Chryssi Giannitsarou serves as a Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, with additional prestigious affiliations including Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); and Member of the Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM). Her research centers on macroeconomic theory, macrofinance, expectations formation, and network economics. These interconnected fields examine how financial markets influence macroeconomic stability, how economic agents form expectations in complex systems, and how network structures propagate shocks through economies—providing critical insights for policy design in volatile global markets. Professional recognition includes: Fellow of King's College, Cambridge Research Fellow of CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Member of CFM (Centre for Macroeconomics)
Alejandro Omar Blenkmann is a Researcher at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Rhythm, Time and Movement , Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. His work focuses on brain prediction mechanisms, auditory sensory processing, and intracranial electrode localization. He holds a PhD in Engineering (2012) from the National University of La Plata, Argentina, and has academic affiliations with institutions in Norway, Argentina, and the United Kingdom. Education: PhD in Engineering (2012) - National University of La Plata MSc in Biomedical Engineering (2007) - Favaloro University BSc in Engineering (2004) - Favaloro University Research Interests: Neuronal networks in auditory prediction Intracranial recordings (ECoG/SEEG) Frontal lobe role in prediction iElectrodes open-source toolbox development Collaborations: University of Cambridge University of California, Berkeley International Biomedical Cooperation Network
Isabelle Thireau serves as Professor of Sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris and holds the position of Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She maintains a primary affiliation with the Center for Studies on Modern and Contemporary China (CECMC – CCJ), a joint research unit dedicated to interdisciplinary analysis of Chinese society. Her research program centers on the sociology of norms, justice perception mechanisms, and intermediary public formations in China, grounded in extensive ethnographic fieldwork across Guangdong, Anhui, Beijing, and Tianjin. She investigates how public gatherings emerge as spaces for negotiating social order, examining the interplay between spatial configurations, communication practices, and normative frameworks in urban Chinese contexts. Her methodological approach combines micro-sociological observation with macro-level institutional analysis to reveal how citizens navigate social expectations in public spaces. Recent publications demonstrate consistent analytical focus on public gatherings in urban China, revealing how individuals manage co-presence through subtle communication strategies and spatial positioning. Her 2020 monograph and 2021 China Quarterly article establish a theoretical framework for understanding "intermediary publics" – transient collectives that operate outside formal political channels yet shape social norm evolution. This body of work challenges Western-centric public sphere theories by documenting context-specific Chinese practices of publicness. Within the CECMC research center, Thireau collaborates with a multidisciplinary team of anthropologists, political scientists, and historians focused on contemporary China. Her field-based methodology has established new protocols for ethnographic research in sensitive urban environments, influencing both area studies and sociological methodology.
Rickard Andersson is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication, Lund University, specializing in strategic communication. He holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies (2020) and actively contributes to research on internal communication, employee engagement, and value creation in organizational contexts. Research Focus: Strategic communication, organizational processes, and the role of communication in building trust and identity. Projects: CoPI for "Role-playing as an alternative form of organisation" (2024–2025); researcher for "KOO: Communicative Public Organizations" (2020–2022); PI for "COP: Kommunikativa organisationer" (2014–2018). Activities: Keynote speaker at the German Communication Association's PR division, presenter at conferences including Euprera Congress, and peer reviewer for academic journals. Recent Research Trends: His 2025–2024 publications explore AI implementation in public relations, coworker voice on social media, value creation frameworks, and the intersection of communication and organizational identity. Earlier work emphasizes digital communication, ethical considerations, and the theorization of practical PR knowledge. Scientific Awards: Recipient of the Best Paper Award (2024), Karen Russell Award (2024), and the Lund University Best Master Thesis Award in Strategic Communication (2015).
Dr. Katalin Lőrincz serves as Associate Professor and Vice-dean for General Affairs at the Department of Tourism, Faculty of Economics (GTK), University of Pannonia. Her office is located in Building 'A' 2nd floor/Dean's Office in Veszprém, Hungary, with contact available via lorincz.katalin@gtk.uni-pannon.hu and phone +36 88 624-000/6286. Her academic credentials include a PhD degree and qualification as a Teacher in Geography, Sport and Tourism, with language proficiency in Advanced English and Basic Spanish. Research focuses on Destination Management, Cultural Tourism, Tourism Geography, and Sustainability, particularly examining regional development in Hungarian contexts. Her work emphasizes pandemic resilience, cultural event impacts, and sustainable destination branding with strong empirical grounding in the Lake Balaton region and Veszprém. Key methodologies include resident perception analysis, demand surveys, and case study approaches to destination challenges. Recent publications (2020-2023) reveal concentrated research on festival sustainability, green branding, and quality of life in tourism destinations. Over 60% address Lake Balaton-specific studies, with recurring themes of pandemic adaptation in cultural events and active tourism. The Veszprém2023 European Capital of Culture project forms a critical research nexus across multiple publications. Project leadership spans significant initiatives: Tourism Destination Management Project for Veszprém (KDOP-2009/2.2.1/003 RCA) RCA life long learning international project (Hungary/Germany/Slovenia) Recultivatur: International religious tourism project in CEE countries (SEE/B/0011/4.3/x) Climate change and tourism (TÁMOP-4.2.2.A-1/1/KONV-2012-0064) Local tourism development in Zalaegerszeg, Kőszeg, Veszprém KRAFT Research Centre (Kőszeg, KRAFT-index) Veszprém2023 European Capital of Culture application She actively consults through the Veszprém Tourism Association and maintains Tuesday office hours (10:00-12:00) by email pre-arrangement, teaching modules on Tourism Geography, Destination Management, and Cultural Tourism.
Tommy Möller is a Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University's Department of Political Science, where he maintains his office in Room F 716 at Universitetsvägen 10 F. With a distinguished career focused on Swedish politics, Professor Möller has established himself as a leading expert on political parties, leadership, and Swedish political history. Department of Political Science, Stockholm University Professor Möller's research centers on Swedish political parties, political leadership dynamics, and Swedish political history spanning two centuries. His scholarly work examines party system transformations, democratic resilience, political trust, and the historical development of Sweden's political institutions. He investigates how political parties adapt to changing societal conditions and what implications these adaptations have for democratic governance. His research frequently analyzes the relationship between political leadership and institutional frameworks in the Swedish context. Professor Möller's publication record demonstrates consistent scholarly productivity with significant contributions across multiple formats. His work shows a clear trajectory from historical analysis of Swedish politics toward contemporary examinations of democratic challenges, party system evolution, and political trust. Recent publications particularly focus on democratic resilience amid political polarization and the changing nature of political representation in Sweden. Professor Möller has made substantial contributions to academic literature through both monographs and edited volume chapters. His research engages with broader European political contexts while maintaining a strong focus on Swedish political development.
Dr Sue Morón-García serves as Principal Lecturer for Education and Student Experience at Oxford Brookes University, where she joined in October 2020. She leads the OCAED Scholarship of Teaching and Learning initiative and the Talking Teaching across the Globe webinar series while facilitating Talking Academic Practice CPD sessions for educational developers. Her academic credentials include: PhD in Educational Technology (Open University, 2005) MSc in Information Systems Engineering (University of Wolverhampton, 2000) Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Birmingham Polytechnic, 1990) BA (Hons) in European Studies with Spanish (Wolverhampton Polytechnic, 1986) Her research centers on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) identity formation, higher education pedagogy, and digital learning technologies. She investigates how academic developers navigate professional identities, the complexities of program leadership, and the integration of vulnerability narratives into scholarly practice. Her work emphasizes community-building through interdisciplinary collaboration and reflective inquiry. Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals evolving research trajectories: early work focused on virtual learning environments (2002-2009), transitioning to SoTL identity development (2013-2015), and culminating in contemporary explorations of vulnerability, program leadership, and international writing communities (2019-2024). Key disciplinary intersections include educational psychology, organizational behavior in academia, and technology-enhanced learning design. Her professional recognition includes: Senior Fellow of Advance HE Fellow of SEDA Dr Morón-García actively shapes academic development through invited international workshops—including Spanish-language sessions for Universidad del País Vasco (2023-2024) and Universidad de Los Lagos (2021)—and collaborative writing groups. She has delivered keynotes at Kingston University (2022) and contributed to EuroSoTL workshops, demonstrating sustained global engagement in educational scholarship.
Sebastian Linde is an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy & Management within the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University . His work bridges economics and healthcare policy, focusing on critical issues like hospital pricing, health disparities, and provider behavior. Education: PhD in Economics from Purdue University MSc in Mathematics from Loyola University at Chicago MPhil in Economic Research from University of Cambridge BSc in Economics and Finance from Cardiff University Research interests include Healthcare Pricing and Costs , where he analyzes hospital profitability and price transparency; Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities , with a focus on historical redlining impacts on mortality; and Provider Networks and Provider Behavior , examining physician collaboration and opioid prescribing patterns. Recent publications highlight trends in Health Economics , Healthcare Policy , and Network Analysis . His studies address Medical Pricing , Social Inequalities , and Pharmaceutical Regulation , with sub-fields spanning Healthcare Finance , Urban Health Policy , and Prescribing Behavior . Scientific awards have not been explicitly mentioned in the provided text. Teaching interests include Health Economics , and his collaborative work with researchers like Leonard Egede and Richard Walker demonstrates interdisciplinary engagement. No lab or team affiliations are specified in the available data.
Holger Wochele is a Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (specialised teaching staff) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Romanisches Seminar, where he teaches French and Italian linguistics. An internationally active scholar in Romance philology, he has held appointments at the University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and several other German-speaking universities since 1998. Education: He studied Romance languages (French, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese) and Slavic studies in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Poitiers, Vienna and Trieste, obtaining a Mag. degree and a PhD (2003) from the University of Vienna. Research interests revolve around Applied linguistics (lay linguistics, language awareness) Onomastics (product names, interlingual allonymy, exonymy) Morphology and word-formation Language pedagogy and error assessment Business language and marketing communication Historical linguistics of Romanian and other Romance languages Across more than 150 publications—including monographs, edited volumes and journal articles—he has analysed hotel names, brand naming strategies, error evaluation by lay native speakers, and historical semantics of Romanian constitutional vocabulary. Recent work focuses on the linguistic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on product naming and on multilingual street names in Transylvania. Awards & distinctions: None explicitly listed. Supervision & teaching: At Mainz he currently supervises BA and MA theses on French and Italian linguistics, and has previously mentored dozens of students in Vienna. Courses offered range from introductory Romance linguistics to diachronic French/Italian, phonetics, error analysis and onomastics. Labs & teams: He collaborates with the Names in the Economy research network and is a regular keynote speaker and guest lecturer at European universities (e.g., Innsbruck, Sibiu, Verona).
Camille Pfeffer is a Lecturer in Management Sciences at the Faculty of Law of Jean Moulin University Lyon III , specializing in work identity transformations and organizational dynamics in coworking spaces. Her research bridges management sciences with legal frameworks through affiliations with the Center for Research in Law and Management of Health Services (CRDMS) and the Magellan Laboratory at IAE Lyon. Primary research areas: Organizational socialization, hybrid work models, identity work processes Key contributions: Analyzing employee-coworker dual roles, copresence theories, post-pandemic work re-spatialization Her empirical work combines organizational ethnography and dramaturgical analysis to explore how remote workers negotiate identity boundaries. Publications span top journals like @GRH and M@n@gement , plus book chapters and international conference proceedings. She has developed the employee-coworker concept and mapped four hybrid copresence experiences (isolation, ubiquity, compensation, refocusing). Current projects examine healthcare management innovations through spatial intermediation theories. Collaborations include researchers from Université Côte d'Azur and Kedge Business School, with methodological expertise in process studies and abductive analysis.
Dr. Anna Seewald is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Junior Research Group Leader at Philipps University of Marburg's Department of Clinical Psychology within the School of Psychology. She works in the Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy I research group led by Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief and serves as a therapist at IPAM (Institut für Psychotherapie-Ausbildung Marburg). As a Junior Research Group Leader at the LOEWE Center DYNAMIC, she utilizes network models to better understand mental disorders and improve treatment precision. Dr. Seewald earned her PhD in Psychology from Philipps University of Marburg (2020-2023) with her dissertation focusing on outcome expectations in psychotherapy. She concurrently completed her training as a Psychological Psychotherapist in Behavioral Therapy at IPAM (2020-2024). Her academic background includes a Master's degree (2019-2020) and Bachelor's degree (2015-2019) in Psychology from Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, with an exchange semester at Monash University Melbourne. Her research focuses on dynamic network models of mental disorders, competency-oriented psychotherapy, psychotherapy expectations and their modification, and the warmth and competence dimensions of psychotherapists. Her work investigates how therapist characteristics influence patient expectations and treatment outcomes, with particular emphasis on expectation violation mechanisms in psychological treatments. Teaching Award 1st Place | Best Seminar Summer Semester 2023 Teaching Award 1st Place | Best Seminar Winter Semester 2022/23 Dr. Seewald teaches seminars on anxiety disorders at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research has been supported by the Research Training Group 2271 "Breaking Expectations" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), and she collaborates with the Transregio SFB 289 on expectations in clinical outcomes. Her publications demonstrate a strong focus on experimental approaches to understanding therapist effects on patient expectations and treatment outcomes.
Dr. Massimo Köster serves as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Philipps University of Marburg within the Research Training Group Breaking Expectations (RTG 2771), affiliated with the Department of Personality and Diagnostics under Prof. Dr. Sarah Teige-Mocigemba. His research bridges cognitive, environmental, and behavioral psychology with a focus on goal-directed processes. His primary research interests include goal-directed behavior in suboptimal decision-making , reliance on rigid expectancies , and environmental influences on psychological processes . His work critically examines habit theory while developing frameworks for understanding action slips, nature restoration effects, and unhealthy food choices through goal-discrepancy models. Analysis of his recent publications reveals a consistent focus on theoretical innovation in behavioral psychology , with particular emphasis on challenging established habit paradigms and developing nuanced models of goal-directed action across diverse contexts including substance use, environmental exposure, and open science adoption. His academic trajectory demonstrates strong international collaboration, primarily with KU Leuven (Belgium) and Groningen University (Netherlands), though no formal advising relationships or major grants are documented in current materials.
Caroline C. Sullivan is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education at Georgia State University’s College of Education & Human Development (CEHD). She directs the Initial Teacher Preparation program and the Doctorate of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Sullivan focuses on equity-driven pedagogy, teacher preparation, and social studies education, advocating for rigorous and inclusive learning environments. Education: Doctor of Philosophy, Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007 Master of Arts in Education, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 Bachelor of Arts and Science (double degree), Speech Communication and Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993 Texas Secondary Lifetime Teaching Certificate in Spanish & Speech Communication, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1996 Research Interests: Sullivan’s work addresses social studies pedagogy, equitable curriculum design, and teacher preparation. She emphasizes critical approaches to historical narratives, citizenship education, and the intersection of high-stakes testing with authentic learning. Her research often explores how marginalized communities engage with educational systems, particularly immigrant and Latino/a students. Publications Trends: Her articles focus on teacher education, classroom discourse, and the impact of standardized testing on curriculum. Recent work examines rubric design for field performance and strategies for inclusive social studies instruction. Awards: Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award (CEHD, 2014) Teacher of the Year (2002) Best Paper in Research in Social Studies Education (AERA, 2011) Advising & Leadership: Sullivan chairs the Professional Education Faculty across CEHD, College of the Arts, and College of Arts & Sciences. She oversees programs impacting thousands of teacher candidates and doctoral students, integrating justice and equity into curricula. Labs/Teams: Affiliated with Georgia State’s Urban Child Study Center and the Honors College. Collaborates with community organizations like the Georgia Department of Education/Atlanta Community Food Bank and international partners in South Africa and Jamaica.
Xavier Ragot is a CNRS Research Professor and current Chairman of the OFCE (Sciences Po Economics Research Centre) , affiliated with the Department of Economics at Sciences Po . His work spans macroeconomics, financial economics, and European policy, with a focus on heterogeneous-agent models, fiscal sustainability, and monetary policy trade-offs. Educated at École Polytechnique (1993), EHESS (PhD), and MIT (postdoc) Former roles: Chief Economist at Agency for Industrial Innovation (2007–2008), Senior Economist at Banque de France (2008–2011), Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Economics (2012–2013) Current memberships: Conseil d'analyse économique (since 2014), Franco-German Council of Economic Experts (since 2019), CNP, COE His research explores macroeconomic policy in contexts of income inequality , inflation dynamics , and climate change , often leveraging computational methods. Recent articles emphasize HANK models , European fiscal frameworks, and post-pandemic economic transitions. His scientific contributions include: 2019 Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite Over 25 years of publications in journals and policy reports Leadership in integrating microdata analysis into macroeconomic policy design Ragot has developed tools for heterogeneous-agent modeling (e.g., truncation methods) and analyzed fiscal responses to crises. His work frequently bridges theoretical computation and real-world policy evaluation .
Kathleen Rodgers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development at Washington State University (WSU), part of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. Her research focuses on adolescent development, risk-taking behaviors, and the intersection of media influence with gender socialization and sexuality. She holds a Ph.D. in Child and Family Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1995) and has held academic and extension roles at WSU since 2003. Her work examines how community contexts, poverty, and media content shape adolescents' health decisions. Notable projects include studying music and alcohol media's impact on sexual attitudes and the role of parental communication in Tanzania. Collaborations with Dr. Stacey Hust led to innovations in media literacy and gender studies, earning them the 2014 National Council on Family Relations Innovation Grant and the Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Research. Key themes in her research include sexual objectification in media, rape myth acceptance, and interventions targeting alcohol-facilitated sexual assault. She has advised numerous graduate students and contributed to community-based initiatives like Youth Asset Mapping and the Teen Assessment Project. Education: Ph.D. Child and Family Studies, UW-Madison, 1995 M.S. Child and Family Studies, UW-Madison, 1989 B.S. Child and Family Studies, Cal Poly, 1983 Grants & Awards: 2014 National Council on Family Relations Innovation Grant 2014 AEJMC Feminist Research Award Her publications span Journal of Marriage and Family , Journal of Interpersonal Violence , and Psychology of Popular Media Culture . She leads interdisciplinary teams exploring media effects on youth behavior and advocates for culturally responsive sexual health education.
