جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Max Besbrisمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Urban Sociology
• Housing Inequality
• Climate Change Impacts
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Max Besbris is Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research examines how individuals make decisions in economic markets, how these decisions are affected by social interactions, and their impact on racial and socio-spatial inequalities, with particular focus on housing, neighborhoods, and the effects of climate change on real estate values and residential decision-making. Education: Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University (2017). Research interests span multiple sociological domains: Communities and Urban Sociology: Studies how neighborhood dynamics shape social outcomes Demography and Ecology: Analyzes population patterns and environmental interactions Economic Sociology: Investigates social dimensions of economic transactions Social Stratification: Examines systems of inequality and mobility Climate Change Impacts: Focuses on environmental effects on housing markets His recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on housing markets, neighborhood effects, and inequality mechanisms. The research shows strong thematic convergence around rental market dynamics, disaster impacts on housing, segregation mechanisms, and market intermediaries. Spatial inequality and discrimination emerge as persistent concerns across multiple studies. Dr. Besbris holds affiliations with several university research centers including the Center for Demography and Ecology, Center for Financial Security, and Institute for Research on Poverty.

• Biostatistics
• Public Health
• Epidemiology
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Dr. Shuvo Bakar is a Senior Lecturer in the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, within the Faculty of Medicine and Health. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Southampton, UK, and has prior experience as an Assistant Professor at Yale University, Lecturer at the Australian National University, and Scientist at Data61 (CSIRO). His research focuses on statistical methods applied to public health challenges, including Bayesian hierarchical modeling, machine learning, spatio-temporal analysis, and their applications in epidemiology, clinical trials, and environmental health. Dr. Bakar's research interests span statistical methodologies such as Bayesian adaptive designs, small area estimation, and spatial risk modeling, alongside applications in child health, infectious diseases, and extreme weather impacts on health. He is an active member of academic communities, including the Royal Statistical Society (RSS Fellow), Statistical Society of Australia, and the Australian Trials Methodology Research Network. His work also involves collaborations on grants totaling millions in funding, addressing topics like climate change impacts on health inequity and cardiovascular disease prevention in remote regions. Education: PhD in Statistics (University of Southampton, UK) Key Research Themes: Obesity, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease; Reproductive, Maternal & Child Health Grants/Projects: Includes NHMRC-funded trials on respiratory infections in First Nations children and MRFF grants for cardiovascular risk reduction in regional Australia. Dr. Bakar's contributions extend to editorial roles for Nature Scientific Reports and Discover Public Health , and his research has been published in journals like PloS One , Climatic Change , and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society .

• Immersive Media
• Extended Reality (XR)
• Virtual Reality (VR)
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Prof. Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons is a Professor of Applied Computer Science specializing in Immersive Media at Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences. His work focuses on Extended Reality (XR), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and their applications in healthcare, education, and human-machine interaction. He holds a Dr.-Ing (Engineering Doctorate) and has extensive industry experience with organizations like Daimler AG, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Research interests include user experience (UX) design, emotion analysis in virtual environments, and accessibility for aging populations. He has led projects on wearable health tech, AR/VR usability, and immersive training systems. Notable areas of impact include developing guidelines for inclusive XR interfaces and advancing telemedicine through immersive technologies. Prof. Voigt-Antons has collaborated with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin on healthcare applications and has contributed to standardization efforts in telecommunications. His technical competencies include agile project management, statistical analysis, and mobile application development for iOS/Android. He advises on UX evaluations, usability testing, and physiological data analysis for industry partners. Key achievements include creating the Story Time Dataset for video quality research and developing the ColorTable system for flavor perception studies. His work emphasizes real-world deployment, with projects addressing mobility challenges for seniors in rural areas and improving dementia care through tablet-based interventions.

• Marketing
• Consumer Behavior
• Technology Adoption
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Gaël Bonnin is a Professor of Marketing at NEOMA Business School, France, where he has held the role of Director of Research from 2020 to 2023. He teaches technology innovation, marketing strategies, design, and qualitative research methods across undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs (DBA/PhD). His research focuses on product/place design, technology adoption, and narrative approaches to market construction, with notable contributions to healthcare servicescape optimization, consumer resistance to misinformation, and senior engagement with new technologies. Director of Research (2020–2023), NEOMA Business School Co-led EU-funded projects on companion robots, agricultural robotics, and AR tourism applications Published in International Journal of Hospitality Management , Advances in Consumer Research , and Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services Research highlights include analyzing sensory elements (colors/music/scent) in hospital environments to reduce patient anxiety, studying emotional responses to fake news warnings, and evaluating anthropomorphic design impacts on robot acceptance among elderly populations. His work bridges consumer behavior theory with practical applications in retail, healthcare, and technology sectors. Key contributions span over 30 years, including book chapters on B2B technology branding, neutralization strategies in piracy contexts, and design marginalization in retail spaces. He frequently presents at conferences like ACR, IMP, and CAUTHE, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to market dynamics.

Danielle Sulikowskiمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس ارشد

• Comparative Cognition
• Cognition
• Behavioral Ecology
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Danielle Sulikowski is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of School in the School of Psychology at Charles Sturt University (Bathurst Campus). She holds a PhD from Macquarie University (2010), a BSc(Hons) from Macquarie University (2005), and a BSc from the University of New England (2003). Her research focuses on comparative cognition, integrating psychology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary principles to study spatial cognition, attractiveness, visual attention, and lateralization in humans and animals like noisy miners. Her teaching responsibilities include PSY201 (Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology) and PSY307 (Cognition), delivered both internally and via distance learning. Key research interests span cognition, learning, perception, biopsychology, and evolutionary psychology, with projects involving human subjects and avian species. She maintains a research laboratory website for her comparative cognition work. Recent publications explore topics ranging from dark personalities in online behavior to facial symmetry studies and evolutionary mate strategies. Her work frequently bridges traditional psychology with ecological and evolutionary frameworks, emphasizing adaptive cognitive mechanisms in foraging and social behavior. No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned, though her extensive publication record reflects significant academic contribution. Teaching and advisory roles include no listed students, but her research engages with broader societal issues like domestic violence policy implications and digital media effects.

Sofia Kalakouمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Urban Transport Planning
• Air Transport Management
• Technology Integration in Operations
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Sofia Kalakou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing, Operations and General Management at ISCTE Business School, where she teaches operations management across undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs. She also serves as Director of the Industrial Management and Logistics degree program. Her research focuses on urban and air transport planning, technology integration in operations, sustainable practices, and performance evaluation. She coordinates four EU-funded projects on operations management and new technologies. Dr. Kalakou holds a doctorate and master’s in Transport Systems from ISCTE, a civil engineering diploma, and prior experience as a transport and mobility consultant. Her work bridges academic research with practical applications, addressing challenges like airport terminal optimization, drone delivery systems, and gender-sensitive mobility policies. She has published extensively on topics ranging from lean six sigma applications in telecom repair to SWOT analysis of Greek seaplane operations. Her funded projects emphasize sustainable transport solutions and capacity-building for local authorities implementing MaaS and smart mobility initiatives. Key contributions include frameworks for setting transport sustainability targets and analyzing passenger behavior in airports through activity-based modeling.

• Cognitive Psychology
• Neuroscience
• Visual Perception
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Yelda Semizer Kaplan is an Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences . Her research intersects cognitive psychology and visual neuroscience, focusing on fundamental mechanisms of human perception and attention. Specializes in temporal integration and ensemble perception Investigates peripheral vision limitations in complex tasks Develops computational models of maze-solving cognition Key research themes analyze how visual clutter affects search performance, how temporal dynamics influence attentional blink, and how spatial configurations impact cognitive processing. Her work has been featured in Journal of Vision and Attention, Perception & Psychophysics , with collaborations across neuroscience and human factors domains. Media engagement highlights include contributions to NJIT's Research Institutes Showcase (2021) and Cyberpsychology Seminar Series (2021). Current work explores mental maze-solving mechanisms through novel behavioral paradigms.

Emily T. Yehمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Political ecology
• Cultural geography
• Development studies
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Emily T. Yeh serves as Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado within the College of Arts and Sciences, holding Faculty Affiliate status with the Center for Asian Studies, CNAIS, and C3BC. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and past-president of the American Association of Geographers (2021-2022), she is recognized as a College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction for her transformative work in human geography. Her educational foundation includes a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2003), establishing her scholarly trajectory in critical geographical inquiry. Professor Yeh's research interrogates power dynamics within nature-society relationships through ethnographic methodologies , with seminal contributions to political ecology and cultural geography . Her work centers on Tibetan Plateau environmental transformations, examining natural resource conflicts, pastoralist livelihoods, and state-led development. Recent expansions address weather modification in anthropogenic climate contexts and decarbonization politics in Indonesia, revealing her evolving engagement with planetary-scale environmental challenges. This trajectory demonstrates consistent methodological rigor while adapting to emergent global ecological crises. Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals a decisive pivot toward climate intervention technologies and energy transition justice since 2022, while maintaining deep regional expertise in Asian contexts. The geographical scope has broadened from Tibet/China to include Indonesia, reflecting growing attention to Global South climate politics. Her scientific recognition includes: Guggenheim Fellowship (2024) Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (2023-2024) Professor Yeh actively mentors graduate researchers including Drolma Gadou, Tsering Lhamo, Emma Loizeaux, and Tenzin Yangkey. Her research program is substantially supported by National Science Foundation funding for interdisciplinary projects on Tibetan Plateau rangeland dynamics and climate vulnerability, alongside her foundational CAREER award for transnational environmentalism research. Current work integrates capoeira philosophy with environmental justice frameworks, reflecting embodied scholarly practice. She contributes to interdisciplinary knowledge production through the Center for Asian Studies and C3BC, fostering collaborative approaches to environmental challenges that bridge geographical scales from local Tibetan communities to global climate governance structures.

• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
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Prof. Margret Keuper is a Professor in the Department of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Her research focuses on advancing machine learning and computer vision techniques, with an emphasis on model fairness, adversarial robustness, and multimodal interactions. She leads interdisciplinary projects exploring topics such as dataset analysis, generative models, and climate action through visual narrative analysis. Research Interests: Her work bridges theoretical foundations and practical applications in domains like adversarial training, image classification robustness, and robotics perception. She explores how vision-language models can be steered to align with human biases and develops methods for data-efficient learning and interpretability. Recent Contributions: Recent work includes FAIR-TAT (model fairness via adversarial training), VSTAR (video synthesis), and TikZero (zero-shot graphics program generation). Her publications in top venues like CVPR, ICCV, and ICLR highlight contributions to both methodological innovation and real-world impact. Collaborations: Works closely with researchers across Max Planck and academic partners, focusing on projects such as sensor layout optimization, climate discourse analysis via social media imagery, and domain-aware foundation model fine-tuning.

Martin Wynnمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Digitalisation
• Digital Transformation
• Emerging Technologies
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Martin Wynn is an Associate Professor of Information Technology at the University of Gloucestershire's School of Computing and Engineering. With 20 years of industry experience as an IT professional and senior manager at Glaxo Pharmaceuticals and HP Bulmer Drinks, he transitioned to academia with a focus on knowledge transfer partnerships and post-doctoral supervision. His research interests span digital transformation, emerging technologies, sustainability, IT strategy, and risk management. He holds a PhD in Town and Country Planning and a PGCFHE in Education. Education: BA (Hons) Geography (Durham, 1973), MA Geography (Durham, 1977), PhD Town and Country Planning (Nottingham Trent, 1981), PGCFHE Education (Gloucestershire, 2003). Research focuses on leveraging technology for sustainable development, including digitalisation in manufacturing, cybersecurity, and the interplay between technology and urban planning. Over 20 doctoral students have been supervised in areas like digitalisation, analytics, and sustainability. Publications span e-business adoption in developing countries, ERP systems in SMEs, and ICT utilization in Libyan universities. He is a PRINCE2 Practitioner and Certified Management Consultant (CMC).

Theo Spekمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• History of Cultural Landscape
• Historical Geography
• Pedology
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Theo Spek is a Professor of History of Landscape at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen . His work combines historical, geographical, pedological, archaeological, ecological, and onomastic methodologies to study cultural landscapes, focusing on their evolution and application in modern policy, spatial planning, and heritage preservation. Research Interests Spek's research emphasizes interdisciplinary landscape history, particularly in Northern Netherlands . He pioneered the Landscape Biography approach, analyzing long-term interactions between humans, nature, and soil. His studies cover medieval open-field systems, peat exploitation, water management, and sandy landscapes, with applications in landscape policy and spatial planning . Publications & Projects He has contributed extensively to academic journals and edited volumes, including Landschappen van Nederland: Handboek voor de geschiedenis van onze leefomgeving . Spek heads the Landscape Knowledge Centre at Groningen, which promotes academic training and societal knowledge transfer. He previously coordinated the European network PECSRL (2000-2007) and co-developed a new landscape map of the Netherlands in 2024.

Janna Coomansمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Medieval History
• Urban History
• Social History
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Dr. Janna Coomans is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University, specializing in Medieval History with a focus on urban health, environment, and social dynamics. Her research explores premodern cities' responses to public health challenges, disaster resilience, and community formation. She holds a PhD from the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (2021 cum laude) and has held postdoctoral positions in ERC-funded projects like 'Healthscaping Urban Europe'. Her expertise spans social history, urban history, and medieval public health, with particular attention to the Low Countries. She leads the VENI-funded '(In)flammable Cities' project (2020) examining fire risks and urban transformation. Awards include the Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize (2020) and Pro Civitate Dissertation Prize (2019). Her research integrates material culture analysis with archival sources, addressing topics like medieval sanitation, disease control, and urban infrastructure. She has contributed to interdisciplinary projects on pandemic responses, environmental governance, and spatial strategies in late medieval cities. Grants: NWO VENI grant (2020), ERC postdoctoral fellowship (2018-2021) Media engagements: Featured in NTR documentaries, podcasts on medieval hygiene, and pandemic history analyses Labs/Teams: Member of the Research Institute for History and Art History, affiliated with Pathways to Sustainability and Institutions for Open Societies research programs

• Science and Technology Studies
• Environmental Sociology
• Sociology of Everyday Life
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Mike Michael is a Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Exeter, affiliated with the Department of Social and Political Sciences. He joined the university in 2017 after roles at Lancaster University, Goldsmiths, and the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the intersections of technoscience with everyday life, biomedical innovation, public understanding of science, and process methodology. He has pioneered speculative methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to studying design, energy communities, and socio-technical systems. Michael’s academic career spans sociology, anthropology, and philosophy, with key affiliations including the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health and the Energy Babble research project. His pedagogical contributions include teaching social theory, environmental sociology, and qualitative methods. He has supervised over 30 PhD students across diverse topics such as biobanking, xenotransplantation, and the spatialities of football. His research outputs emphasize speculative frameworks and aesthetic inquiries, with recent work exploring the ontologies of digital data, infrastructural politics, and posthumanist design. Key themes include the ethical implications of biomedical technologies, the socio-materialities of communication during crises, and the role of aesthetics in shaping scientific and societal practices. Michael’s work bridges academia and public engagement, addressing issues like austerity futures, energy communities, and the ambivalences of abstraction in contemporary research. He actively contributes to interdisciplinary debates on methodologies, futures studies, and the socio-cultural dimensions of technoscience.

Dawn Lyonمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Sociology of Work
• Sociology of Time
• Urban Sociology
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Professor Dawn Lyon is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. She joined the university in 2006, previously working at the University of Essex, European University Institute, Paris V, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her PhD in Sociology was completed at the European University Institute in 2003. She has held visiting roles at institutions including the Australian National University and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on the sociology of work, time, and everyday life, with a particular emphasis on rhythmanalysis. She has pioneered audio-visual ethnography in studies like Billingsgate Fish Market and led projects on pandemic time during the COVID-19 crisis. Her work explores how work rhythms intersect with temporal and spatial organization, using innovative methods such as 'feel tanks' and creative participatory approaches. Lyon is a Leverhulme Research Fellow and has taught modules on qualitative research, visual sociology, and the sociology of time. She supervises doctoral students in areas ranging from labor markets to digital technologies and voluntary action. Her research has been supported by grants from the British Academy and others. Publications span over 50 entries in journals like Sociological Review and Time & Society , books including What is Rhythmanalysis? (2019), and edited collections. She serves on the editorial boards of Qualitative Research and Time & Society . Lyon’s work bridges theory and practice, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding time, space, and social change. Collaborative projects like Imagine Sheppey and A Day at a Time highlight her commitment to community engagement and methodological innovation.

Maria Cristina Moralesمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Sociology of Latinxs
• U.S.-Mexico Border Studies
• Structural Inequality
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Maria Cristina Morales is a Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, College of Liberal Arts . Her research critically examines how Latinx ethnicity intersects with social statuses and institutions, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border , using quantitative and qualitative methodologies while prioritizing reflexive and theory-driven approaches . Education: PhD in Sociology, Texas A&M University (2004) Research Focus includes structural violence at the U.S.-Mexico border, environmental hazard perceptions near border ports, and gender/sexuality dynamics . Her publications and presentations bridge border studies, immigration, labor rights, and environmental justice . Recent projects include decolonizing survey research and Latinxs on the Margins (forthcoming). Scientific Awards include the Norma Williams Distinguished Service Award (2024), UT Regents Outstanding Teaching Award (2016), and multiple recognitions from the Southwestern Sociological Association and Building Scholars programs. Grants highlight her leadership in National Science Foundation and North American Development Bank funded projects addressing sociological issues, air quality assessment , and data accessibility for vulnerable communities.