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Lee Ann Rawlins Williams
Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Services, University of North Dakota
Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, PhD, CRC, CFLE is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Education, Health and Behavior Studies Department at the University of North Dakota. She serves as Program Director of Undergraduate Rehabilitation and Human Services Program. Dr. Williams has extensive academic experience working with programs focusing on disability and rehabilitation at various universities. In addition, her professional experiences include over 20 years of work in the field of rehabilitation in the areas of blindness and low vision, general rehabilitation counseling, human resource training/development, and in corporate. Further, Lee Ann has worked with K-12 educational environments focusing on student services and wellness.
Dr. Williams has held a variety of leadership positions at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels for professional rehabilitation associations. She has published research in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored two books focusing on case and caseload management in rehabilitation.
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Lee D. Han
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
Han is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Collaborating Scientist at the University of Tennessee (UT). His fields of expertise and research interests include traffic engineering, application of advanced technologies to transportation, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), system modeling and simulations, traffic flow theory, traffic operations, transportation data and information systems, emergency evacuation and management, crash records and analysis, transportation logistics, operations research, and 3D visualizations.
Since 1985, Han has been actively involved in research activities in the area of transportation and traffic engineering. In terms of externally sponsored projects, he was instrumental towards securing, managing, and conducting research studies. The total expenditure of all the projects he is involved in tops $10 million during the past decade.
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Leena Adel
PhD Candidate, Political Science and International Relations, Curtin University
Leena is a PhD candidate and academic at Curtin University. Her current research focuses on the Middle East and North Africa region, specifically women's political participation during regime transitions.
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Lei Liu
Senior Research Fellow, Southern Cross University
Dr Lei Liu, also known as 'Ben', completed his PhD on 'Phytochemical and Pharmacological Perspectives of Wheat Grain and Lupin Seed' in 2010. Currently, Dr Liu is a senior research fellow at Southern Cross University, Australia. He has a wide research interest in biologically active phytochemicals. Dr Liu has proven expertise in the isolation, identification and quantification of bioactive metabolites. He has studied cereal grain quality, starch digestion, lipidomics, cotton, coffee, macadamia, seaweed, Australian native plants, Chinese traditional medicine and natural pesticides. Dr Liu has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles.
Dr Liu has devoted himself to studying health-promoting functional food, nutraceuticals, and environmentally sustainable agriculture. He has worked with several local farmers to identify possible ways to add value to their products. Dr Liu has supervised 10 PhD, 2 Masters and 3 honours to completion. He is currently supervising 4 PhD and 1 Masters students. He is aiming to train all his students to be careful observers, critical thinkers and more independent researchers.
Dr Liu has also developed an undergraduate unit "Analysis of Food and Natural Products" in 2022. He has been teaching that unit and several other undergraduate units at Southern Cross University. Dr Liu currently serves as the Deputy Director of Higher Degree Research Training (HDRT) for the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Southern Cross University. This role is dedicated to managing and facilitating the PhD and Master by Thesis programs within his Faculty.
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Lei (Jeremy) Xu
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Hi there, I'm Lei (Jeremy) Xu, and I'm an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
In the professional realm, my journey delves deep into the intricate world of entrepreneurship. My research is the flame that fuels my passion, with a sizzling focus on unraveling the mysteries of entrepreneurial ecosystem heterogeneity, the pulse of venture capital organization, and the intricate art of social network analysis. I'm all about igniting ideas and sparking innovation.
My personal motto:
Stay humble, work hard, and be kind.
Google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d9i-FUYAAAAJ&hl=en
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Leidy Klotz
Associate Professor of Engineering and Co-Director, Convergent Behavioral Science Initiative, University of Virginia
Leidy's scholarship merging engineering and social science for a more sustainable and resilient built environment has been consistently funded, including through an NSF CAREER award and through one of the first awards through NSF’s interdisciplinary INSPIRE program. He also played a lead role in programs, funded by grants from NSF and the Department of Education, which support cohorts of graduate students on interdisciplinary research in a more resilient and sustainable built environment. Since 2012, he has advised 11 Ph.D. graduates (ten from groups underrepresented in engineering) and eight graduates of his research team have secured faculty positions.
Leidy has twice been selected by students as top teacher in his department and twice recognized for individual mentoring of top undergraduates.
Before becoming an academic, Leidy worked managing the design and construction of building projects in New Jersey and before that he played professional soccer for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.
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Leigh Fletcher
Royal Society Research Fellow, University of Leicester
I am presently a Royal Society Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester. I graduated with a DPhil in Planetary Physics from Jesus College, Oxford (2007) for my investigation of Saturn's atmosphere from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, and spent two years working as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California. I returned to Oxford in 2010 on a Glasstone Science Fellowship and Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF).
I specialise in the analysis of remote sensing data of the giant planets in our solar system, using a variety of visiting spacecraft (e.g., Cassini, Galileo, Voyager), space-based telescopes (Hubble, Spitzer, Herschel) and ground-based observatories (VLT, Gemini and IRTF). I also use transit spectroscopy of extrasolar giant planets to determine the properties of planets around other stars. These sources of data allow us to investigate the atmospheric dynamics, composition, and origins of giant planets and their extensive satellite systems.
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Leigh Johnson
Associate professor, University of Cape Town
Dr Leigh Johnson is an actuary and epidemiologist. His work to date has focused mainly on modelling the HIV epidemic in South Africa and evaluating the impact and coverage of HIV programmes. He is the lead developer of the Thembisa model and he co-chairs the UNAIDS Reference Group on Estimates, Modelling and Projections.
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Leigh McKinnon
Research Affiliate, School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies, Monash University
I have been the Research Officer at Bendigo's Golden Dragon Museum since 2011, and have spent many years researching the processional traditions of the Chinese diaspora in Australia and North America.
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Leigh Riby
Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience , Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Prof. Riby began his academic life studying for a PhD at Bristol University in experimental psychology on the topic of attentional control and multi-tasking in ageing. He then moved on to Stirling University to obtain his post-doctoral training in the use of multimodal brain imaging in the investigation of human memory. This early work was influential in driving his interest in the use of mixed methodology (behavioural, neuropsychological and imaging) to explore some of the critical research challenges in the field of gerontology. For instance, a programme of work is using brain imaging techniques (EEG and fMRI) to examine self-generated thought and mind-wandering patterns across the lifespan. The research examines how differences in brain network connectivity in ageing between temporal and prefrontal brain regions predicts positive impacts on behaviour (e.g. creativity; problem-solving; positive aspects of self-reflection). Beyond fundamental science, his intervention work aims to use what we have learnt in the lab to build novel and engaging programmes to encourage the use of untapped brain resources, promoting enhanced mental performance and wellbeing as we grow older. Prof. Riby’s work overall aims to lead theoretical and methodological development of successful and less successful ageing (e.g. diabetes; dementia) with the emphasis that decline is not inevitable. Further interests include the nutritional neurosciences, cognitive neuroscience of mindfulness/meditation and the link between mindful running and psychological wellbeing. More recently, Prof. Riby is conducting a series of behavioural and neuroscience investigations on music's potential to heal the mind.
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Leigh Signal
Professor in Fatigue Management and Sleep Health/Associate Dean, Research, Massey University
Dr. Leigh Signal is a Professor of Fatigue Management and Sleep Health at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University, Wellington. Leigh trained as a Commercial Pilot and then completed a Master’s degree in Industrial and Organisational Psychology before completing her PhD in Public Health at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre. Leigh is involved in both basic and applied sleep and circadian research, postgraduate supervision and teaching. Her work spans two main areas.
The first is focused on identifying, managing and mitigating fatigue in applied settings, particularly for the aviation industry. She has worked with aircraft manufacturers, national and international airlines and regulators and has conducted studies onboard aircraft and in the laboratory environment. Leigh provides scientific advice to industry groups and regulators on the management of fatigue and has been an invited member of International Civil Aviation Organisation Fatigue Risk Management Task Forces. She is also often asked to provide expert evidence on the possible role of fatigue in workplace incidents and accidents. Leigh’s second stream of research is focused on the sleep health of women and children. She is interested in understanding the sleep of women across the perinatal period, the relationship between sleep and mental health across the lifespan, and ways we can support people to maintain good sleep health and mental health. She also has an interest in understanding inequities in sleep for women and children and the sociodemographic factors that drive these differences.
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Leigh Sparks
Professor of Retail Studies and Deputy Principal, University of Stirling
I am Professor of Retail Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling. I was a geography undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, and completed my Ph.D (on retail employment) at the University of Wales.
I have been professor of retail studies at Stirling since 1992. I was a Visiting Professor at Florida State University, Tallahassee from July 2000 to July 2001, and Visiting Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from June to December 2006.
I undertake research into aspects of retailing, mainly for personal curiosity, but also on behalf of public and private clients and for the research councils and other funding bodies, as well as for major retailers. I have authored and edited a number of books, have published over 125 refereed journal articles as well as many practitioner, trade and newspaper pieces.
In 2012-2013 I was a member of the External Advisory Group for the Scottish Government’s National Review of Town Centres and also on the Expert Advisory Group reporting to the Scottish Government on the lessons to be learned from the horsemeat scandal.
My recent policy work has been as the Chair (and Author) of the Review of the Town Centre Action Plan (2020-21) for the Scottish Government (review published as A New Future for Scotland’s Town Centres). I was also a member of the Scottish Government’s 2020-21 Social Renewal Advisory Board (report published as If Not Now, When?) and was a member and workstream leader of the Scottish Government’s 2020-21 Ministerial Retail Strategy Steering Group (published as Getting the Right Change – a Retail Strategy for Scotland).
I am currently a member of Economic Impact and Price Expert Advisory Group on Minimum Unit Pricing of Alcohol for Public Health Scotland (2018-2023) and a Steering Board member of the Scottish Grocer Federation’s “Go Local” project (with Scotland Food and Drink, the Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland). He is one (of three) University of Stirling members on the Stirling and Clackmannanshire City Region Deal Joint Committee and a member of the High Streets Task Force Professional, Research and Data Group.
I am currently Chair of the Scotland’s Towns Partnership.
I run a blog on things retail, typically Scottish: www.stirlingretail.com
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Leigh Sparks
I am Professor of Retail Studies at the University of Stirling. I was a geography undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, and completed my Ph.D (on retail employment) at the University of Wales.
I have been professor of retail studies at Stirling since 1992. I was a Visiting Professor at Florida State University, Tallahassee from July 2000 to July 2001, and Visiting Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from June to December 2006.
I undertake research into aspects of retailing, mainly for personal curiosity, but also on behalf of public and private clients and for the research councils and other funding bodies, as well as for major retailers. I have authored and edited a number of books, have published over 125 refereed journal articles as well as many practitioner, trade and newspaper pieces.
In 2012-2013 I was a member of the External Advisory Group for the Scottish Government’s National Review of Town Centres and also on the Expert Advisory Group reporting to the Scottish Government on the lessons to be learned from the horsemeat scandal.
I am currently Chair of the Scotland’s Towns Partnership and Chair of IDS Scotland Ltd, the company set up by the Scottish Government to oversee Scottish Business Improvement Districts.
I run a blog on things retail, typically Scottish: www.stirlingretail.com
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Leigh Walker
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Dr Leigh Walker is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow at The Florey. Leigh completed their undergraduate and honours degree at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) before moving to Australia to undertake a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne.
Leigh’s research investigates the neurobiology of anxiety and alcohol use disorders. She is particularly interested in sex differences. To assess this, Leigh leverages various genetic, physiological, neuroanatomical, viral, and pharmacological approaches in rodent animal models to monitor, manipulate, and map the neural circuits, synapses, and signalling mechanisms that drive complex behaviours. She has been awarded University of Melbourne ECR, Brockhoff Foundation, ARC and NHMRC research funding to pursue her research.
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Leigh-Ann MacFarlane
Educational Developer, Mount Saint Vincent University
Leigh-Ann MacFarlane is an educational developer at Mount Saint Vincent University as well as an instructor in the Biology department.
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Leighton Vaughan Williams
Leighton is Professor of Economics and Finance. He is Head of Economics Research and Director of the Betting Research Unit and Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School. Leighton's main teaching is in the area of money, risk, forecasting, efficiency of markets and financial economics.
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Leila Tarakji
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
Leila Tarakji is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching focus on Islam and Muslim Studies, with a particular interest in the lives and experiences of Muslims in America. She is also a core faculty member in the Muslim Studies Program at MSU.
Leila received her doctoral degree from the Department of English at MSU. Her research in Muslim American literary studies explores how Muslim writers (re)imagine their plural identities through narrative and how they participate in the production of American literature and the U.S. cultural imaginary. Her work also considers how Muslim texts define Islam in America and engage with representations of their faith and community in U.S. media and culture. She is working on a manuscript that elaborates on how Muslim Americans articulate their “Muslimness” while situating themselves within the broader Umma or Muslim community.
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Leland Glenna
Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society, Penn State
My teaching and research program is in agriculture and natural resources. Within that more general program, I have three areas of emphasis: 1) social and environmental impacts of agricultural science and technologies, 2) the role of science and technology in agricultural and natural resource policy making, and 3) the social and ethical implications of democratizing science and technology research.
Although I do not have a formal extension appointment, I consider it the responsibility of rural sociologists to participate in outreach activities. One of my most significant outreach activities has been my service as a member on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Task Force on Faith and Genetics.
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Lella Nouri
Associate Professor, Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Swansea University
Lella Nouri is an Associate Professor of Criminology and the Co-Director of the University’s Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC). Lella is also a Co-Director of the 7.5m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhanced Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems.
Lella’s research specialism is in extremism, terrorist use of the internet and in particular extreme right ideologies as well as hate crime.
Lella’s most recent work focuses on combatting hate visuals in communities across Wales. Lella is the inventor of the innovative ‘StreetSnap’ app, which was developed in collaboration with the Legal Innovation Lab Wales and Bridgend Community Safety Partnership. Lella also runs a community impact project in relation to anti-hate crime, Flip the Streets, which helps communities to build resilience to hate.
Alongside this Lella has researched widely on extremist use of the internet including far and extreme right narratives, their dissemination via social media and provided recommendations for policy and community responses.
As well as co-organising numerous community and academic events on these topics, including a VOX-Pol extreme right workshop, Lella has published a variety of edited collections, journal articles, book chapters, research reports and blogs through leading publishers in the field.
Stakeholder and community impact and engagement work is at the heart of her research. Lella’s has most recently been appointed as an Anti-Racist Wales Research Expert for the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan as part of the External Accountability Group. She is also an active member of the following expert groups/networks: Academic-Practitioner Counter Extremism Network (APCEN) for the Commission for Counter Extremism (UK Home Office), Member of the Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) Research Network, Homeland Security Group at the UK Home Office as well as the UK Counter-Terrorism Policing Evidence-Based Review Group. In 2017/18, Lella held a visiting scholar position at the University of California, Santa Barbara on a Fulbright Cyber Security Award.
Lella is also keen to work university wide and is currently one of the University’s Morgan Advanced Studies Institute Fellows and Co-Chair of the University’s Race Equality Network (SIREN).
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Counter-terrorism
Extreme right
Terrorist use of the internet
Radicalisation
Lella has received the following accolades in recent years:
2023 Winner of the Social and Humanitarian Achievement Award - Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association (EMWWAA)
2017/18 Fulbright Cyber Security Scholar Award - Visiting scholar position at the University of California, Santa Barbara
R&I Rising Star, Early Career Winner in the 2018 Swansea University Research and Innovation Awards
Inspiring Woman Award for Swansea University's International Women’s Day 2017 celebrations
The Cyberterrorism Research Project was the winner of the Outstanding Research Collaboration Award at the 2016 Swansea University Research and Innovation Awards
She successfully applied for a place on the CHERISH-DE Digital Economy Early Career Researchers Crucible Programme in 2016
Runner Up in the Research Impact Awards (Outstanding Contribution to Law and Public Policy) at Swansea University in 2015
Certificate of Merit from the Swansea University Research Forum Research Community Award, with the Cyberterrorism Project, in 2013
Runner Up in Swansea University's Research as Art Competition, with the Cyberterrorism Project, in 2013
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Len Gillman
Professor of Biogeography, Auckland University of Technology
Len Gillman is Head of Science at Auckland University of Technology and a professor of biogeography. His research interests include polar ecology, plant ecology, global patterns in primary productivity and species richness, environmental influences on rates of genetic evolution, and conservation.
He has published in international journals including; PNAS, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Ecology, Evolution, and Frontiers in Plant Science.
He has used drones for ecological and conservation research in Antarctica, Namibia, and Western Australia, and has field experience in environments from the Arctic to Antarctic and from tropical rainforests to tropical deserts.
Prior to joining AUT, Len Gillman worked as a campaign manager for a New Zealand conservation organisation, he has an interest in the synergy between Art and Science and has published a YA grounded fantasy novel.
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Len Shaffrey
Professor of Climate Science, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading
I'm a climate scientist at the University of Reading. I'm researching how climate change might affect storms. I am also research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science.
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Lena Gutheil
Researcher,, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Research programme: Transformation of Political (Dis-)order
Function: Researcher
Specialisation: Cultural Anthropology
Work areas:
Civil society organisations and funding relationships
Project management and adaptive management
Effects of urbanisation on civil society
Democratisation processes in Africa
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Lena Karamanidou
Visiting Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
I am currently a visiting fellow at the School of Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University. My PhD was on the discursive legitimation of asylum policies in Greece and Ireland.
My research interests include the political discourse of migration and migration policy in Greece and the European Union; migration, racism and exclusion; state power and sovereignty; national identity, citizenship and nationalism; human rights; ethnicity; race and racism; critical discourse analysis qualitative research software.
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Lena Molnar
Research Fellow, Newcastle Youth Studies Centre, University of Newcastle
Lena is a sociologist whose research has focused on social movements, urban sociology, visual methodologies, and the prevention of gender-based violence.
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Lena Springer
Research Associate in History and Philosophy of Science, King's College London
Lena Springer gained her Dr. phil. in Sinology at the University of Vienna. She researches the transmission of scientific and medical heritage. In the project team “Cosmological Visionaries” www.cosmovis.uk, Springer investigates scientists’ and shamans’ efforts at reforestation in Southwest China and Siberia to tackle climate change. As a research fellow of Sichuan University, she investigated multi-ethnic folk medicines in China’s West. In a database team at Charité Medical University Berlin, she contributed to the translation, scientific identification, and interdisciplinary accessibility of Chinese historical pharma-recipes. Springer publishes on ethnicity in Western China, on ethnographic archivers and medical-history-writers in China, on spatial and social migration to Europe and on the anthropology of science. She has taught Sinology, organised summer schools for Sinologists and pharmacognosists in China, and provided consultancy service based on her research and fieldwork throughout China`s diverse regions. Lena is also an Affiliate of the Lau China Institute.
Research interests and PhD supervision
Environmental Sciences and Forestry in China
To tackle global climate change, developments in China are crucial. The involved environmental sciences fall into different disciplines of science, which include forestry and philosophy and have national and ethnic histories in countries, such as in China. Based on its biological diversity, as well as ethnic knowledge and technology of nature preservation, Southwest China is a global hotspot of this crucial human project.
History of Science, Chinese Medicines, and Botany in China
Materia Medica are a unique case that challenges the current Euro-centred academic mainstream and its historiography. This undercurrent in world science, and the early, medieval and folk history in this multi-disciplinary field, are easily overlooked and still understudied, especially in the vast West of present-day China.
Ethnography and Oral history in China
The available historical record in Western China is more focussed on pre-modern sources and scattered surveys than in the East of China. As a consequence, Chinese folk culture and multi-ethnic regional dynamics shed light on heritage and history of science in China, even in the modern and contemporary context.
Spatial and Social Mobility in Higher Education and Academia
Elite and outcasts are most often researched in separate projects of migration studies. Academic migrants from China in Austria are one case where China plays a strong role on both levels, especially through mobility in healthcare and higher education, both as a source of tradition and of scientific innovation.
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Lenka Benova
Professor of Maternal and Reproductive Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
I am a quantitative population health scientist with training in management, economics, Middle East studies and demography/epidemiology. From 2014 to 2018, I served as a co-investigator on the Maternal healthcare markets Evaluation Team (MET) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where I led the SAGE (Secondary data Analysis for Generating new Evidence) team.
Previously, I headed operations in a start-up company in eldercare in the United States and worked as project coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières in Nigeria, the West Bank and South Sudan. I was responsible for the design, implementation and evaluation of the health pillar of a conditional cash transfer program in Egypt between 2008 and 2010.
I have a keen interest in health-seeking behaviour, maternal health research, and evaluation in low- and middle-income countries. I hold an MA in Middle East studies (American University in Cairo), MSc in Demography and Health (LSHTM), and PhD in Population Health (LSHTM).
I teach on Masters course modules and supervise PhD students.
My research focus is on health-seeking behaviour in general and reproductive/maternal health in particular. Within these areas, I am interested in innovative methods to capture decisions and steps in health-seeking, validity of self-reported health-seeking indicators, and coverage of care contact and content.
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Lennart Bach
Associate Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
Lennart T. Bach works at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania.
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Leo Anthony Celi
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Research Director, Laboratory of Computational Physiology; Founder and Director, Sana, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leo moved to the US from the Philippines after medical school to pursue specialty training in internal medicine (Cleveland Clinic), infectious diseases (Harvard) and critical care medicine (Stanford). He has practiced medicine in three continents (Philippines, US and New Zealand) and has worked in both industry (Philips Visicu) and academe (faculty positions at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and University of Otago), rendering him with broad perspectives in healthcare delivery. He has a strong interest in systems re-design for quality improvement, and became the New Zealand representative to the Quality and Safety Committee of the Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Society in 2006. Feeling he needed more skills to tackle the healthcare inefficiencies he faced wherever he practiced, he went back to the US to pursue graduate studies in biomedical informatics at MIT and public health at Harvard. While attending both schools and working part-time as an emergency department physician, he co-founded Sana, personally recruiting most of the current members, and was instrumental in shaping the mission and vision of the young organization.
His other research interest is in data mining and the application of machine learning on large databases. As a research scientist at the Laboratory of Computational Physiology at MIT, he works with MIMIC, a publicly-available de-identified ICU database from BIDMC. He is working on a data-driven decision support system known as Collective Experience that (1) allows a clinician to draw on the experience of other clinicians who have taken care of similar patients as recorded in a clinical database, and (2) uses models performed on relatively homogeneous patient subsets.
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Leo Gugerty
Professor Emeritus in Psychology, Clemson University
Leo Gugerty has 32 years of professional experience (including 23 years at Clemson University) conducting research in cognitive and human-factors psychology. His recent research and teaching has focused on critical thinking, how political ideology and trust in science influence reasoning and beliefs about controversial political topics
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Leo Paas
Professor, Marketing, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
After studying Social Science Research Methodology (MSc) and Social Science Informatics (MSc) at University of Amsterdam, I worked at a large Dutch bank, Postbank (ING group). The role at Postbank addressed database marketing, data mining, marketing research activities and supporting direct marketing and reporting was done directly to the CEO next to second and third tier management. In 1999 I started working as a consultant for Da Vinci Group in Amsterdam, applying the knowledge gained at Postbank for various other firms.
In 2001 I joined Tilburg University, first as a research assistant and in 2002 as Assistant Professor at the Marketing Department. I joined the marketing department of VU University Amsterdam in 2005 taking on the role of Associate Professor in 2006. In 2014 I started as Professor in Marketing at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing (Massey University – Auckland). In February 2019 I joined The University of Auckland as a Professor in Marketing. In 2020 I took on the role of Department Head and also became Program Director for the newly launched Master of Business Analytics.
Central to my current academic research is (big data) analytics, with a focus on segmentation and respondent attention in online panels. Other research areas I work on are: Consumer reactions to human advertising models and entrepreneurship in developing economies. Papers have been published in top-ranked marketing and statistics journals, i.e.: International Journal of Research in Marketing (A- on the ABDC list), Journal of Economic Psychology (A), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (A-Series), Marketing Letters (A) and various other ABDC journals.
I have taught various courses at BSc, MSc and postgraduate level on marketing communications, marketing research, services marketing, cross cultural marketing and customer insights. I have contributed to various academic committees, been a programme leader for a Master of Business Analytics and have been involved in NUFFIC projects for capability development at African universities.
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Leo Porter
Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Porter is an expert in computer science education research focused on active learning pedagogies and assessing student learning. He is interested in identifying core course concepts which are essential to student success, developing pedagogies which facilitate student engagement with those concepts, and creating assessment instruments to evaluate the effectiveness of those pedagogical practices. He is also interested in improving the diversity of the discipline by using pedagogies which foster a community among the students. His research on Peer Instruction, a student-centric pedagogy which uses targeted conceptual questions (often with clickers) to identify student understanding, has shown it to be widely valued by computer science students in a variety of contexts, that students learn from the Peer Instruction process, and that, relative to lecture, it reduces student failure rates while improving the retention of majors. In addition, his work has shown that student responses collected automatically through the Peer Instruction process can be used to both predict student outcomes and to identify critical course concepts.
Porter also works on multi-core, multi-threaded computer architectures with UC San Diego computer science Professor Dean Tullsen, who was his Ph.D. advisor. Porter also collaborated with the late Allan Snavely at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on scheduling in high-performance computing, and continues to work with Snavely’s San Diego startup, EP Analytics.
Capsule Bio:
Porter joined the UC San Diego faculty in 2014. Prior to UC San Diego, he was an assistant professor at Skidmore College in upstate New York. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science at the University of San Diego in 2000. From 2000 to 2004, he served as a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After leaving the Navy, he earned his M.S. in 2007 and Ph.D. in 2007 in computer science from UC San Diego. As co-principal investigator on an NSF award, he has studied the impact of Peer Instruction in computer science classes. He received the Best Student Paper Award at the Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture in 2011, Best Paper Award at the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Technical Symposium in 2013, and Chair's Award for his paper at the International Computing Education Research Conference in 2014.
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Leo Roberts
Research Fellow, Centre for Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
I am a research fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Mental Health, where I progress dual research agendas in mental health and sport psychology. I have a PhD in sport psychology from RMIT University and have held several professional data scientist roles in government and university settings.
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Leo Rutherford
PhD Candidate, Social Dimensions of Health, University of Victoria
Leo Rutherford is a trans activist, and PhD candidate currently studying at the University of Victoria, on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples. Leo’s work is focused on transgender health and gender-affirming care. He has worked on a number of research projects, including as a Research assistant for TransPulse Canada, and a Mitacs fellow for the Community-Based Research Centre’s Sex Now project. PROGRESS (Patient-Reported Outcomes of Genital Reconstruction and Experiences of Surgical Satisfaction) for metoidioplasty and phalloplasty is Leo’s dissertation project and the first of many more community-focused research project on the topic. Leo hopes his work creates much-needed and invaluable knowledge for the trans community about gender-affirming surgeries. Leo’s work is supported by CIHR’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Transition to Leadership award.
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Leo S.F. Lin
Senior Lecturer in Policing Studies, Charles Sturt University
I am an interdisciplinary teaching researcher currently focusing on crime, policing, and security issues at Charles Sturt University, Australia, with previous experience as a police practitioner.
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