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Tulin Dzhengiz
Lecturer in Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sustainability at the Department of Strategy Enterprise Sustainability at Manchester Metropolitan University. I joined MMU in November 2022. Prior to this role, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, School of Business in Finland. There, I worked on a project called Finix and conducted postdoctoral research on innovation ecosystems and industrial clusters that contribute to circular economy and sustainability. I conducted my doctoral research and studies at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester where I researched partnerships and strategic alliances in the context of corporate sustainability and their role in contributing towards sustainable development goals.
Interests and expertise
My research is focused on corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility. I am interested in inter-organisational relationships and I focus on various inter-organisational relationships including collaborations, strategic alliances, partnerships, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, industrial clusters in the context of sustainability and circular economy.
I enjoy engaging with different theoretical perspectives. These include absorptive capacity, dynamic capabilities and resource-based view, inter-organisational learning, framing, frames and organisational cognition, tensions and paradoxes. More recently, I have engaged in institutional, sociology and psychology literature on places and spaces, again in the context of sustainability issues.
I have published in various journals such as International Journal of Management Reviews, Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Business Ethics, and Sustainability.
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Turhan Kahraman
Senior Lecturer , Manchester Metropolitan University
My primary research interests revolve around the psychometric properties of outcome measures used in rehabilitation. Additionally, I am actively involved in numerous projects focused on the assessment and rehabilitation of individuals with neurological diseases, primarily multiple sclerosis. To date, I have authored more than 80 articles in international scientific journals.
Furthermore, I am a founding board member of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Association and currently serve as its secretary.
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Twalib Ngoma
Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Prof Twalib Ngoma is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist working at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania. He was responsible for the creation of Tanzania's first specialist cancer institute, has pioneered palliative care programmes in the country, has spearheaded a project to expand access to treatment for Burkitt's lymphoma, and is the International Atomic Energy Agency's Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT) project coordinator for Tanzania. In 2002, Ngoma became head of the Tanzanian branch of the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research, which promotes training and education for researchers and encourages collaborative projects in cancer control between developed and developing countries. With Ngoma's help, this network has developed palliative care programmes in Tanzania.
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Twila A. Moon
Deputy Lead Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Twila Moon is Deputy Lead Scientist and Science Communication Liaison at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. Dr. Moon is a world-renowned scientist with a primary focus on the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Arctic. Her research has appeared in high-impact journals such as Science and Nature and received global media coverage. Also an accomplished science communicator, she has testified for the U.S. Congress, is a lead editor for the annual NOAA Arctic Report Card, and spearheads efforts on scientist-stakeholder knowledge exchange. Web: www.changingice.com.
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Ty Christopher
Director Energy Futures Network, University of Wollongong
Ty Christopher is a former General Manager, Asset Management with Endeavour Energy with over 38 years experience in the electricity supply industry. Ty led the introduction of new technology into the electricity supply industry; such as large scale battery storage, embedded generation, and digital asset management techniques. Ty is now the Director Energy Futures Network at the University of Wollongong, focussing on coordinated education and research into the future of energy supply.
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Ty Ferguson
Research Associate, University of South Australia
I am an early career researcher, currently working as a Research Associate in the Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) research centre at the University of South Australia. My research broadly examines the relationship between how people use their time and its impact on their health. I have a strong interest in the use of activity trackers as measurement and intervention tools and enjoy working with big data. My clinical background is physiotherapy in paediatric settings.
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Tyler Broome
PhD Candidate in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham
Tyler is a 2nd year PhD candidate in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham.
Tyler's research focuses on political communication in the late Roman Republic (1st century BC), applying the sociological concept of role theory to the letters of the Roman statesman and orator Cicero.
More generally, Tyler is interested in Roman social history and political self-presentation/propaganda, as well as the relationship between ancient ideas of rhetoric and self-presentation and their counterparts in modern politics and media.
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Tyler Brown
Researcher, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences Te Kura Matū, University of Canterbury
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Tyler Case
Assistant Professor, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan
Tyler Case is a faculty member at the Edwards School of Business in the field of Entrepreneurship with more than a decade of teaching and learning experience. Tyler’s scholarly work explores the development and application of strategic management methods in the areas agribusiness, family enterprise and local venture development. He brings a practitioner’s perspective to his teaching and scholarly work through a lifetime of involvement with his family farm. As a third generation manager and owner of the family business, he is passionate about Western Canadian family enterprise strategy and continuity planning. Tyler has a community focus and engages in the local economy through governance roles, interactive workshop presentations and the consulting of family businesses on the topics of risk analysis and continuity planning. He brings this practice to the classroom by supporting students in experiential learning opportunities that integrate the functional areas through capstone courses in business planning and strategy.
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Tyler Cawthray
Assistant Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Bond University
Dr Tyler Cawthray has a PhD in Policing and Criminology from Griffith University and holds qualifications in International Relations and History.
He is an Assistant Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Bond University in the Faculty of Society and Design.
Tyler`s Doctoral Research concluded in 2020 focused on examining the problem of rebuilding the legitimacy of policing institutions in the wake of conflict or significant civil disturbance. The aim of this research was to better understand what community stakeholders consider important when determining whether they support both international police peacekeepers and local police.
Tyler’s research interests include police legitimacy; police and state building; pacific policing; police ethics, integrity, oversight, and corruption. He is currently conducting research with collaborators from the Queensland University of Technology, Ghent University and Leiden University on the impacts of space and technology on police legitimacy in Pacific Island, and European neighbourhood contexts. Tyler has also recently completed work with colleagues from the University of Sunshine Coast and Griffith University exploring the impacts of gender on police integrity indicators.
Tyler teaches across a range of subjects in the undergraduate and postgraduate Criminology programs at Bond University.
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Tyler Felgenhauer
Research Scientist in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
Tyler Felgenhauer is Research Director at the Duke Center on Risk and a Senior Research Scientist with the Modeling Environmental Risks and Decisions Group (MERDG) at Duke University. His research focuses on the climate-society system and options for responding to climate change risk in an integrated way, drawing on approaches from systems analysis, modeling, decision analysis, and other analytical methods of public policy and economics. Current work is investigating how to compare the risks and possible benefits of solar geoengineering with the risks of climate change in future scenarios. This includes specific interests in building plausible policy scenarios for geoengineering, the potential international security and termination shock risks posed, and the need for global monitoring of any solar geoengineering deployment. Previous research has explored emerging risk governance for geoengineering as well as optimal portfolios of climate change mitigation and adaptation, international climate governance, policy options in the face of limited adaptation capacity, water-energy system dynamics under climate policy, and clean energy policy. Before Duke, Tyler was a Social Scientist with the Office of Research and Development at the U.S. EPA, and a Director with the clean energy finance firm IronOak Energy. He has additional experience with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), RTI International, and the NC Institute for Climate Studies. Dr. Felgenhauer holds a PhD in Public Policy from UNC-Chapel Hill, a Masters in Public and International Affairs from the (Woodrow Wilson) School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a B.A. in Government from Cornell University.
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Tyler Lefevor
Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology, Utah State University
I am an assistant professor and part of the combined clinical/counseling specialization at USU. I received my PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Miami in 2016, following which, I completed a year-long postdoc at Stanford University focusing on sexual and gender minority health. I taught at Rhodes College from 2017-2020 and am happy to be back in the land of the Rockies. At USU, I teach a variety of courses in both the psychology undergraduate program and the combined clinical/counseling PhD specialization. My specialties are in research methods, multiculturalism/diversity, and LGBTQ mental health. My research examines how and when religiousness is related to health among sexual and gender minorities to better inform psychotherapy and public policy. In general, my research follows three trajectories: 1) I am interested in examining the health disparities experienced by sexual and gender minorities, particularly those from a conservative religious background. 2) I am fascinated by understanding how sexual and gender identities intersect with religious identities to help or hinder health and how those associations change over time. 3) I am dedicated to translating my findings to help inform therapy, policy, and ministry. I integrate my research with clinical work in a scientist-practitioner model. I maintain a private practice where I primarily serve sexual and gender minority clients with a conservative religious background.
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Tyler Prochnow
Assistant Professor of Health Behavior; School of Public Health, Texas A&M University
Tyler Prochnow, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University School of Public Health. His research interests include the social dynamics which drive health behavior. Tyler has research experience with social network analysis, systematic observation, intervention development, community health worker training, and implementation science
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Tyrone Berger
Lecturer in Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
Dr Tyrone Berger is a lecturer at Deakin Law School. Tyrone holds a PhD from Monash Law School, which won the 2019 Mollie Holman medal. He also has a JD from UTS and degrees in Arts and Commerce from the University of Sydney. Tyrone’s previous academic positions include roles at the University of Melbourne, RMIT and Monash. He has published widely in the areas of IP and technology law and presented his research at local and international legal conferences.
Before arriving at Deakin, Tyrone worked as a policy officer at IP Australia, the national IP office, in the Domestic Policy & Legislation section. He advised on current and emerging IP matters, developed changes to legislation, and represented IP Australia locally and abroad. Prior to this, Tyrone practised as a Lawyer and Trade Marks Attorney for the national firm, MinterEllison.
Tyrone is admitted as an Australian lawyer (NSW, Vic, WA) and was previously a registered Trade Marks Attorney.
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Tyus Williams
Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley
My research takes an exciting approach by looking at the intersections of human-wildlife interactions and species competition (resulting in interspecific killings or intraguild predation) under human-dominated landscapes and how these two are mutually exacerbated due to the stressors within these environments. With the world rapidly changing it's crucial that we ask questions about the role anthropogenic influences play on wildlife communities around the globe to understand how human-wildlife conflict issues and species competition will unfold in the future and what these implications ultimately mean for human-wildlife coexistence and ecosystem stability.
My current research for my first chapter examines the effectiveness of shoreline exclusion zones on mammalian mesocarnivores in East Bay Regional Shorelines to understand how varying mesocarnivore species are utilizing these diverse landscapes as corridors to their advantage and what that implies for temporal overlap between species, avoidance behavior, and habitat utilization for species potentially occupying these shoreline locations.
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Tzu-Jung Lin
Professor of Educational Psychology, The Ohio State University
Dr. Tzu-Jung Lin is a Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. She received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and a master's degree in Applied Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Her research centers on understanding classroom social dynamics and how classroom instruction can be carefully designed to enhance the quality of learning and development. She was a National Academy of Education/Spencer postdoctoral fellows in 2016-2017, during which she designed and implemented an innovative collaborative small-group discussion approach called Collaborative Social Reasoning (CSR) to promote students’ interpersonal and academic competencies. The fruitful and promising findings from the CSR project inspired her and her colleagues to design the Digital Civic Learning (DCL) curriculum. She has published articles in high-ranked journals such as the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Child Development, Learning and Instruction, Cognition and Instruction, and British Journal of Educational Psychology.
She is an editorial board of the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Reading and Writing.
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Ufuk Alpsahin Cullen
Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Research Fellow, Edge Hill University
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Ufuk Gunes Bebek
Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Birmingham
Ufuk Gunes Bebek is an applied economist whose research is primarily focused on international trade and macroeconomic aspects of international trade. He joined the University of Birmingham's Department of Economics in 2014 and has been in his current position as Assistant Professor in Economics since 2017.
His current research focuses on balance-of-payments constrained growth models incorporating reserve currency as a primary constraint on reserve currency providers’ growth. He is also leading the Department’s membership to the Alliance of Economics and Management Education, promoting knowledge exchange, and cultivating inter-disciplinary pedagogy culture between Birmingham and other member institutions.
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Ugljesa Grusic
Associate Professor of Private International Law, UCL
Dr Grusic's research covers a range of issues in the field of private international law. His research has focused on the European private international law of employment and on the interplay between private international law and human rights, particularly on the private international law issues raised by tortious claims arising out of the external exercise of British executive authority and civil claims against multinational enterprises for overseas human rights violations. His research also covers all core areas of private international law, including jurisdiction, choice of law and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. His other research interests include foreign relations law, civil remedies for human rights violations in comparative law, unjust enrichment in private international law, the regulatory function of private international law and international commercial arbitration, particularly the issues of arbitral jurisdiction, choice of law and the relationship between domestic courts and arbitral tribunals.
Dr Grusic is the author The European Private International Law of Employment (CUP 2015) and Torts in Foreign Relations (OUP, forthcoming in 2023), a co-author of Cheshire, North & Fawcett: Private International Law (15th edition, OUP 2017) and a co-editor of Civil Remedies and Human Rights in Flux (Bloomsbury 2022). His research has also been published in internationally leading journals and edited books, including the Modern Law Review, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the Yearbook of European Law, the Journal of Private International Law and Revue critique de droit international privé.
Dr Grusic's research has been cited by Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the New Zealand Supreme Court. He was awarded the 2015 American Society of International Law's Private International Law Interest Group (PILIG) prize for the manuscript of his book The European Private International Law of Employment (CUP 2015) and the inaugural 2012 ICLQ Young Scholar Prize for his article 'Jurisdiction in Employment Matters under Brussels I: A Reassessment' (2012) 61(1) ICLQ 91-126. He has held visiting positions at the University of Osaka, Japan, Deakin University, Australia and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Oak Project on Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford. He regularly presents his work at academic conferences and seminars around the world.
Dr Grusic has been consulted on private international law issues by European Union bodies, government departments and legal practitioners and has served as an advisor and an expert witness in court and arbitral proceedings, including before the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes.
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Ulrich Speidel
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Auckland
Areas of Expertise: Data communications, information theory, satellite Internet, satellite communication, network measurement, codes, data compression, signal processing, network coding, web applications, web security.
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Ulrike Hohmann
Associate Professor in Early Childhood Studies, University of Plymouth
I work as Associate Professor in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Plymouth. I hold the German qualification of 'Staatlich Anerkannte Erzieherin', which qualifies me to work with all children outside of school. Therefor my expertise is related to social pedagogy. When my life took me to England, I studied a BA (Hons) in Social Policy at the University of Newcastle and wrote my PhD on the socio-economic experience of childminders in England and in Germany.
My interest in social policy related to young children and families continues. Comparative research allows us to look through different lenses and develop new ideas. Living in different countries, speaking different languages always helps to make the familiar strange and take a closer look.
My Orcid link is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-117X
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/ulrike-hohmann
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Uma Kollamparambil
I joined the School of Economics and Business Science (SEBS) in 2006 and have been engaged in teaching econometrics at both under-grad and post-grad levels. I also offer a Masters level course on Development Economics. I am currently the Course-Coordinator of the Masters course in Economics at SEBS. My research interests are in Development economics and International Capital Flows.
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Umair Choksy
Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Stirling
Umair Choksy is a Senior Lecturer in Management at University of Stirling Management School. His research interests are in the areas global value chains, governance and supply chain resilience. This includes work on the knowledge connectivity, power and governance, absorptive capacity, sustainability and economic upgrading in global value chains. He has published International Business Review, Management International Review, R&D Management and Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.
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Umerdad Khudadad
PhD Student, School of Human Kinetics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
I am a PhD student and research assistant in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. My research focuses on injury prevention in refugees and immigrants.
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Una Rey
Senior Industry Affiliate, RMIT University
Una Rey completed a BA in painting at Charles Darwin University 1995
and a PhD at The University of Newcastle 2009 with a focus on cross-cultural narratives in Australian landscape painting.
Research and academic teaching strengths include Australian contemporary art and art history, with a focus on Indigenous and intercultural practice and cross-cultural exchange; arts writing, journalism, curatorial practices and arts publishing. In 2021 Rey took up the role of Editor at Artlink magazine.
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Uncle Mike Ross
Olkola elder and Chairman of the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
Olkola man, Mike Ross has been at the vanguard of land rights for the people of Cape York for the last 3 decades. At an early age Mike was anointed by his elders to be the person to lead them in an emerging era of land rights. Since then, Mike has dedicated his life to securing land rights and the protection of culture and country for his people and the people of Cape York. A sincere spokesperson, a gentleman and a distinguished bushman, Mike is a leader who goes about his business with an understated eloquence that mandates respect from the corridors of parliament in Canberra to the cattle-yards of Cape York. Mike has spent considerable time as a director and as Chairperson of the Cape York Land Council. He is also currently the Chairperson of the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation and has been for more than a decade. Mike is currently an applicant on one of the largest native title claims in Australia, the United Cape York Claim, which covers all unclaimed and undetermined areas of Cape York.
After leading a Traditional Owner negotiation team in years of negotiations with the Queensland Government, in December 2014, this resulted one of the largest transfers of Aboriginal freehold land in Australia’s history. This has established the Olkola People as the largest private landholder managing 869,822 hectares in Cape York and joint management partners with Queensland Parks in the largest new protected area in Queensland and allowed the Olkola People to develop one of the largest, and most successful savannah burning carbon abatement projects in Australia. Mike Has laid the foundations for his people, the Olkola People, and the people of Cape York, to reconnect to country and have sustainable livelihoods on country going into the future.
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Unity Chipfupa
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Africa
I am a social scientist with extensive experience in academic, economic and development research. I hold a doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. I have a passion for research and development programming and my areas of interest are agricultural development, value chain development, livelihood security, entrepreneurship, green energy, and behavioural economics. My experience was earned from supporting various governments, research institutions and development partners across several Southern African countries.
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Unwana Akpan
Lecturer in Mass Communications, University of Lagos
Unwana Samuel Akpan lectures at the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. He was a postdoctoral research fellow/visiting scholar in the School of Communications and Media Studies, Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies, Howard University, Washington DC, USA. Unwana also taught at the Programmes Production Department, National Broadcast Academy, Ikeja, Lagos. He does research in communication and media, examining, understanding, disrupting and disseminating ideas on how communication and culture intersect. With innovative research initiatives and decades of industry experience, his research and teaching investigate and explore broadcast content, sports and communication, African communication systems, media literacy, corporate speech writing, media aesthetic, the intersections of popular culture and media studies, particularly as they address genre transformation, popular media, and theories of realism and spectacle.
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Upasana Gitanjali Singh
Senior Lecturer, Information Systems and Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Dr Upasana Singh is a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Information Systems and Technology at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Westville Campus, in Durban South Africa. She has a keen interest in Technology in Education and Sustainable IT practices. Her PhD was on electronic assessment for which she developed and evaluated an online interactive tool to evaluate e-assessment systems, named e-SEAT. She successfully implemented the first formative e-assessment in the School of MIG at UKZN in 2014. In 2014, she received 2 research awards, one from the NRF and the other from UKZN, CLMS Teaching and Learning Unit. She served as panel reviewer for the NRFs Joint Collaboration applications in 2015 and 2016.
Joint academic collaboration is one of her fortes having secured 5 MoUs with international universities. This has provided her with the platform to share her knowledge as invited guest speaker to local and international conferences in South Africa, India and Mauritius. She expanded this collaboration interest by volunteering as local conference co-ordinator for the 3rd IEEE ICACCE conference, held in Durban in 2016; the joint multidisciplinary e-MIG Conferences in Mauritius 2017 & 2019; a committee member for the AAE Summer School in France 2017; Program Chair for IFCTN held by Chandigarh University, in partnership with UKZN in 2018, and the IEEE icABCD conferences in Durban 2018 & 2019. In 2017 she was selected to participate in the “Joint Expertise Programme” at Chemnitz Technical University in Germany; and selected to represent UKZN at MoodleMoot Australia in Sydney.
Her research profile includes 9 Journal articles and 31 conference papers focusing on topics related to Technology in Education, e-Assessment, AI, Digital Marketing and Sustainability. As a young, emerging academic, her supervision profile includes over 20 Hons, 3 Masters and 2 PhD students.
She also has a keen interest in joint curriculum development with International Higher Education Institutions. In 2018 she was nominated on a 2 year training program in “Teaching Advancement in Universities” (TAU). She graduated as a TAU fellow in 2019.
Dr Singh is an advocate of women empowerment and has organised 2 successful events on Women in STEM at high schools in Durban. These events have attracted highly acclaimed female academics and graduates to share their experiences and motivate over 200 female high school learners to adopt technology-based careers. Through her efforts she has secured bursaries for some of these female learners to pursue a career in Engineering.
She is an active volunteer for the IEEE, South Africa, and has been recognised for her contribution to the organization in 2018.
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Ursula Keller
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Ursula Keller has been a tenured professor of physics at ETH Zurich since 1993 (www.ulp.ethz.ch) and served as a director of the Swiss research program NCCR MUST in ultrafast science from 2010 to 2022. She received a „Diplom“ at ETH Zurich in 1984, a Ph.D. at Stanford University USA in 1989, and was a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) at Bell Labs USA 1989 to 1993 where she started her independent research. She has been a co-founder and board member for Time-Bandwidth Products (acquired by JDSU in 2014), for GigaTera (acquired by Time-Bandwidth in 2003) and a board member of Jenoptik since 2022. Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology. Awards include the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist (2022), OSA Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize (2020), SPIE Gold Medal (2020), IEEE Edison Medal (2019), European Inventor Award for lifetime achievement (2018), OSA Charles H. Townes Award (2015), LIA Arthur L. Schawlow Award (2013), ERC advanced grants (2012 and 2018), and EPS Senior Prize (2011). She supervised and graduated 93 Ph.D. students, published >510 journal publications and according to Google Scholar an h-index of 119 with more than 53’000 citations.
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Usman W. Chohan
Usman W. Chohan (b. Manhattan, NY) has previously been a Consultant with the World Bank Institute in their department of Social Accountability, working on issues of fiscal governance reform, and specifically, the implementation of Parliamentary Budget Offices (PBOs) to help bring impartial and nonpartisan financial expertise into governance institutions. His work with the World Bank led him to collaborate with and inform experts as far apart as Sydney, Washington DC, Vienna, Kampala, Ouagadougou, Abuja, Ottawa, and Canberra [1].
His budget reform work has been used to challenge and contextualize the laws underpinning legislative budget institutions in even the strongest democracies [2], such as in Canada, where his work was used to inform the landmark parliamentary debate on amending the Parliamentary Budget Office Act (C-476, 2013).
Prior to this he was the Special Situations Analyst in the Global Equities Team at Natcan Investment Management, the investment arm of the National Bank of Canada. The Global Equities team had six investment professionals including Usman and $3 billion dollars in Assets under Management (AuM).
Usman has an MBA in Strategy and Leadership from McGill University [3]; he has done Masters coursework at MIT-Tsinghua [4]. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics on a full scholarship from UNSW (Australia) [5], where he is exploring the Fiscal Policy implications of Legislative Budget Offices.
Given his rich 'tri-sector experience' that encompasses private sector, public sector and academia [6], Usman enjoys consulting, research, and teaching in equal measure. He delivered the 2015 Foreign Affairs Lecture in the Global Leadership Program (GLP) at Macquarie University in Sydney [7], and has been a guest lecturer in several courses at McGill University in Montreal since 2013. He is also a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum in their Canberra Hub (2016).
Usman was nominated the Chief Administrator of Urdu Wikipedia in 2005 [8], which he had helped grow, build and code in its embryonic stages, by a 7-2 administrator vote. Usman is also a respected sitar player who, as a leading proponent in a new generation of sitarists [9], has performed live in more than 5 countries on 3 continents, including at the prestigious Borges Center for the Performing Arts in Buenos Aires (2012) [10]. With his voracious appetite for reading, Usman has completed the Goodreads Challenge of reading 100 new books every year successfully since 2012 [11].
Usman is fluent in eight languages [12], and speaks 5 out of the 7 Official languages of the World Bank. These include English, Mandarin [13], French [14], and Spanish [15], among others. Given that his last four residences were Montreal, Buenos Aires, Canberra, and Beijing, you will likely find him roaming somewhere between these four coordinates at the ends of the earth.
REFERENCES:
[1] http://www.revparl.ca/36/3/36n3e_13_chohan.pdf
[2] http://www.parl.gc.ca/legisinfo/BillDetails.aspx?billId=5997160&Language=E&Mode=1&View=10
[3] https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/programs/mba-programs/meet-our-community/meet-our-students/usman-waqqas-chohan
[4] http://usmanchohan.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/my-tsinghua-grades.html
[5] https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/our-people/mr-usman-chohan
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anmWMFN4_aI
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiikCBP5u48
[8] https://www.ur.wikipedia.org
[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECAyLcTtjA&list=UU5LIjx6HsLEK2QuRUb03kYA&index=2
[10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4lO7kUaZUM
[11] https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13959169.Usman_W_Chohan
[12] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anmWMFN4_aI
[13] Ibid
[14] http://www.revparl.ca/36/3/36n3f_13_chohan.pdf
[15] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECAyLcTtjA&list=UU5LIjx6HsLEK2QuRUb03kYA&index=2
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Uta Staiger
Executive Director, UCL European Institute, UCL
Uta Staiger joined UCL in 2009. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, gained with a scholarship from the Gates Cambridge Trust, as well as an MPhil from the same institution. She was also educated at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Konstanz (Germany). Prior to joining UCL, she held a post-doctoral position at the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Previously, she worked at a private foundation dedicated to cultural policy research in Barcelona, and was coordinator of a number of European Commission funded cooperative research projects.
As the Executive Director of the UCL European Institute, Uta develops the long-term strategy for the Institute, and devises and implements its work programme. She also teaches on the history and theory of European integration for the UCL Department of History.
Uta’s main research interests, spanning 20th century European thought, history and EU politics, are broadly in the relationship between culture and politics. She is interested in modern European, particularly early to mid-20th-century German thought that seeks to straddle aesthetics and the idea of the political. She has also worked on the role culture plays for citizenship and democracy, both in political thought and in policy developments over the course of European integration. She has published on the conjunction of culture and citizenship in European policy discourse, and the role of cultural practices for public discourses on contested urban sites. The latter also led to a co-edited volume, Memory Culture and the Contemporary City (Palgrave 2009). Most recently, she wrote a chapter on the historical policy context for the European Capitals of Culture programme for Patel, K. (ed.) The Cultural Politics of Europe. European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s (Routledge 2012). She has also contributed to and co-edited several policy reports for the European Commission, most recently writing the national report for Germany for the study Access of Young People to Culture for the DG Education and Culture (2010).
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in 2012.
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Ute Poerschke
Professor of Architecture, Penn State
Ute Poerschke, professor and associate department head for graduate education, teaches architectural design and technical systems integration/comprehensive studio.
Prior to her tenure at Penn State, she taught design, construction, and environmentally responsible architecture at the Technical Universities of Berlin and Munich (1999–2005) and completed her doctoral degree in architectural theory at the Technical University of Cottbus in 2005.
She is a licensed architect and licensed urban planner in Germany, an international member of the American Institute of Architects, and a LEED-accredited professional. Poerschke is a principal of the firm Friedrich-Poerschke-Zwink Architekten | Stadtplaner in Munich, Germany, and co-editor of the architectural journal Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land.
Poerschke’s research focuses on the relationship of architecture and technology, the theory of functionalism, and the interpretation of how architects integrate aspects of technology with expression in architectural projects and education. Most of her recent work focuses on the high modernism of the 1920s to 1960s, particularly on how architects responded to the progressing lighting and heating, cooling, and ventilation science, technology and engineering of the time.
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