Fabian Braesemann

Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work, University of Oxford
Dr Fabian Braesemann is a Departmental Research Lecturer in AI & Work at the OII.

Fabian uses social data science methods to study the digital economy. Before Fabian became a Departmental Research Lecturer at the OII, he worked as a Research Fellow & Data Scientist in the Future of Real Estate Initiative at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and as a Data Scientist at the OII on projects that applied data science to understand human development and labour markets.

His research has been published in leading academic journals and it was covered in national and international media. Fabian has been presenting the results and implications of his research in keynote talks at academic conferences as well as policy and industry events.

Having worked as a data scientist in industry and academia, Fabian has investigated social processes with a multitude of different online data sets in numerous domains. These experiences make him confident about the prospects and value of social data science as a key discipline in the 21st century – in academic research as well as in policymaking and industry.

Besides his role at Oxford University, he runs a social data startup company – DWG Datenwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Berlin. The DWG aims to bridge academic knowledge generation and social data science innovation. The company applies data science to generate insights into the digital transformation of markets and it works mainly with the public sector and international development organisations.

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Fabian Cannizzo

Research Fellow, Monash University
Fabian has a PhD in Sociology from Monash University. His thesis explored the governance of academic workers in Australian universities and the career narratives that they develop through their work. He has published on the political economy of higher education, work/life balance in academia and the culture of creative workers. He has also conducted research into the broader production of culture and heritage in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently a member of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and co-convenor of the Work, Labour & Economy Thematic Group.

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Fabien Frenzel

Lecturer in the Political Economy of Organisation, University of Leicester

I joined the School of Management in February 2012. Between 2012-2014 I left Leicester to work at the University of Potsdam, Germany, on a two-year Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. The research grant enabled me to conduct a comparative case study of three global destinations of tourism in areas of urban poverty. I came back to Leicester on a full-time lectureship in September 2014 where I am teaching on the undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and PhD programmes with a focus on qualitative research methods and the sociology of organisation.

Previously I was a lecturer at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England (UWE), where I taught on the tourism and enterprise undergraduate programmes and on the MBA. I am a Senior Research Associate of the University of Johannesburg and a Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC), Leeds Metropolitan University. I have an MSc in Political Sciences from Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University.

My research interests converge at the intersections of mobility, organisation and politics. In this context I consider the role of transnational mobilities, from activists to tourists, in the formation of a global social question with a focus on the way slums are becoming destinations of a range of better-off travellers, in solidarity and volunteer travel and in slum tourism. This is also the topic of most recent book ‚Slumming It‘ (Zed Books 2016).

In 2012 I received a Marie Curie Post Doctoral Fellowship from the EU for a two-year research project on slum tourism, conducted at the University of Potsdam, Germany. The project website is www.qualpot.eu. Prior to this I won an early career grant from the University of the West of England to study tourism in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and to initiate the foundation of a slum tourism research network. I co-organised the first conference in this field of research in December 2010 at UWE. This led to the publication of a special issue on slum tourism in the journal tourism geographies and a book I edited on the same topic. In May 2014 I hosted the second slum tourism network conference in Potsdam and I am co-editor of two special issues emerging from the conference publications. More information on the slum tourism research network can be found on its webpage www.slumtourism.net

In my second empirical research field I study the ways in which social movements organise themselves in response to place and space with a particular interest in the organisational form of the protest camp. In 2013 I published a book on protest camps as an organisational form (with Zed books) in collaboration with Anna Feigenbaum (Bournemouth University) and Patrick McCurdy (Ottawa University). I have taken part in the foundation of the protest camp research network. In the framework of the network, I am currently co-editing a book on case studies of protest camps across the world (forthcoming with Policy Press in 2017). I am also one of the founders of the protest camp research collective.

I have previously worked in an ESRC research project on Alternative Media Organisation in the 'Global South' (RES-155-25-0029).

Earlier work includes the foundation in 2003 of a research think tank, the Institute of Nomadology (InNo) in Berlin.

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Fabio Gennaretti

Professeur en sciences forestière, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
Fabio Gennaretti est professeur à l'Institut de recherche sur les forêts de l'UQAT (IRF) et membre du Groupe de Recherche en Écologie de la MRC-Abitibi (GREMA). Depuis 2022, il est aussi titulaire de la Chaire de Recherche du Canada en dendroécologie et dendroclimatologie. Son laboratoire étudie les changements climatiques et leurs impacts, ainsi que les processus écologiques et écophysiologiques en forêt boréale.

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Fabrice De Poli

enseignant-chercheur en Etudes Italiennes (poésie, prose et cinéma de l'Italie - XIX-XXème s.), Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Fabrice De Poli est Maître de Conférences en Etudes italiennes au département LEA (Langues Etrangères Appliquées) de l’Université Savoie Mont Blanc. Sa recherche, portant sur la littérature (poésie et prose) dans l’Italie de l’ère contemporaine (de 1789 à nos jours) et, plus ponctuellement, le cinéma italien, se décline en trois axes principaux : « Les transfigurations de l’Histoire et de la politique », axe dans lequel il travaille sur le conditionnement d’une inspiration créatrice par son contexte historique (sociétal, politique et idéologique) ; « La condition moderne à l’ère de la sécularisation », où il analyse les répercussions de la sécularisation dans la création italienne ; « Filiations et intertextualité », axe de recherche centré sur la mise en lumière et l’analyse de filiations entre poètes italiens ou entre poètes français et italiens dans le but de mettre au jour le dialogue fécond, sur le plan artistique et moral, entre un poète et ses aînés.

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Fabrizio Carmignani

Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University

Current teaching areas
Macroeconomics, Quantitative methods

Research expertise
Economic growth and macroeconomics
The macroeconomics of natural resource abundance
Macroeconomic analysis of aid for health
Development economics
The economics of civil conflict and post-conflict countries
Panel models and systems of equations

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Fabrizio Santoro

Postdoctoral Fellow, International Centre for Tax and Development, Institute of Development Studies
Fabrizio is a Postdoctoral Fellow at IDS working with the International Centre for Tax and Development. He completed his doctorate in Economics at the University of Sussex.

He also works as an external consultant for the University of Sussex and the Danish Refugee Council. Prior to joining IDS, Fabrizio worked as a Research Associate at Innovations for Poverty Action in Myanmar, as a Trainee at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, and with BRAC in Uganda.

He has field experience in Rwanda and Swaziland. His main area of work is taxation and public finance, with a strong focus on evaluation of public policy and data analysis.

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Fabrizio Schifano

Chair in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Hertfordshire
Professor Schifano is one of the very few physicians with training and specialist qualifications in both psychiatry and clinical pharmacology and has contributed to the biomedical science as well as the clinical science of addiction. He has also made a significant contribution to several areas in addiction psychiatry and general psychiatry, including: stimulant synthetic drugs, mortality studies (Professor Schifano co-supervises and co-leads the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (npSAD)), the internet and drugs. This is a new area of research and Professor Schifano is the Principal Investigator of the third consecutive EU Commission-funded, multi-centre Psychonaut/ReDNet research programme. Results from these studies have provided the only comprehensive and multilingual analysis of the information available online on psychoactive compounds to date.

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Fady Shanouda

Assistant Professor, Critical Disability Studies, Carleton University
I am a critical disability studies scholar who draws on feminist new materialism to examine disabled and mad students' experiences in higher education. My scholarly contributions lie at the theoretical and pedagogical intersections of disability, mad, and fat studies and include socio-historical examinations that surface the interconnections of colonialism, racism, ableism, sanism, and queer- and transphobia. I have published scholarly articles on disability-related issues in higher education, on Canadian disability history, and on community-based learning. I am an assistant professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University. I conduct this research diversely-positioned as a disabled, fat, POC, immigrant and settler who is living, working and creating on the ancestral and traditional territories of the Algonquin nation.

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Fairley Le Moal

Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology, Flinders University
Dr. Fairley Le Moal is a Researcher in Sociology, working in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences of Flinders University, and a member of the Centre Max Weber UMR5283 (France).

Fairley has defended her PhD in Sociology and Anthropology in October 2022, graduating from Flinders University and from the University Lumiere Lyon 2. Her thesis focuses on the work of ‘feeding the family’, in France and in Australia, and she adopted an ethnographic approach, visiting families in their homes for observations.

She investigate more particularly the practices and experiences of family mealtimes in middle and upper-class households, looking into food socialisations, family relationships, emotion management and power dynamics. Her results shed light on the work of everyday family mealtimes, and the contradictory imperatives family members face – particularly mothers – when it comes to eating together and maintaining health within the family, which end up reproducing gender inequalities at home.

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Fang Fang Zhang

Professor of Epidemiology, Tufts University
Dr. Fang Fang Zhang is a nutritional epidemiologist with expertise in assessing dietary intake patterns, trends, and disparities in the population, and conducting observational studies and clinical trials to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer prevention and control. She has led pioneering work that assessed dietary intake in adult survivors of childhood cancer and its associations with treatment exposure, chronic health conditions, and quality of life. Following her study that identified adult cancer survivors in the US have poor diet quality, she builds partnerships with key stakeholders in learning about the complex web of factors that influence the dietary intake patterns of cancer survivors.

Dr. Zhang is committed to translating scientific evidence into programs, practices, and policies. She has developed a web-based intervention program that helps parents transition family into healthy eating soon after the child completes active cancer treatment, and is working on food is medicine interventions that integrate food and nutrition into oncology care through prescription of medically tailored meals and nutrition counseling for vulnerable patients with lung cancer.

Dr. Zhang’s research interests also include quantifying preventable cancer burden associated with suboptimal diet, assessing the cost-effectiveness of population strategies to improve diet and reduce cancer burden and disparities in the US, and evaluating the health, environmental, economic, and social impact of sustainable diet. Dr. Zhang’s work has been highlighted in the NIH Director’s Blog and NIH Research Matters.

Dr. Zhang received her PhD with distinction in Epidemiology from Columbia University and MD from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College. She is a recipient of the Eileen O'Neil Citation for Excellence in Teaching and an inaugural recipient of the Miriam E. Nelson Tisch Faculty Fellow from Tufts University.

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Fangzhou Wang

Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Texas at Arlington
Wang's primary research focuses on comprehending the linguistic aspects involved in the operations of romance fraudsters. Additionally, She investigates the risk and protective factors associated with individuals who fall victim to romance fraud, aiming to enhance awareness and safeguard potential victims from harm in the future. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing a comparative perspective. Wang's research interests encompass not only online romance scam but a wider range of online deceptions.

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Fanni Toth

Postdoctoral Research Associate on POPBACK project , Loughborough University
Dr Fanni Toth is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Insititute for Media and Creative Industries (IMCI) at Loughborough University London. She is currently working on the project ‘Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union (POPBACK)’, focusing on the Hungarian case study. Fanni’s research interests concentrate on democratisation, political attitudes, political communication and populist authoritarianism, with a regional focus on Central and Eastern Europe.

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Fanny Fronton

Doctorante en Écologie halieutique et biologie moléculaire, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Étudiante au doctorat de biologie à l'INRS - AFSB dans les domaines de l'écologie halieutique et de biologie moléculaire. Mon sujet de recherche s'intitule "Biopsie liquide et approche omique pour le suivi de populations de téléostéens dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent". Je m'intéresse au développement de nouveaux biomarqueurs de l'état de santé des poissons qui soient sensibles, simples, pratiques, peu coûteux et minimalement invasif pour l'animal. Les espèces sur lesquelles je travaille sont toutes socio-économiquement importantes, mais les changements récents de l'environnement soulèvent des problèmatiques au niveau des pêcheries, puisque leur population est en diminution depuis plusieurs dizaines d'années. Pour ce faire, je m'inspire de l'étude du microbiome circulant, ou des différentes bactéries que l'on peut détecter dans le sang via leurs acides nucléiques. En effet, celui-ci est très sensibles et permet de détecter toutes sortes de pathologies ou de stress sur l'organisme chez l'humain, et j'essaye de l'adapter au téléostéens afin de mieux évaluer leur état de santé, puis par la suite mieux gérer la pêche sur ces espèces.

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Fanny Jedlicki

Maîtresse de conférences de sociologie, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Innovations Sociétales (LIRIS), Université Rennes 2

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Farah Magrabi

Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Farah Magrabi is a Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. She has a background in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering and is an expert in the design and evaluation of digital health and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for clinicians and consumers. She is currently investigating the safety and effectiveness of AI systems in real-world healthcare settings.

Professor Magrabi is internationally recognised as a leader in the safety of digital health and has made major contributions to documenting the patient safety risks of digital health and AI technologies. Her research has changed practice to detect IT risks to patients and has shaped policy to address digital health safety in Australia and overseas including a new specification by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/TS 20405) for the surveillance and analysis of safety events. She is an inaugural recipient of the Sax Institute’s Research Action Award (2015) and Telstra Health’s Brilliant Women in Digital Health award (2021).

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Farjana Mahbuba

Researcher, Australian Catholic University
I have completed my first PhD from Western Sydney University. Currently I'm undertaking my second PhD at Australian Catholic University, focusing on migrant Muslim women and spousal financial abuse. My research interests lie on the intersections of gender with theology, history, migration, and culture.

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Farnush Ghadery

Senior Lecturer in Law, London South Bank University
Dr. Farnush Ghadery is a Senior Lecturer in Law whose research is situated at the intersection of feminist theory and international law, with a particular interest in women's rights movements in the Global South. Farnush is a frequent guest lecturer at different institutions, including King's College London, McGill University, and Riara University Nairobi. She is a co-founder of the Feminist TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) Collective and a member of the Editorial Board of the Feminist Legal Studies journal.

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Farouq Tahar

PhD Researcher in Architecture, University of Sheffield
I am a PhD candidate at Sheffield school of architecture interested in exploring the social role of architecture, and the impact of the built environment on communities’ performance. I hold a Master of Arts in Architectural Design from Sheffield School of Architecture. I worked in practice for several years in Algeria and gained decent experience in academia when working in Saudi Arabia as a researcher/consultant for the Institute of Pilgrimage research at Um Al-Qura University. After years of studies and work experience, I launched my PhD research to investigate the Muslims participation in architecture and urban projects in Britain, and the impact of community cohesion and integration policies on their participation.

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Farshad Arvin

Associate professor in robotics, Durham University
Farshad Arvin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University.

Farshad's research interests include Swarm Robotics, biohybrid robotics and Autonomous Multi-agent Systems.

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Farzaneh Barak

Research scientist, School of Human Nutrition, McGill University
Farzaneh is a recent Ph.D. from the School of Human Nutrition at McGill University, affiliated with McGill's Margaret A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security. Farzaneh has over a decade of national and international academic research and professional experience in public health nutrition and food security in Uganda, Malawi, Canada, and Iran. Her doctoral research investigated the intersections between food security, women's empowerment, equity, and policy using a gender lens in Uganda. She has also collaborated with Food Secure Canada as a research consultant. Her research has been published and presented at various national and international conferences. Farzaneh's research interests include equitable food systems, community-based approaches, intersectionality and equity-centred analysis, gender, and science communication.

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Fateh Chebana

Professor in Data Science applied to the Environment and Environmental Health, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Les intérêts de recherche du professeur Chebana portent principalement sur la science des données, en mettant l’accent sur les applications en environnement et en santé environnementale. Son expertise se situe dans une grande variété de recherches interdisciplinaires avec des approches de science des données (y compris, mais sans s’y limiter, l’hydrologie, les sciences de l’eau, la climatologie, l’épidémiologie climatique, les effets du changement climatique). Il s’intéresse au développement de nouvelles méthodologies de science des données, ainsi qu’à l’adaptation ou à l’application d’approches récentes/avancées.

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Fatima Fall Niang

Directrice du Centre de recherche et documentation du Senegal (CRDS), Université Gaston Berger
Ms. Fatima Fall NIANG has been a specialist in preventive conservation and manager of model cultural institutions at the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation du Sénégal, an institute of the Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis. She has worked there for 29 years (13 years at the museum and 16 years as the Center's director).
From 2000-2001, she was a consultant for WAMP in the program entitled: "Identification, Classification, Preservation, Interpretation of Photographic Collections in Museums and Archives in West Africa" funded by the Getty Grant Program, USA.
She was a member of the team that put together the file for the inscription of the Island of Saint-Louis on the World Heritage List, the inventory that followed and all the issues of conservation, safeguarding and promotion of cultural heritage and tourism in the northern zone. Since 2009, Mrs. NIANG is a member of the steering committee of the Tourism Development Program.
Since 1999, she has been involved in university courses at EPA. Since 2011, she teaches in the Professional Master in Tourism in LSH; from 2008 to 2012, she coordinated the model for the opening of the MDP section of the UFR CRAC at the UGB; From 2011-2012, she was a member of the design team of the model: "management and conservation of heritage" developed by the UEMOA out of 22 courses planned in the area. In 2017, she was co-opted as a member of the International Scientific Committee of the Amadou Mahtar MBOW University, in Diamniadio.
She is a UNESCO expert-referent for intangible heritage where she coordinated the registration file of the element "Ceebu jën" on the World Heritage List of Humanity, December 15, 2021. She is co-author of a book entitled: "Ceebu Jën, a Senegalese heritage" published on December 2, 2021.
Mrs. NIANG is a member of ICOMOS and ICOM of which she has been the head of the national committee since 2017.
She was decorated Knight in the Order of Academic Palms by France in March 2002 and in the National Order of Merit of Senegal in February 2020.

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Fatima Bhoola

Fatima Bhoola lectures Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) where she obtained her MCom (Economics) degree in 2010. Her areas of interest include monetary policy, exchange rate volatility and economic growth. Published work includes studies on the determinants of output growth volatility in South Africa. She has also contributed book chapters pertaining to South Africa’s Financial and Labour markets. She is a passionate educator with a keen interest in learning and teaching.

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Fatin Samara

Professor of Environmental Science, American University of Sharjah
Dr. Samara completed her post-doctoral work at the Environmental Protection Agency Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division (APPCD); National Risk Management Research Laboratory in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. She is the Co-Chair of the UAE Climate Change Research Network, established by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, which aims to facilitate dissemination of knowledge and advance development of research collaborations. Her research work aims to solve local environmental problems related to environmental quality, toxicity assessments, and waste to energy.

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Fay Short

Professor, Human and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University
Fay Short is a Professor in the School of Human and Behavioural Sciences at Bangor University and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. She is also a qualified therapist and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Having previously worked as Director of Teaching and Learning for the College of Human Sciences, her current professional roles include Course Director for the MSc in Counselling and Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Employability at Bangor University.

After the completion of her award-winning PhD in body representation, Fay began to expand her research interests to explore the interaction between psychotherapy and education. She has completed two PGCert qualifications in teaching and a Masters in Education Studies focusing on the applications of psychotherapy in learning environments, alongside additional TEFL and Learning Coach training. She is a member of the Bangor Academy of Teaching Fellows and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and her teaching excellence has been recognised in a highly prestigious National Teaching Fellowship award.

In her therapeutic work, Fay is an accredited hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, and advanced practitioner of REBT, and she has published a textbook exploring Core Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Alongside this work, Fay supports academics and professionals across different fields following her training in Executive Coaching and Mentoring. She has also worked in the field of law following her Masters in Law and Criminology, and her psychology of abuse training has been delivered to crime investigators and police officers across the UK.

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Fayez Hammad

Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Fayez Hammad teaches courses on Middle East politics, International relations of the Middle East and Arab-Israeli Conflict.

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Fei Zhu

Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship, University of Nottingham

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Felicity Salina

Researcher in Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Universitas Gadjah Mada

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Felipe Antunes-de-Oliveira

Felipe Antunes de Oliveira is a Doctoral Researcher and an Associate Tutor in the Department of International Relations of the University of Sussex. He is also a professional diplomat of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations.

His interest areas include Global Political Economy, Marxist Theories of International Relations, Dependency Theories and Uneven and Combined Development. He is specialised in Latin American contemporary political economy.

His current research compares neoliberalism and neodevelopmentalism in Brasil and Argentina.

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Felix Schmermer

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Felix Schulz

Research Fellow, University of Leeds
Interdisciplinary researcher working on sociological and social-psychological perspectives around climate change. I am interested in institutional and individual level factors influencing climate change actions and perceptions. Of particular interest to my research are workers and labour unions in the social-ecological transformation and the role of value orientations.

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Femke Mulder

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University
Femke is a social scientist working in the field of disaster and humanitarian studies. She specialises in knowledge management for disaster mitigation, response and recovery – with a special focus on localised, participatory and inclusive approaches. She has a university teaching qualification (UTQ).

Femke has a background in organisation sciences and social anthropology. Her research focuses on knowledge management (KM) in disaster and humanitarian settings.

To date, she has studied disaster KM in the context of earthquakes, climate change, global health (esp. HIV/AIDS), conflict and displacement. She is trained and experienced in both qualitative and quantitative social research methods.

Femke has over 15 years of experience in programme management and policy research for government and global NGOs.

Spoken Languages
English
Dutch (native)
Spanish (professional working proficiency)

Research interests

Disaster management
Knowledge management
Sociology of disasters
Humanitarian studies
Organisation sciences
Social anthropology

Qualifications

PG Dip Social Research Methods, The Open University
MA Social Anthropology, SOAS University of London
BA International Development and History, SOAS University of London

Memberships, editorial boards

Advisory Board Member, DATAWAR project, Sciences Po Lille, France
Member, International Humanitarian Studies Association, International Institute of Social Sciences, the Netherlands
Guest editor, Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies, Disaster Prevention and Management (2022) 31(1-2).

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Femke Nijsse

Lecturer at Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
I'm a complexity scientist with experience modelling climate, energy systems and the economy.

I'm working on innovation in the energy system and the transition towards sustainable energy. I have been involved in the EEIST project led previously by Jean-Francois Mercure. The project seeks to inform energy policy in China, Brazil and India, as well as the UK and the EU. As part of this project, I've improved the representation of the power sector in the energy-economy-environment model E3ME-FTT. Major energy technologies in E3ME-FTT are represented with evolutionary economics, so that the diffusion of a new technology follows an S-curve. I've improved the power sector model by improving the representation of learning, getting higher-quality data and improve the representation of energy storage.

As a next step, I'm involved in developing a submodel of E3ME-FTT for flexibility, storage and hydrogen to gain a better understanding of the diffusion of high shares of variable renewables, and the way sector coupling can help. This should inform what type of policies are effective now that the major barriers towards diffusion are changing (supply chain / grid stability rather than costs)

I did my PhD within mathematics in the Exeter Climate Systems group with Peter Cox. It involved finding a theoretical basis for emergent constraints and improving (statistical) techniques. For some processes, a group of climate models shows a relationship between a past and future variable. Measurements of the first allows us to exploit this relationship and get a better estimate of our future climate. My focus was on decadal variability, historical warming and climate sensitivity.

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Fen-Biao Gao

Professor of Neurology, Gov. Paul Cellucci Chair in Neuroscience Research, UMass Chan Medical School
Dr. Gao is currently the Paul Cellucci Chair in Neuroscience Research and Professor of Neurology at the UMass Chan Medical school. He received his PhD degree from Duke University and did postdoctoral trainings at UCL and UCSF. He started his own lab at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at UCSF in 2000 and moved to UMass Chan in 2010. Dr. Gao received a Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the NINDS/NIH and a McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award from the McKnight Foundation. He was also a Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience and a Klingenstein Fellow in Neuroscience.

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