Professor of Environmental Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Enrica De Cian is professor in environmental economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), research scientist at Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), and at RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment. She is an ERC Starting Grant grantee with the project ENERGYA – Energy use for Adaptation. She coordinates Ca’ Foscari’s Master in Science and Management of Climate Change. Before she was researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), and she has collaborated with several research organizations in Europe (CEPS, ZEW) and in the U.S. (Joint Program at MIT, Boston University). Her research focuses on the global impacts of climate change on the economy, the society, and sustainable development. She works with integrated assessment models and econometric and statistical approaches.
PhD Researcher, School of English, Trinity College Dublin I am a PhD researcher in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where I write about constructions of childhood in Modern Irish poetry. My work is funded by the Irish Research Council and I am currently based in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. I review regularly for "Poetry Ireland Review", but my teaching and wider research interests bring me outside the genre of poetry: I regularly teach short stories, novels and drama. Having grown up in Canada, but spent the last decade in Ireland, I am interested in the relationship between gender and colonial legacy in literature, both here in Ireland, and abroad. In 2019, I was awarded a Master's in Poetry from Queen's University Belfast, and a BA in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin in 2018.
Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University I am an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. My research focuses on the intersection of politics and development in the Middle East. I am the author of the book Iran’s Reconstruction Jihad: Rural Development and Regime Consolidation after 1979 (Cambridge University Press, 2020). My articles have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, Middle East Critique, The Middle East Journal, The Muslim World, Third World Quarterly, and others. I am a Non-Resident Scholar with the Middle East Institute (MEI) Iran Program and a Board of Trustees member of the American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS).
Professor of Healthcare Law, Durham University Emma Cave publishes widely in the field of Medical Law. In 2024 she serves as a core member of the Health and Social Care Committee Expert Panel, a member of the COVID-19 Inquiry Ethics Advisory Group and chairs a Nuffield Council on Bioethics working group on the ethical and regulatory issues raised by research on human stem cell-based embryo models. She previously chaired the Advisory Forum in the General Medical Council’s review of Good Medical Practice guidance, was an Assurance Group member of the Cass Review of gender identity services for children and young people, co-convened the Medical Ethics Expert Group of the Infected Blood Inquiry and served on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Her research focuses on the protection of patient rights and interests, particularly where patients are vulnerable. Her 2004 monograph, The Mother of All Crimes was reissued by Routledge in 2018 and the seventh edition of her co-authored book (with Professor Margaret Brazier and Professor Rob Heywood), Medicine, Patients and the Law was published in 2023
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Queen Mary University of London Living beings come to this world equipped with unlearned capacities to interact with the environment. For instance, chicks do not need any training to preferentially approach animate objects, orient in space and recognize familiar individuals. Other predispositions include specialized mechanisms for learning that are used in filial imprinting and language. My research is focused on the evolution of the fundamental building blocks of behaviour and cognition, predisposed behaviours and specialized learning mechanisms. My analyses span from behavioural to genomic data. Precocial species (e.g. chicks of the domestic fowl, tortoises) and insects are valuable models to conduct these studies.
Professor and Director of Space and Drone Remote Sensing Lab, University of North Carolina Wilmington Dr. Ghoneim received her PhD in 2002 from the School of Geography, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. In 2003, she joined the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, USA and worked as Research Assistant Professor until summer 2010. Her primary interest is in the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing and the use of hydrologic modeling in Flash flood hazard, Groundwater exploration in desert environments and present Sea Level Rise simulation. She has conducted research on the flash flood potential and vulnerability in the arid Red Sea coast of Egypt. She has worked on projects for groundwater exploration in the northern United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sudan, Libya and southwestern Egypt. Dr. Ghoneim also uses satellite images (thermal infrared data) for detecting groundwater discharge inland and into the sea in the Arabian Peninsula. She is currently involved in the reconstruction of the Paleohydrological map of the Great Sahara using numerous remote sensing techniques and satellite data such as SRTM and SAR radar imagery data.
