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Obiora Ezeudu
Research Associate, University of Nigeria
Obiora Ezeudu holds a Ph.D. and Masters degree from the SHELL Centre for Environmental Management and Control, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) where he is also a research associate.
He had worked for over 10 years in the environmental and engineering services sectors. His experience spans environmental systems analysis, public health engineering, environmental pollution control, marketing, and business development of sustainable engineering products and services. His research interests include circular economy, waste management, cleaner production, environmental modeling, environmental policy analysis, frugal engineering, appropriate technology, energy economics, industrial ecology, water policy, and clean technology mechanisms.
Dr. Ezeudu adopts an interdisciplinary approach to investigating how developing countries can achieve sustainable production and consumption in a bid to attain sustainable development goals (SDGs).
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Ofentse Olunloyo
Doctoral Candidate specialising in the Digital Transformation of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (through the Sharing Economy) | Master of Business Administration (MBA) | Digital Marketing Expert, University of Johannesburg
I am studying towards a Doctor of Philosophy with a specialisation in Digital Transformation at the University of Johannesburg. My qualifications are a Master in Business Administration (MBA), a B.Phil Honours in Marketing Management and a B.Com in Marketing Management (University of Pretoria).
I am a digital marketing expert and marketing manager with over eight years of work experience spanning various industries, including education, recruitment, property, conferencing and communications.
Being a strategic, technical and analytical professional helped me build a proven track record of planning, implementing and managing strategies, teams and campaigns. I am experienced in direct and digital marketing (search, social, email, content and mobile).
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Olav Muurlink
Senior Lecturer, organisational behaviour, management, CQUniversity Australia
Olav Muurlink is a social and health psychologist, specialising in work and wellbeing, as well as attitude change. He is a senior lecturer in organisational behaviour at Central Queensland University, with a background in media and manufacturing SMEs. He is also chair of the international education charity, Co-operation in Development, which builds and operates free schools for disadvantaged children the delta of Bangladesh.
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Oleg Benesch
Lecturer in East Asian History, University of York
BA (Alaska Fairbanks), MA (Reitaku), PhD (British Columbia)
Oleg Benesch is Lecturer in East Asian History, specializing in the history of early modern and modern Japan and China. Before arriving at the University of York, Oleg was Past & Present Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. He has spent almost six years living and researching in Japan, including two years at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.
Oleg’s publications and teaching interests cover a variety of fields, including Japanese intellectual, religious, and social history, Chinese intellectual history, as well as the transnational history of modern East Asia. He has presented his research findings at academic conferences and invited lectures throughout East Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia. Oleg’s recent monograph, Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. He is a co-author of the 2015 book, Civilizing Emotions: Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe, also published by Oxford University Press.
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Oleksa Drachewych
Assistant Professor in History, Western University
Professor Drachewych specializes in the history of Soviet and Modern European foreign policy, international communism, transnational human and civil rights movements, and transnational anti-imperialism. He is the author of The Communist International, Anti-Imperialism and Racial Equality in British Dominions (Routledge, 2018) and the co-editor of Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020). He is currently writing a book comparing Soviet atrocities in the Second World War and Postwar period to Russia's atrocities in Ukraine.
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Oleksandra Ozcan
Lecturer in International Business, University of Portsmouth
I am a lecturer in International Business at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth and a PhD student at Swansea University. I hold a BA and LLM degrees in International Business Law and MSc in International Business Management.
My research interests are within the field of Strategic Management and Innovation Management, specifically protection of trade secrecy and other IP rights. Throughout my professional career, I have had various work experience as a legal associate working for a trade company and compliance specialist working for a large bank.
As a lecturer now, I deliver business and law-related content on different modules and supervise postgraduate
dissertation projects.
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Olga Maxwell
Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
Olga Maxwell is a Senior Lecturer in ESL and Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics. She works on bi-/multilingualism, intonation modelling, acoustic phonetics, English as second language, varieties of English in multilingual societies, prosodic variation, language contact, and language attitudes.
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Olga Perovic
Principal Pathologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
A Prof/Dr Olga Perovic is a Principal Pathologist at the Centre for Healthcare-Associated
Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses at National Institute for Communicable
Diseases, a division of the NHLS. She is medical doctor with clinical microbiology speciality and
is affiliated with Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at WITS. Her
responsibilities include Antimicrobial Resistance Reference Laboratory, AMR surveillance,
outbreak investigation, teaching and training. Professor Perovic leads Antimicrobial Resistance
(AMR) programs in South Africa. Prof Perovic is a principal investigator of numerous projects
and she is involved in teaching and training of undergraduate, postgraduate and other related
learners. She experiences a vast ranges of involvements in AMR field, from the basic
antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) to the whole genome sequencing; from the bed site
microbiology to the hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs; from infection control
programs at hospitals to the national policy development; from the routine real time to the
national AMR surveillance programs. Perovic is a chair of National Advisory Committee (NAC)
for Antimicrobial Susceptibility at South African Society of Clinical Microbiology (SASCM).
She is an expert in laboratory quality system and responsible for External Quality Assessment
programs in bacteriology and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
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Olga C. Pandos
PhD Candidate in Technology, Medical Law and Ethics, University of Adelaide
I graduated with a double degree in Laws (with First Class Honours) and Science (with majors in Biochemistry and Genetics) from the University of Adelaide. In 2020, I was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of South Australia.
I am currently studying a PhD in Law – Technology, Medical Law and Ethics, at the Adelaide Law School. I am able to rely upon my technical expertise in science, to enhance the quality and analysis of my research. My unique skillset, both in law, law reform and science, enables me to critically analyse complex areas of law.
I have established myself as a young scholar and competent writer. I am able to convey complex scientific concepts and ideas to a broad audience. My research scholarship, output, impact and publications reflect my expertise. I have also been involved in a number of Government projects for the South Australian Law Reform Institute and the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
My research expertise extends beyond technology law to medical law and ethics, notably decision-making capacity and consent. I have also established strong connections with South Australian Aboriginal communities, leading consultation for law reform and other projects.
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Oliver Bown
Postdoctoral fellow, UNSW Sydney
Oliver Bown is a researcher and maker working with creative technologies. He comes from a highly diverse academic background spanning social anthropology, evolutionary and adaptive systems, music informatics and interaction design, with a parallel career in electronic music and digital art spanning over 15 years. He is interested in how artists, designers and musicians can use advanced computing technologies to produce complex creative works. His current active research areas include media multiplicities, musical metacreation, the theories and methodologies of computational creativity, new interfaces for musical expression, and multi-agent models of social creativity. He is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of New South Wales.
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Oliver Castell
Senior Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University
I was appointed as a Cardiff University SBP Research Fellow and Lecturer in September 2013. A Pharmacist by training, I gained my PhD (Cardiff University) in multiphase microfluidics, exploiting the unique characteristics of flow on the microscale for high-efficiency chemical separations, work that earned nomination for the Desty Memorial Award for Innovation In Separation Science.
I then went on to work on a Technology Strategy Board-funded project providing micro- and nano-technology solutions to challenges faced in the scientific industry, before moving to the lab of Mark Wallace at Oxford University for postdoctoral research in the development of high-throughput screening platforms for the optical quantification of membrane protein function.
At Oxford I was also able to pursue my interest in more fundamental science and biophysics with single-molecule studies of membrane proteins in droplet interface bilayers (DIBs) - collaborative work that I still maintain. Working between Oxford University and KTH Stockholm I then undertook research as part of £5M EPSRC funded (Curvature Asymmetry and Patterning Integrated Through All Length Scales) research project, a large-scale, cross-institute, multidisciplinary collaboration led by Imperial College London, working in the field of molecular membrane engineering. Now at Cardiff, I continue to involve in the CAPITALS consortium.
I also have a keen interest in science engagement through the arts, performing interactive science-themed music at Einstein's Garden at Green Man Festival 2013 and having scientific photography of my research featured in the National Museum of Wales Research Images Exhibition.
Professional memberships
I am an affiliate member of EPSRC funded research project, a large-scale, multidisciplinary collaboration between leading UK universities working in the field of molecular membrane engineering.
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Oliver Davis1
Senior lecturer, Cardiff University
I'm a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Civic Mission at Cardiff University. I'm passionate about the prehistory of Britain, particularly Wales, and working with local communities to tell the stories of this fascinating period
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Oliver Springate-Baginski
Oliver’s primary research interest is the political economy / political ecology of forest governance reform in developing countries. He mainly focuses on issues of: 1) democratisation, policy and reform rights reform and the associated political empowerment of forest users, 2) livelihood development and poverty alleviation at the forest – agricultural interface, and 3) integrated biodiversity management in forest management.
These interests have been developed through leading a range of research projects with partners across Asia region, particularly India, Nepal and Burma/Myanmar. He is co-author/editor, with Piers Blaikie, of ‘Forests, People and Power’ (Earthscan 2007).
Oliver has also worked as a forest and environmental policy advisor on donor-funded projects in India and currently Burma / Myanmar.
Oliver is the coordinator of the Burma/ Myanmar Development Research Network.
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Oliver A.H. Jones
Professor, RMIT University
Professor Oliver Jones is a Professor of Chemistry at RMIT University and and internationally recognised expert in analytical science. He is passionate about using science to keep our environment safe. He has a demonstrated track record of research, teaching and leadership within the higher education sector with experience in both the UK and Australia.
Oliver is a graduate of Imperial College London, PhD and MSc (2005 and 2001) and Queen Mary University of London, BSc Hons. (2000). His research expertise is in the field of Analytical Biological and Environmental Chemistry with interdisciplinary applications in biology, environmental science, water technology and forensic science. He is particularly interested in tracking the fate and behaviour of pollutants in the environment and determining their possible effects on biological systems.
Oliver has received a number of awards for his research, including the ANZMAG Sir Paul Callaghan medal the SETAC AU Mid-career medal, the RACI Environmental Chemistry Medal and the Barry Inglis Medal from the National Measurement Institute. In 2019 he was listed as ‘Iridium’ on the IUPAC periodic table of outstanding younger chemists (one of only 118 people worldwide to be honoured in this way). He has over 140 peer-reviewed publications with an h-index of 39 and >7300 citations. His research papers can be found on his Google Scholar profile (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=s8jEtVwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works).
Oliver is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI, and an Associate Fellow of the Institution for Chemical Engineers (AFIChemE). He served on the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Chemistry and was previously President of the Australian and New Zealand Metabolomics Network and a board member of the International Metabolomics Society, and the Australia and New Zealand Society for Magnetic Resonance. His is a current board member of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry.
Oliver has featured widely in TV, radio and newspapers where he is skilled at providing informed, evidence-based context, and explaining complex science to a mainstream audience. He has featured widely in TV, radio and newspapers (Channel 9 News, ABC News, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian, the Times Higher Education, and the Washington Post) and can be found promoting science on Twitter, Mastodon, Instagram and TikTok as @dr_oli_jones
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Oliver C. Stringham
Researcher, University of Adelaide
I research the conservation and biosecurity risks of the legal and illegal wildlife life trade.
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Olivia Gosseries
Le Dr Olivia Gosseries est codirectrice du Coma Science Group. En tant que neuropsychologue, ses premiers travaux ont porté sur le diagnostic et le pronostic chez les patients souffrant de troubles de la conscience qui sortent du coma en utilisant la stimulation cérébrale non invasive et l'électrophysiologie. Ces dernières années, elle a travaillé de manière plus approfondie sur les options thérapeutiques pour cette population de patients difficiles. Afin d'étudier la conscience humaine de manière plus globale, elle s'intéresse désormais aussi à l'anesthésie, à la mémoire du coma, au rêve lucide, à la méditation, à l'hypnose, à la transe cognitive et à la réalité virtuelle.
Elle est rédactrice en chef adjointe des revues Clinical Neurophysiology et Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Elle a coédité la deuxième édition du livre `Neurology of Consciousness' (Elsevier, 2015), a révisé des articles pour de nombreuses revues scientifiques, supervise des doctorants et a organisé plusieurs conférences (Coma Day, Human Brain Project conference on consciousness). Elle compte plus de 160 publications dans des revues internationales à comité de lecture telles que Science, Lancet, Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology et Brain, et de nombreux exposés invités lors de conférences internationales.
Son objectif est de continuer à améliorer les soins aux patients qui sortent du coma, de contribuer à la compréhension de la conscience humaine et de promouvoir l'éducation et la sensibilisation du public à ce sujet clinique et de recherche fascinant.
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Olivia Groves
Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
Olivia Groves is a mid-career researcher and experienced educator. Olivia spent 15 years teaching diverse learners in school, language education, and tertiary settings both in Australia and internationally and is now an educational researcher with 13 years experience. Olivia’s research interests lie in understanding the conditions under which learning takes place in order to maximise the potential for learning and success of all students.
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Olivia Remes
PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
Olivia Remes is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on mental disorders and is using the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) study, one of the largest, European cohort studies looking at chronic diseases and the way people live their lives.
She has received a PhD studentship from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
E-mail address: [email protected]
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Olivier Choinière
Professor of Project Management, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
Olivier Choinière is a professor of project management at the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) and an affiliated researcher with the Centre of Governance (University of Ottawa) and the CDA Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in public management from the University of Ottawa and a Master’s degree in public administration from École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP). Olivier has expertise and experience in project, change and risk management as well as corporate governance. Prior to joining academia, Olivier has successfully completed numerous high-level strategic projects for public organizations, in addition to having held an executive position in the federal government at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Olivier is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) as well as a Certified Project Manager (Prince 2).
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Oludayo Tade
Dr Oludayo Tade teaches Sociology of Deviant behaviour and Social problems at the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan. He holds a PhD in Criminology. His research interests include crime, Media Studies, child labour, child trafficking, Family Studies, transactional sex and cybercrime.
He is an associate member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR). Dr Tade was a recipient of the University of Ibadan Postgraduate School Scholar Award in 2008-2010. He was a grantee of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI), University of California, Irvine, United States of America in 2013. He is currently a 2015 grantee and the principal investigator on "Dimensions of Electronic Fraud and Governance of Trust in Nigeria's cashless ecosystem, being funded by IMTFI.
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Oreste Pollicino
Professor of Constitutional Law, Bocconi University
I am full professor of constitutional law in Bocconi. I also teach the courses on GDPR, media law, internet law and I am the director of the LLM in law of internet technologies in Bocconi University. I am Honest Broker appointed by the European Commission for the negotiation on the ‘European code of practice on disinformation’; I am also member of the executive board, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna; board member of the digital library, Ministry of Culture; member of the European Commission Sounding Board of the Multistakeholder in the fight against online disinformation; participant to the Conseil of Europe Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI); Italian member of the OECD Global Partneship on Artificial Intelligence.
My research is focused on constitutional law and cuts across the issues of the digital age, looking at the delicate relationship between public and private actors and how this impacts on this exercise and the protection of fundamental rights. My research has centred on:
1) European and Comparative Constitutional Law;
2) Digital Constitutional Law;
3) Media Law;
4) Internet Law,
5) Life Science Law;
6) Law and Cinema
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Oscar del Barco Novillo
Profesor Ayudante Doctor. Departamento de Física Aplicada., Universidad de Zaragoza
Finalicé mi licenciatura de Ciencias Físicas en junio de 1999 (Universidad de Granada) e
inicié mis estudios de doctorado bajo el programa "Química" de la Universidad de Murcia. Este programa interdisciplinar incluía, entre otros, el curso "Técnicas numéricas y de simulación" impartida por el catedrático Miguel Ortuño, el cual me propuso una línea de investigación sobre el tiempo túnel cuántico para electrones y fotones.
Utilizando métodos numéricos, logramos calcular el tiempo de tránsito de pulsos de distintas anchuras a través de distintos potenciales mediante el operador cuántico "tempus". Estos resultados constituyeron la base de mi tesis doctoral "Efectos de tiempo finito en el tiempo túnel para electrones y fotones" la cual defendí en 2007 con la calificación de "Apto cum laude por unanimidad". Publicamos nuestros resultados en la revista "Physical Review A" y "Physical Status Solidi".
Posteriormente, accedí a un puesto de profesor asociado en el área de Óptica en el laboratorio del catedrático Pablo Artal. Llevo impartiendo asignaturas de los grados de Física y Optometría durante 9 cursos académicos.
He desarrollado distintas líneas de investigación teóricas y experimentales en el campo de la Óptica a lo largo de mi carrera investigadora, correspondiendo a las siguientes temáticas:
- simulación de estructuras dieléctricas periódicas para generar "luz lenta" (reducción considerable de la velocidad de la luz para aplicaciones tecnológicas).
- modelado teórico de la intensidad de segundo armónico generada por fibras de colágeno corneales.
- estudio numérico de la longitud de localización en estructuras unidimensionales magnetoópticas.
- optimización numérica de multicapas periódicas dieléctricas para uso en tecnologías fotónicas.
- diseño teórico de un reflector dieléctrico omnidireccional en el rango del infrarrojo cercano.
- estudio teórico sobre agujeros negros primordiales y su relación con los estallidos de rayos gamma térmicos.
En la actualidad desempeño mi labor docente e investigadora en la Universidad de Zaragoza. Cuento con 19 artículos científicos publicados en revistas del JCR y 12 comunicaciones a congresos científicos internacionales.
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Oscar Marroquin
Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Marroquin leads UPMC’s health care data and analytics activities, overseeing a team of IT infrastructure architects, analysts, statisticians and data scientists focused on applying “big data” approaches to measure and predict clinical outcomes.
Also a practicing cardiologist at the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, Dr. Marroquin's academic career has focused on outcomes research in interventional cardiology and heart disease in women, and his research has been rewarded in the form of grants and numerous publications. He also has a background in the use of intravascular ultrasound and the assessment of the coronary microvasculature. Dr. Marroquin is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.
After completing his undergraduate and graduate work at the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala, Dr. Marroquin completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his general cardiology and interventional cardiology fellowships at UPMC. Dr. Marroquin also received a certificate in clinical research from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-sponsored clinical research training program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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Osman Ozbulut
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Virginia
Osman Ozbulut is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on applying innovative materials, sensing technologies and interdisciplinary expertise to the development of resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure systems. He is particularly interested in: (i) development of innovative structural systems and design strategies to enhance the performance and safety of structures; (ii) application of advanced materials for disaster resistant design of structures as well as repair and retrofit of deficient and aging civil infrastructure; and (iii) development and application of novel structural health monitoring techniques for civil infrastructure systems.
Dr. Ozbulut is a member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Concrete Institute (ACI), Transportation Research Board (TRB), and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and SPIE – International Society for Optical Engineering. Dr. Ozbulut also serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of Intelligent Material Systems & Structures.
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Osvaldo Urrutia
Associate professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
Osvaldo Urrutia is a Chilean lawyer, international consultant and professor of international law at P. Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile. He has 20 years of experience in international, regional, and local marine and fisheries affairs, including as Chairperson of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) and as Chair of the compliance committees in CCAMLR and SPRFMO. He holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and an LL.M. in international law from the University College of London.
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Ottmar Edenhofer
Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Professor Ottmar Edenhofer is Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the TU Berlin - Berlin Institute of Technology and Deputy Director as well as Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He currently leads Research Domain III - Sustainable Solutions - which is focusing on research in the field of the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation. In 2012 he was appointed director of the newly founded Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). From 2008 to 2015 he served as Co-Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Ottmar Edenhofer supports the Science-Industry Cooperation, the Workgroup Climate, Energy and Environment within the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as an active member, and furthermore advises the World Bank within the advisory committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform. Since 2013 he is also co-chairing the new Energy Platform by the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering (Euro-CASE). In January 2015, Ottmar Edenhofer was elected a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech due to his outstanding scientific achievements.
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Ousmane Ba
chercheur, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Docteur Ousmane Ba est sociologue, enseignant-chercheur à l'Institut National Supérieur de l’Éducation Populaire et du Sport (INSEPS) de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) de Dakar.
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Ov Cristian Norocel
My research focuses mainly on gender/ intersectional perspectives on right-wing populist political communication; political discourses aimed at normalizing extreme right opinions; as well as the construction and maintenance of various power hierarchies within these discourses. I examine these phenomena in a comparative perspective both in the Nordic countries, with a focus on Sweden and Finland, as well as in Central Europe, with focus on Hungary and Romania.
Research areas
Intersectional perspectives on politics
Critical masculinity studies and right-wing extremism
Anti-gender campaigns and retrogressive politics in Europe
Gender, social media, affect and (right-wing populist) politics
Critical qualitative methods
Critical data studies
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Owen Beck
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin
Owen Beck is an assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin. His overall research goal is to improve human walking and running performance. This affinity for human performance began during his undergraduate studies at Humboldt State University (B.S. in Kinesiology). As a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, he studied how prosthetic configuration affects running economy and sprinting speed in athletes with leg amputations (Ph.D. in Integrative Physiology). This graduate research led to Dr. Beck's involvement in two international court cases regarding the eligibility of athletes with limb amputations in Olympic track and field. As a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Dr. Beck studied how exoskeletons affect muscle-tendon mechanics during walking, running and reactive balance.
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Owen D. Thomas
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Exeter
My primary research interests lie in International Relations, British Foreign Policy and Security.
My current research examines the work of British public inquiries into issues of security and foreign policy. Briefly put, a public inquiry is an exercise in social science. It explains the occurrence of social phenomena. Social scientists are aware that their methodological commitments are productive. Methods and methodology ‘make social worlds’ by framing an explanation in terms of specific understandings of causation, structure and agency, and political responsibility. Through a range of qualitative methods this pioneering research explains how inquiries conduct their investigations, shaping contemporary policy debates and public discourse on security and strategy.
Funded by a highly competitive ESRC 1+3 Studentship, I completed my doctoral research in 2014, which examined the relationship between publicity, secrecy and security through the Iraq public inquiries. From 2003 Britain conducted several public inquiries, each obstructed by official secrecy justified on the grounds of national security. This led to an apparent dilemma whereby a liberal ideal of publicity was balanced against security. I rejected this balance. Instead I showed how publicity and official secrecy are both tools of security, and that the inquiries are a site of contestation between them. This research, grounded in a range of qualitative methodologies, showed how attempts to seek either publicity or secrecy constitute security practices. The inquiries and the British case for war were united by the same security practice, thus a resistance to government secrecy in the name of publicity reinforces rather than rejects the basis of liberal war.
My research has also generated important social and policy impact. I have been invited to speak on my research at the European Parliament, the Houses of Parliament, and on BBC radio.
Through my research activities I have developed a successful record of external funding, including awards from the British International Studies Association, the ESRC Festival of Social Science and an ESRC Overseas Institutional Visit award for a Visiting Scholar position at the New School for Social Research
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Owen Davis
PhD Candidate in Social Policy, University of Kent
I am a final year ESRC-funded PhD Candidate in Social Policy interested in the links between social benefit policies and mental health. In particular, I am concerned with how social benefit policies impact on social inequalities in mental health.
I became interested in this topic originally through my professional experience working in social care and local government. Since then I have applied an academic perspective to the question.
I also have interests in current issues in social policy such as the rise in food bank usage and associated food insecurity and have published on this (see below)
Did Food Insecurity rise across Europe after the 2008 Crisis? An analysis across welfare regimes., Social Policy & Society (2017)
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Owen Nyang'oro
Lecturer, University of Nairobi
Dr Owen Nyang'oro is a lecturer at the Department of Economics and Development Studies, University of Nairobi. He specialises in financial economics and econometrics. He currently teaches macroeconomics and corporate finance. He previously worked as a policy analyst at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) and as an economic analyst at the Communications Authority of Kenya. He is a member of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) research network. His research interests are in financial sector development, corporate finance, trade finance and monetary policy.
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Oz Shy
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oz Shy has has published three books: How to Price (Cambridge University Press, 2008), The Economics of Network Industries (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Industrial Organization: Theory and Applications (MIT Press, 1996). Oz Shy has published more than 60 journal and book articles in the areas of industrial organization, network economics, banking, payments, labor economics, and international trade. He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and maintains a Website on banking reform (www.BankingReform.org).
Oz Shy has taught at the Universities of Michigan, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Stockholm School of Economics, Hanken School of Economics, and the State University of New York, and was a research professor at the WZB - Social Science Research Center, Berlin.
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