Professor of Constitutional Law, Bocconi University I am full professor of constitutional law in Bocconi. I also teach the courses on GDPR, media law, internet law and I am the director of the LLM in law of internet technologies in Bocconi University. I am Honest Broker appointed by the European Commission for the negotiation on the ‘European code of practice on disinformation’; I am also member of the executive board, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna; board member of the digital library, Ministry of Culture; member of the European Commission Sounding Board of the Multistakeholder in the fight against online disinformation; participant to the Conseil of Europe Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI); Italian member of the OECD Global Partneship on Artificial Intelligence. My research is focused on constitutional law and cuts across the issues of the digital age, looking at the delicate relationship between public and private actors and how this impacts on this exercise and the protection of fundamental rights. My research has centred on: 1) European and Comparative Constitutional Law; 2) Digital Constitutional Law; 3) Media Law; 4) Internet Law, 5) Life Science Law; 6) Law and Cinema
Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Curriculum Studies, MacEwan University Before joining MacEwan University’s Bachelor of Early Childhood Curriculum Studies Program as an assistant professor, Dr. Cankaya worked with PolicyWise for Children & Families as a research scientist. She was part of a research team working on issues, policies and practices affecting Alberta’s children by linking and analyzing cross-governmental, administrative data. Some of her other past work experiences consisted of working as a long-term consultant at UNESCO Institute for Statistics and as a kindergarten teacher in Thailand. Dr. Cankaya is passionate about contributing to the happiness and health of children through her teaching and research. Currently, she serves on the board of the Terra Centre and is a member of the Edmonton Council for Early Learning and Child Care (ECELC).
Lecturer in International Business, University of Portsmouth I am a lecturer in International Business at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth and a PhD student at Swansea University. I hold a BA and LLM degrees in International Business Law and MSc in International Business Management. My research interests are within the field of Strategic Management and Innovation Management, specifically protection of trade secrecy and other IP rights. Throughout my professional career, I have had various work experience as a legal associate working for a trade company and compliance specialist working for a large bank. As a lecturer now, I deliver business and law-related content on different modules and supervise postgraduate dissertation projects.
My research focuses mainly on gender/ intersectional perspectives on right-wing populist political communication; political discourses aimed at normalizing extreme right opinions; as well as the construction and maintenance of various power hierarchies within these discourses. I examine these phenomena in a comparative perspective both in the Nordic countries, with a focus on Sweden and Finland, as well as in Central Europe, with focus on Hungary and Romania. Research areas Intersectional perspectives on politics Critical masculinity studies and right-wing extremism Anti-gender campaigns and retrogressive politics in Europe Gender, social media, affect and (right-wing populist) politics Critical qualitative methods Critical data studies
Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Marroquin leads UPMC’s health care data and analytics activities, overseeing a team of IT infrastructure architects, analysts, statisticians and data scientists focused on applying “big data” approaches to measure and predict clinical outcomes. Also a practicing cardiologist at the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, Dr. Marroquin's academic career has focused on outcomes research in interventional cardiology and heart disease in women, and his research has been rewarded in the form of grants and numerous publications. He also has a background in the use of intravascular ultrasound and the assessment of the coronary microvasculature. Dr. Marroquin is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. After completing his undergraduate and graduate work at the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala, Dr. Marroquin completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his general cardiology and interventional cardiology fellowships at UPMC. Dr. Marroquin also received a certificate in clinical research from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-sponsored clinical research training program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
