Associate Professor of Law, Wake Forest University I am an expert on gay and lesbian legal history and contemporary LGBTQ+ rights. My research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed and law review journals, and I am a three-time recipient of the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the country's most influential sexual orientation and gender identity scholarship. I currently teach at Wake Forest University School of Law. Prior to joining the Wake faculty, I was the Berger-Howe Fellow in Legal History at Harvard Law School. I also served as an Associate in Law at Columbia Law School, where I taught the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic. I received my Ph.D in history from Yale University, and my J.D. from Columbia Law School, where I was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law and a Kent Scholar. I also hold a M.St. in Women's Studies from the University of Oxford, where I was awarded a distinction on my thesis.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter I am an ecologist interested in how species respond to environmental change. My research involves a combination of fieldwork and modelling to investigate how climate and habitat influence the persistence of species within landscapes. Butterflies are a particular passion of mine, with their ecology and conservation forming a focus for much of my work.
Professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ; Director and President of BoD of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki A. GENERAL • Born in Athens 13/7/1960. Married with one son. • Spoken languages: Greek (mother tongue), English, Italian, Spanish • PhD in Astronomy, University of Sussex (1989) [supervisor Prof J.D. Barrow] • Memberships: International Astronomical Union, Hellenic Astronomical Society (founding member) and the Hellenic Society of Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology (founding member), Europlanet Society • Prices/Awards: (a) British Council Fellowship (1988-1989), (b) Human Capital & Mobility Fellow (early Marie Curie) - (1994-1996). B. CURRENT POSITIONS: • Professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece • Director and President of BoD of the National Observatory of Athens (2017-2020, 2021-2025) C. LEADERSHIP OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS/CONSORTIA/COMMITTEES • Coordinator of the National Network for Climate Change-CLIMPACT • President of the State Thematic Committee on Climate Change, Energy and Sustainable Mobility • Director of the Governing Board of the Panhellenic Geophysical and Climate Change Observatory – PANGEA of NOA. • Member of the European Space Science Committee (ESSC-ESF), by selection. • Member of the Greek National Committee for Astronomy • Member of the Scientific Committee of the The Ultimate XMM Extragalactic X-ray Survey (XXL) project and of the Steering Committee of the corresponding International Consortium. • Member of the Sci. Committee of the International collaboration: Cosmology with HII galaxies • Member of the BoD of NOHSIS Technology & Science Museum (2016-2019, 2020-2022) D. RESEARCH ACTIVITY • Scientific Interests: Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics & Climate Change and Natural Disaster management. • Publications: >245 scientific publications, out of which >150 in International Refereed Journals (according to NASA/ADS), 2 reviews in Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, 95 in conference proceedings. >40 articles in newspapers & newsletters • Citations: Total Citations (NASA-ADS): >4400 (h-index: 37), (Google Scholar): >5800 (h-index: 45). • Student PhD Supervision: Supervision of 9 completed PhD theses. • Scientific Journal Editor: Member of the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Modern Physics D • Referee of Scientific Programs for the: Greek State Funding Agency, Mexican CONACYT, Spanish CONICET, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), European Science Foundation, etc • Referee for peer-review Journals: MNRAS, Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics, etc • Conference Proceedings Editor: 1. “Large Scale Structure in the X-ray Universe” eds. Plionis, M. & Georgantopoulos, I., Atlantic Sciences, Paris (ISBN 2-84394-227-6), 2. “2nd Hellenic Cosmology”, eds. Plionis, M. & Cotsakis, S., (ISBN: 1-4020-0808-2, Kluwer, ASSL 276), 3. “Multiwavelength Cosmology”, ed. Plionis, M. (ISBN:1-4020-1971-8, Kluwer, ASSL 301). 4. “The Panchromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure», Springer LNP, eds. Plionis, M., Lopez-Cruz, O. & Hughes, D., ISBN: 978-1-4020-6940-6, LNP Vol. 740 (2008) E. FUNDING • Research Funds awarded through competitive calls by European, Hellenic or Mexican agencies sum up to a total of more than ~1.000.000 € • Development funds as President of NOA (European Investment Bank, ESPA-Prefectures, European RRF, etc): ~70.000.000€
Director for Behavioral Health Promotion and Applied Research, University at Albany, State University of New York Dolores Cimini is a New York State licensed psychologist who has provided leadership since 1982 on a number of federal, state, and private grant-funded programs. She is currently the project director for more than $2.8 million in federal grants addressing high-risk drinking and other prevention issues, including a grant under the NIAAA Rapid Response to College Drinking Problems program and the SAMHSA Campus-Based Targeted Capacity Enhancement Grant for Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for students seeking health care through the University. Cimini has also served as project director for two U.S. Department of Education grant projects, including the Alcohol and Drug Prevention Model Programs Grant. She is the director of the Middle Earth Peer Assistance Program at UAlbany, an agency recognized as a model/exemplary program in alcohol abuse prevention by both the U.S. Department of Education and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has published professional articles in both national and international refereed journals in the alcohol and substance abuse field.
PhD Candidate in Sociology, Dalhousie University I am a SSHRC-funded PhD Candidate in the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. My research has mainly focused on reproductive and sexual health, while my PhD research examines women-identified individuals experiences living with vaginismus. I have taught courses on Gender and Health and have worked on several research projects related to sexual and domestic violence. In addition to my dissertation, my current research work examines social disconnection and masculinity.
Adjunct Professor of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast I am a mathematics educator and mathematics education researcher with doctoral and Master's degrees in this field. I was formerly a secondary school mathematics teacher, following a first career in industry as a food technologist.
