Professor at the School of Microbiology, University College Cork Jens Walter serves as the Professor of Ecology, Food, and the Microbiome at Unviersity College Cork and the APC Microbiome Ireland. His expertise lies at the interface of evolutionary ecology of the gut microbiome and human nutrition. His research focuses on the evolutionary and ecological processes that have shaped host-microbiome symbiosis and the translation of basic microbiome science into therapeutic and nutritional strategies. Dr. Walter and his collaborators have pioneered the application of ecological theory to elucidate ecological and nutritional factors that shape gut microbiomes and have achieved targeted modulations of microbiomes via dietary strategies and live microbes. Prof. Walter has published >150 peer-reviewed publications and is a ‘highly cited researcher’ according to the analytics company Clarivate. Prof. Walter’s research has been featured on six occasions in the research highlights of Nature and Nature Reviews journals, and he has participated in several invitation-only workshops and think-tanks of the NIH, CIFAR (Canadian-based global organization that convenes extraordinary minds to address the most important questions facing science and humanity; https://www.cifar.ca/) and ILSI to discuss imminent issues of the microbiome field. He has led several provocative science commentaries with other opinion leaders that inter alia challenged current paradigms in the microbiome field that required critical assessment, such as the exaggeration of causal claims (Cell, 2020, 180:221-232), the definition of prebiotics (Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2015, 12:303-10), use of ‘human microbiota-associated mice’ (Cell Host and Microbe 2016, 19:575-578), and the ‘prenatal in utero microbiome’ (Microbiome 2017, 5(1):48 and Microbiome 2021, 9(1):5).
Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University My latest work on economic expectations," Keynesian Expectations, Epistemic Authority and Pluralism in Economics: Placebo Effects and Nocebo Effects in Normal and Abnormal Times" is forthcoming in the Cambridge Journal of Economics. I have been a senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and I was a Budget Forecaster commissioned by House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance during the establishment of the Parliamentary Budget Office.
Master’s student, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada Christian Faize Canaan is a Master's Degree student in the Disaster and Emergency Management program at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Assistant Professor, Universidade de Lisboa Tiago Cardao-Pito is an assistant professor at ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon), Portugal. He has been invited as a guest lecturer to several academic programs such as those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Portugal (MIT in Portugal), University of Strathclyde and the Portuguese Military Academy. He also has experience working at the Portuguese Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, the Portuguese Ministry of Health and the private sector.
Catedrático de Estudios Ingleses y Fílmicos, Universidad de Zaragoza Celestino Deleyto es catedrático de Estudios Ingleses y Fílmicos en la Universidad de Zaragoza. Ha dirigido numerosas tesis doctorales sobre Estudios Fílmicos, es el Investigador Principal del equipo de investigación de la DGA "Cine, Cultural y Sociedad" y ha sido IP y co-IP de proyectos de investigación nacionales sobre cine contemporáneo y teorías fílmicas, género cinematográfico, cine transnacional y fronteras, cosmopolitismo y espacio cinematográfico. Ha publicado varios libros y numerosos artículos sobre la teoría e historia de la comedia romántica. Sus libros más destacados son The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy (Manchester UP, 2009), Alejandro González Iñárritu, for the Contemporary Film Directors series (Illinois UP, 2010), co-escrito with María del Mar Azcona, y From Tinseltown to Bordertown: Los Angeles on Film (Wayne State, 2016). En la actualidad está escribiendo junto con María del Mar Azcona una monografía sobre la película Before Sunrise para la editorial Routledge.
