Professor in Forest genetics, European Forest Institute Prof. Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat is the coordinator of the SUPERB project. She holds the position of Principal Scientist at the European Forest Institute and is a professor at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. Magda earned her Ph.D. in Forest Genetics from La Sorbonne University-Paris. She is an associate member of the French Academy of Agriculture and a National Geographic Explorer. - Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/magda-bou-dagher-kharrat-aa149b30/ - ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7969-1673 SUPERB: https://forest-restoration.eu/ SUPERB is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under the topic “Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services” of the call “Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: Research and innovation in support of the European Green Deal (H2020-LC-GD-2020)“
Sessional tutor, The University of Melbourne Maia is a Research Coordinator at PIJI, managing the Assessment of Diversity research theme. Maia has recently completed a Master of Geography at the University of Melbourne, with a background in international studies. She has research experience at RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research and not-for-profit organisations.
Chair of Middle East Studies & Associate Professor of Francophone & Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Dickinson College I received my doctorate in Francophone Studies from Florida State University in 2012. I have a master’s degree in International Law and Human Rights from Université de Rouen in France, and a bachelor’s degree in law from Saint Joseph University in Lebanon. My teaching and research focus on the intersectionality of law, gender, sexuality, oral history, and trauma in the context of armed conflicts with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. My first book, "Gendering Civil War. Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon", for which I earned the AAUW American Fellowship, appeared with Edinburgh University Press in 2022. Nominated for the John Leonard Prize, this book examines French-language narratives published between the 1970s and the present day by Lebanese women authors writing on the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1991. My second book examines Hezbollah’s unlawful activities in Lebanon since 1982, and the manuscript is currently under consideration. My most recent research project focuses on the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983 that killed 241 American servicemembers and 58 French parachutists. In this project, I explore gaps in Lebanese, French, and American histories and writes veterans’ oral stories. In addition to my books, I published several peer reviewed articles in French and English in national and international journals. I am also finishing a second doctorate in international law and terrorism at Penn State Dickinson Law.
Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature and Culture, University of Tennessee Małgorzata (Gosia) K. Citko-DuPlantis is a scholar of premodern Japanese literature and culture. Arguing against closed systems of knowledge and interested in pioneering research on understudied subjects, she has published academic articles on the reception history of "Man'yōshū" (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves, 759–785), the oldest extant collection of Japanese poetry, and medieval waka (Japanese court poetry). Originally from Poland, after graduating from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, she started her career at Florida State University as Dean's Post-Doctoral Fellow in Japanese Studies and joined the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022. She teaches a variety of courses focusing on bridging premodern and modern Japanese intellectual history. Her newest research interests include the image of Japanese classical heroes in popular media, especially video games.
Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster PhD (International Criminal Law)-University of Essex LLB-Girne American University Cyprus LLM (Public International Law)-Leiden University, The Netherlands Diploma in Contemporary Challenges to International Human Rights Law-Abo Akademi University, Finland
Postdoctoral research fellow, lecturer, University of Sydney I am a cognitive neuroscientist with over 15 years of experience. I research the neural basis of consciousness using virtual reality and electroencephalography.
