rRNA. In 2003, Alexander earned his doctorate degree from the Albertus Magnus University of Cologne (Germany), focusing on the physical chemistry of immobilized DNA oligonucleotides for the purpose of detection and quantification of specific RNA targets. He also conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Washington (Seattle), studying the interaction between microorganisms and implant materials. In Prof. Pichiorri’s lab, Dr. Pozhitkov has established and been maintaining the informatic infrastructure for the ongoing clinical trials. Also, he has been developing atomic force microscopy protocols to investigate cellular micromechanics.
