Senior Lecturer in Financial Law, Brunel University London Dr Francesco De Pascalis joined Brunel Law School in 2017. Before that, he worked as a research fellow at the 'Chair for Law and Finance' held by Professor Kern Alexander at the University of Zurich, which he joined in 2013. He has also taught, as external lecturer, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London. He qualified as a Solicitor in Italy in 2008. Dr De Pascalis currently holds external examiner positions at the University of Glasgow-Law School. Dr De Pascalis's research interests include banking and finance law, financial regulation, digital finance and technology, and sustainable finance. His monograph Credit Ratings and Market Over-reliance: An International Legal Analysis (Brill-Nijoff 2017) is the first book analysing, from a legal perspective, the phenomenon of investors' over-reliance on external credit ratings and providing a critical assessment of the post-crisis regulatory strategies to tackle the phenomenon in question. At present, Dr De Pascalis is working on two book projects: Open Banking: Global Development and Regulation (forthcoming Routledge 2023) in co-authorship with Dr Monomita Nandy (Brunel Business School) and Dr Alan Brener (UCL), which will be part of the Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking series'; and Principles of Law and Finance (forthcoming Edward Elgar 2026).
Political science lecturer, Santa Clara University Fiorella Vera-Adrianzén attended law school at the Universidad Católica of Peru and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of New Mexico. She teaches courses in Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Research Methods at Santa Clara University. She specializes in transitional justice, participatory politics, and social mobilization in Latin America. Her research examines how victim participation affects the subnational implementation and effectiveness of reparations within indigenous communities in Peru. She is also engaged in various participatory research efforts working with communities affected by conflict in Colombia.
Professor of Environmental Science, American University of Sharjah Dr. Samara completed her post-doctoral work at the Environmental Protection Agency Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division (APPCD); National Risk Management Research Laboratory in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. She is the Co-Chair of the UAE Climate Change Research Network, established by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, which aims to facilitate dissemination of knowledge and advance development of research collaborations. Her research work aims to solve local environmental problems related to environmental quality, toxicity assessments, and waste to energy.
Distinguished Research Professor of Microbiology, University of Dayton Dr. Tenover has had a long-standing interest in clinical microbiology, mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance and development of rapid diagnostic methods for infectious diseases. After undergraduate studies at the University of Dayton, he completed his Masters and Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology at the University of Rochester and undertook Post Doctoral studies in Clinical Microbiology and Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. He served as Associate Chief of Microbiology at the Seattle Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington from 1982-90. In 1983, Dr. Tenover took a leave of absence from the Seattle VA Medical Center to work in Ismailia, Egypt, to help establish a clinical microbiology laboratory at Suez Canal University to support their medical school. In 1986, he took another leave of absence to work on rapid diagnostic DNA probes for infectious diseases at the Armed Forces Research Institute for Medical Sciences in Bangkok, Thailand. In 1990, he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and served for 18 years as Associate Director for Laboratory Science in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion and then as Director of the Office of Antimicrobial Resistance. He also served as Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He joined Cepheid, a molecular diagnostics company based in Silicon Valley in California in 2008 as Head of Scientific Affairs. Over the next 14 years, he contributed to the development of over 20 PCR-based diagnostic tests for infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. During this time, he also served as Consulting Professor of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he worked collaboratively with several Stanford faculty members on studies of antimicrobial resistance and the development of rapid diagnostic tests for viral diseases. In 2023, he returned to the University of Dayton as Distinguished Research Professor of Microbiology. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Dr. Tenover received the John E. Dlugos, Jr. Memorial Award of Excellence in Biology from the University of Dayton, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Award for Outstanding Performance as a Senior Biomedical Scientist, the National Center for Infectious Diseases Recognition Award for Public Health Research and Service, the Becton Dickinson Award for Outstanding Research in Clinical Microbiology from the American Society for Microbiology, the Alumnus of the Year Award from the University of Dayton and Lifetime achievement awards from the Illinois Society for Microbiology and from the Danaher Corporation, the parent company of Cepheid. He has authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications and edited 11 books.
Senior Lecturer in Law, London South Bank University Dr. Farnush Ghadery is a Senior Lecturer in Law whose research is situated at the intersection of feminist theory and international law, with a particular interest in women's rights movements in the Global South. Farnush is a frequent guest lecturer at different institutions, including King's College London, McGill University, and Riara University Nairobi. She is a co-founder of the Feminist TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) Collective and a member of the Editorial Board of the Feminist Legal Studies journal.
Professor in Data Science applied to the Environment and Environmental Health, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) Les intérêts de recherche du professeur Chebana portent principalement sur la science des données, en mettant l’accent sur les applications en environnement et en santé environnementale. Son expertise se situe dans une grande variété de recherches interdisciplinaires avec des approches de science des données (y compris, mais sans s’y limiter, l’hydrologie, les sciences de l’eau, la climatologie, l’épidémiologie climatique, les effets du changement climatique). Il s’intéresse au développement de nouvelles méthodologies de science des données, ainsi qu’à l’adaptation ou à l’application d’approches récentes/avancées.
