Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Florida Dr. Rincon-Limas received a bachelor degree on Biopharmaceutical Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas in Reynosa, Mexico. He also obtained a Master’s degree in Microbiology and a summa cum laude Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico. He then moved to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to conduct his postdoctoral training in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, where he got training in Neurogenetics and Neurobiology. He got his first Faculty position in the Department of Neurology and the Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and then moved to the University of Florida to join the Department of Neurology at the McKnight Brain Institute. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience and is also a member of the UF Genetics Institute, the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND), and the Center for Neurogenetics.
Senior lecturer (University of Botswana) and Research Associate - North West University. South Africa, University of Botswana David holds a PhD in public administration, Royal Holloway University of London (England); a Masters in development studies (specialised in public policy and administration) from The Institute of Social Studies – The Hague, The Netherlands and a BSc (politics and administration) from the University of Zimbabwe. David has been a senior lecturer at the University of Botswana from 2008. He is also the coordinator for the following programmes - Masters in Public Administration; Masters in Politics and International Relations; Masters in Research and Public Policy and Masters in Defence and Strategic Studies. He has also taught at several universities in the United Kingdom and South Africa. He also worked in local authorities in Zimbabwe for more than a decade, holding various positions up to the chief executive officer level. His most direct research interests orbit around the main empirical and conceptual sites of enquiry in local government; public policy analysis, migration and development; and women’s involvement in politics especially at the local government level. In 2010, he was awarded a grant by the Office of Research and Development (University of Botswana). This grant enabled him to consolidate and elaborate his interest in women in politics and contestations in governance.
Associate Professor of Ethics, Director of UNSW Military Ethics Research Lab and Innovation Network (MERLIN), UNSW Sydney I am a military ethicist with a philosophical background. I have been working in the field as a full-time academic for over 20 years.
Research Associate, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, Newcastle University I joined the Economics group in Newcastle University Business School on October 2023 as a research associate funded by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC). Before pursuing this personal interest in the creative industries, I obtained my PhD in Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics from Penn State University under graduate research assistantship. I was an advisor on food policy and trade to the deputy chief of staff (for economic issues) at the Executive Office of the President of Indonesia for three years after obtaining my MSc in Development Economics and Policy from The University of Manchester under the LPDP (Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education) Scholarship from Indonesia. Prior to graduate studies, I spent four years with Standard Chartered Group in Singapore under various consumer banking roles, most prominently in performance management and scorecard design. I graduated with a BA (Hons) in Economics from Nanyang Technological University under Singapore's ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship after also completing secondary education under Singapore MOE Pre-University scholarship and Singapore International Foundation (SIF) scholarship.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia David J. Acunzo, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. After a degree in telecommunications engineering from IMT Atlantique (France), David obtained his PhD in neuroinformatics from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and then occupied research positions at CIMeC – Center for Brain/Mind Sciences, University of Trento (Italy), and the Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK. He has worked on a diverse array of cognitive neuroscience topics including vision, attention and semantic processing using various computational and functional neuroimaging techniques including EEG, MEG and fMRI. His current research interests include abnormal perceptions, response to hypnotic suggestion and extraordinary experiences including mystical and psi experiences.
Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) I am a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). I research disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs' impact on peace and the gendered aspects of these programs. Currently, I am leading a 3.5-year-long project on the effect of disarmament on conflict recurrence (DISARM), funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
