Associate Professor of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Dan Kotlyar is an Assistant Professor in the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, G.W.W. School of Mechanical Engineering. He received his B.Sc. in Engineering in 2008, MSc in Nuclear Engineering in 2010, and PhD in Nuclear Engineering in 2013 from Ben-Gurion University, Israel. In 2014, he joined the University of Cambridge as a Research Associate in the Engineering Design Center. In 2014, he was elected as a Research Fellow at Jesus College. He is the recipient of the NRC Faculty Development Fellowship. Dr. Kotlyar’s research interests include development of numerical methods and algorithms for coupled Monte Carlo, fuel depletion and thermal hydraulic codes. In particular, he specializes in applying these methods to the analysis of advanced reactor systems. Dr. Kotlyar’s research also focuses on optimizing the performance of various fuel cycles in terms of fuel utilization, proliferation, and cost. Dr. Kotlyar profoundly believes in education through research and thus integrates practical reactor system design into his lectures.
Assistant Professor and Rosamond Ivey Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions, Carleton University Daniel Rosenbloom’s research program focuses on realizing transition pathways to more sustainable futures. Over the past decade, he has published widely on the policy and political dimensions of transitions to low-carbon and net-zero emissions energy systems. Currently, he is particularly interested in studying and identifying ways to overcome political resistance to net-zero transitions, tracing the evolution of electrification strategies and processes, and developing decision support frameworks that bring near-term choices into dialogue with long-term net-zero outcomes. In conjunction with his ongoing research, Daniel is seeking to deepen linkages among the Canadian community of scholars studying sustainability transitions with the aim of advancing transitions research and practice domestically. Daniel is also active within the broader international transition community, where he is an elected member of the Steering Group for the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN). His work with the STRN seeks to strengthen connections between Canadian and international transition communities as well as enhance efforts to mobilize insights from transition research for policy and practice. Prior to joining the School of Public Policy and Administration, Daniel held policy leadership roles at Environment and Climate Change Canada. In this capacity, he contributed to a number of climate and clean technology files, translating sustainability transition insights for policy impact.
Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University Deyanira Nevárez Martínez is an assistant professor in the Urban & Regional Planning Program in the School of Planning, Design and Construction. Prior to joining the program in the Fall of 2021, she earned a PhD in Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy with an emphasis in Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Nevarez Martinez is an ethnographer who primarily employs qualitative methods. Her research has focused on the role of the state in homelessness and housing precarity and informality. A major theme in her work is the criminalization of poverty in the United States. Additionally, her work has analyzed issues of gentrification, racial equity in land-use and transportation, racial segregation, and bail reform.
Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Drew is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at The University of Auckland Business School and also serves as the Business School’s Associate Dean of External Engagement. Before completing both his Master’s and Doctoral degrees at Auckland University of Technology, Drew enjoyed a 12-year career in global business and marketing roles, including sales, marketing, and business development responsibilities in the North American, Western European, Australasian, and developed Asia markets. Drew’s current research mainly focuses on business-to-business marketing, marketing strategy, and relationship marketing practice, specifically focusing on trust and trust repair. Drew is also interested in industrial marketing functions, such as professional selling and sales management, industrial pricing practice and business buying behaviour. Other current research projects Drew is involved in are seeking to understand the role of technology in business relationships, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and other automated or augmented technologies, and how best we can adopt these tools in practice.
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, University of Groningen David Cheruiyot is an assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Nottingham Trent University Dr David Cook is currently a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Nottingham Trent University. He has research expertise in value co-creation, having undertaken a PhD entitled 'Sponsorship of Major Sport Events: A Creating Shared Value (CSV) Approach’. The study extended knowledge in four key areas: addressing a growing need for business sustainability considerations; developing an understanding of how CSV principles can be applied in order to benefit different stakeholders; exploring the potential of sport events as co-creation platforms; and advancing sponsorship management methods. Dr Cook has published several peer-reviewed research papers in well regarded academic journals such as European Sport Management Quarterly, The International Journal of Voluntary and Non-profit Organizations, and The International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, as well as providing a number of published chapters and case studies for academic textbooks. Dr Cook also has over ten years’ commercial experience in marketing, working for organisations such as 3M, Kantar, Molson Coors, and most recently in a senior Insight and Guest Experience role within the hospitality industry, at Marston’s PLC. He is a certified Market Research practitioner and Chartered Manager.
