Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo My research interest lies in Separation, Pollution Remediation, and Clean Energy. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at University at Buffalo - SUNY (continuing from RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute), working on ultra-thin, ultra-fast inorganic membranes (graphenes, amorphous metal organic networks, zeolite membranes) and with high selectivity. My research expertise involves implementing Atomic/Molecular Layer Deposition or otherwise to fabricate porous materials to achieve specific separations - targeting precise industrially important molecular separation and water treatment via membranes and adsorbents. Having worked worked in Industry (at Jindal Stainless Limited), gave me insight of taking a concept and turning it into a useful product. Rigorous coursework and group projects at National Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, helped me to developed into a Chemical Engineering with strong fundamental understanding and a good team player.
Lecturer in English (currently seconded as Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND-II Research Fellow, Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies), Australian National University My past and current research projects have focused on the specific contributions that literary works, and literary modes of analysis, can make to the interdisciplinary discussion of ethical and political problems. This interest has manifested itself in diverse projects at the intersection of literature and philosophy: work on moral philosophy and post-1950s poetry for my first book, on public apology in global anglophone literature, on the ethics of attention in modern literature, and on representations of modern ruins in ecological fiction. My first book, Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill, was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. I am currently undertaking a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND-II Research Fellowship at the Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Michigan State University Bryan R. Smith is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering within the Engineering School, and a member of the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering. His lab blends engineering, chemistry, biology, physics, and medicine to develop new imaging and therapeutic approaches. He is developing novel nanotechnology-based strategies to harness the power of the immune system, creating novel diagnostic imaging and therapeutic agents for diseases including cancer, atherosclerosis, and neurodegeneration. Recently, Dr. Smith moved to MSU from Stanford University.
Professor of Political Science, Director of the Elections Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison Barry C. Burden is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Director of the Elections Research Center and is the Lyons Family Chair in Electoral Politics. His research and teaching are based in American politics, with an emphasis on electoral politics and representation. He is co-editor of The Measure of American Elections, author of Personal Roots of Representation, and co-author of Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government. Burden has also published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, and Electoral Studies. Burden is affiliated with the La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, and the Election Administration Project.
