Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Development, SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies Dr Frederick Dapilah is a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Development, Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana. He obtained his doctorate in geography from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, in 2020 with a dissertation entitled “Climate change adaptation in the Global South: navigating complexity to build adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change in Northern Ghana”. Frederick’s research is at the intersection of human-environment relations, focusing on human dimensions of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change and how these open up for exploration of efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. He is a postdoctoral fellow of the Climate Change Research in Africa programme (ClimapAfrica) and the NDC Financing Fellowship Programme (NDC-FFP). In addition, he is an editorial board member of SN Social Science journal and works as a guest editor for the journal Regional Environmental Change. (https://ubids.edu.gh/fplm/departments/community-development)
Professeur titulaire en physiothérapie et en santé musculosquelettique, École de réadaptation, Université Montréal, Université de Montréal François Desmeules, pht., Ph.D., Fellow de l’OPPQ, est un physiothérapeute gradué de l’Université Laval en 2000. Il a obtenu un doctorat en épidémiologie de l’Université Laval en 2010. Professeur Desmeules a été clinicien pendant plus de dix ans au CHU de Québec et pratique actuellement comme clinicien en clinique privé. Il est professeur titulaire et responsable des programmes de pratique avancée à l’École de réadaptation de l’Université de Montréal et il poursuit ses recherches au centre de recherche de l’hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur : 1- le développement et l'évaluation de nouveaux modèles de soins en physiothérapie incluant les pratiques avancées 2- le diagnostic et l’évaluation des interventions pour le traitement des troubles musculosquelettiques et 3- les pratiques factuelles et la réalisation de synthèses de connaissances. Il est l’auteur de plus de 100 études en réadaptation et en orthopédie, publiées dans différents journaux scientifiques et il est présentement chercheur boursier sénior du FRQ-S. Il a été impliqué dans plusieurs projets touchant la pratique professionnelle en physiothérapie au cours des ans et il a agi comme expert, consultant ou administrateur auprès de plusieurs organismes ou institutions au Québec, au Canada ou à l’international.
Associate professor in Ecological Transition and Social Entrepreneurship, EM Lyon Business School Fanny Verrax est professeur associé en transition écologique et entrepreneuriat social à emlyon business school depuis septembre 2023. Elle est rattachée au département Entreprenariat et Innovation.
Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand Franziska is associate professor at the School of Law, and co-assistant dean (postgraduate affairs) at the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she teaches, researches and supervises in international trade law (since 2011). She holds a doctorate in law from the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main and serves as executive co-treasurer of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). Prior to working in South Africa, she was a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (2006‒2010) and a legal adviser in the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GTZ/GIZ), Accra, Ghana, for the Good Governance Programme (in 2006). Franziska is co-editor (with Kholofelo Kugler) of the book 'International economic law: (southern) African perspectives and priorities' (2021).
Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Trieste Federico Donelli, Ph.D. is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Trieste, Italy. His research areas include international politics and security studies of the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the foreign policy of various regional and extra-regional actors. He is currently working on the militarization of the Red Sea and the increasing global competition in sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of several articles that have appeared in International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Small Wars & Insurgencies, and The International Spectator. He is also the author of Turkey in Africa. Turkey's Strategic Involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa, published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, Cardiff University I am an evolutionary biologist working at the interface of genomics, molecular ecology and conservation biology. I am part of the Cardiff University Otter Project (@Otter_Project on Twitter), where we study otters in the UK and beyond. We are using a diversity of scientific approaches, for example studying their exposure to environmental contaminants, antimicrobial resistance and their population structuring. I also work on a range of projects on seabirds, part of a wonderful group of storm petrel biologists (@CUStormies on Twitter). Much of my work has to do with organisms living water, and hence our Cardfiff University Water Research Institute provides great opportunities for interactions. I serve as Reviews/Associate Editor for the journal 'Heredity' and as Associate Editor for 'Animal Conservation'. Please feel free to get in touch if you're interested in submitting to these journals. During 2016-2020, I served on a time-limited post as Committee Member on the board of the 'Genetics Society UK', representing Population and Evolutionary Genetics.
