Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Behavioral Science and Technology, University of St.Gallen Emanuel de Bellis is Associate Professor of Empirical Research Methods and Director of the Institute of Behavioral Science and Technology (IBT). Before joining the University of St.Gallen in 2021, he was an Assistant Professor at HEC Lausanne and spent visits at Columbia Business School and the University of British Columbia. He holds a PhD in Management and a Master in Cognitive and Decision Sciences. As a behavioral scientist, Emanuel de Bellis examines the underlying mechanisms that drive our behavior, combined with his interest in current technological and societal developments. In a series of research projects, he seeks to improve the understanding of how consumers perceive and use new technologies, including barriers to their consumer adoption. His findings show, for example, that the relationship between humans and technology is changing fundamentally, as shown by the humanization of autonomous products, and that these products need to be designed in a way which provides meaning to consumers. In addition, he is an expert on mass customization and personalization and a thought leader in crypto-marketing and NFTs. His research has been published in top-tier marketing journals, such as the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. It has been awarded with the Rigour & Relevance Research Award and has been featured in both international and Swiss media outlets (e.g., Forbes, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Neue Zürcher Zeitung). In 2021, he released The Machine Age of Customer Insight, a book on the transformation of customer insights and the growing impact of machine learning. Emanuel de Bellis is at the forefront of the University’s method training. He teaches method courses at Bachelor, Master, PhD, and executive level, such as the Methods: Empirical Social Research lecture which is mandatory for every business student in the Bachelor program. In addition, he leads the University’s Data and Method Consulting team and is Academic Co-Director of the Global School in Empirical Research Methods, the University’s Academic Plagiarism Adivsor, and the University’s representative at the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students.
Profesora asociada de Prótesis y Disfunción Craneomandibular, Universitat de Barcelona Doctora en Odontología. Universidad de Barcelona (UB). Diploma de Postgrado de Oclusión y Rehabilitación Oral. UB. Profesora Asociada de Prótesis Dental, Oclusión y Disfunción Craneomandibular. UB. Profesora del Máster de Oclusión y Rehabilitación Oral. UB. Profesora del Máster de Clínica en Implantología y Prótesis. UB. Diploma de Competencia en Diseño y Análisis de Investigaciones Clínicas. UB. Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders: Training and Calibration Course (Orofacial Pain Unit- Malmö University). Investigadora del equipo científico Salud Oral y Sistema Masticatorio del IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institut Experta en Medicina Dental del Sueño certificado por la Federación Española de Sociedades de Medicina del Sueño (FESMES).
PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne Ella is a PhD researcher in Ecology within the school of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Science at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD investigates the influence of fire on heathland plants across their life cycle. Ella's research interests include fire and plant ecology, biodiversity conservation, and environmental policy and governance. She is passionate about finding good ways to look after the earth and its creatures.
Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, Indiana University Dr. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis, Director of the Cultural Heritage Research Center and Director of the IUPUI Museum Studies Program. Her multidisciplinary research explores the intersections of landscape, power, and memory and investigates how materiality is deployed in the contestation of social inequalities across gender, race, class, ethnicity, and religion. She has disseminated this research peer-reviewed publications, exhibits, and digital history. Her research has focused on landscape history and the production of public memory in the Chesapeake, the Midwest, and the California missions (California Mission Landscapes: Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage, U. Minn. Press 2016). Her current research investigates toxic heritage and the ways in which places of environmental harm are mobilized and marginalized in formal and informal memory practices. As part of this research, she has investigated post-industrial sites in the US and UK and was a Fulbright Scholar in France in 2022 studying the toxic heritage of WWI. She is the co-editor with Sarah May of Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Justice (Available open access from Routledge, July 2023).
Educational Developer, Queen's University, Ontario Eleftheria (Elita) is a clinical laboratory science professional. She has worked in research labs to develop new ways of diagnosing disease, and in hospital labs to conduct analyses and provide medical laboratory information that helps with disease prevention, monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment. Eleftheria is also an educational developer focused on improving or developing existing programs and curricula, enhancing teaching and student learning, and researching theories and strategies related to teaching and learning. As an educator herself, she applies educational theories to teach her core discipline of chemistry, as well as teaching health professions educators about research in education.
Research Project Director, Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA), Harvard Kennedy School Erica Licht has been engaged in racial equity and organizational change research and training for over 15 years. She is currently Research Projects Director at the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA) at Harvard University where she leads and co-designs IARA’s projects and partnerships. Erica is a Fulbright Scholar, and holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Masters in Justice Policy from the London School of Economics where she was a Maguire Fellow. Prior to IARA, Erica served as Assistant Director at the Center on Culture, Race, and Equity at Bank Street College in New York City, and as a Fellow with Race Forward and the Government Alliance for Racial Equity. Her career has focused on collaborative community and institutional change programs globally, including consulting with the Center for Creative Leadership in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Lemann Foundation in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Lagos State University and Alternatives to Violence International in Lagos, Nigeria. Erica is an expert facilitator, and has taught course work on justice reform at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and on adaptive leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, CNN and Learning for Justice. She co-hosts the podcast Untying Knots and is a Fellow with the Jewish Studio Project.
