Pesquisadora no Programa da Dinâmica Ambiental, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) Graduada em Física pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas e em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas com Especialização em Ciências de Dados. Mestrado e Doutorado em Geociências com ênfase em interações oceano-atmosfera no clima e ambiente amazônico. Tem experiência na área de Climatologia, Variabilidade Climática, Eventos extremos, Modelagem Climática, Análise Exploratória de Longas Séries de Dados, Larga Escala, Aspectos multi-escalares de tempo e clima, Técnicas de Machine Learning e Inteligência Artificial para dados do clima e ambiente. Atualmente é bolsista pelo pelo Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia atuando como pesquisadora no Programa da Dinâmica Ambiental - AGROECO do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA).
Professor of Immunology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Université de Yaounde 1 Emeritus Professor Rose Gana Fomban Leke is a professor of immunology and parasitology and fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, the African Academy of Science and The World Academy of Science. Until March 2013, she was head of department at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaounde 1, and Director of the Biotechnology Centre. She served as chair of the board of directors of the National Medical Research Institute and vice-president of the Scientific Committee of Cameroon First Lady’s Research Centre. She was invited as the 2014 Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecturer at the University of Ghana and awarded an honorary DSc. In 2011, she was one of six women who received the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award for Women and received the 2012 award for Excellence in Science from the Cameroon Professional Society. She was elected international honorary fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2015. She is a member of the Canada Gairdner Foundation Global Health Award advisory committee. She was elected one of nine women as Heroine of Health 2018 and celebrated in Geneva on 20 May 2018 in the presence of the director-general of the World Health Organization, the regional director WHO/AFRO, and the Cameroon minister of health. On November 23, 2018, she was crowned by the Cameroon Medical Council as Queen Mother of the Cameroonian medical community. She has served as executive director of the Cameroon Coalition against Malaria and chair of the Multilateral Initiative in Malaria Secretariat. She was president of the Federation of African Immunological Societies and a council member of the International Union of Immunological Societies for two terms. She has served and still serves as a consultant on many committees for the World Health Organization: the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee, the Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee, the African Regional Commission for the Certification of the Eradication of Poliomyelitis and the Global Certification Commission. She has been a member and chair of the African Advisory Committee for Health Research, a member of the Global ACHR, a board member of the Global Forum for Health Research, and since 2013 serves on the WHO Emergency Committee for Polio Eradication. Rose has also served as vice-chair of the Technical Evaluation Reference group of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and was awarded a Plaque of Honour. She was chair of the DSMB Azithromycin-chloroquine, and was a member of the scientific advisory group for Ebola vaccine trials in Guinea. Her research has focused on immunology of parasitic infections, particularly malaria. She has a keen interest in global health and health systems strengthening and is very effective in training the next generation of scientists. The HIGHER Women Consortium Cameroon, a mentoring programme, is one of her initiatives.
Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, University of California, Merced I do research in the fields of both astroparticle physics and cosmology, and I specifically focus on developing statistical tools to test LambdaCDM, a theory known as the standard model of cosmology. As a cosmologist, I use observations of astrophysical systems, like galaxies, to test our understanding of the fundamental laws of physics. As an astroparticle physicist, I work to identify the particle nature of dark matter and how it might interact with the standard model of particle physics. I’ve worked on developing tests of dark matter, dark energy, inflation, and modified gravity. I am am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Merced working with Anna Nierenberg. I also have an associate member status at the Center for the Gravitational-Wave Universe. I was a postdoctoral researcher studying cosmology at the Korea Astronomy Space Science Institute with Arman Shafieloo. Previously, I earned my PhD at UC Irvine working with Kevork Abazajian and also collaborating with Manoj Kaplinghat.
Postdoctoral Researcher in History, Ghent University Rafael Verbuyst has a joint PhD in history (Ghent University, 2021) and anthropology (University of the Western Cape, 2021). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University’s History Department, funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders. Rafael is also a visiting research fellow at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for African Studies (2022-2024). His research centres on the revival of indigenous identity in post-apartheid South Africa, settler colonialism, ethnographic methodology, the political uses of the past and the concept of indigeneity. He is the author of 'Khoisan Consciousness: An Ethnography of Emic Histories and Indigenous Revivalism in Post-Apartheid Cape Town'.
Science Communicator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS), RMIT University -Bachelor of Science at The University of Melbourne 2011 - 2014 (Zoology and Ecology) -Diploma of Languages (Italian) at The University of Melbourne 2011- 2014 -Masters of Communication at RMIT 2016 - 2018 -CSIRO Communications Officer - Manufacturing Business Unit 2016-2017 -CSIRO Internal Communication Officer - 2017 - 2018 -Science Communicator at Science in Public - 2018 - 2019 -Research Assistant, School of Media and Communication RMIT, 2018 - 2020 -Research Assistant, School of Design and Social Context, RMIT, 2019 - 2022 -Research Assistant, School of Engineering, RMIT, 2020 - 2023 -Science Communications Coordinator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS), 2023 - current
Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Management, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Ruth K. Hansen is an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s College of Business and Economics, and director of the Institute for Nonprofit Management Studies. She teaches classes in nonprofit organizations, fundraising, organizational behavior, and research methods. Her research focuses on the theory & practice of fundraising, and equity and inclusion in resource mobilization. Dr. Hansen has more than 20 years’ professional experience as a fundraiser, and is a former board member of AFP-Chicago. Recent publications include “Applying a stakeholder management approach to ethics in charitable fundraising,” and “Researching fundraising relations: Interpretivist research practices and practitioner researchers in fundraising and nonprofit studies” with Lesley Alborough, both in the Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing. She contributed the chapter, “Theory in Fundraising,” to the new edition of Achieving Excellence in Fundraising. A chapter with with Gregory Witkowski introducing the Cross Sectoral Bias Theory is included in the book Reimagining Nonprofits: Sector Theory for the 21st Century, edited by Eva Witesman and Curtis Child, coming in early 2024. Her work with Lauren Dula, supported in part by a grant from the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy, focuses on charitable giving appeal letters and giving on impulse. She holds a BA in Music (Rutgers College), an MJ in Business Law (Loyola University Chicago), and a Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies (Indiana University).
