Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
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Research fellow, Victoria University
Locky is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Melbourne. Locky’s key areas of interest include applied economic modelling, applied macro-finance, and policy analysis.
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Doctoral Researcher, University of Southampton
Xiaohan Li, is currently pursuing her PhD at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton. She earned her BA in International Tourism Management from Macau University of Science and Technology and completed her MA in Human Resource Management at the University of Leeds. Her research looks at the interplay between work flexibility, gender dynamics, and their implications in the gig economy and policy-making. Presently, Xiaohan is working on the work environment of female takeaway riders in China.
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University Chief Officer of Education; Executive Dean, Academy of Future Education; Acting Dean, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub, XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Dr Xiaojun Zhang got his PhD degree at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He joined Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as the Deputy Director of Institute of Leadership and Education Advanced Development (ILEAD) in 2013, which was created by him under the support of university leaders. Now Xiaojun is the University Chief Officer of Education; Executive Dean of the Academy of Future Education at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Xiaojun also takes the role of Acting Dean of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub in Entrepreneur College (Taicang) at XJTLU since August 2022.
Xiaojun is an edupreneur who initiated all the four units within the Academy of Future Education. He was appointed as Head of ILEAD in 2017 when ILEAD became a department of Education. He restructured the faculty development centre at XJTLU and built the team of Educational Development Unit (EDU) in 2018. The Department of Educational Studies (EDS) was created by Xiaojun in 2019, and Learning Institute for Future Excellence (LIFE), as an innovative platform to support student transfarmation and global citizenship competence development at XJTLU, was created under his leadership in 2021.
Dr Zhang led the development of several projects with national level impact. He created XJTLU National University Teaching Innovation Award in 2016, developed the Association for Sustainable Faculty Development in Higher Education in 2018 with more than 90 institutional members, and initiated the ILEAD Talk series established in more than 20 cities in China.
Dr Zhang is a Principal Fellow of Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) in UK.
One of Xiaojun’s current work focuses on educating the educators in universities, including teachers, professionals, and institutional leaders and managers. He has developed many professional development programmes for educational practitioners across the country. His programmes were attended by more than 15,000 staff from more than 500 Chinese universities. Since 2013 he has been invited for more than 200 speeches for educational practitioners and researchers on the topic of education and teaching innovation. Xiaojun created one of the most influential community for teaching innovation in China: XJTLU National University Teaching Innovation Award. More than 4,250 innovative teachers from 500 Chinese universities applied for this award since 2016. Every year there are millions of online visits to this events, and there has accumulated more than 500 excellent teaching innovation cases.
Dr Zhang’s research area includes institutional change and institutional logics; Educational leadership; Internationalization in Higher Education, especially the Sino-foreign Cooperative universities; Future education in the AI era; University transfarmation and teaching innovation, in particular research-led learning and teaching; student-centred education; student transition etc. Dr Zhang welcomes PhD applications in these areas.
Xiaojun has published more than 100 academic papers and 5 books. His research focus on problems in practice and pay attention to practical implications. Most of his research has been adopted in his training programmes for higher education practitioners. One of his most recent books titled "University Transfarmation: From Teacher Dominated to Student-Centred" published by Tsinghua University Press is a guidebook for education practitioners who want to transform their education. Xiaojun proposed the "diamond model" of teaching innovation in AI era and highlighted ten key directions of teaching innovation in his another recently published book "Future-oriented Teaching Innovation" by Economic and Management Press.
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The University of Western Australia
Xiaoling Guo is a PhD candidate in Marketing at the Business School at the University of Western Australia. She is a researcher in the areas of social marketing, social media, influencer marketing, and QCA (Qualitative comparative analysis) methodology.
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Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, Australian Catholic University
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Scientia Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
Dr Luna Xu is an epidemiologist, currently working as Scientia Lecturer/Fellow at the School of Population Health, University of New South Wales. Luna is also an Honorary Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Luna awarded Bachelor of Nursing degree in China and completed her Master of Clinical Nursing in the United Kingdom. Since 2013, she changed her career trajectory to epidemiology by completing her Masters and PhD in Public Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Luna’s research focuses on using large population-based health data to inform cardiovascular disease prevention and management. Luna has published over 70 publications, including in the Lancet, Lancet Neurology, and Advances in Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition. Luna has contributed to 2 book chapters and 6 government reports, including WHO and United Nations. Luna has delivered 46 national and international conference presentations, including invited presentations.
Luna serves as an Executive Member of the Australian Association of Gerontology and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. She has editorial roles for Nutrients, Frontiers in Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Diabetology. Luna has reviewed competitive national and international grants, such as The National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), Heart Foundation of Australia and Canadian Poultry Research Council. Luna also have reviewed over 100 articles in leading journals, such as The Lancet Public Health.
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Lecturer (Political Economy), University of Cape Town
Dr. Alecia Ndlovu teaches political economy in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town. Ndlovu completed her PhD and MA (with distinction) in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research focuses on political accountability, socioeconomic development, and the governance of Africa's natural resources, leveraging cross-national datasets and on-the-ground research in various African countries. She leads a Worldwide Universities Network project exploring the politics of human development in sub-Saharan Africa's resource-rich economies. Her work aims to advance scholarly discourse and support evidence-based policies and strategies for sustainable resource management and inclusive development across the continent.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Outcomes and Translational Sciences, The Ohio State University
Dr. Oyarzun is a pharmacist from Chile, with a Master’s in Epidemiology from the University of Louisville, and a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Kentucky. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at The Ohio State University in Dr. Donneyong’s Laboratory. Her research has focused on medication use and cognitive decline in the geriatric population. Currently, she is studying drug-drug interactions, medication adherence, and deprescribing interventions among the elderly.
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Architecture and Urbanism Researcher, Toronto Metropolitan University
Architect from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master student in Regional and Urban Planning.
I am particularly passionate about living environments, person to person interaction and creating tools to understand multidisciplinary subjects. Working with Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University, my research focuses on student residences living spaces and the effect on student performance and well-being.
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Catedrático de Historia del Arte Moderno; director del Centre d'Art d'Època Moderna (CAEM) de la UdL, Universitat de Lleida
Estudios de Posgrado en la Universidad de Nápoles y la Academia de España en Roma. Antiguo Director del Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia. Investigador Principal del Grupo de Investigación de la Generalitat de Catalunya “Art i Cultura d’Època Moderna” (ACEM). Miembro de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia. Premio ICREA Acadèmia de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Ha escrito más de 25 libros y unos 100 artículos especializados.
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry, Colorado State University
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Garret Miyake's group at Colorado State University, where my work focuses on photocatalysis and the development of recyclable polymers.
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Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Senior Lecturer of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
Xinyu Fu is currently a senior lecturer of environmental planning at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He is primarily interested in planning issues related to water such as flooding and sea-level rise, and bridging novel AI technologies and planning practice. Xinyu is also an American Certified Planner, AICP.
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Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
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Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Xochitl Ortiz Ross researches the long-term fitness consequences of early-life adversity in yellow-bellied marmots.
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Catedrático del Centro Singular CRETUS. Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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Assistant Professor in Iberian Studies, University of Limerick
Xosé P. Boán is an Assistant Professor in Iberian Studies and European Studies BA Course Director.
His research interests comprise narratives of memory, crises, masculinities, violence and nonwork; migration studies and Iberism, with a focus on film, essay and comic. He earned his PhD at Tulane University (New Orleans, 2017) in contemporary Peninsular visual culture, focusing on film and graphic narratives. Xosé is the co-editor of Netflix' Spain: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2023) and his most recent scholarly work has appeared in venues such as Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2024), Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2021), Studies in Comics (2020), Romance Studies (2019), Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies (2018), Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2018), and Variaciones Borges (2016).
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Science, University of Exeter
As a marine scientist specialising in satellite remote sensing, my research focuses on understanding the dynamics of phytoplankton. My work integrates satellite remote sensing, field research, data analysis, and modelling to understand how phytoplankton biomass and community structure envolve over time. My research contributes to a deeper understanding of the vital role of phytoplankton within marine ecosystems and addresses critical ecological and biological challenges through the application of ocean colour remote sensing.
I obtained my PhD in Physical Geography from the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC) at East China Normal University, under the supervision of Professor Fang Shen, with additional guidance from Dr Robert Brewin, Professor Dongyan Liu, and Professor Yunxuan Zhou. My dissertation, supported by an NSFC grant, focused on developing and refining remote sensing models to retrieve phytoplankton size classes in the eastern China seas, enhancing our understanding of phytoplankton dynamics and their relationship with environmental factors in this region.
After completing my PhD, I joined the Centre for Geography and Environmental Science (CGES) at the University of Exeter (Penryn Campus) as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, working with Dr Robert Brewin. Currently, I am working on a UKRI-funded project Phytoplankton Response to Climate Change (PRIME), where my research on phytoplankton has been extended to explore global ocean and climate change dynamics.
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Endowed Professor of Health Policy and Associate Dean, George Washington University
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Postdoctoral Associate in Astronomy, University of Maryland
Dr. Kim is a Faculty Assistant in the NASA Planetary Data System Small Body Node at the University of Maryland College Park.
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Astronome FNRS à l'Institut d'astrophysique et de géophysique, Université de Liège
Diplômes:
- juin 1999 : ingénieur civil électricien (FPMs)
- mars 2004 : doctorat en science (ULiege)
Fonction actuelle : Maître de recherches FNRS
Pour en savoir plus (prix, publications,...), consulter http://www.astro.ulg.ac.be/~naze/
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
Yahya El-Lahib came to the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary after finishing his PhD at the School of Social Work, McMaster University. As a long time disability activist, Yahya’s research, practice and policy background has centred on working on disability issues at all levels of intervention, from frontline work with individuals and families, to community practice, policy development, and research on a variety of issues including education, employment, poverty, political and civic engagement, as well as the impacts of war. Throughout this involvement, Yahya has been closely affiliated with the disability movement in Lebanon working from a grassroots social justice approach which has allowed him to bring to his current community involvement, teaching and research in Canada a critical transnational dimension to social work.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
I use computational methods to research human population genetics. In particular, I study how cultural traits like language and marital practices have influenced human genetics.
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Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, King's College London
Prior to joing King's College London, Yali Du was a postdoctoral research fellow at University College London. She obtained her PhD from The University of Technology, Sydney.
Her research interests include Multi-Agent Cooperation and Coordination; Reinforcement Learning and Generalisation; Evaluation of Human and AI players; Social Aspects of Learning Agents (e.g. explainability, human-in-the-loop learning, ethics); Applications in Game AI, Data Science, etc.
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Assistant Professor of Ecology, Leiden University
Yali Si is an ecologist who tries to understand spatiotemporal ecological patterns and processes, quantify the environmental mechanisms and global change impact on bird distribution, movement and diversity, ecosystem functioning, and disease patterns, and develop sustainable measures to safeguard wildlife and human development.
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Professor in Biomedical Science, Swansea University
Yamni is a Professor in Biomedical Sciences at Swansea University and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Here, she teaches anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology to a wide range of health professionals including nurses and paramedics. Yamni graduated from Kings College, London and then undertook a Masters’ degree in Applied Parasitology and Medical Entomology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
After successful completion of her doctorate at Swansea University and a post doctorate position at Fundaco Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2001, Yamni established the Swansea University Maggot Research Group, focusing on the medicinal maggot, Lucilia sericata, and the molecules involved in larval therapy. Her team have published widely on the scientific findings on the antimicrobial activity of larval secretions, and on the wound healing properties of maggots and have identified a potent new antimicrobial factor, Seraticin®, from maggot secretions. Yamni is an author of over 75 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and papers and is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and the Royal Society of Biology.
She is also currently leading a project investigating public understanding and perception of the clinical use of maggots on wounds. As such, she has established the “Love a maggot!” campaign, a major public engagement movement, which aims to raise awareness and change perception of maggot therapy, for the public, wound practitioners and school children. Yamni has featured in numerous media, radio and TV reports and interviews. In 2019, she acted as a maggot consultant for the BBC Medical drama Casualty. In 2022, she has worked with BBC Doctors to incorporate maggot therapy into an upcoming episode to be aired in July 2023. She was interviewed and featured recently for BBC Countryfile (09/03/2023) about her work to change the negative perception of maggot therapy.
Yamni was selected to participate in the elite Welsh Crucible Programme, promoting the development of future Research Leaders in Wales. She is an Athena Swan Champion and a Diabetes Community Champion. She is a trained STEM Ambassador, delivering interactive sessions on microbiology and entomology to pupils at local schools.
In 2018, Yamni was awarded the National WISE Award for Innovation, presented by HRH The Princess Royal, and she was selected as one of the WISE20 women in 2020. She was also voted a finalist for her Women in STEM role for the Chwarae Teg Womenspire awards. In July 2021, Yamni was awarded a prestigious, student nominated, Swansea University Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award. More recently, she has been invited to work with Welsh Government on the Women in STEM Education sub-group, to better understand and promote gender and ethnic minority equality in STEM education and careers.
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