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Yousif Shamooمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Antibiotic Resistance
• Bacterial Evolution
• Biophysics
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Yousif Shamoo is the Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of BioSciences at Rice University, where he has been a faculty member since 1998. He previously served as Vice Provost for Research (2014-2022) and Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (2008-2014). He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University (1988). His research focuses on combating multi-drug resistant bacteria through experimental evolution and biophysical approaches. Key interests include: Evolutionary trajectories of antibiotic resistance in pathogens like Enterococcus and Acinetobacter Biochemical basis of adaptation using microfluidics, genomics, and structural biology Discovery of novel antimicrobial strategies targeting cell membrane stress pathways Microbial interactions in spatially structured environments Publications emphasize antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, evolutionary biophysics, and microfluidic technology development. Recent work explores daptomycin resistance pathways ( LiaFSR ), membrane lipid signaling, and high-throughput evolution platforms. Awards & Honors: AAAS Fellow (2024) Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professorship (2020) George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching (2015) George R. Brown Superior Teaching Award (4×, 2009 onward) ASM Distinguished Lecturer (2011-2013) He leads an active research group funded by NIH and DoD, advising 15+ graduate students. Current projects integrate synthetic biology with Streptomyces-derived drug discovery and microfluidic biosurveillance platforms.

Ian Wilsonمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Policy Impact Measurement
• Housing Provision and Affordability
• Place-Based Interventions
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Ian Wilson is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) and a Professor of Policy Research and Evaluation at Sheffield Hallam University. He holds BA and MSc degrees, with over 20 years of expertise in applied policy research and evaluation, securing £15M+ in research funding. His work spans housing policy, urban regeneration, and social welfare, collaborating with government agencies like DLUHC, DWP, and Welsh Government. Education: BA, MSc (institutions unspecified) Roles: Deputy Director (CRESR), Professor of Policy Research and Evaluation Affiliations: Social and Economic Research Institute, College of Social Sciences and Arts Research Focus: Wilson's work centers on measuring policy impacts, housing affordability, and place-based interventions addressing social inequities. He pioneered methods like shadow pricing for regeneration outcomes and developed frameworks for valuing policy effects on communities. His expertise includes econometric analysis, cost-benefit evaluation, and innovative solutions for complex societal challenges. Grants & Projects: Key projects include evaluations of the Affordable Homes Programme (£10M agreement with DLUHC), Warm Home Prescription project, and Community Renewal’s Lifting Neighbourhoods Together initiative. He has led over 100 research outputs, including studies on housing benefit reforms, urban regeneration, and third-sector subcontractor roles in EU programs. Labs/Teams: Core affiliations with CRESR and the Social and Economic Research Institute, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on national and international projects.

Elizabeth Bruchمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Sociology
• Complex Systems
• Demography
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Elizabeth Bruch is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, serving as Associate Director of the Institute for Data and AI in Society. She holds External Faculty status at the Santa Fe Institute and is affiliated with the Center for Population Studies. With a Ph.D. from UCLA and an M.S. in Statistics, her research integrates choice modeling, network science, and agent-based simulations to study individual decisions in social environments. Key areas include residential segregation, dating markets, and higher education. Education: Ph.D. and M.S. in Sociology/Statistics (UCLA), B.A. in Sociology (Reed College) Affiliations: Santa Fe Institute, Institute for Advanced Study Berlin Her work has been published in Science , PNAS , and American Journal of Sociology , earning awards like the ASA Methodology Innovation Prize and the Merton Prize. Her upcoming book Date Like a Local (Princeton, 2026) explores urban influences on romantic behavior. Bruch’s research addresses societal challenges through computational methods, including pandemic modeling during the 2020 crisis and algorithmic analysis of dating markets. She serves on Santa Fe Institute’s Science Steering Committee and collaborates across disciplines to advance complexity science.

• Urban morphology
• Urban design
• Street layout and network structure
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Stephen Marshall is Professor of Urban Morphology and Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He also served as Visiting Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Italy from 2019 to 2021. With over twenty-five years of experience in the built environment fields, initially in consultancy and subsequently in academia, Professor Marshall has established himself as a leading expert in urban morphology and design. His educational background includes a Doctor of Philosophy from University College London (2001), a Postgraduate Diploma from Edinburgh College of Art (1995), a Master of Science from the University of Leeds (1989), and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Glasgow (1988). Professor Marshall's principal research focuses on urban morphology and street layout, examining their relationships with urban formative processes including urban design, coding and planning. His work bridges urban design theory with practical applications, exploring how cities evolve through complex interactions of physical form, social processes, and planning interventions. He has written or edited several influential books including 'Streets and Patterns' (2005), 'Cities, Design and Evolution' (2009), and 'Urban Coding and Planning' (2011). His recent publications reveal a growing interest in applying complexity science to urban morphology, with particular attention to biological analogies for understanding self-organizing cities. He has pioneered research on digital participation methods in urban planning, exploring how online platforms can enhance public engagement in urban space design. His work consistently bridges theoretical urban morphology with practical applications for contemporary urban challenges like pandemic adaptation and sustainable transport. Professor Marshall has served as Chair of the Editorial Board of Urban Design and Planning from its launch to 2012, and is now co-editor of Built Environment journal. His editorial work has significantly shaped scholarly discourse in urban planning and design. He leads several significant research initiatives including the Incubators of Public Spaces project, which explores digital platforms for co-creating urban spaces, and the Self-Organising Built Environment project, which investigates biological analogies in urbanism. These projects reflect his interdisciplinary approach to understanding and shaping urban environments, connecting with Sustainable Development Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities).

Rebecca Diamondمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Economics
• Urban Economics
• Public Policy
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Rebecca Diamond is the Class of 1988 Professor of Economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and holds a courtesy appointment in the Economics Department. Her research focuses on urban economics, housing policy, economic inequality, and labor markets. Key areas include analyzing rent control effects, gig economy dynamics, nutritional disparities, and spatial sorting of workers by skill. She advises doctoral students on topics like urban economics and public policy. Her work has been published in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies. Teaching responsibilities include courses on applied econometrics, public economics, and social insurance. She has been involved in doctoral training through practicums and independent studies. Her research has influenced policy debates on housing affordability, racial disparities in housing returns, and the impacts of high-skilled immigration on innovation. Positions: Professor of Economics (GSB), SIEPR Senior Fellow, Courtesy Professor (Economics) Key Research Themes: Urban policy, labor market inequality, gig economy, food deserts, rent control

Frederick A. A. Kingdomمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Perception
• Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Spatial Vision
• +۸ مورد دیگر

Frederick A. A. Kingdom is a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine, focusing on Perception, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience . His research explores the interplay between early visual feature detection (edges, bars) and intermediate stages forming contours, textures, and surfaces through spatial vision, color vision, stereopsis, texture perception, brightness/lightness perception, and transparency studies . Email: fred.kingdom@mcgill.ca Key research domains include: Perceptual Mechanisms : Lateral inhibition, contrast normalization, spatial bandpass filters, and their role in brightness/lightness perception and illusions like simultaneous brightness contrast. Color Vision : Red-green vs blue-yellow system distribution, chromatic contrast requirements for stereopsis, color-based depth processing limitations, and color-shading effects that parse surfaces vs illumination. Texture Analysis : Detection thresholds for orientation/frequency/contrast modulated textures, co-circularity in texture perception, and texture statistical sensitivity (e.g., kurtosis importance). Shape Processing : Shape-frequency/shape-amplitude aftereffects, global vs local shape coding, and contour inflection adaptation. His work combines psychophysics , fMRI , image processing , and computational modeling to dissect visual system architecture, particularly how color and luminance signals are integrated/separated in early cortical processing.

Shira Pinhasمشاهده پروفایل

مدرس

• Middle Eastern Studies
• History of the Modern Middle East
• Global History
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Shira Pinhas is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer at Princeton University’s Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. Her research bridges social and material history, examining how infrastructures like oil pipelines, refineries, and road networks shaped political and social dynamics in twentieth-century Palestine/Israel and the Levant. She holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University and previously served as a Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Before academia, she spent a decade organizing in Palestinian-Jewish NGOs focused on social justice. Her primary research interests include Middle Eastern Studies, particularly the intersection of colonialism, gender, and infrastructure. She investigates how transnational flows of energy and technology reinforced settler-colonial hierarchies and spatial segregation, as seen in her work on oil infrastructures and partition policies. Pinhas’s publications analyze the political implications of infrastructure, such as road networks and energy systems, in the Mandate period. Her 2025 article "The Gender of Fossil Fuels" highlights gendered impacts of kerosene adoption, while her 2022 works trace British imperial legacies in partition strategies. A 2020 paper in Journal of Levantine Studies explores transnational dimensions of Palestinian partition debates. Award : Best Dissertation Award (MEISAI, 2020) Her academic contributions extend beyond traditional research, including community organizing and policy-focused writing. She collaborates with transregional scholars and contributes to public discourse through media outlets like +972 Magazine .

Claire Mercerمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Human Geography
• Urbanization in Africa
• Middle Class Dynamics
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Claire Mercer is a Professor of Human Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), based in the Department of Geography and Environment. Her research focuses on urbanization in Africa, particularly in Tanzania, examining how middle-class identities are constructed through suburban housing and self-build practices. She explores themes of class reproduction, urban inequality, and the intersection of civil society with development policies. Mercer is a leading scholar in African urban studies, with expertise in diaspora networks, postcolonial geographies, and NGO dynamics. Her current research project, funded by the ESRC, investigates how self-build housing in Ghana and Tanzania drives urban and economic growth. She has authored multiple books and articles, including the upcoming monograph The suburban frontier: middle class construction in Dar es Salaam (University of California Press, 2024). Mercer serves on editorial boards for journals such as the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Antipode , contributing to critical debates in development geography. Her work spans interdisciplinary themes including African urbanism, spatial inequality, and the politics of belonging. Key regions of focus include Tanzania, Cameroon, and the UK. Mercer’s research bridges theoretical frameworks from human geography with empirical studies of African urbanization, emphasizing the material and aesthetic dimensions of class formation in peripheral urban areas.

• Urban Geography
• Equitable City Planning
• Public Spaces
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Professor Kurt Iveson is a Professor of Urban Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. He is affiliated with the Sydney Environment Institute and Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. His research focuses on urban equity, public space governance, and the democratization of urban processes. Notable projects include studies on multicultural urban planning, pandemic-era mutual aid networks, and climate adaptation strategies. He has authored influential books such as Publics and the City (2007) and Everyday Equalities (2019). Iveson’s work often bridges theory and practice, addressing issues like affordable housing activism, graffiti policies, and the spatial implications of digital media. His recent research emphasizes community-led disaster resilience, people power strategies, and the geopolitics of urban infrastructure. Grants include studies on informal accommodation in Sydney and international comparisons of urban alliances. Media engagements include ABC discussions on outdoor advertising, vertical transport, and post-pandemic urban recovery. His work advocates for inclusive urban policies that balance equity, sustainability, and civic participation.

Daniela Goya-Tocchettoمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Inequality Perceptions
• Meritocracy Beliefs
• Social Class and Racial Biases
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Daniela Goya-Tocchetto is an Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources at the School of Management, University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on inequality perceptions, meritocracy beliefs, social class/racial biases, and moral/political decision-making. She holds a PhD from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and multiple advanced degrees from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and the London School of Economics. Her work bridges social psychology and organizational behavior, addressing topics like system justification theory, partisan polarization, and interventions to reduce antidemocratic attitudes. Recent studies include analyzing income inequality perceptions and the Andrew Carnegie effect on wealth allocation. She has been recognized with the NTR-IACM Early Career Scholars Program (2022–24) and a Best Paper award at the 2022 Academy of Management Meeting. Professionally, she advises CLOO Behavioral Insights Unit on organizational behavior projects in Brazil and Portugal. Her research is published in journals like Science , Nature Communications , and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology .

Kihana Miraya Rossمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Black Education Studies
• Antiblackness in Education
• Educational Fugitivity
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Kihana Miraya Ross is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University, affiliated with the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. She holds a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from UC Berkeley in Social and Cultural Studies of Education, African American Studies, and Sociology. Her research focuses on antiblackness in education, Black educational fugitivity, and educational reparations, employing critical ethnography and participatory design methods. Her book project examines the afterlife of school segregation and strategies for Black educational futurities. She co-directed the documentary Stolen School , exploring the closure of Evanston’s Foster School and its lasting impacts. Ross has received major grants from the Spencer Foundation and fellowships from the Ford Foundation. Education: Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies of Education (UC Berkeley, 2016) M.A. in Social and Cultural Studies of Education (UC Berkeley, 2011) B.A. in African American Studies, Sociology, and Education (UC Berkeley, 2002) Key Projects: Spencer Foundation-funded research on Evanston’s educational reparations Documentary Stolen School (2023) Awards: 2021 Spencer Foundation Large Grant 2017 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Ross’s work bridges historical analysis and contemporary activism, advocating for systemic change through frameworks like Black fugitivity. She collaborates with community organizations like Shorefront Legacy Center and mentors interdisciplinary projects on race, education, and spatial justice.

• Colonialism and coloniality
• imperialism
• Third-Worldism
• +۱۹ مورد دیگر

Dr. Ali Kassem is a Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His academic work spans multiple disciplines, focusing on decolonial approaches to understanding power dynamics, knowledge production, and social formations across the Arab-majority world and beyond. Dr. Kassem received his PhD from the School of Law, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Sussex. He completed postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh and was an early career fellow with the Arab Council for Social Sciences funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. His academic journey includes teaching and research positions at Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich, EHESS in Paris, American University of Beirut, and Lebanese American University. Dr. Kassem's research examines contemporary coloniality across questions of power and knowledge. His work spans anti-Muslim racism within Arab-majority contexts, transformations in Islamic educational institutions, dehumanization of Syrian refugees, and urban transformations in Lebanon. His transdisciplinary approach engages ethnic and racial studies, sociology of religion, social psychology, migration studies, and urban studies, working alongside anticolonial thinkers including Frantz Fanon, Ali Shariati, and James Baldwin. His recent publications reveal a strong focus on decolonial theory applied to education, urban studies, and Islamic contexts. Dr. Kassem's work consistently challenges Eurocentric frameworks while exploring alternatives emerging from the Global South. His research demonstrates particular attention to Lebanon and the eastern Mediterranean region as sites for theorizing global coloniality. Dr. Kassem has authored the book "Islamophobia and Global Coloniality: the Lived Erasure of Visibly Muslim Women in Lebanon" (Bloomsbury Academic, February 2023) and is currently editing "Decoloniality and Arabo-Islamicate Worlds" (Bristol University Press, 2025). His scholarly contributions appear in journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Globalizations, Contemporary Religion, and Review of Middle East Studies.

Luc Anselinمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Spatial data science
• spatial econometrics
• computational social science
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Luc Anselin is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. He serves as Director of the Center for Spatial Data Science and Senior Fellow at NORC, with affiliations in the Department of Sociology and the Committee on Quantitative Research Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences. B.S., Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1975 M.S., Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1976 M.A., Cornell University, 1979 Ph.D., Cornell University, 1980 Anselin is a pioneer in spatial data science, spatial econometrics, and computational social science. His work bridges quantitative geography, regional science, and computer science, with applications in urban studies, economic analysis, and health research. His recent publications focus on spatial regimes, software ecosystems like GeoDa and PySAL, stigma analysis in public health, and computational methods for urban equity. These reflect interdisciplinary trends in spatial statistical modeling, open-source development, and geospatial policy evaluation. Scientific recognition includes: Fellow, Regional Science Association International (2004) Walter Isard Prize (2005) William Alonso Memorial Prize (2006) National Academy of Sciences (2008) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011) Anselin has led major grants and directed institutions like the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation at Arizona State University. He has mentored interdisciplinary collaborations across sociology, economics, and data science. His laboratories and teams include the Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago and the GeoDa Center at Arizona State University, fostering innovation in geospatial computation and open-source spatial analytics.

Philip J. Ethingtonمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Urban History
• Political History
• Social History
• +۱۰ مورد دیگر

Philip J. Ethington is Professor of History, Political Science, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. As Co-Director of the USC Center for Transformative Scholarship and Fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, he bridges historical scholarship with digital innovation through projects like HyperCities. Ethington's educational background includes: Ph.D. in History from Stanford University (1989) Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center (2007-2008) Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute (1996-1997) His research pioneers spatial theory of history through chronographs and digital cartography, examining urban evolution from Pleistocene times to present. Key interests include global metropolis studies , visual culture , and digital humanities , with focus on Los Angeles as a case study for transnational urban dynamics. Recent publications reveal consistent exploration of spatial dimensions in historical analysis, particularly through geographic institutionalism and deep historical regionalism. His work integrates cartographic innovation with theoretical frameworks to map urban change across millennia, emphasizing institutional ecology and transnational connections. Scientific recognition includes: Nomination for USC's Steven B. Sample Teaching Award (2010-2011) USC Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowship (2004-2005) Award-winning documentary film Visual Acoustics (2009) Ethington mentors undergraduate researchers in urban history while leading major grants including MacArthur Foundation's HyperCities project ($238,000) and NEH's Digital Humanities initiative ($248,492). His funded work develops collaborative platforms for geohistorical research and digital publishing. He co-directs the USC History Lab and Center for Transformative Scholarship, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration through the Population Dynamics Lab and HyperCities consortium for participatory urban mapping.

Katherine M. O'Reganمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Poverty and Spatial Inequality
• Residential Segregation
• Racial Segregation
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Katherine M. O'Regan is a Professor of Public Policy and Planning at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She serves as Faculty Director of both the Master of Science in Public Policy Program and the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. PhD in Economics from University of California at Berkeley Former Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (April 2014–January 2017) Her research focuses on poverty, spatial inequality, and housing policy, including residential segregation, concentrated disadvantage, and the impact of housing programs on neighborhoods. She has contributed to debates on affordable housing reforms, fair housing, and eviction practices in New York City. O'Regan has received teaching accolades from Berkeley, Yale, and NYU. Her work has been featured in prominent media outlets such as Bloomberg CityLab, Washington Post, and PBS Newshour, often addressing housing crises and urban policy challenges.