Professor of Chemistry, Penn State Miriam Freedman's research group studies phase transitions of aerosol particles, ice nucleation, and other topics at the interface of physical chemistry, surface science, and atmospheric chemistry. She began her independent career at the Pennsylvania State University in 2010, where she is currently a Professor. Previously, she received her BA from Swarthmore College, MS in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and her MS and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Chicago.
Professor of the Practice of Management of Strategic Management, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra) Mike Rosenberg is a Professor of the Practice of Management in the Strategic Management Department of IESE Business School. His teaching and research focus on strategy, geopolitics and sustainability.
Associate Professor, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Dr Monique Jonas is an Associate Professor within the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland, where she has been based since 2010. Monique studied English and Politics as an undergraduate and was drawn to political philosophy and ethical theory. That sparked an interest in moral status and decisions at the beginning of life. Monique is an ethical theorist whose research focuses on decision-making for children, the status of health advice, the ethics of advice-giving, distributive justice in health, equity and the relationship between the family and the state. She enjoys working in a multi-disciplinary environment in the School of Population Health, and welcomes supervision inquiries in ethical theory and applied ethics. Monique completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2005, where she explored ethical aspects of decision-making for neonates, under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Glover. She began her academic career working as a research assistant for Professor Søren Holm at Manchester University, and then as a lecturer at the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University. Monique has been a University of Auckland Proctor since 2021, and Chair of the Health Research Council Ethics Committee since 2020. She has also been a member of the School of Population Health Board of Research since 2020. Monique has held research grants from the Health Research Council (2020) and the Royal Society of New Zealand (Marsden, 2019) For more details, see the Research page. Since 2020, Monique has been Australasian Co- Chair of the Cambridge Bioethics Education Consortium Working Group. She has also been on the Editorial Board of Public Health Ethics since 2015. Monique has also published in many journals, including Pediatrics, Medical Law Review, Bioethics, and Child and Family Law Quarterly. Her latest book, expected publication date of 2024, is The Ethics of Advising [Oxford University Press]. She also presents at international conferences and conventions including the annual Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference.
Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University Dr Manjeet Ridon is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, which was awarded for her strategic leadership in international Higher Education and across a number of areas, including teaching and learning, international partnership developments and Transnational Education (TNE). Dr Ridon is the Associate Dean International for the faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities at De Montfort University (DMU) and currently undertaking a secondment as the Head of DMU London, with responsibility for the set-up and launch of DMU’s London campus. This is an exciting new campus development that will open in September 2025 and will focus exclusively on delivering high-quality postgraduate education in the heart of London. Previously, from 2019-2022, Dr Ridon was instrumental in the set-up and launch of DMU Dubai in the UAE, and DMU's first overseas branch campus development. During this time, as both the project and academic lead, and as the inaugural provost (2021-2022), Manjeet led on the appointment of a teaching team, and ensuring the first academic year of the campus was a success. Dr Ridon is also the institutional lead for developing strategies for embedding sustainability and employability in international partnerships and TNE activity. As a member of the University’s Sustainability Committee, Dr Ridon works closely with the DMU Sustainability team and has delivered on carbon literacy initiatives with international students and external businesses and university partners. Dr Ridon is a Carbon Literacy facilitator and trainer and has delivered training and taster sessions with DMU students and staff. When Dr Ridon was leading the DMU Dubai campus project and as provost of the Dubai campus she led a training initiative for all academic staff teaching at the campus and students at the campus to undertake carbon literacy training. The success of this initiative led to the Dubai campus achieving bronze status accreditation from the Carbon Literacy Project, https://carbonliteracy.com/ Dr Ridon is the chair of the DMU India Advisory Board, which facilitates structured engagement between the University, and Indian businesses and institutions based in India, and British business in the East Midlands. As chair of this Advisory Board, she oversees special initiatives for international students from India and staff at De Montfort University, who have a vested interest in India. For example, student-led celebrations to mark India’s 75th anniversary of independence. As Chair of this Advisory Board, Dr Ridon also welcomes partnership opportunities with other institutions in the Leicestershire region who have an interest in India, and thereby ensure DMU is able to fulfil its civic mission of representing the wider Indian community in Leicester. Recently, as a member of the Decolonising DMU Expert Group, Dr Ridon contributed to the creation of a Staff Toolkit This toolkit is for staff interested in adapting their teaching for international students with reference to the Decolonising DMU programme – a programme which aims to reduce racial disparity and promote cultural diversity in higher education - and supporting academic activities to encourage an increased awareness of this institutional priority. Dr Ridon’s research focuses mainly on literary and cinematic representations of myth in the literature and film of South Asian diasporic women writers and filmmakers in Canada and the USA. This specialised focus is contextualised within a wider interest in the contemporary cultural production of other ethnic and minority groups in North America, in particular the literature of African-American and Native American writers. Dr Ridon’s PhD was awarded prestigious funding by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Canadian Studies Foundation in the UK, and achieved at the University of Nottingham in 2015. Dr Ridon has more than 20 years’ experience of working in international higher education and a TNE specialist, having worked at several universities in the UK and in positions based overseas, such as India and Uzbekistan. Research interests: Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching in International Higher Education Internationalisation Decolonisation in Higher Education African-American literature - 19th century and 21st century South Asian North American literature Contemporary women's literature Postcolonial theories and Decolonisation studies Cultural studies and critical theory Transnational Education research
Senior Research Assistant, Ethos Project, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University Mehak Oberai, an emerging public health researcher with a strong foundation in Microbiology, is dedicated to advancing her expertise in Public Health Promotion and Healthy Ageing. Her strategic utilization of current knowledge and skills reflects her commitment to fostering effective and efficient contributions to these fields. Mehak's overarching goal is to narrow the gap between research and the public, ensuring that academic findings are communicated in an accessible manner. Proficient in engaging with stakeholders and users, she possesses a unique ability to convey complex information in a comprehensible way. With a focus on project planning and management, Mehak is continuously honing her monitoring and project evaluation skills.
PhD candidate, School of Engineering, University of Limerick I am a doctoral researcher at the School of Engineering, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, specialising in the development of energy production and storage devices through ionic thermoelectric membranes and carbon-based materials from lignocellulosic biomass. With a strong record of securing competitive scholarships, including the UOL Academic Excellence Scholarship, ICT Endowment Fund, IsDB Research Scholarship, and NXTGENWOOD Ph.D. funding, I have also published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. Recently, I shared my research in just a three-minute presentation and won the Editor's Choice Award in the international Vitae 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) competition. This research provides a vision of a future where we can turn what was once considered waste into valuable resources.
