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Maksim Rudnev
Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo
For many years, my research has been focused on basic human values as they appear across nations. More recently, I got interested in perceptions of older adults and lay theories of wisdom, both in a cross-cultural perspective. Simultaneously, I pursue a track of methodological research. In particular, I investigated a complex role of ipsatization and effects of accounting for measurement error in the values research. I contributed to the measurement invariance methods, including invariance of the second-order factors and latent classes. Currently I am developing an R package featuring a method for identifying clusters of invariant groups in a network-like representation.
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Mal Burkinshaw
Head of Design, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh
Mal is an alumni of Edinburgh College of Art and The Royal College of Art, in London, where he won the BT Award for Outstanding Studies. After graduation, Mal worked in Italy as a designer for United Colours of Benetton, and then as a freelance designer. Returning to Edinburgh, he established the design label, MalandLeigh, a partnership specialising in fashion and interiors.
In addition to his role as Programme Director for Fashion at Edinburgh College of Art, Mal is a committee member for the British Fashion Council Colleges Council, and from 2014-2019, he was a Trustee of Graduate Fashion Week.
Mal also serves as an external examiner for a number of UK courses, and has worked for a number of institutions includige NCAD Dublin, The London College of Fashion, Arts University Bournemouth, UCA Epsom and Kingtson University.
Mal continues to be an active designer, believing that this is important to his teaching methods on the programme, and his work has been exhibited at significant international venues including; the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh), The International Centre for Lace and Fashion (Calais, France), The Bonnington Gallery (Nottingham), The Shanghai Museum of Textiles and Costume and Venice Design 2019.
He also directed The Edinburgh College of Art Diversity Network, uniting experts from academia, industry and charity sectors to discuss and improve fashion design through collaboration and public engagement.
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Malak Benslama-Dabdoub
Lecturer in law, Royal Holloway University of London
Malak holds a Bachelor degree in Law from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France), an LLM in Human rights law from Queen Mary University of London and an MSc in Global Migration from University College London (UCL). Prior to her doctrinal research, Malak worked for several NGOs and international organisations, including for the United Nations in Vienna, Doctors Without Borders in Brussels, and the AIRE Centre in London.
Malak is now a Lecturer in Law at Royal Holloway University of London. She specialises in the areas of human rights law, refugee law, statelessness, Palestinians, and Kurds. Her research and teaching relies on a decolonial and intersectional methodology that includes critical race theory.
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Malcolm Forbes
Consultant psychiatrist and PhD candidate, Deakin University
Malcolm is a consultant psychiatrist and psychogeriatrician. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP).
He is currently pursuing a PhD in the aetiology of late-life depression at Deakin University.
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Malcolm James
After graduating I entered the accounting profession, specialising in tax after qualification (ACA, CTA). In 1993 I became a lecturer and have recently completed my PhD on the role of power in the formulation of tax policy.
I have written extensively for professional journals and am the author of a technical book on taxation (Taxation of Small Businesses - Spiramus Press). However, I have published academic papers taking a critical approach towards the sociological and moral underpinnings of taxation.
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Malcolm Moran
Malcolm Moran has directed sports journalism programs for nearly a decade after spending more than 30 years at The New York Times, USA TODAY and other publications.
Moran is director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at IUPUI, where he joined the faculty in January, 2013. For more than six years, he was the inaugural Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society at Penn State University, where he directed the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. Since 1980, he has covered more than 25 bowl games with national championship stakes. He has covered 26 NCAA Final Fours, 11 Super Bowls, 16 World Series and three Olympic Games.
He is a member of the board of the Football Writers Association of America and has had several stories recognized in the organization’s best writing contest. Moran is a past president of the United States Basketball Writers Association and a member of the organization’s Hall of Fame. In 2007, he received the Curt Gowdy Print Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for lifetime coverage of basketball.
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Malcolm Richards
Senior Lecturer in Education, University of the West of England
My ongoing research interests include equity in education, funds of identity and teacher education and teaching development, Black Studies in Education, dialogue and dialogic education, critical race methodologies, anti-racist pedagogies, transformative digital education, and professional teaching cultures in education.
My doctoral thesis (University of Exeter, 2019-2023) is a qualitative research study, which uses multimodal action research to examine how teachers relate their funds of identity with Black [British] cultures in processes of resource mediation for anti-racist teaching and learning across schools in the Southwest of England.
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Maleeka Singh
Maleeka received her BSc. from the University of Toronto (majors: Genes, Genetics & Biotechnology and Sociology; minor: English), MSc. from University of Guelph (Food Science) and is currently a PhD Student at the University of Guelph (Food Science). Her current research aims to improve transparency in the food supply chain by using biological and chemical fingerprinting as multi-parameter and complementary tools to assess food integrity. This research will ensure a safe supply chain, high-quality foods for consumers, increased accountability from farmers to distributors and minimize waste.
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Malene Felsing
Moana Project Manager, MetService — Te Ratonga Tirorangi
Malene is the Moana Project Manager and team lead of the Whai Hua project workstream. Her background is in marine ecology and resource management.
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Malika Felton
Senior Lecturer in Health and Exercise Physiology, Bournemouth University
Malika joined BU in 2017 to complete her PhD in Health Sciences and joined the Department of Rehabilitation and Sport Sciences in February 2021 as a Lecturer in Health and Exercise Science. She is Programme Leader for BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy and teaches physiology and innovation units on this programme. Her research interests are in women's health, especially related to maternal health, and in the areas of physical activity and non-pharmacological treatment methods.
Malika is continuing to research in the field of her PhD area and has received internal Faculty pump-priming to run a feasibility trial investigating the feasibility of using slow and deep breathing to manage high blood pressure during pregnancy (pregnancy-induced hypertension).
After submitting her PhD in 2021, Malika joined the University of Exeter as a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Moving Through Motherhood research team. The GW4 Alliance funded project supported a multi-disciplinary team and Malika's role was to organise and run a series of virtual workshops.
Research
Malika has received internal HSS pump-priming funding to complete the study 'Effects of slow and deep breathing on reducing obstetric intervention in women with pregnancy-induced hypertension'. Recruitment for this study will open in Jan 2022 at a local NHS Foundation Trust.
Malika is part of the Moving Through Motherhood research group, which is a multi-disciplinary team from University of Exeter, University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University and King's College London. Their aim is to improve information and resources for women related to physical activity during and after pregnancy. Using a co-design methodology, pregnant women, mother's and other stakeholders contribute as collaborators in the research process. Malika won the Early Career Researcher Award at the WiSEAN Conference (Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network) in Liverpool in June 2023, for presenting this work. The award is given for outstanding work in the field of women in sport and exercise science and Malika was selected for the award by members of the WiSEAN scientific committee and fellow Early Career Researchers.
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Malika Menoud
Postdoc in atmospheric chemistry, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay
Ma formation initiale est celle d'ingénieure en environnement, que j'ai ponctué de stages en lien avec les agro-écosystèmes durables ou encore la biologie marine. Je me suis finalement tournée vers les sciences de l'atmosphère pour ma thèse de doctorat.
Je suis maintenant spécialisée dans les émissions de méthane. J'ai travaillé à la caractérisation istopiques des sources en Europe, avant de passer à l'échelle globale. Actuellement, j'étudie les flux de ce puissant gaz à effet de serre à l'aide de modèles atmosphériques.
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Malika Nisal Ratnayake
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Malika Nisal Ratnayake is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research in computer vision and artificial intelligence explores and develops technological solutions for understanding of insect pollinator behaviour in agriculture and ethology.
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Malinda Itchins
Researcher, Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital,, University of Sydney
Dr Malinda Itchins BMedSci, MBBS(Hons1), PhD, FRACP, is a thoracic medical oncologist at Royal North Shore Hospital, GenesisCare, and North Shore Private. In 2020 she graduated from University of Sydney in her doctoral studies investigating drug resistance in ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer both preclinically and clinically. Malinda is a Board Director and the Lung Cancer Chair of the Clinical Oncology of Australia (COSA), and Advanced NSCLC Co-Chair for the Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia (TOGA) Scientific Committee. She is Primary Investigator on multiple lung cancer clinical trials and her research focus to date has been in patterns of care, the real-world experience and drug resistance in oncogene driven lung cancers. She is passionate about the evolution of precision medicine and equity of access to care in thoracic cancers.
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Malomo Adekunbi Adetola
Lecturer in Food Science and Technology, Obafemi Awolowo University
I obtained B. Tech in Food science from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria in 2007; M.Sc and Ph.D in Food Science and Technology from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife in 2012 and 2016 respectively. I was employed as an Assistant lecturer in the Department of Food Science and Technology, Obafemi Awolowo university, Ile - Ife, Nigeria on March 3rd, 2014. I am presently a Senior lecturer.
I am a Member of Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology (MNIFST: 06/3804/SM); American Society for Microbiology (ASM ID: 54501388) and Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) (OWSD: 5174)
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Malte Gembus
Postdoctoral research fellow, Coventry University
I am a Social Anthropologist with a Youth and Community Work background, interested in topics around memory, mobility and diaspora. Currently I am working on the AIMEC project exploring 'arrival infrastructures' in East London.
Generally I am interested in topics around diaspora, memory and storytelling especially in regard to youth and intergenerationality. In my ethnographic practice I intend to combine youth work methods and principles with those of ethnographic research.
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Mamadou Dramé
enseignant-chercheur, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
.Maitre de conférences en ethnolinguistique-sociolinguistique à l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. Il a publié plusieurs articles de recherche sur le hip hop sénégalais.
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Mamiza Haq
Lecturer in Finance, The University of Queensland
Dr Haq's research interest centres on bank equity, and credit risks, bank regulation, capital adequacy requirement and market discipline, bank competition and efficiency, financial crises, and non-conventional banking (microfinance and Islamic finance). She is also interested in the area of corporate finance including dividend policy, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions.
Her research publications have appeared in international and Australian peer-reviewed journals. Dr Haq has received a number of competitive research grants. She is an active researcher and presents her work regularly at international and Australian conferences. Dr Haq teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She also supervises honours, Masters and PhD students.
She holds Bachelor of Commerce (Banking and Finance), Master of Commerce (Finance), Master of Science (Finance) and PhD degrees.
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Manasa Shanta Yerramalla
Postdoctoral Researcher, Karolinska Institutet
My research focusses on modifiable dementia risk factors such as stress and sleep disturbances. I investigate the mechanism underlying the associations between the aforementioned risk factors and dementia/cognition, e.g., neuroimaging correlates (brain MRI markers), Alzheimer's disease biomarker measures in cerebrospinal fluid (beta amyloid, tau), and inflammatory markers.
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Mandy Conrad
Assistant Clinical Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, Mississippi State University
Mandy Conrad, Ph.D., RDN, LD received her doctorate in nutrition from Mississippi State University in 2021. She received her master’s degree in health promotion, as well as two bachelor’s degrees in food and nutrition and in fitness management from Mississippi State. Dr. Conrad completed a dietetic internship at the University of Delaware and has been a registered dietitian since 2004. She has many years of experience in clinical and community settings and served as a registered dietitian on staff at Mississippi State from 2008 until joining the Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion in an academic role in 2017. Dr. Conrad teaches a variety of nutrition classes and serves as the Didactic Program in Dietetics Director. Her professional interests are motivated by a desire to understand factors influencing health-impacting choices, which has inspired research related to food insecurity and the pursuit of continued community and global outreach.
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Mandy Doria
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Mandy Doria, MS, LPC, NCC, RYT-200 is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychiatry. She is a therapist in the Stress, Trauma, Adversity, Research and Treatment (START) Center with 12 years of experience providing mental health care to children and adults in a variety of community, school, home, and college settings. In addition to CBT, DBT and ACT, Mandy incorporates mindfulness and trauma-informed mindful movement and somatic approaches into her therapeutic work and practices from a person-centered, relational, and strengths-based framework. She directs the Past the Pandemic program, which has supported the healthcare workforce since March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and she has presented extensively on mental health education, suicide prevention, grief, mindfulness, stress management and burnout.
My counseling encompasses a humanistic, grounded approach that treats the client as a whole person. I help the person uncover and be empowered to use one's own natural resources, strengths, and abilities to cope with whatever he/she is facing. I create a safe, calm and open environment that allows one to make connections, explore alternate perspectives, and promote growth and personal wellness in creative and effective ways. As a Registered Yoga Teacher, I incorporate breathing techniques, emotional regulation, meditation and mindfulness into my work with clients. I offer approaches such as CBT, DBT, Assertiveness, and other Gestalt and relational therapies. I work creatively with the person to find one's own form of expression and what works to communicate in the session. I am most effective in dealing with anxiety, depression, self esteem, relationships, and identity formation and exploration. I enjoy helping people through the phases and transitions of life.
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Manfred Kets de Vries
Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organisational Change, INSEAD
Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries is the Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organisational Change and the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at INSEAD. He brings a different view to the much-studied subjects of leadership and the dynamics of individual and organisational change. Bringing to bear his knowledge and experience of economics (EconDrs, University of Amsterdam), management (ITP, MBA, and DBA, Harvard Business School), and psychoanalysis (Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association), he scrutinises the interface between international management, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and dynamic psychiatry. His specific areas of interest are leadership, career dynamics, executive stress, entrepreneurship, family business, succession planning, cross-cultural management, team building, coaching, and the dynamics of corporate transformation and change. Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries directs The Challenge of Leadership Executive Education programme.
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Mangor Pedersen
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Auckland University of Technology
I am an Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology (AUT - Department of Psychology and Neuroscience) and the Associate Head of Research at the AUT School of Clinical Sciences. My research interest is developing and validating new technologies for quantifying human brain networks using brain imaging methods, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), complex network science and dynamical systems theory. These approaches have significantly contributed to our ability to model brain dysfunction in people with epilepsy and traumatic brain injury. I currently hold the HRC Emerging Researcher Grant. I am the AI lead of the $30 million Australian Epilepsy Project and a core member of the AUT Traumatic Brain Injury Network and the AUT BioDesign Lab. I received the AUT Excellence Award Emerging Researcher in 2021; the University of Melbourne early-career fellowship in 2018; the American Epilepsy Society Young Investigator Award in 2017; and the John Milne Neuroscience Award for best departmental PhD thesis at The University of Melbourne in 2016. I have presented my work at multiple international conferences and have been invited to present my work at universities in Asia, Europe, and the US.
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Manina Jones
Professor, Department of English, Western University
Manina Jones is Chair and Full Professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. She specializes in Canadian literature and popular culture, especially detective fiction.
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Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations/Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Miller is currently on leave from the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where she is a tenured associate professor of international relations, and the director of the Rising Powers Initiative at the Pardee Center. She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. An expert on India, China, South Asia, and rising powers, she is the author of Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021, shortlisted for the 2022 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations) and Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (2013). Miller is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations (2020), a monthly columnist for the Hindustan Times, and a frequent contributor to policy and media outlets in the United States and Asia.
Miller has been a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, a fellow at the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, a visiting associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed and policy journals, and chapters in edited books. She received a BA from the University of Delhi, an MSc from the University of London, and a PhD from Harvard University. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University.
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Manjeet Ridon
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
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Manlin Cai
PhD student, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
Manlin Cai is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include family and work, gender, migration, and social inequality in Canadian and Chinese societies.
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ManMohan S. Sodhi
Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, City St George's, University of London
Professor Sodhi is a professor in operations and supply chain at the Bayes Business School. His research interests lie in supply chain management, in particular in supply chain risk and in supply chain sustainability in a variety of sectors including agriculture, airlines, chemicals, and electronics. In his co-authored book, Managing Supply Chain Risk (Springer), he includes case studies on companies as diverse as Boeing and Samsung Electronics. Prior to joining Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in 2002, he worked in a startup in Silicon Valley and in management consulting, including at Accenture, and has worked with clients in many sectors.
He is currently Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management (POM) journal. He has published in numerous academic and managerial journals, including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Harvard Business Review, and Sloan Management Review.
Prof. Sodhi received his Ph.D. in management science from the UCLA Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994. Subsequently, he taught operations management at the University of Michigan, Ross Business School, where the Sloan Foundation funded his research in the trucking industry. Prof. Sodhi also had a visiting position at the Indian School of Business (ISB) as the Founding Executive Director of the Munjal Global Manufacturing Institute. He is also an elected lifelong Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society, and also Fellow of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) and the Operational Research Society (FORS).
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Manoel Gehrke
Research Fellow with the Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation, University of Birmingham
Manoel Gehrke is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability & Representation (CEDAR). He specialises in comparative politics and political economy, with a focus on Latin America. His research interests include political corruption, contemporary threats to democracy, and the political economy of environmental degradation.
Gehrke's current book project investigates how political elites' reactions influence the effectiveness of anticorruption policies in Brazil. He is also working on cross-national projects that examine the political consequences of corrupt politicians being convicted and the use of nepotism in public employment as a tool for political bargaining in Brazilian municipalities. In addition, Gehrke has studied the ways in which political parties in Colombia evade controls to prevent electoral fraud.
Gehrke's research on the political economy of environmental degradation includes examining the effects of political favoritism and law enforcement tools on environmental crimes.
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Manoj Joshi
Professor of Climate Dynamics, University of East Anglia
I'm a professor in the Climatic Research Unit, part of the School of Environmental Sciences. I do research on climate dynamics, which is about understanding the circulation and variability of the climates of Earth and other planets, and how they can change over time.
A strong focus of my research is understanding how our climate will change over the coming century with the addition of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. I carry out my research using a range of techniques from simple conceptual ideas to large state-of-the-art global circulation models.
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Manoj Misra
Associate Professor of Sociology, Western Connecticut State University
As an Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Connecticut State University, and having been born in Bangladesh, I have a deep, personal understanding of the country's social and political landscape. I have published academic articles and op-eds on various issues in Bangladesh, including politics, the economy, and the environment. My close watch on political developments, combined with my academic expertise, uniquely positions me to offer informed perspectives on the necessary steps to restore and strengthen democracy in Bangladesh.
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Manolis Plionis
Professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ; Director and President of BoD of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
A. GENERAL
• Born in Athens 13/7/1960. Married with one son.
• Spoken languages: Greek (mother tongue), English, Italian, Spanish
• PhD in Astronomy, University of Sussex (1989) [supervisor Prof J.D. Barrow]
• Memberships: International Astronomical Union, Hellenic Astronomical Society (founding member) and the Hellenic Society of Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology (founding member), Europlanet Society
• Prices/Awards: (a) British Council Fellowship (1988-1989), (b) Human Capital & Mobility Fellow (early Marie Curie) - (1994-1996).
B. CURRENT POSITIONS:
• Professor, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Director and President of BoD of the National Observatory of Athens (2017-2020, 2021-2025)
C. LEADERSHIP OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS/CONSORTIA/COMMITTEES
• Coordinator of the National Network for Climate Change-CLIMPACT
• President of the State Thematic Committee on Climate Change, Energy and Sustainable Mobility
• Director of the Governing Board of the Panhellenic Geophysical and Climate Change Observatory – PANGEA of NOA.
• Member of the European Space Science Committee (ESSC-ESF), by selection.
• Member of the Greek National Committee for Astronomy
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the The Ultimate XMM Extragalactic X-ray Survey (XXL) project and of the Steering Committee of the corresponding International Consortium.
• Member of the Sci. Committee of the International collaboration: Cosmology with HII galaxies
• Member of the BoD of NOHSIS Technology & Science Museum (2016-2019, 2020-2022)
D. RESEARCH ACTIVITY
• Scientific Interests: Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics & Climate Change and Natural Disaster management.
• Publications: >245 scientific publications, out of which >150 in International Refereed Journals (according to NASA/ADS), 2 reviews in Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, 95 in conference proceedings. >40 articles in newspapers & newsletters
• Citations: Total Citations (NASA-ADS): >4400 (h-index: 37), (Google Scholar): >5800 (h-index: 45).
• Student PhD Supervision: Supervision of 9 completed PhD theses.
• Scientific Journal Editor: Member of the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Modern Physics D
• Referee of Scientific Programs for the: Greek State Funding Agency, Mexican CONACYT, Spanish CONICET, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), European Science Foundation, etc
• Referee for peer-review Journals: MNRAS, Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics, etc
• Conference Proceedings Editor:
1. “Large Scale Structure in the X-ray Universe” eds. Plionis, M. & Georgantopoulos, I., Atlantic
Sciences, Paris (ISBN 2-84394-227-6),
2. “2nd Hellenic Cosmology”, eds. Plionis, M. & Cotsakis, S., (ISBN: 1-4020-0808-2, Kluwer, ASSL 276),
3. “Multiwavelength Cosmology”, ed. Plionis, M. (ISBN:1-4020-1971-8, Kluwer, ASSL 301).
4. “The Panchromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure», Springer LNP, eds. Plionis, M., Lopez-Cruz, O. & Hughes, D., ISBN: 978-1-4020-6940-6, LNP Vol. 740 (2008)
E. FUNDING
• Research Funds awarded through competitive calls by European, Hellenic or Mexican agencies sum up to a total of more than ~1.000.000 €
• Development funds as President of NOA (European Investment Bank, ESPA-Prefectures, European RRF, etc): ~70.000.000€
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Manpreet K Dhami
Senior Researcher, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
My research trying to understand how species interactions lead to the diversity we observe. I study microbial communities in a diversity of environments, including soil, flowers, birds, and insects.
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Mansour Haeryfar
Professor of Immunology, Western University
Dr. Mansour Haeryfar is a Full Professor of immunology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and also currently serves as the President of the Canadian Society for Immunology (2023-2025). His team investigates anticancer and anti-pathogen immunity with a focus on designing novel and effective immunotherapeutic modalities.
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