Research Group Leader, Institute for Tropical Medicine , University of Tübingen Francine Ntoumi is Founder, Chair and Executive Director of the Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, Republic of Congo, lecturer in Immunology at the University Marien Ngouabi, Republic of Congo, and Research Group Leader at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She is a member of several scientific committees and international scientific networks in Africa and Europe and serves as a reviewer for a number of leading scientific journals. Her main area of research is malaria, and throughout her career she has trained African scientists of various nationalities in disciplines such as immunology and molecular epidemiology.
Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, The University of Edinburgh Frances has a joint post with the University of Edinburgh and the National Galleries of Scotland. She has curated numerous international exhibitions and her main area of specialism is French and Scottish nineteenth-century art, with an emphasis on collecting, the art market, national identity, cultural revival and artistic networks. Frances is Chair of the Association for Art History and Senior Trustee of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. She is on the Board of the International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA) and is patron of the Paisley Museum Reimagined cultural renovation project. She is the 2022 Van Gogh Museum Visiting Fellow and is on the advisory Board of the Van Gogh Worldwide project, a digital platform for all works by Vincent Van Gogh. She is also a Group Leader for Art UK and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History. She began her career working for Sotheby's auctioneers and, briefly, as an arts journalist. She gained her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1994 and has taught at the universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow and at Edinburgh College of Art. She worked in the curatorial department at Tate Britain before joining the National Galleries of Scotland in 2001. She was appointed to her current post in 2005.
Assistant lecturer, SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies Francis Kofi Essel is a faculty member at SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies-Wa, Ghana. He is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management. He holds a Master of Philosophy in Hospitality Management, and a Bachelor of Science in Tourism Management, both from the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast-Ghana. He is a Certified Tour Guide with 9 years of experience in Tour Guiding and an intimate knowledge of Ghana's tourism sites. He is a proud member of Tour Guides Association of Ghana. He also has hands-on-training in Hotel Management. Aside from tourism and hospitality, Essel researches black history and contemporary forms of slavery. His current research focus is on the Cape Coast slave dungeons.
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature, SOAS, University of London Filippo Cervelli received his PhD in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford, and is currently Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature at SOAS University of London. Broadly speaking, his research focuses on representations of individual and social crises across modern and contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture. He has written on the fiction of Takahashi Gen’ichirō, Abe Kazushige, on post-Fukushima literature, on manga, and on animation. He recently co-edited the interdisciplinary special issue The Lonely Nerd (2022), on representations of nerds and loneliness, for the journal Exchanges. He is currently exploring narrations of space and peripheral realities in modern Japanese literature; on the popular culture side, he is focusing on the works of Hosoda Mamoru.
Assistant Professor, Universidad del Desarrollo I am currently Assistant Professor at Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile. I hold a PhD from UNIVERSITÉ PARIS I- PANTHEON SORBONNE / ESCP BUSINESS SCHOOL. My interests include macro-level factors influencing consumer experiences, particularly in connection with vulnerable consumers, family consumption, sustainability and international border-crossing. My research agenda envisages a widening of research contexts by focusing on promoting a conversation between theorizations developed in mature markets and the reality of emerging economies and applying marketing knowledge to contribute positively to society. My work has been featured in the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing Management, Consumption, Markets & Culture, Research in Consumer Behavior and Advances in Consumer Research, among other outlets.
