Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW Australia
Professor Mary-Louise McLaws is an epidemiologist who's expertise is infection control and prevention. She works in collaboration with the World Health Organization Advisor and the Clinical Excellence Commission providing advise on infection control programs and interventions to improve patient safety. Mary-Louise has partnered on patient safety improvement projects in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, and Turkey.
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Professor of Teaching and Learning and Head of Program, Early Childhood Education, Victoria University
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Lecturer in Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Marya T. Mtshali, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University and an Associate Director within the PhD Network at Northeastern University. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucknell and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Her areas of expertise include race, class, and gender, as well as American inequality and qualitative research. She is currently working on her book manuscript "(In)Visible Terrains: Racialized Heteronormativities in the World of Black-White Interracial Couples."
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Associate Professor of Water Systems Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University
Maryam is a Charted Civil Engineer and attained her BEng (Hons) degree in Civil Engineering in 2001 and worked as a structure engineer in industry for three years. She left practice to academia to complete her MEng degree in Water Systems Engineering in 2005 and simultaneously worked as a part-time researcher in the water industry.
Maryam achieved her PhD in Water Systems Engineering from University of Exeter in 2012. Her PhD project (funded by Exeter University Research Scholarship (ERS) award), titled Modelling the Performance of an Integrated Urban Wastewater System (IUWS) under Future Conditions (climate change and urbanisation, focused on development of novel risk-based and non-risk-based optimisation models to improve the operational control and design of IUWS under climate change and urbanisation.
In her PhD, Maryam also developed the novel meta-model 'MOGA-ANNβ' by combining Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Neural Network to tackle complexity and time-demanding nature of integrated modelling of urban wastewater system Additionally, Maryam worked as an Associate Lecturer at INTO University of Exeter when she was a PhD student in Exeter University.
Upon her PhD completion, she was appointed as Associate Research Fellow in the EPSRC-funded project Safe&SuRe Water Management at the Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter. Maryam worked with the team to develop a new paradigm for safe, sustainable and resilient water management in response to emerging challenges and global uncertainties. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow in the University of Utah in the US as part of ‘Clean Water for All, UK-US Collaboration’ project, funded jointly by EPSRC & NSF.
Maryam joined ARU in 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (Water Systems Engineering) in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. Maryam currently leads several modules and have been involved in research projects as PI, CO-PI and Co-I since joining ARU.
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Associate professor, Deakin University
Assoc/Prof Maryam Naebe is a material scientist with extensive experience in fibre science. She is the recipient of Discover Natural Fibre Initiative Innovation Award (DNFI 2021). Her research focuses on sustainability inspired innovation using waste materials and adding value to natural fibres, textile wastes and biomass as new resources for circular economy and sustainable industrial applications.
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Associate Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University
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Enseignant-chercheur en Stratégie et Innovation, UniLaSalle
Maryem CHERNI, Enseignant-Chercheur Dr. en Stratégie d’entreprise et Management de l’Innovation à l’Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle, site de Beauvais. Membre de l’unité de recherche INTERACT.
Après avoir étudié différents secteurs d’activité, le sens de ma démarche actuelle est de s’intéresser en particulier à l’agriculture et à l’agroalimentaire. Mon objectif est de contribuer aux travaux sur l’entrepreneuriat agricole et sur la pérennité des entreprises agricoles. Plus particulièrement, je me penche sur la contribution des innovations collaboratives, sur la gestion du volet relationnel entre les acteurs, notamment la confiance, et les stratégies d’innovation dans ces deux secteurs d’activités. Les conférences dans lesquelles j'ai participé, ainsi que mes publications, témoignent de mon rapprochement des communités de chercheurs en sciences de gestion et en agronomie.
Je suis également co-coordinatrice et membre de la branche européenne du réseau international IFAMA (International Farm and Agrifood Management Association), reviewer de sa revue IFAMR, membre de IFERA International Family Enterprise Research Academy, membre et reviewer pour l’AIMS (Association Internationale de Management Stratégique), l’AOM Academy of Management, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing.
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Assistant Professor of Consumer Sciences, Université Laval
I am a consumer behaviour specialist passionate about consumer education. I have studied, worked and taught in both French and English. I hold a Ph.D. in marketing from Concordia University.
I am passionate about consumer education and responsible consumption. I wish to contribute to the development of strategies aimed at helping consumers make decisions aligned with society, the planet and their long-term interests and well-being.
I am particularly interested in the management of financial resources (e.g. planning/impulsivity, spending), material resources (e.g. possessions, minimalism) and temporal resources (e.g. time management, time of day, sleep).
My approach is part of the “Transformative Consumer Research” movement.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kindai University
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Pengajar dan Peneliti Kebijakan Media di Program Studi Ilmu Komunikasi, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) Yogyakarta
Masduk menjadi dosen tetap di Program Studi Ilmu Komunikasi Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) sejak tahun 2004-sekarang. Menekuni studi-studi kebijakan media; perbandingan tata kelola komunikasi dan media publik; dan aktivisme media. Beberapa karya tulis sudah pernah dimuat di jurnal bereputasi internasional terindeks Scopus seperti GAZETTE, Journalism Studies dan Journal of Digital Media Policy.
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
With twenty(20) years of teaching experience in different universities in South Africa, Maserumule is an experienced researcher. His areas of research interest include, among others, the Historiography, Ontology and Epistemology of Public Administration, Developmental State, Politics of Transition, Pan-African Thought and Philosophy of Governance.
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Tourism, Culture and Society, University of the West of Scotland
Masood is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Tourism, Culture, and Society at the School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland (UK). His expertise encompasses cultural heritage, policy, and planning within tourism studies. With a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research profile, Masood has an extensive publication record in top-tier academic journals. He currently serves as the Associate Editor for the Ecotourism Section of the Journal of Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism and is a member of the editorial board of a number of prestigious journals.
In addition, Masood is the Associate Lead (Output) for UWS’s UoA24 REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2029 submission. In this role, he supports the UOA Lead in managing the peer-review process and leads the selection and preparation of research outputs. His commitment extends to nurturing staff success, fostering research development, and championing the open access agenda at UWS.
Professionally, Masood is affiliated with the Higher Education Academy and the British Institute of Persian Studies as a Fellow. Drawing from over a decade of hands-on experience in the hospitality and tourism industry, he has contributed his expertise to organisations such as Gleneagles, Hilton, and the G1 Group.
Additionally, Masood served as an invited expert judge on the second series of BBC's Scotland's Greatest Escape, further demonstrating his reputation and expertise within the tourism industry.
Area of academic expertise:
- Tourism and UNSDGs
- Tourism Policy & Planning
- Cultural/Heritage Tourism
- Responsible Tourism
- Regenerative Tourism
- Destination Marketing/Branding
Masood is currently working on a number of collaborative research project focusing on
- Destination Image
- Tourism and National Identity
- Heritage Tourism and Communities
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Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
Dr Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri is an Associate Professorof in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. Her research is primarily related to Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robotics. She has focused on hybrid methods that integrate automated task and motion planning, scheduling, as well as temporal and spatial reasoning.
She is also interested in the ethical and social implications of technology in general and robotics/AI in particular; as well as topics at the intersection of cultural studies and robotics.
She also leads an interdisciplinary network initiative in Critical Cultural Robotics performing different research/network activities on the topic.
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Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
Massoud Pedram is the Charles Lee Powell Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. His research interests cover the areas of computer-aided-design (CAD) of VLSI circuits and systems with emphasis on developing methodologies and techniques for low power design, dynamic power management in electronic systems, smart battery technology and design, noise analysis and minimization in integrated circuits, and design flows and algorithms for unified RT-level synthesis and physical design.
Dr. Pedram obtained his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1986. Subsequently, he received M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and 1991, respectively. In September 1991, he joined the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Southern California where he currently is the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Dr. Pedram is a recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award (2015), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1996), and the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award (1994). His research has received a number of other awards including two Design Automation Conference Best Paper Awards, a Distinguished Paper Citation from the Int'l Conference on Computer Aided Design, one Best Paper Award of the ACM/IEEE Int’l Symp. on Low Power Design and Electronics, three Best Paper Awards from the International Conference on Computer Design, one Best Paper Award of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symp. on VLSI, an IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Best Paper Award, and an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award. Dr. Pedram was recognized as one of the four DAC Prolific Authors (with 50+ papers) and the DAC Bronze Cited Author at the 50th anniversary of the Design Automation Conf., Austin, TX (2013), received a Frequent Author Award (Top Three Author Award) at the 20th Anniversary Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Chiba/Tokyo, Japan (2015), and listed as the Second Most Prolific and Second Most Cited Author at the 20th Anniversary Int’l Symp. on Low Power Electronics and Design, Rome, Italy (2015).
Dr. Pedram has served on the technical program committee of a number of conferences and workshops, including Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Asia-Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), and International Workshop on Logic Synthesis (IWLS). Dr. Pedram was a co-founder and general chair of the 1995 International Symposium on Low Power Design and the technical co-chair and general co-chair of the 1996 and 1997 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, respectively. He was the Technical Chair of the 2002 International Symposium on Physical Design and is the General Chair of the 2003 symposium. Dr. Pedram has given several tutorials on low power design at major CAD conferences and forums including, DAC, ICCAD, and ASP-DAC. He has published more than 600 journal and conference papers, written four books on various aspects of low power design, and holds 10 US patents.
Dr. Pedram is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems and ACM Transcations on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. He received the 2000 Distinguished Service Award of ACM - SIGDA for contributions in developing the SIGDA Multimedia Monograph Series and organizing the Young Student Support Program. Dr. Pedram served on the Advisory Board of the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation from 2000 to 2009. He was also a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2000 to 2002, Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Program of the IEEE CASS for 2003 and 2004, and the CASS VP of Publications in 2005 and 2006. Dr. Pedram, who is an ACM Distinguished Speaker , currently serveas the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) and the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS).
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Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy, Auckland University of Technology
I am an Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy at AUT and a visiting professor at Zhejiang University in China. I also hold the position of Vice-President Administration at the Academy of International Business. I was a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University, FAS Sociology.
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Pesquisador do INCT – INEU e do GEDES, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Doutor em Relações Internacionais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação San Tiago Dantas (PUC-SP, UNESP, UNICAMP). Realizou estágio de pesquisa no exterior junto ao Center for Latin American and Latino Studies da American University/EUA (2019-2020), com bolsa CAPES-PRINT, e à Universidade de Buenos Aires/ARG (2015). Pesquisador do Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Estudos sobre os Estados Unidos (INCT-INEU), do Grupo de Estudos de Defesa e Segurança Internacional (GEDES - UNESP) e do Instituto de Estudos Econômicos Internacionais (IEEI-UNESP). Tem interesse nos temas: Política Externa da Argentina, Relações Interamericanas, Autonomia Desenvolvimento Econômico, Defesa e Política Latino-Americana. Em 2017, recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Dissertação de Mestrado da Associação Brasileira de Relações Internacionais. Em 2013, recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Artigo de Iniciação Científica da Associação Brasileira de Estudos de Defesa. (
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Research Fellow at the School of Medicine, Cardiff University
PhD Medicine, Cardiff University 2013
BSc Biomedical Science, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, 2001
I am a Research Fellow joint supported by the Wales Cancer Research Centre and the Systems Immunity Research Institute studying the role of immune cell biology during Glioblastoma and other brain cancers, working with Professor Awen Gallimore within the Division of Infection & Immunity, School of Medicine
I was previously a Research Asscoiate working with Professor Ian Humphreys in the Humphreys Research laboratory within the Division of Infection & Immunity, School of Medicine under the theme of Persistent and Resistant Infections. I was also a member of the Viral Immunology research group within the Division.
Currently my research examines what role immune cells, particularly T-cells, play during Glioblastoma (GBM). I am interested in examing how we can design novel treatments for this fatal disease which is one of the most poorly survived cancers. There are no effective therapies for GBM with survival rates of between 12 to 15 months, thus the work we do aims to address this problem and make key step changes in our understanding of the interface between the immune system and the brain tumour.
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Senior Scientist, Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Science (BOKU)
Mathew Herrnegger obtained his degree in Water Management and
Environmental Engineering in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Hydrology in 2013. He
is a Senior scientist at the Institute of Hydrology and Water Management
(HyWa), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. His
lecturing and research interest covers a broad range of water-related
topics, ranging from catchment hydrology to water resources management.
He has worked and (co-)authored papers on the water balance, flood and
inflow forecasting systems, model development and parameter estimation
of distributed hydrological models, machine learning, remote-sensing
hydrology, climate change impact assessments on water resources,
assessment of changes and drivers of flood risks, but also water quality
and uncertainties in erosion modelling. In East Africa, he has worked in
the Mara, the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi River Basin in the border between
Kenya and Uganda and Lake Bunyoni in the south west Uganda. Lately, his
research interest lies in understanding the lake level rises in the Rift
Valley lakes of Kenya and since 2021 he is also involved in the project
"Sustainable water quality management supporting Uganda’s development
ambitions".
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Doctoral Candidate in Information, University of Toronto
I am currently a doctoral candidate within the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Between my MA and my PhD, I worked as a research communications and web accessibility specialist in higher education.
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Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies, University of Manchester
Mathew Johnson is a senior lecturer in Employment Studies based in the Work and Equalities Institute at The Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Mat’s research interests include comparative employment relations, the changing nature of work in cities, and the role of the state in shaping employment standards.
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Associate Teaching Professor in Culture & Performance, Arizona State University
Dr. Sandoval is an Associate Teaching Professor at Barrett the Honors College in Downtown Phoenix. He is also an ASU Social Transformation Lab Fellow and a member of ASU's Chicano /Latino Faculty & Staff Association. Dr. Sandoval holds a PhD in Culture & Performance from UCLA, an MA in Individualized Study with a focus on Performance Studies from NYU, and a BA in English with a focus on Performance at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Dr. Sandoval is currently researching the transborder holiday Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). He focuses on the holiday's popular history of the holiday as it has circulated in mass media, art exhibitions, tourism, and cinema. He also conducts ethnographic research on large-scale public celebrations of the holiday in Mexico and the US Southwest in order to examine the ways the holiday has developed from ancient Mesoamerican ritual to mass media spectacle. His research analyzes issues of performance, transnationalism, interculturalism, race, hybridity, indigeneity, spirituality, and cultural appropriation & commodification. Furthermore, he writes about the way Day of the Dead intersects with his experiences coming of age as a working-class mixed-race Chicano.
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Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
Zooarchaeology, palaeontology, palaeoecology, proteomics, human and animal dispersals, drylands
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Lecturer, Macquarie University
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos (Ph.D.) is a Lecturer (aka Assistant Professor) at Macquarie University. He is also a research associate in the Digital Media and Society Observatory (DMSO) at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Human(e) AI and AI4Media projects at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and a researcher at the University of Navarra, Spain, under the JOLT project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020. He was also a Visiting Researcher at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Mathias-Felipe is co-editor of the book “Journalism, Data and Technology in Latin America” and the two-volume book “Fact-Checking in the Global South” both published by Palgrave Macmillan. Mathias-Felipe is currently part of the editorial board of Digital Journalism. His research interests include the changing nature of communications driven by technological innovations, particularly in journalism, media, and online social networks.
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Researcher at International Research Laboratory Takuvik, Université Laval
Mathieu Ardyna is a biological oceanographer interested in understanding phytoplankton dynamics in polar environments. My main research focuses on how environnemental drivers and changes are altering phytoplankton phenology, productivity and structure. In both polar regions (i.e., the Arctic and Southern oceans), climate change is drastically affecting the interplay between the atmosphere, the cryosphere and the oceans.
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Professeur, directeur adjoint du CSUG, directeur scientifique de la MPLS en Alpes Dauphiné, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Research Associate, Inrae
Immunologist specialized in immunotherapies and vaccinology, Mathieu Epardaud joined the BioMAP team of UMR ISP 1282 University – INRAE in 2018 to contribute to the development of anti-cancer immunotherapies and develop strategies for mucosal vaccine platforms.
He previously contributed to research on (1) preclinical model for studying the immunopathology of tuberculosis in the same UMR, (2) cancer immunotherapy at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School (Boston) and ( 3) systemic vs mucosal immune response at the INRAe (Jouy en Josas).
Mathieu Epardaud participates in the vaccine development project and is one of the founders in January 2022 of the start-up LoValTech, for which he holds a position of scientific consultant, in particular for the development of the intranasal delivery system.
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McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Dr Mati Keynes is an historian and social researcher. Their research explores how societies use education to grapple with historical injustices, in comparative and transnational context.
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PhD Candidate, Australian National University
I am a current PhD candidate at the ANU, specialising in the history of masculinity in the British Royal Navy. Last year I completed an Honours Thesis focussing on masculinity and representations of disabled sailors, which was well received and awarded the ANU University Medal. My current project involves looking at masculine emotion and war experience in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. I will be presenting on this topic at a conference on the history of emotions later this year.
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Assistant Professor in Global Challenges, Brunel University London
Dr Matilde Rosina is Lecturer at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. An expert on migration and asylum matters, she obtained her PhD from King's College London, winning the King’s Outstanding Thesis Prize. She is the author of ‘The criminalisation of irregular migration in Europe’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
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