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She is Vice-President of Publication Activities for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the Head of the National Theme Network in Robotics.\nDr. Billard holds a B.Sc and M.Sc. in Physics from EPFL (1995) and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (1998) from the University of Edinburgh. She was the recipient of the Intel Corporation Teaching award, the Swiss National Science Foundation career award in 2002, the Outstanding Young Person in Science and Innovation from the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and the IEEE-RAS Best Reviewer Award. Her research spans the fields of machine learning and robotics with a particular emphasis on learning from sparse data and performing fast and robust retrieval. Her work finds application to robotics, human-robot / human-computer interaction and computational neuroscience. 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He contributed and took responsibilities in several national, European and international research and/or collaborative projects (ESPRIT: MARTHA, PROMotion, IST FP6 projects: COGNIRON, URUS, PHRIENDS, and FP7 projects: CHRIS, SAPHARI, ARCAS, SPENCER, H2020: MuMMER, France: VAP-RISP for planetary rovers, several ANR projects). \nHe is holding since 2019 the Academic Chair on Cognitive and Interactive Robotics at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI) \nHis main research contributions fall in the fields of Robot Decisional and Control Architectures, Task and motion planning, multi-robot cooperation, and human-robot interaction. \n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/rachid-alami_photo__ra-bordeaux-20-10-10_pmnt9z","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727678368/gesda-platform/person/rachid-alami_photo__ra-bordeaux-20-10-10_pmnt9z.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/rachid-alami_photo__ra-bordeaux-20-10-10_pmnt9z","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727678368/gesda-platform/person/rachid-alami_photo__ra-bordeaux-20-10-10_pmnt9z.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727678368/gesda-platform/person/rachid-alami_photo__ra-bordeaux-20-10-10_pmnt9z.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Minoru Asada","id":"66f11359a5b37b96f61ebd24","path":"/people/minoru-asada","slug":"minoru-asada","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/minoru-asada","title":"Minoru Asada","date":"2025-08-31T04:28:42.59","description":{"plain":"Minoru Asada received his B.E. 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In 2012, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) named him to serve as the Research Leader for the Specially Promoted Research Project (Tokusui) on Constructive Developmental Science Based on Understanding the Process From Neuro-Dynamics to Social Interaction.\nHe received the 1992 Best Paper Award of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS92). In 1995, his paper was one of ten finalists for the 1995 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Best Conference Paper Award. In 1996, he received the Best Paper Award of the Robotics Society of Japan (2009, again). He served as general chairs for the IEEE/RSJ 1996 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS96), the 2005 International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2005), The tenth International Conference on the SIMULATION of ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR, 2008 (SAB’08), IEEE-RAS 2012 International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids12). He is a founding vice president of the RoboCup Federation since 1998. Actually, he served as the president during 2002 and 2008.\nIn 1997, his team was the inaugural champion (shared with USC), in the middle- sized league of the first RoboCup competition held in conjunction with IJCAI-97 (Nagoya, Japan). His team called JoiTech in the humanoid adult size league in 2013 got the championship and the best humanoid award in RoboCup 2013 (Eindhoven, Netherland). In 2001, he received a Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan Government as Persons of Distinguished Services to Enlighten People on Science and Technology. In 2006, Professor Asada received the NISTEP Award from the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy. In 2005, Professor Asada was elected Fellow of the IEEE for Contributions to Robot Learning and Applications. 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He has held leadership positions internationally, playing significant roles in numerous large projects around the world. He is the co-founder of three high-tech companies (Australia, France, and Germany).\nGordon Cheng is the co-inventor of 20 patents and has co-authored over 450 technical publications, proceedings, editorials, books, and book chapters. The IEEE acknowledged this interdisciplinarity when he was named IEEE Fellow in 2017 for his “contributions in humanoid robotic systems and neurorobotics.”\nHis research interests include NeuroRobotics, Humanoid Robotics, Imitation Learning, Cognitive Systems, Artificial Intelligence and NeuroEngineering.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/gordon-cheng_photo__Download_7_lspb6r","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727677943/gesda-platform/person/gordon-cheng_photo__Download_7_lspb6r.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/gordon-cheng_photo__Download_7_lspb6r","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727677943/gesda-platform/person/gordon-cheng_photo__Download_7_lspb6r.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727677943/gesda-platform/person/gordon-cheng_photo__Download_7_lspb6r.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Peter Corke","id":"66f1138ba5b37b96f61ebd36","path":"/people/peter-corke","slug":"peter-corke","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/peter-corke","title":"Peter Corke","date":"2025-10-15T07:02:47.53","description":{"plain":"Peter is a robotics researcher,  educator and writer.  He left full-time university service in January 2024 but maintains a connection to the university and the Centre for Robotics as a distinguished professor emeritus.\nHe was director/codirector of the QUT Centre for Robotics (2020-23), and before that was director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision (2014-2020).  His research is concerned with robotic perception using vision and force, dynamics and control, and the application of robots to tasks in the mining, agriculture and environmental monitoring sectors.  He has held a number of editorial positions including: editor-in-chief of the IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine; founding editor of the Journal of Field Robotics; founding multi-media editor and executive editorial board member of the International Journal of Robotics Research; member of the editorial advisory board of the Springer Tracts on Advanced Robotics series.His contribution has been recognized by fellowship of the IEEE, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and the Australian Academy of Science.\nPeter has served as a consultant to MathWorks (Boston); is currently a technical advisor to LYRO Robotics, Emesent, ARMHub; and chairs the Robotic Council of the Robotics Australia Group.\nPeter's true passion is robotics education.  He created widely used open-source software (in Python and MATLAB) for teaching and research in robotics and computer vision. He wrote the best selling textbook “Robotics, Vision, and Control”, now in its 3rd edition, and created the Robot Academy. Collectively these assets have taught robotics to millions of students around the world have led to national and international recognition such as the 2017 Australian University Teacher of the Year.\nPrior to QUT, Peter founded and led CSIRO's Autonomous Systems Laboratory (2004-2009). He received his undergraduate and masters degrees in electrical engineering and PhD in mechanical and manufacturing engineering, all from the University of Melbourne.  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In 2006 and 2007, he won the Most Cited Journal Paper award from CAD and the Research Excellence award in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. In 2009, he won the Outstanding Commercialization award from Purdue University. He was the co-founder of the world’s first commercial shape-based parts search engine (VizSeek) and more recently co-founded ZeroUI whose product (Ziro) won the Best of Consumer Electronics Show Finalist (CES 2016). His research interests are in the internet-of-things, augmented reality, modular and flexible robotic platforms, and human-machine interactions. His current projects include computer vision for object detection and grasp planning, modular robotic platform design, shape recognition using geometric deep learning, and physical reality simulation platform. 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Eileen serves on the National Endowment for Democracy Board of Directors; the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity; the World Economic Forum Future Council on the Digital Economy; University of Essex Advisory Board on Human Rights, Big Data and Technology; NDI Designing for Democracy Advisory Board; Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network; and Dartmouth College Board of Trustees. Degrees: BA, Dartmouth; J.D., Stanford Law School; MA East Asian Studies, Stanford; M.T.S., Harvard; and Ph.D., Ethics & Social Theory, GTU Cooperative Program with UC Berkeley. 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I am especially interested in leveraging those hardware programming languages to ease verification, which is typically a significant part of the development effort.\nEspecially, I often try to use theorem proving to state and prove the properties of different architectures.\nIn the past, I worked on domain-specific hardware accelerators and I studied various unintended security consequences of modern microarchitectural features in our out-of-order processor (see our riscy-OOO project).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/thomas-bourgeat_photo__Download_2_e7wtvx","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727425764/gesda-platform/person/thomas-bourgeat_photo__Download_2_e7wtvx.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/thomas-bourgeat_photo__Download_2_e7wtvx","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727425764/gesda-platform/person/thomas-bourgeat_photo__Download_2_e7wtvx.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727425764/gesda-platform/person/thomas-bourgeat_photo__Download_2_e7wtvx.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"James Diggans","id":"66f66df7054128b044566816","path":"/people/james-diggans","slug":"james-diggans","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/james-diggans","title":"James Diggans","date":"2025-09-03T04:30:28.72","description":{"plain":"James Diggans is Director, Data Science and Biosecurity for Twist Bioscience, a DNA synthesis company based in San Francisco, CA. He holds a PhD from George Mason University in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and has worked in target discovery, molecular diagnostic development and biodefense including five years leading the computational biology group at the MITRE Corporation. His research has included methods for efficient detection of biological weapons release, machine learning-based cancer diagnosis, and novel algorithmic approaches to discerning intent in oligonucleotide-length DNA synthesis requests. At Twist, his group builds cloud-based bioinformatics systems for effective biosecurity screening and analysis of next generation sequencing data to power silicon-based DNA synthesis at record scale.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/james-diggans_photo__James-Diggans_pcdva5","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727425894/gesda-platform/person/james-diggans_photo__James-Diggans_pcdva5.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/james-diggans_photo__James-Diggans_pcdva5","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727425894/gesda-platform/person/james-diggans_photo__James-Diggans_pcdva5.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727425894/gesda-platform/person/james-diggans_photo__James-Diggans_pcdva5.webp"}}}}},{"name":"Jean-Pierre Hubaux","id":"66f66e7b054128b044566832","path":"/people/jean-pierre-hubaux","slug":"jean-pierre-hubaux","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/jean-pierre-hubaux","title":"Jean-Pierre Hubaux","date":"2025-09-03T04:31:01.13","description":{"plain":"Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux is the academic director of the EPFL Center for Digital Trust (C4DT). For its whole duration (April 2018 - December 2021), he led the Data Protection in Personalized Health (DPPH) project funded by the ETH Council. Until December 2021, he was a co-chair of the Data Security Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH). From 2008 to 2019 he was one of the seven commissioners of the Swiss FCC. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and ACM. Recent awards: three of his papers obtained distinctions at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the flagship event on the topic (in 2015, 2018 and 2021). He is among the most cited researchers in privacy protection and in information security. He is a co-founder of Tune Insight SA.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/jean-pierre-hubaux_photo__105427_fwuktm","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727426131/gesda-platform/person/jean-pierre-hubaux_photo__105427_fwuktm.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/jean-pierre-hubaux_photo__105427_fwuktm","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727426131/gesda-platform/person/jean-pierre-hubaux_photo__105427_fwuktm.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727426131/gesda-platform/person/jean-pierre-hubaux_photo__105427_fwuktm.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Miroslaw Kutyłowski ","id":"66f66f3f054128b04456685d","path":"/people/miroslaw-kutylowski","slug":"miroslaw-kutylowski","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/miroslaw-kutylowski","title":"Miroslaw Kutyłowski ","date":"2025-09-03T04:31:44.16","description":{"plain":"Prof. Mirosław Kutyłowski works on privacy protection technologies and cryptography, taking into account issues of regulatory nature (ICT technology law) as well as algorithms for distributed systems. 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In 1999, he received the Polish state title of professor in mathematical sciences.\nMirosław Kutyłowski was a doctoral student at the City University of New York, a Humboldt Foundation Fellow at Darmstadt University of Technology, a Hochschuledozent at the Heinz-Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University, a visiting professor at the Mannheim University, Hua Shan Professor at Xidian University. From 2000 to 2023, he was a full professor at the Wrocław University of Technology, founder of the Computer Science & Algorithmics graduate program. In the period 1980-2000, with interrupt for activities abroad, he was affiliated Wrocław University, starting as an assistant and ending as an associate professor.\nIn 2023, prof. 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In this role, Shujun leads cyber security research and education activities across the whole university.\nBefore joining the University of Kent, Shujun was a Deputy Director of Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS) at the University of Surrey, UK, from 2014 to 2017. \nShujun is leading three EPSRC-funded research projects on human-centric approaches to cyber security and privacy. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers at international journals and conferences and received two Best Paper Awards. In 2012, he received an ISO/IEC Certificate of Appreciation, for being the lead editor of ISO/IEC 23001-4:2011 \"Information technology – MPEG systems technologies – Part 4: Codec configuration representation\", the 2nd edition of the MPEG RVC (Reconfigurable Video Coding) standard.    \nShujun is currently on the editorial boards of a number of international journals and has been on the organising or technical program committees of over 100 international conferences and workshops. He is a Fellow of BCS, a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM. He is a Founding Co-Director and Vice President of the Association of British Chinese Professors (ABCP). He is on a number of advisory / steering groups including Scientific Board of Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS), Steering Committee of International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) as a Transactions International Advisor (TIA), EPSRC-funded SPRITE+ Hub (Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement NetworkPlus) as an Expert Fellow, International Advice Giving Panel of the interdisciplinary journal CYBERNOMICS, and Advisory Boards of a couple of EU H2020 projects (TRESCA and SIMARGL).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/shujun-li_photo__face21_400x400_inline_z9detw","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727426447/gesda-platform/person/shujun-li_photo__face21_400x400_inline_z9detw.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/shujun-li_photo__face21_400x400_inline_z9detw","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727426447/gesda-platform/person/shujun-li_photo__face21_400x400_inline_z9detw.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727426447/gesda-platform/person/shujun-li_photo__face21_400x400_inline_z9detw.webp"}}}}},{"name":"Sébastien Marcel","id":"66f670aa054128b0445668c6","path":"/people/sebastien-marcel","slug":"sebastien-marcel","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/sebastien-marcel","title":"Sébastien Marcel","date":"2025-09-03T04:32:53.33","description":{"plain":"Prof Sébastien Marcel ( http://www.idiap.ch/~marcel — IEEE Senior Member ) received the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from Université de Rennes I in France (2000) at CNET, the research center of France Telecom (now Orange Labs). He is currently interested in pattern recognition and machine/deep learning with a focus on biometrics security and privacy.\nHe is a senior researcher at the Idiap Research Institute, where he heads the Biometrics Security and Privacy group and conducts research on face recognition, speaker recognition, vein recognition, presentation attack detection (anti-spoofing), deepfakes detection and template protection. 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He was already enthusiastic about space travel at the age of 8 and was all the more pleased to get in touch with DLR during his doctorate. For the first time he was able to test organisms from alpine permafrost under simulated space conditions at the Institute for Aerospace Medicine in the Department of Radiation Biology in Cologne. After completing his doctorate, he remained connected to DLR during various research stays in Italy, England and Spain. During this time, he was already involved as a co-investigator in various space experiments such as BIOPAN 6 on the FOTON M3 satellite and LIFE on the EXPOSE-E exposure platform on the Columbus module of the ISS. Since 2009 he has been employed at the DLR at the Institute for Planetary Research in Berlin as part of the Helmholtz Alliance \"Planetary Evolution and Life\", where he worked as a topic leader on the topic of the physics of water on other planets and its importance for life. At the same time he took over the management of the Mars simulation laboratory from Prof. Dr. Moehlmann. In 2009/10 he took part in the first Antarctic expedition GANOVEX 10, where he collected samples for the ESA space experiment BIOMEX, which he has also been leading as chief scientist since 2010. BIOMEX was launched into space with a wealth of biological samples on July 24, 2014 with a Soyuz rocket and was mounted on the EXPOSE-R2 outside of the Russian Zvezda module with the help of two outboard missions by Russian cosmonauts, whereby after a successful space exposure these samples will return to the laboratories of his international cooperation partners and his laboratory for further analysis in 2016. Jean-Pierre de Vera and his international colleagues are currently preparing a new ESA space experiment called BIOSIGN, which is intended to simulate the environmental conditions of Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn in close Earth orbit. 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He has been a Packard Fellow starting 2005.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/francesco-stellacci_photo__196998_jz5rsj","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987122/gesda-22/person/francesco-stellacci_photo__196998_jz5rsj.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/francesco-stellacci_photo__196998_jz5rsj","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987122/gesda-22/person/francesco-stellacci_photo__196998_jz5rsj.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987122/gesda-22/person/francesco-stellacci_photo__196998_jz5rsj.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Ralph Graichen","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b20f","path":"/people/ralph-graichen","slug":"ralph-graichen","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/ralph-graichen","title":"Ralph Graichen","date":"2024-09-30T08:22:12.98","description":null,"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/ralph-graichen_photo__Ralph_Graichen_s65ynd","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987552/gesda-22/person/ralph-graichen_photo__Ralph_Graichen_s65ynd.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/ralph-graichen_photo__Ralph_Graichen_s65ynd","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987552/gesda-22/person/ralph-graichen_photo__Ralph_Graichen_s65ynd.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987552/gesda-22/person/ralph-graichen_photo__Ralph_Graichen_s65ynd.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Lone Dybal Nilsson","id":"65d35a2f0f995d9af8021dae","path":"/people/lone-dybal-nilsson","slug":"lone-dybal-nilsson","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/lone-dybal-nilsson","title":"Lone Dybal Nilsson","date":"2025-08-31T13:48:33.96","description":{"plain":"Lone Nilsson is the Vice President of Applied R&D in the Planetary Health division in Novonesis, reporting to the Executive Vice President of Planetary Health Biosolutions and leading a global organization across the USA and Denmark. Novonesis is a global biotechnology company delivering sustainable solutions for human health and planetary health, based on microorganisms, enzymes and related fermentable components for use in the agricultural, industrial and health sectors. Lone is responsible for delivering new sustainable biotech innovation for approximately 50% of Novonesis’ global business.\nWith a background across various scientific and commercial disciplines, Lone has been responsible for leadership of innovation and product development in applications covering textiles, food, agriculture, animal health & nutrition, bioenergy, biorefining, industrial production, and more.\nAlongside her role at Novonesis, Lone serves on the board of the DANISH BIO – DANSK BIOTEK association of biotech companies in Denmark (2020 - now), the Strategic Advisory Board of DTU Electro – Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering (2020 - now), and the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (2020 - now). She has previously been a member of the F5 leadership network (2020 - 2021), and the Science Advisory Board at Copenhagen University (2016 - 2020). She is the former Chairman of the DTU Alumni Network advisory board (2011-1015), where she was awarded “Honorary Alumna 2016” for professional expertise, enthusiasm and innovative thinking for the benefit of DTU.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-23/person/lone-dybal-nilsson_photo__Picture4_uvtstd","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1708349994/gesda-23/person/lone-dybal-nilsson_photo__Picture4_uvtstd.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-23/person/lone-dybal-nilsson_photo__Picture4_uvtstd","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1708349994/gesda-23/person/lone-dybal-nilsson_photo__Picture4_uvtstd.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1708349994/gesda-23/person/lone-dybal-nilsson_photo__Picture4_uvtstd.png"}}}}},{"name":"Kellye Eversole","id":"65d3599b0f995d9af8021d96","path":"/people/kellye-eversole","slug":"kellye-eversole","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/kellye-eversole","title":"Kellye Eversole","date":"2025-08-31T13:46:33.65","description":{"plain":"Kellye Eversole is a pioneer in agricultural genomics, biotechnology, and the development of pre-competitive, public-private agricultural research. Since 1994, she has led international consortia and projects to obtain reference genome sequences for agriculturally important crop, livestock, and poultry species. She leads the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, the international, public-private consortium that obtained the reference sequence of the bread wheat genome, and, since 2016, the International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research which is pioneering a holistic, systems approach to understanding the complex interactions between the biological and geophysical components of agricultural production systems and support the development of novel, site specific products for enhanced sustainability.  In addition to her work in genomics and convergent systems, Kellye advises public and private entities on regulations related to agricultural biotechnology/genetic engineering, microbial products, and plant protection products.  She is a faculty affiliate in the Ag Biology Department at Colorado State University and is on the scientific advisory board for Trace Genomics.  She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her work in plant and microbial genomics and has published widely in top tier journals including multiple articles in Science and Nature. \nKellye mentors entrepreneurs from emerging economies who are launching science and technology based businesses, is on the advisory board for Zaidi-STEM, a nonprofit organization supporting STEM innovation and mentoring for girls in Sub-Saharan Africa, is on the board for Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology (WEST), and founded in 1998 the Women in Genomics networking group.  She is also a member of the Arlington Diversity Task Group and an active participant in anti-racist activities in Massachusetts.Kellye founded Eversole Associates in 1991 following years of professional training in political science and philosophy (Oklahoma State University, George Washington University, and Georgetown University), working as a professional staff member in the US Senate, and leading a Federal study commission. She co-owns a farm in southwestern Oklahoma.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-23/person/kellye-eversole_photo__Kellye_ubr28t","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1708349621/gesda-23/person/kellye-eversole_photo__Kellye_ubr28t.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-23/person/kellye-eversole_photo__Kellye_ubr28t","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1708349621/gesda-23/person/kellye-eversole_photo__Kellye_ubr28t.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1708349621/gesda-23/person/kellye-eversole_photo__Kellye_ubr28t.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Jonathan Jones","id":"65d358410f995d9af8021d73","path":"/people/jonathan-jones","slug":"jonathan-jones","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/jonathan-jones","title":"Jonathan Jones","date":"2025-08-31T13:47:10.62","description":{"plain":"Jonathan D G Jones is a plant molecular geneticist who has made distinctive contributions to understanding how plants resist disease, and to how pathogens circumvent host immune mechanisms. He was born in London UK in 1954, where he grew up. He graduated from Cambridge University, UK, with a degree in Botany (1976), and a PhD jointly between Cambridge Genetics Department and the Plant Breeding Institute in Trumpington (1980). After postdoctoral work with Fred Ausubel at Harvard on symbiotic nitrogen fixation (1981-2), he worked at start-up agbiotech company AGS in Oakland, CA, working closely with Hugo Dooner to study the behaviour of maize transposons in tobacco. Since 1988, JJ has worked at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich UK, serving as Head of Laboratory 1994-7 and 2003-2009. He was elected member of EMBO in 1998, Fellow of Royal Society in 2003, and is International Member of US NAS. In 2012 he was awarded the U Minnesota Stakman prize. He is a Professor at the University of East Anglia. He has served as advisor to the Danforth Centre in St Louis, and is an advisor to the 2Blades Foundation.\nIn the early 90s, the Jones group used genetics to discover the first transmembrane cell surface receptors involved in immunity in plants, and discovered that the leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain of such receptors is involved in pathogen recognition. He was first to propose the guard hypothesis for indirect recognition of pathogen molecules by plant immune receptors.\nJones uses the GM method to develop potato lines that are completely resistant to late blight, potato viruses and bacterial wilt, and co-founded www.norfolkplantsciences.com in 2007 to bring flavonoid-enriched tomatoes to market; these GM purple tomatoes have received USDA and FDA approval and are being commercialized in the US by https://www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-23/person/jonathan-jones_photo__Jone_lj0tt6","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1708349402/gesda-23/person/jonathan-jones_photo__Jone_lj0tt6.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-23/person/jonathan-jones_photo__Jone_lj0tt6","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1708349402/gesda-23/person/jonathan-jones_photo__Jone_lj0tt6.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1708349402/gesda-23/person/jonathan-jones_photo__Jone_lj0tt6.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Jiayang Li","id":"65d34b2f0f995d9af8021d51","path":"/people/jiayang-li","slug":"jiayang-li","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/jiayang-li","title":"Jiayang Li","date":"2025-08-31T13:47:43.96","description":{"plain":"Dr. Jiayang Li is currently the Director of Yazhouwang National Laboratory and Professor of Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He earned his PhD in biology from Brandeis University in the United States in 1991. After completing his postdoctoral research at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant research at Cornell University, he was recruited as a professor of plant molecular genetics by IGDB, CAS since 1995. His work is mainly focusing on the elucidation of molecular mechanisms underlying rice high-yield and superior-quality. He has also demonstrated that this fundamental knowledge can contribute to the development of improved rice varieties through molecular design technology he devoted and developed. \nDr. Li has published more than 240 scientific papers in international journals including Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Genetics, PNAS, etc, and has been recognized by Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property and Science as The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds and a Highly Cited Researcher in 2014 based on the published papers indexed within the Web of Science between 2002 and 2012, and a Highly Cited Researcher in each year during 2018-2023. His publications have been cited more than 40,000 times in Google Scholar with H-index of 98, and more than 32,000 times in Web of Sciences with H-index of 93. \nDr. Li’s achievements and global influence are well recognized worldwide. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), and an EMBO Foreign Associate.  \nDr. Li was also awarded numerous scientific prizes, including Seed Scientist Award (2022); TWAS-Lenovo Science Award (2020); Future Science Prize (2018); TAN KAN KEE Science Award (2018); China’s National Natural Science Award, First Prize (2017); Corresponding Membership Award, The American Society of Plant Biologists (2011); and the Medal Lecture Award, TWAS (2006). \n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-23/person/jiayang-li_photo__Jiayang_Li_mehnlc","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1708346101/gesda-23/person/jiayang-li_photo__Jiayang_Li_mehnlc.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-23/person/jiayang-li_photo__Jiayang_Li_mehnlc","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1708346101/gesda-23/person/jiayang-li_photo__Jiayang_Li_mehnlc.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1708346101/gesda-23/person/jiayang-li_photo__Jiayang_Li_mehnlc.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Rajeev Ram","id":"65d35bac0f995d9af8021e12","path":"/people/rajeev-ram","slug":"rajeev-ram","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/rajeev-ram","title":"Rajeev Ram","date":"2025-08-31T13:49:10.19","description":{"plain":"Rajeev Ram has been on the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty at MIT since 1997 where he holds the Clarence J. LeBel Chair. He was educated as an applied physicist at Caltech and the University of California, Santa Barbara where he held a Hertz Fellowship. Prior to coming to MIT, he contributed to the development of record brightness LED’s while at HP Labs, Palo Alto (LumiLEDs). He is an IEEE Fellow and Optica Fellow and an MIT Bose Fellow and MacVicar Fellow.\nHe has served as an advisor to Breakthrough Energy Ventures since 2017. At MIT, he co-founded erbi Biosystems (acquired by Merck KGaA in 2022) which develops microbioreactors for automated microbial and mammalian cell culture. He also co-founded Ayar Labs that provides co-packaged photonic I/O for high-performance computing. He served as a Program Director at the newly founded Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPAe) and as an advisor to the Obama White House on electricity infrastructure.\nSince 2018, he has been co-Principal Investigator at the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology working closely with plant biologists at Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory to discover markers for plant stress and apply these markers to advancing indoor agriculture. He is also co-Principal Investigator in the MIT Climate Grand Challenge project focused on developing resilient staple crops by engineering plant-microbe interactions. He has served as Topic Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science special issue on non-destructive methods for monitoring plant health.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-23/person/rajeev-ram_photo__Picture6_exidug","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1708350309/gesda-23/person/rajeev-ram_photo__Picture6_exidug.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-23/person/rajeev-ram_photo__Picture6_exidug","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1708350309/gesda-23/person/rajeev-ram_photo__Picture6_exidug.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1708350309/gesda-23/person/rajeev-ram_photo__Picture6_exidug.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Michael Strano","id":"65d3639a0f995d9af8022210","path":"/people/michael-strano","slug":"michel-strano","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/michel-strano","title":"Michael Strano","date":"2025-08-31T13:49:46.81","description":{"plain":"Professor Michael S. Strano is currently the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He received is B.S from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware both in Chemical Engineering.  He was a post doctoral research fellow at Rice University in the departments of Chemistry and Physics under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley.  From 2003 to 2007, Michael was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before moving to MIT.\nHis research focuses on biomolecule/nanoparticle interactions and the surface chemistry of low dimensional systems, nano-electronics, nanoparticle separations, and applications of vibrational spectroscopy to nanotechnology.  Michael is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a 2006 Beckman Young Investigator Award, the 2006 Coblentz Award for Molecular Spectroscopy, the Unilever Award from the American Chemical Society in 2007 for excellence in colloidal science, and the 2008 Young Investigator Award from the Materials Research Society and the 2008 Allen P. Colburn Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.  From 2014 to 2015 he served as member of the Defense Science Study Group, and is currently an editor for the journals Carbon and Protocols in Chemical Biology.  Michael was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-23/person/michel-strano_photo__Picture9_cvpanl","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1708352367/gesda-23/person/michel-strano_photo__Picture9_cvpanl.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-23/person/michel-strano_photo__Picture9_cvpanl","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1708352367/gesda-23/person/michel-strano_photo__Picture9_cvpanl.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1708352367/gesda-23/person/michel-strano_photo__Picture9_cvpanl.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Yuexin Yang","id":"65d35ccf0f995d9af8021e65","path":"/people/yuexin-yang","slug":"yuexin-yang","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/yuexin-yang","title":"Yuexin Yang","date":"2025-08-31T13:50:24.37","description":{"plain":"Yuexin Yang serves as President of the Chinese Nutrition Society, Coordinator of FAO—NEASIA FOODS, and Professor at the National Institute for Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.\nPreviously, Yang was an Assistant Professor for the Department of Biochemistry at the Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. She served as Vice Director of the Department of Biochemistry and was an Associate Professor for the Department of Nutrition for Maternal and Infants Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene and the China Academy of Preventive Medicine. She also served as the Director and Professor at the Department of Food and Nutrition Assessment, National Institute for Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.\nProfessor Yang received a Bachelor’s in Chemistry from Nankai University, Tianjing, China, attended training courses in medical science at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, and earned her master’s from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her research interest is primarily in the study of food nutrition and human health, as well as functional food, health claim, nutrition labeling, and food nutrition standards.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-23/person/yuexin-yang_photo__Picture8_b9nbes","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1708350609/gesda-23/person/yuexin-yang_photo__Picture8_b9nbes.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-23/person/yuexin-yang_photo__Picture8_b9nbes","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1708350609/gesda-23/person/yuexin-yang_photo__Picture8_b9nbes.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1708350609/gesda-23/person/yuexin-yang_photo__Picture8_b9nbes.png"}}}}},{"name":"Cuilin Zhang","id":"65d35c560f995d9af8021e43","path":"/people/cuilin-zhang","slug":"cuilin-zhang","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/cuilin-zhang","title":"Cuilin Zhang","date":"2025-08-31T13:50:53.63","description":{"plain":"Professor Cuilin Zhang is a full professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and the founding Director of Global Center for Asian Women’s Health, and the Lead for Population Health Study program of Asian Center for Reproductive Longevity and Equity. Prof. Zhang holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Before joining NUS (2007-2021), Prof. Zhang was a Senior Investigator with tenure and interim Chief of the Epidemiology Branch, Division of Population Health Research, NICHD, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. Prof. Zhang served in the NIH Nutritional Research Task Force Writing Group for developing strategic plan on national nutritional research in the next 10 years (2021-2030) and was the NIH Intramural Subject Matter Expert of multiple themes: Nutrition Across the Lifespan, Foundational Nutrition Science; Approaches, Methods, and Tools for Dietary Intake Assessment.\nProf. Zhang is a clinical epidemiologist whose work unites biochemistry, genetics, nutrition, clinical medicine, and public health, and is at the interface of disease etiology and prevention strategies in the arena of women’s and children’s health over lifespan and across generations. She is leading a multi-disciplinary research program focusing on the improvement of women’s health through diet and lifestyle modification, omics research, and early screening in general. One of the focuses of her research program is on nutrition and lifestyle, metabolic and genetic determinants, and health consequences of obesity, gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and related comorbidities across the lifespan. Prof. Zhang was the recipient of the Director Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding of Aetiology and Risk Factors of Gestational Diabetes, NICHD, NIH.\nProf. Zhang has initiated and led multiple large cohort studies on nutrition, gestational diabetes, type 2 diabetes, fetal growth, and children’s health by NIH (> $80 million as PI or Co-PI). Along with extensive epidemiological and clinical data as well as related biospecimen collected, these studies were well-designed for investigating a broad range of health and disease outcomes and early life precursors of perinatal, paediatric, and adult diseases based on a multi-omics platform.\nProf. Zhang currently serves in the Oversight Advisory Committee for Women’s Health Research Network of the American Heart Association and is an Associate Editor for Diabetes Care, American Journal of Epidemiology, and Precision Nutrition.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-23/person/cuilin-zhang_photo__Picture7_tp1kn9","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1708350489/gesda-23/person/cuilin-zhang_photo__Picture7_tp1kn9.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-23/person/cuilin-zhang_photo__Picture7_tp1kn9","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1708350489/gesda-23/person/cuilin-zhang_photo__Picture7_tp1kn9.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1708350489/gesda-23/person/cuilin-zhang_photo__Picture7_tp1kn9.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro","id":"66f673c5054128b04456697c","path":"/people/rodrigo-ledesma-amaro","slug":"rodrigo-ledesma-amaro","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/rodrigo-ledesma-amaro","title":"Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro","date":"2025-09-09T07:46:00.79","description":{"plain":"Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro is leading a research group at the interface of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. His research lab is based in the Department of Bioengineering and the Center for Synthetic Biology and Innovation. \nRodrigo Ledesma-Amaro obtained his PhD at the University of Salamanca under the supervision of Prof. Jose Luis Revuelta, the head of the metabolic engineering group. The PhD thesis is about systems metabolic engineering of A. gossypii for the production of vitamins, nucleosides and lipids. It combines modeling, synthetic biology, systems biology and metabolic engineering techniques and it produced numerous research papers and industrial patents (being currently used by BASF). Before that, Rodrigo coursed an MSc in Microbial Biotechnology at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and two undergraduate degrees (Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering) at the University of Salamanca. During his PhD, Rodrigo was a visiting researcher at Prof. Jens Nielsen's group at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), at Prof. Jean-Marc Nicaud at INRA (France) and at Prof. Kamisaka's group at AIST (Japan).\nAfter the PhD, he moved to France thanks to an Agreenskills Marie Curie Fellowship and he performed his postdoc in the group of Jean-Marc Nicaud. Most of his postdoctoral research work was done in the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. During those years, Rodrigo engineered this organism to 1) produce different compounds (lipids, lipid-derived chemicals, carotenoids, etc), 2) to be able to use low-cost carbon sources such as lignocellulosic materials or starch and 3) to facilitate the recovery of the products by engineering lipid secretion. 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After his studies he worked in rural practice and as post doctoral fellow on trypanosomiasis research at the Swiss Tropical Institute. \nFrom 1990 to end of 1993 he led a livestock helminthosis project for the University of Berne at the International Trypanotolerance Centre in The Gambia. \nFrom 1994 to 1998 he directed the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. \nSince 1998 he leads a research group at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in Basel on the interface of human and animal health with a focus on health of nomadic people and control of zoonoses in developing countries under the paradigm of “one health”. He holds a PhD in Tropical Animal Production from the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp, Belgium. \nSince 2010 he is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Basel and since 2011 deputy head of department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Swiss TPH . He is a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Public Health (ECVPH) and member of the scientific advisory board of the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp, Belgium. He is a member of the transdisciplinarity board of the Swiss Academies of Sciences (www.transdisciplinarity.ch) and president of the International Association of Ecology and Health (www.ecohealth.net)\nThe research group is currently part several larger international networks. The EU FP7 funded network on Integrated Control of Zoonoses in Africa (ICONZ www.iconzafrica.org ) and the Wellcome Trust funded Africa Capacity Building network (AfriqueOne www.afriqueone.net). 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His current interest have extended into the so called One Health / Eco-Health approach and its application in the context of Global Health challenges (e.g. emerging infectious diseases) and opportunities (e.g. conservation of biodiversity and health promotion) at the human-animal-ecosystem interface.\nBesides extensive personal experiences in Africa since his childhood, Rafael Ruiz de Castañeda has also worked over several years in the coordination, development and implementation of innovative health education projects based on ITCs in developing and emerging countries in Africa but also in Latin America (e.g. EU-funded Africa Build, RAFT Network). He is also very much involved in the production of MOOCs in Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine and directs now in collaboration with Institut Pasteur his third project on Global Health and the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/rafael-luis-ruiz-de-castaneda_photo__Rafael_Ruiz_de_CastaC3B1eda_fozgrw","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987547/gesda-22/person/rafael-luis-ruiz-de-castaneda_photo__Rafael_Ruiz_de_CastaC3B1eda_fozgrw.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/rafael-luis-ruiz-de-castaneda_photo__Rafael_Ruiz_de_CastaC3B1eda_fozgrw","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987547/gesda-22/person/rafael-luis-ruiz-de-castaneda_photo__Rafael_Ruiz_de_CastaC3B1eda_fozgrw.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987547/gesda-22/person/rafael-luis-ruiz-de-castaneda_photo__Rafael_Ruiz_de_CastaC3B1eda_fozgrw.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Serge Morand","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b23d","path":"/people/serge-morand","slug":"serge-morand","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/serge-morand","title":"Serge Morand","date":"2024-09-06T00:33:55.94","description":{"plain":"Serge Morand belongs to the French CNRS and CIRAD, based in Thailand at the Faculty of Veterinary Technology (Kasetsart University), and invited Professor at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine (Mahidol University).\nWith a strong background in evolutionary ecology of disease transmission, he focuses his research on health ecology. Field disease ecologist, he is concerned at the role of biodiversity as risks but insurance for zoonotic emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance raise. During the last 10 years he conducted 35 field trips in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines) totalling more than 380 days of field works. He has conducted several projects on the impacts of global changes, including climate and land use changes, on the links between biodiversity, health and societies in Southeast Asia, using wildlife-borne diseases as a model (projects ANR CERoPath and ANR BiodivHealthSEA. The new ongoing project, ANR FutureHealthSEA aims at building scenarios of health and biodiversity in links with land use changes and governance. 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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Eckerle studied the difference in response of adults and children to coronavirus disease.\nHer research interests are emerging viruses, zoonotic viruses from wildlife and livestock reservoirs and vectors as well as pandemic preparedness, especially for respiratory viruses and arboviruses, improved diagnostics of emerging viruses and clinical virology.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/isabella-eckerle_photo__Isabella_Eckerle_tekfzf","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987185/gesda-22/person/isabella-eckerle_photo__Isabella_Eckerle_tekfzf.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/isabella-eckerle_photo__Isabella_Eckerle_tekfzf","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987185/gesda-22/person/isabella-eckerle_photo__Isabella_Eckerle_tekfzf.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987185/gesda-22/person/isabella-eckerle_photo__Isabella_Eckerle_tekfzf.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Claudia Igler","id":"683fd22805d12936cba713d4","path":"/people/claudia-igler","slug":"claudia-igler","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/claudia-igler","title":"Claudia Igler","date":"2025-09-03T03:55:46.58","description":{"plain":"Overview\nUnderstanding the mechanisms of microbial ecology and evolution\nI want to understand how complex behaviour of populations is determined by interactions between individuals. My research combines various experimental and modelling approaches to investigate how mobile genetic elements, like plasmids and bacteriophages, spread through a bacterial population. By first learning about the interaction mechanisms between mobile genetic elements and bacterial cells, I aim to improve our ability to predict long-term population behaviour.\nThe current focus of my work lies on the intracellular interactions between phages and their bacterial host cells. Phages rely on bacterial functions to produce proteins and to replicate themselves. Particularly, most phages need to produce lysis proteins to break open bacterial cells and release new phages. I am exploring how lysis efficiency is affected by genetic and environmental factors. Understanding phage lysis of bacterial cells is not only important for predicting bacteria-phage ecology and evolution but is also crucial for using phages as therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.\nBiography\nI come from a theoretical background in Mathematics (BSc) and Biomedical Engineering (MSc) but I felt that true understanding of any system requires a combination of mathematical analysis and experimental verification. Therefore, I did an empirically driven PhD on the evolution of gene regulation in microbes at IST Austria with Calin Guet and Jon Bollback. During my postdoc at ETH Zurich with Roland Regoes and Sebastian Bonhoeffer, I combined experimental and mathematical approaches to investigate bacterial resistance evolution and the spread of mobile genetic elements. 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He is also a Lead Researcher on the Oxford Martin Programmes on Pandemic Genomics and Digital Pandemic Preparedness.\nHis research primarily centres around how climatic, behavioural and evolutionary factors interact in shaping the epidemiology of diseases. Moritz's work is particularly recognised for its contributions to how human mobility patterns predict the risk of disease spread and how they can be used to inform digital disease surveillance.\nMoritz's research has not only advanced academic knowledge but also informed public health policy decisions at national and international levels. Moritz has received prizes for his contributions to how technologies like AI and machine learning can be used to advance health research (Google AI award) and leads a global consortium (Global.health) to advance the response to infectious diseases through the responsible use of open-source software and data.\nBefore joining the University of Oxford, Moritz completed a fellowship at Harvard Medical School in biomedical informatics, where he focused on digital epidemiology. 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Combining bench work with computer science, his lab identifies molecular networks acting inside cells and shows how these networks respond to disease-causing mutations or infection by pathogens. Thanks to their ability to survey a cell’s complete set of genes and proteins, Krogan and his team generate novel mechanistic insights into cell biology as well as potential targets for novel therapies. Krogan’s lab is applying this unbiased approach to a number of conditions, including infectious diseases such as COVID-19, cancer and heart disease.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/nevan-krogan_photo__Nevan-Krogan-250x250_xoztsx","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1748961756/gesda-platform/person/nevan-krogan_photo__Nevan-Krogan-250x250_xoztsx.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/nevan-krogan_photo__Nevan-Krogan-250x250_xoztsx","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1748961756/gesda-platform/person/nevan-krogan_photo__Nevan-Krogan-250x250_xoztsx.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1748961756/gesda-platform/person/nevan-krogan_photo__Nevan-Krogan-250x250_xoztsx.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Karen Maxwell","id":"683fd17d05d12936cba713c2","path":"/people/karen-maxwell","slug":"karen-maxwell","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/karen-maxwell","title":"Karen Maxwell","date":"2025-09-03T03:59:09.08","description":{"plain":"Karen Maxwell completed her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, where she worked in Dr. Marvin Gold’s lab studying the assembly of bacteriophage lambda. 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She then moved on to a Research Associate position at the Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto before starting in the Department of Biochemistry as an Assistant Professor in 2016.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/karen-maxwell_photo__Q4B6304-570x760_dhds9s","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1749012800/gesda-platform/person/karen-maxwell_photo__Q4B6304-570x760_dhds9s.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/karen-maxwell_photo__Q4B6304-570x760_dhds9s","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1749012800/gesda-platform/person/karen-maxwell_photo__Q4B6304-570x760_dhds9s.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1749012800/gesda-platform/person/karen-maxwell_photo__Q4B6304-570x760_dhds9s.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Al Ozonoff","id":"683f0983873d39a77a2fa7fd","path":"/people/al-ozonoff","slug":"al-ozonoff","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/al-ozonoff","title":"Al Ozonoff","date":"2025-09-03T03:59:37.90","description":{"plain":"Dr. Ozonoff's research focuses on the development and application of methods for surveillance of health and disease. 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She previously developed a  model of Ebola virus disease in a genetically diverse panel of mice, the Collaborative Cross (CC), leveraging the diversity of CC mouse disease phenotypes to study genetic and transcriptomic factors underlying disease severity in humans. She has applied this model to developing predictive signatures of disease outcome and infection and identify novel drug targets. She is currently evaluating CC mouse models towards investigation of sex-specific host responses to viral infection, as well as to investigate disease presentation in other viruses that pose a major threat to global public health, including SARS-CoV-2. 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Griffith, PhD, is the School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and MacVicar Fellow at MIT, where she directs the Center for Gynepathology Research and the “Human Physiome on a Chip” project supported by the DARPA/NIH-funded Microphysiological Systems Program. Dr. Griffith received a Bachelor’s Degree from Georgia Tech and a PhD degree from the University of California at Berkeley, both in chemical engineering. Dr. Griffith’s research is in the field of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Her laboratory, in collaboration with J. Upton and C. Vacanti, was the first to combine a degradable scaffold with donor cells to create tissue-engineered cartilage in the shape of a human ear. The 3D Printing Process she co-invented for creation of complex biomaterials scaffolds is used for manufacture of FDA-approved scaffolds for bone regeneration. She is also contributed new concepts to  nano-scale biophysical control of receptor engagement by biomaterials, and has developed and commercialized a microfluidic multi well bioreactor for 3D culture models of liver and other tissues.\nShe is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Popular Science Brilliant 10 Award, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the MIT Class of 1960 Teaching Innovation Award, Radcliffe Fellow and several awards from professional societies. She has served as a member of the Advisory Councils for the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research and the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at NIH. As chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for Biological Engineering at MIT, she led development of the new Biological Engineering SB degree program, which was approved in 2005 as MIT’s first new undergraduate major in 39 years.\nHer recent work in endometriosis has been recognized by the Office of Research on Women’s Health at NIH, where she was selected to give the first Ruth Kirschstein Memorial Lecture (2010)  as well as the Endometriosis Foundation of America, where she was the Blossom Ball Basic Science awardee (2010).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/linda-griffith_photo__Linda_Griffith_sgawkz","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987322/gesda-22/person/linda-griffith_photo__Linda_Griffith_sgawkz.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/linda-griffith_photo__Linda_Griffith_sgawkz","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987322/gesda-22/person/linda-griffith_photo__Linda_Griffith_sgawkz.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987322/gesda-22/person/linda-griffith_photo__Linda_Griffith_sgawkz.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Nicolas Rivron","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b1dc","path":"/people/nicolas-rivron","slug":"nicolas-rivron","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/nicolas-rivron","title":"Nicolas Rivron","date":"2025-08-29T00:55:12.40","description":{"plain":"Nicolas Rivron is a stem cell biologist and a tissue engineer. 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His laboratory also develops microsystem screening platforms and computational technologies to systematically induce, modulate, and analyze self-organization in vitro.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/nicolas-rivron_photo__csm_Nicolas_Rivron_sm_3816d0f364_by7kcp","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987467/gesda-22/person/nicolas-rivron_photo__csm_Nicolas_Rivron_sm_3816d0f364_by7kcp.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/nicolas-rivron_photo__csm_Nicolas_Rivron_sm_3816d0f364_by7kcp","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987467/gesda-22/person/nicolas-rivron_photo__csm_Nicolas_Rivron_sm_3816d0f364_by7kcp.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987467/gesda-22/person/nicolas-rivron_photo__csm_Nicolas_Rivron_sm_3816d0f364_by7kcp.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Paola Arlotta","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b1ef","path":"/people/paola-arlotta","slug":"paola-arlotta","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/paola-arlotta","title":"Paola Arlotta","date":"2024-09-06T00:32:35.95","description":{"plain":"Dr. Paola Arlotta is a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University, and chair of HSCRB. She is a principal faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, where she is co-leader of the neuroscience program, an institute member at the Broad Institute, and an associate member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute. Dr. Arlotta is interested in understanding the molecular laws that govern the birth, differentiation and assembly of the human brain’s cerebral cortex. The complexity of the brain fascinates her and she is driven to integrate developmental and evolutionary knowledge to investigate therapies for brain repair and for modeling neuropsychiatric disease. Dr. Arlotta received her M.S. in biochemistry from the University of Trieste, Italy, and her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Portsmouth in the UK. She subsequently completed her postdoctoral training in neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/paola-arlotta_photo__arlotta_paola_credit_rose_lincoln_2019_atbc2w","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987497/gesda-22/person/paola-arlotta_photo__arlotta_paola_credit_rose_lincoln_2019_atbc2w.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/paola-arlotta_photo__arlotta_paola_credit_rose_lincoln_2019_atbc2w","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987497/gesda-22/person/paola-arlotta_photo__arlotta_paola_credit_rose_lincoln_2019_atbc2w.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987497/gesda-22/person/paola-arlotta_photo__arlotta_paola_credit_rose_lincoln_2019_atbc2w.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Alysson Muotri","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b089","path":"/people/alysson-muotri","slug":"alysson-muotri","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/alysson-muotri","title":"Alysson Muotri","date":"2024-09-30T01:12:05.20","description":{"plain":"Dr. Alysson R. 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This work has implications for the generation of human disease models by determining the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving neurological complex disorders, such as autism. It is also creating opportunities for identifying and testing novel therapeutic approaches; the nature of this work reduces the amount of time required for moving new drugs to clinical trials. Gaining a clearer understanding of human brain evolution is crucial for interpreting human genetic variants which lead to disease. Some of the evolutionary properties that make us uniquely human and allow us to live the advanced lifestyle we enjoy are also a root cause for a number of disorders. Our brain grants us far greater processing power than any other species, but a complex brain came with a cost: it increases the opportunity for neurological diseases. Thus, understanding the evolutionary path and the tradeoffs of the modern human brain will likely illuminate the origins of human disease. \n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/alysson-muotri_photo__muotri-alysson_dse5tm","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1726021107/gesda-platform/person/alysson-muotri_photo__muotri-alysson_dse5tm.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/alysson-muotri_photo__muotri-alysson_dse5tm","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1726021107/gesda-platform/person/alysson-muotri_photo__muotri-alysson_dse5tm.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1726021107/gesda-platform/person/alysson-muotri_photo__muotri-alysson_dse5tm.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Arti Ahluwalia ","id":"66f9fb280c1d37f97d91f677","path":"/people/arti-ahlu","slug":"arti-ahluwalia","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/arti-ahluwalia","title":"Arti Ahluwalia ","date":"2024-09-30T11:24:08.75","description":{"plain":"Arti Ahluwalia is Full Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa. She is also Director of the Research Center E.Piaggo, dedicated to advanced biomedical and robotics engineering using intelligent systems and materials. Since 2018 she has also been Director of the Centro 3R, the Italian inter-university center dedicated to promoting the 3Rs (Reduction, Refinement and Replacement of animal experiments) in teaching and research. \nShe coordinates the “Human-Based Models” group at the Research Center E.Piaggo. Her research is focused on the study of biomimetics and the interaction between the biological and the artificial world for the realization of physiologically relevant in silico and in vitro systems through the integration of engineering technologies (computation, biomaterials, fluidic systems, microscopy, biomechanics, biosensors). \nShe is also involved in numerous projects on biomedical technologies for development and health equity and has contributed to the creation of the “Africa Biomedical Engineering Consortium” (www.abec-africa.org), dedicated to improving health in Africa through the training of biomedical engineers and the Ubora platform (www.ubora-biomedical.org) for collabrative design of safe, open medical technology.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/arti-ahluwalia_photo__Download_8_f0vxum","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727695349/gesda-platform/person/arti-ahluwalia_photo__Download_8_f0vxum.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/arti-ahluwalia_photo__Download_8_f0vxum","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727695349/gesda-platform/person/arti-ahluwalia_photo__Download_8_f0vxum.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727695349/gesda-platform/person/arti-ahluwalia_photo__Download_8_f0vxum.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Robin Lovell-Badge","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b223","path":"/people/robin-lovell-badge","slug":"robin-lovell-badge","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/robin-lovell-badge","title":"Robin Lovell-Badge","date":"2025-08-31T05:15:31.20","description":{"plain":"Robin Lovell-Badge is a senior group leader and head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute. He obtained his BSc in zoology at University College, London in 1975.\nHe obtained his PhD in embryology at University College London in 1978, carrying out mouse stem cell and embryo research with Martin Evans.\nAfter postdoctoral research in Cambridge, also with Martin Evans, and then in Paris, he established his independent laboratory in 1982 at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Mammalian Development Unit, University College, London, directed by Anne McLaren. In 1988 he moved to the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (now part of the Francis Crick Institute), becoming Head of Division in 1993. His lab relocated to the new Francis Crick Institute in October 2016.\nHe was elected a member of EMBO in 1993, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 2001. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA, elected 2002), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (elected 2011). He has received the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1995), the Amory Prize (Awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) (1996), the Feldberg Foundation Prize (2008), and the Waddington Medal of the British Society for Developmental Biology (2010).\nHe has been a Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, since January 1996; an Honorary Professor, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University College, London, since April 2003, and a Visiting Professor, Division of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, Dental Institute, King’s College London, since September 2016. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor (2009-2015), and is now a Special Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is President of the Institute of Animal Technologists. He was awarded a CBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List.\nHe is also very active in both public engagement and policy work, notably around stem cells, genetics, human embryo and animal research, and in the ways science is regulated and disseminated.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1726018057/gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1726018057/gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1726018057/gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk.png"}}}}},{"name":"Simon Yifei Miao","id":"6891d0cd7139278031820ba8","path":"/people/simon-yifei-miao","slug":"simon-yifei-miao","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/simon-yifei-miao","title":"Simon Yifei Miao","date":"2025-08-29T00:53:18.37","description":{"plain":"Organoids, a miniature organ, represent a revolutionary development in life sciences, closely mimicking the three-dimensional structures, cellular makeup, and physiological functions of human organs. They offer powerful tools for research in disease modeling, drug discovery, and regenerative medicine. Nevertheless, the advancement of organoids encounters several hurdles, such as optimizing the microenvironment to enhance functional maturation, achieving precise spatial arrangements of various cell types for complex tissue simulations, and ensuring high-throughput, standardized production for research and clinical needs. To tackle these challenges, we will adhere to the core principles of human organ development, guiding the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells in vitro to accurately replicate the physiological microenvironment of tissue-specific vasculature and mesenchyme, including models of vascularized heart, lung, liver, brain, and intestine. By combining organ-on-a-chip and 3D bioprinting technologies, we will eventually reconstruct the three-dimensional structures and physiological functions of different complex organs. This approach will facilitate the targeted and systematic establishment of in vitro human pathophysiological simulation systems, laying the groundwork for organ regeneration and opening new avenues for innovative therapeutic strategies.\nIn the past, we integrated multi-omics sequencing technologies with patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to reconstruct various organ-specific vascular networks. This approach enabled us to identify tissue-specific vascular pathologies, investigate individualized disease mechanisms, and create new research avenues for developing potential therapeutic strategies for various congenital and degenerative cardiovascular diseases. 1). Uncover endothelium-centered mechanisms underlying single ventricle congenital heart defects (Cell Stem Cell, 2020; Circulation Research, 2022); 2). Construct the first high-resolution human fetal heart four-valve atlas to understand congenital valve hypoplasia (Nature Cardiovascular Research, 2024); 3). Recreate the authentic organotypic lung and intestine vascular bed via vascularized organoids (Cell, 2025).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/simon-yifei-miao_photo__image_zfet0f","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1754386480/gesda-platform/person/simon-yifei-miao_photo__image_zfet0f.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/simon-yifei-miao_photo__image_zfet0f","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1754386480/gesda-platform/person/simon-yifei-miao_photo__image_zfet0f.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1754386480/gesda-platform/person/simon-yifei-miao_photo__image_zfet0f.webp"}}}}},{"name":"Naomi Moris","id":"6891d1287139278031820bc0","path":"/people/naomi-moris","slug":"naomi-moris","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/naomi-moris","title":"Naomi Moris","date":"2025-08-29T00:53:59.44","description":{"plain":"Naomi graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Biological Sciences, and subsequently worked as a Staff Scientist at the LRI in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.\nShe went on to do a MRes and PhD at the University of Cambridge, studying the effect of transcriptional heterogeneity in single cells and epigenetic regulation during cell fate decisions of mouse embryonic stem cells.\nIn 2016 she became a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, looking into the similarities between an in vitro model of mouse embryogenesis, the mouse gastruloid system, and the mouse embryo itself.\nIn 2017, she was awarded a prestigious Junior Research Fellowship from Newnham College in Cambridge, during which she developed an equivalent gastruloid system using human embryonic stem cells.\nShe will join the Francis Crick institute as a group leader in 2021, where her group will use human gastruloids to study the fundamental principles of embryonic cell fate coordination during development.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/naomi-moris_photo__cricknet-profile-Naomi-Moris--7ccf8a28344f25f68476571f6c58e369_f1xnhs","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1754386667/gesda-platform/person/naomi-moris_photo__cricknet-profile-Naomi-Moris--7ccf8a28344f25f68476571f6c58e369_f1xnhs.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/naomi-moris_photo__cricknet-profile-Naomi-Moris--7ccf8a28344f25f68476571f6c58e369_f1xnhs","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1754386667/gesda-platform/person/naomi-moris_photo__cricknet-profile-Naomi-Moris--7ccf8a28344f25f68476571f6c58e369_f1xnhs.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1754386667/gesda-platform/person/naomi-moris_photo__cricknet-profile-Naomi-Moris--7ccf8a28344f25f68476571f6c58e369_f1xnhs.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Bernardo Oldak","id":"6891d1b37139278031820bd8","path":"/people/bernardo-oldak","slug":"bernardo-oldak","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/bernardo-oldak","title":"Bernardo Oldak","date":"2025-08-29T00:54:28.90","description":{"plain":"Bernardo Oldak is originally from Mexico City, where he completed his medical degree, before earning a master's degree in Dr. Ana Flisser's Lab, focusing on immunomodulation by Helminths in inflammatory bowel disease. Afterwards, he moved to the Weizmann Institute to pursue a Ph.D. under Prof. Jacob Hanna, exploring pluripotency and novel approaches to studying mammalian development. Next, he started a post-doctorate fellowship with Jacob Hanna, continuing his research as a Reacher fellow, pursuing the optimization of human embryo models.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/bernardo-oldak_photo__Oldak_GESDA_synysn","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1754397242/gesda-platform/person/bernardo-oldak_photo__Oldak_GESDA_synysn.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/bernardo-oldak_photo__Oldak_GESDA_synysn","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1754397242/gesda-platform/person/bernardo-oldak_photo__Oldak_GESDA_synysn.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1754397242/gesda-platform/person/bernardo-oldak_photo__Oldak_GESDA_synysn.png"}}}}},{"name":"Peter Zandstra","id":"6891d2207139278031820bf0","path":"/people/peter-zandstra","slug":"peter-zandstra","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/peter-zandstra","title":"Peter Zandstra","date":"2025-08-29T00:55:38.80","description":{"plain":"Dr. Zandstra graduated with a B.Eng. degree from McGill University in Chemical Engineering, obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, and continued his research training as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In July 2017, Zandstra joined the University of British Columbia as the Founding Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering, and as the Director of the Michael Smith Laboratories. In these roles he is building programs that apply technological innovation to biology and help to educate the next generation of biotechnology leaders. In addition to his academic roles, Dr. Zandstra has been involved in founding a number of biotechnology companies, including ExCellThera and Notch Therapeutics. Dr. Zandstra’s research focuses on understanding how functional tissue forms from stem cells, and how this information can be applied to design of novel therapeutic technologies based on living cells. He has received significant recognition for his activities. He is the Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Bioengineering (Tier 1) and is a recipient of a number of awards and fellowships including the Premiers Research Excellence Award (2002), the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2006), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2007), and the Till and McCulloch Award (2013). Dr. Zandstra is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Engineering), the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Most recently, in 2021 Dr. Zandstra was appointed to the Order of Canada for his significant contributions to stem cell bioengineering and regenerative medicine.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/peter-zandstra_photo__images_febmtl","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1754386917/gesda-platform/person/peter-zandstra_photo__images_febmtl.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/peter-zandstra_photo__images_febmtl","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1754386917/gesda-platform/person/peter-zandstra_photo__images_febmtl.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1754386917/gesda-platform/person/peter-zandstra_photo__images_febmtl.webp"}}}}},{"name":"Joy Zhang","id":"66fa08d4509e3a5f0784d8d6","path":"/people/joy-zhang","slug":"joy-zhang","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/joy-zhang","title":"Joy Zhang","date":"2025-08-29T00:56:05.76","description":{"plain":"Joy Y. Zhang is Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Centre for Global Science and Epistemic Justice at the University of Kent. She is an internationally leading expert on the transnational governance of scientific risks, specializing in synthetic biology and genome editing that affect both humans and the environment. Her research advances sociological theories on cosmopolitanism, decolonization, and commoning, with a primary focus on four major scientific powers: China, India, the UK, and the US. Her research agenda has been consolidated into the founding of the BioGovernance Commons initiative in 2021, the establishment of GSEJ in February 2022, and the Care-full Synthesis programme in 2025. Since its inception, GSEJ has organised numerous events with participants and speakers from 23 countries/regions, including co-hosting a UK-India bilateral G20 meeting on biogovernance and science diplomacy in New Delhi. More recently, her policy recommendations on global biodata governance were included in the formal Think 7 communiqué presented to the G7 presidency in 2024. She has authored three academic books and publishes widely in both high impact natural and social science journals. 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Before taking up his current assignment he was UN Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change in New York under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Earlier, he was Acting Executive Director for Conservation (2014), and Policy and Science Director (2012-2014), at WWF International. He directed the UNSG’s Climate Change Support Team (2008-2010) and later was Executive Secretary of the UNSG’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (2010-2012). In 2007 he directed the Geneva-based UN Environment Management Group (EMG). During 1993-2006 he worked and over time held many responsibilities at the Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC), initially in Geneva and later in Bonn. His other assignments included: the Secretariat of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit ’92); Stockholm Environment Institute; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Secretariat of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission); the Beijer Institute; and the World Council of Churches. 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His work has two broad themes:\n\nEvaluating the climate response to solar geoengineering. Using state of the art Earth system models, he analyses the climate response to stratospheric aerosol geoengineering and other solar geoengineering proposals. He is particularly interested in finding ways to understand and effectively visualize this climate response. \nConsidering the broader implications of solar geoengineering. Collaborating with colleagues from a range of disciplines, he seeks to draw out the implications of the scientific findings on solar geoengineering for the broader questions that this proposal raises.\n\nSolar geoengineering describes a set of proposals to modify the Earth's radiation budget which may offer a means of reducing the impacts of climate change. Through his research, he seeks to understand the potential risks and benefits of solar geoengineering and to explore its broader implications.\nIn his interdisciplinary work he seeks to connect the scientific findings on solar geoengineering to the broader questions that this proposal to control the climate raises. He works with ethicists, economists and lawyers to better understand the potential harms and benefits of solar geoengineering and how they could be addressed through compensation. He also works to understand the implications that the technical requirements of solar geoengineering would have on its governance.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/peter-irvine_photo__peter-irvine2020_dfeupj","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987519/gesda-22/person/peter-irvine_photo__peter-irvine2020_dfeupj.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/peter-irvine_photo__peter-irvine2020_dfeupj","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987519/gesda-22/person/peter-irvine_photo__peter-irvine2020_dfeupj.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987519/gesda-22/person/peter-irvine_photo__peter-irvine2020_dfeupj.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Richard Muyungi","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b21c","path":"/people/richard-muyungi","slug":"richard-muyungi","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/richard-muyungi","title":"Richard Muyungi","date":"2024-09-06T00:33:33.81","description":{"plain":"Dr. Richard Muyungi Heads Environment and Climate Change in Tanzania’s National Energy Utility, -TANESCO, one of the largest electricity Companies in Eastern Africa. 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His research teams pioneered amplifying genetic logic, rewritable DNA data storage, reliably-reuseable standard biological parts, and genome refactoring. Drew helped launch the new undergraduate majors in bioengineering at both MIT and Stanford; he also co-founded the iGEM competition, a global genetic engineering “olympics” now engaging over 6,000 students annually (igem.org). In 2013 the White House recognized Drew for his work on open-source biotechnology and, more recently, he received an honorary doctorate from the Technische Universiteit Delft. Drew has served on the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and the Committee on Science, Technology, & Law; he currently serves on the World Health Organization’s Smallpox Advisory Committee. Drew lives in Menlo Park, California with Christina Smolke (Stanford colleague & Antheia, Inc., CEO), their two boys, and two cats. Drew was a co-founder of Gen9, Inc., a DNA construction company; he returned to serve as a director while Gen9 was successfully acquired. Drew worked briefly with the Rapid Evaluation team at Google [X] and also served on the building project team for the Shriram Center at Stanford. He is a founding co-director of the NIST/Stanford Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology (jimb.stanford.edu). 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He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before joining the faculty in School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University in 2011. In 2017, he joined the faculty at SIAT.\nDr. Dai's research interests lie in synthetic biology using different model organisms, focusing on development of new technologies for genes synthesis, assembly and synthetic genomics. In the past five years, he has published, as corresponding author, more than 40 papers in prestigious journals including Science and was selected as one of the Top Ten Scientific Advances of China in 2017. He is one of the key members in synthetic yeast consortium (Sc2.0) and genome project-write (GP-write), and is currently leading the \"GP-Write China\". In 2017, He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/junbiao-dai_photo__Junbiao_gjt1us","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1726468013/gesda-platform/person/junbiao-dai_photo__Junbiao_gjt1us.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/junbiao-dai_photo__Junbiao_gjt1us","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1726468013/gesda-platform/person/junbiao-dai_photo__Junbiao_gjt1us.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1726468013/gesda-platform/person/junbiao-dai_photo__Junbiao_gjt1us.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Tom Ellis","id":"66b314bbdd20bd94d75d455c","path":"/people/tom-ellis","slug":"tom-ellis","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/tom-ellis","title":"Tom Ellis","date":"2025-09-03T04:46:35.77","description":{"plain":"Tom Ellis is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Co-Director of the Centre for Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London. Tom has a degree in Molecular Biology from Oxford University and a PhD from Cambridge University. After university Tom worked in a biotech company in London, then spent 2 years as a postdoc at Boston University before starting his own research group in 2010 at Imperial College London. His group work on synthetic biology with their research treating DNA as the programming language for life. By editing and rewriting the DNA programs in cells his team direct cells to do new tasks useful for modern biotechnology. The Ellis Lab specialises in developing synthetic biology and genome engineering tools for yeasts and diverse bacteria and they apply these tools in projects to make synthetic cells and recoded organisms that can make and release therapeutic molecules, sense and respond as living sensors and can autonomously grow new functional materials.  Over the last 15 years the group has published over 100 papers and patents on synthetic biology, trained dozens of PhD students and postdocs and helped initiate several start-up companies.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/tom-ellis_photo__Ellis_Tom_nuwcf9","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1723513176/gesda-platform/person/tom-ellis_photo__Ellis_Tom_nuwcf9.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/tom-ellis_photo__Ellis_Tom_nuwcf9","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1723513176/gesda-platform/person/tom-ellis_photo__Ellis_Tom_nuwcf9.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1723513176/gesda-platform/person/tom-ellis_photo__Ellis_Tom_nuwcf9.png"}}}}},{"name":"Michael Jewett","id":"66b31ac9dd20bd94d75d45b0","path":"/people/michael-jewett","slug":"michael-jewett","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/michael-jewett","title":"Michael Jewett","date":"2025-09-03T04:47:18.83","description":{"plain":"Michael Jewett is a Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. His research group focuses on advancing synthetic biology research to support planet and societal health, with applications in medicine, manufacturing, sustainability, and education. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the NIH Pathway to Independence Award, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and Finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, as well as several teaching awards. Jewett is an elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the National Academy of Inventors. He co-founded SwiftScale Biologics (acquired by National Resilience Inc.), Stemloop, Inc., and Pearl Bio.\nDr. Jewett received his PhD in 2005 at Stanford University and completed postdoctoral studies at the Center for Microbial Biotechnology in Denmark and the Harvard Medical School. He began his academic career at Northwestern University in 2009, where he was the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Director of the Center for Synthetic Biology. In 2018, he was a guest professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). \n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/michael-jewett_photo__Michael_Jewett_12_Sq_wdxk1h","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1723513269/gesda-platform/person/michael-jewett_photo__Michael_Jewett_12_Sq_wdxk1h.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/michael-jewett_photo__Michael_Jewett_12_Sq_wdxk1h","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1723513269/gesda-platform/person/michael-jewett_photo__Michael_Jewett_12_Sq_wdxk1h.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1723513269/gesda-platform/person/michael-jewett_photo__Michael_Jewett_12_Sq_wdxk1h.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Harris Wang","id":"66f674a7054128b0445669bf","path":"/people/harris-wang","slug":"harris-wang","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/harris-wang","title":"Harris Wang","date":"2025-09-03T04:49:48.70","description":{"plain":"Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor of Systems Biology and the interim chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He is also jointly appointed in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.\nDr. Wang received his B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics and Physics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Medical Engineering Medical Physics from Harvard University. There, he invented the first automated and multiplexed genome engineering platform. Since joining Columbia in 2013, Dr. Wang's research has focused on building foundational technologies to program cells into low-cost diagnostics, personalized medicines, and living materials. He is broadly interested in the applications of synthetic biology, computational design, and multi-omics to explore the fundamental limits by which microbial and mammalian systems can be modified at a genome scale. These modifications allow for new functionalities and properties, such as pan-resistance to viruses, nutrient starvation, and radiation damage. In the area of the human microbiome, Dr. Wang has developed new methods to map the gut microbiome spatially and temporally at ultra-high resolution. He has also created automated platforms for culturing and studying microbes using a combination of robotics and machine learning. Dr. Wang introduced the concept of microbiome gene therapy, which has been applied to endow gut microbes with sensing and recording capabilities for intestinal inflammation and to eliminate problematic traits such as virulence and antimicrobial resistance. His lab has also developed self-healing and regenerative fungal-bacterial biocomposite materials that can sense and respond to different environments.\nDr. Wang is an Investigator of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the recipient of numerous accolades, including the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Finalist, the Schaefer Research Scholar award, and the Harold & Golden Lamport Research Award in Basic Sciences from Columbia University. His other awards include the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science in 2012, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House. Dr. Wang serves on the scientific advisory boards of numerous companies in the areas of CRISPR, biosecurity, microbiome, and gene therapy.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/harris-wang_photo__HarrisWang_crop2_k4k4pn","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727427618/gesda-platform/person/harris-wang_photo__HarrisWang_crop2_k4k4pn.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/harris-wang_photo__HarrisWang_crop2_k4k4pn","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727427618/gesda-platform/person/harris-wang_photo__HarrisWang_crop2_k4k4pn.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727427618/gesda-platform/person/harris-wang_photo__HarrisWang_crop2_k4k4pn.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro","id":"66f673c5054128b04456697c","path":"/people/rodrigo-ledesma-amaro","slug":"rodrigo-ledesma-amaro","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/rodrigo-ledesma-amaro","title":"Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro","date":"2025-09-09T07:46:00.79","description":{"plain":"Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro is leading a research group at the interface of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. His research lab is based in the Department of Bioengineering and the Center for Synthetic Biology and Innovation. \nRodrigo Ledesma-Amaro obtained his PhD at the University of Salamanca under the supervision of Prof. Jose Luis Revuelta, the head of the metabolic engineering group. The PhD thesis is about systems metabolic engineering of A. gossypii for the production of vitamins, nucleosides and lipids. It combines modeling, synthetic biology, systems biology and metabolic engineering techniques and it produced numerous research papers and industrial patents (being currently used by BASF). Before that, Rodrigo coursed an MSc in Microbial Biotechnology at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and two undergraduate degrees (Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering) at the University of Salamanca. During his PhD, Rodrigo was a visiting researcher at Prof. Jens Nielsen's group at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), at Prof. Jean-Marc Nicaud at INRA (France) and at Prof. Kamisaka's group at AIST (Japan).\nAfter the PhD, he moved to France thanks to an Agreenskills Marie Curie Fellowship and he performed his postdoc in the group of Jean-Marc Nicaud. Most of his postdoctoral research work was done in the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. During those years, Rodrigo engineered this organism to 1) produce different compounds (lipids, lipid-derived chemicals, carotenoids, etc), 2) to be able to use low-cost carbon sources such as lignocellulosic materials or starch and 3) to facilitate the recovery of the products by engineering lipid secretion. During the postdoc, Rodrigo has been teaching synthetic biology related subjects at SUP biotech.\nIn addition, he has experience in organizing international conferences and teaching courses, in editorial activities for several publishing groups and in supervising and evaluating students, projects and researchers. 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Within ENIGMA’s Environmental Atlas, Mutalik works in the area of synthetic biology and functional genomics and is focused on developing methods to isolate and study non-model bacterial viruses (phages) and their applications in rational manipulation of microbial communities. Mutalik works on dissecting the molecular mechanisms of microbial interactions and community dynamics, from phage infection cycles to different microbial predation modes. He recently won the Research & Development 100 award for Dub-seq technology, a high-throughput functional genomics technology funded by the ENIGMA Discovery project.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/vivek-mutalik_photo__x279x350_Vivek_Mutalik_i1fjbv","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727704935/gesda-platform/person/vivek-mutalik_photo__x279x350_Vivek_Mutalik_i1fjbv.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/vivek-mutalik_photo__x279x350_Vivek_Mutalik_i1fjbv","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727704935/gesda-platform/person/vivek-mutalik_photo__x279x350_Vivek_Mutalik_i1fjbv.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727704935/gesda-platform/person/vivek-mutalik_photo__x279x350_Vivek_Mutalik_i1fjbv.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Karmen King","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b17d","path":"/people/karmen-king","slug":"karmen-king","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/karmen-king","title":"Karmen King","date":"2025-08-18T04:48:35.02","description":{"plain":"Experienced Creative Coordinator with a demonstrated history of working in the public relations and communications industry.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/karmen-king_photo__karmen-king_photo__KarmenKing_cud7sq.jpg_ipvceb","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1693806832/gesda-22/person/karmen-king_photo__karmen-king_photo__KarmenKing_cud7sq.jpg_ipvceb.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/karmen-king_photo__karmen-king_photo__KarmenKing_cud7sq.jpg_ipvceb","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1693806832/gesda-22/person/karmen-king_photo__karmen-king_photo__KarmenKing_cud7sq.jpg_ipvceb.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1693806832/gesda-22/person/karmen-king_photo__karmen-king_photo__KarmenKing_cud7sq.jpg_ipvceb.jpg"}}}}}]}},{"data":{"id":"65c55d599e947c438698b7a7","path":"/topics/artificial-intelligence","slug":"artificial-intelligence","name":"Artificial Intelligence","outlineNumber":"1.1","__typename":"Topic","typeLabel":"Topic","editions":[{"id":"66ab1bb636a8f2f336a557bf","name":"2024","numericValue":2024},{"id":"684951c963371e51d83bdf31","name":"2025","numericValue":2025}],"openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_topic/artificial-intelligence","title":"Artificial Intelligence","description":{"plain":"Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to produce intelligence using algorithms and machines. 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She is an elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for her \"significant contributions to the field of conversational AI and to the development of ethical AI principles and algorithms\", an elected Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for her “significant contributions towards statistical NLP, comparable corpora, and building intelligent systems that can understand and empathize with humans”. She is an Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) for her “contributions to human-machine interactions” and an elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association for “fundamental contributions to the interdisciplinary area of spoken language human-machine interactions”. She is the Director of HKUST Centre for AI Research (CAiRE), an interdisciplinary research centre on top of all four schools at HKUST. She co-founded the Human Language Technology Center (HLTC). She is an affiliated faculty with the Robotics Institute and the Big Data Institute at HKUST. She is the founding chair of the Women Faculty Association at HKUST. She is an expert on the Global Future Council, a think tank for the World Economic Forum. She represents HKUST on Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society.  She is a member of the IEEE Working Group to develop an IEEE standard - Recommended Practice for Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Her research team has won several best and outstanding paper awards at ACL, ACL and NeurIPS workshops.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/pascale-fung_photo__Pascale_Fung_tvua8v","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1724112439/gesda-platform/person/pascale-fung_photo__Pascale_Fung_tvua8v.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/pascale-fung_photo__Pascale_Fung_tvua8v","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1724112439/gesda-platform/person/pascale-fung_photo__Pascale_Fung_tvua8v.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1724112439/gesda-platform/person/pascale-fung_photo__Pascale_Fung_tvua8v.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Yann LeCun","id":"68494d2063371e51d83bde8f","path":"/people/yann-le-cun","slug":"yann-le-cun","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/yann-le-cun","title":"Yann LeCun","date":"2025-10-15T06:22:44.11","description":{"plain":"Yann LeCun is Director of AI Research at Facebook, and Silver Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering at New York University, affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, the Center for Neural Science, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/yann-le-cun_photo__yann-lecun_h71mrf","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1749634284/gesda-platform/person/yann-le-cun_photo__yann-lecun_h71mrf.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/yann-le-cun_photo__yann-lecun_h71mrf","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1749634284/gesda-platform/person/yann-le-cun_photo__yann-lecun_h71mrf.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1749634284/gesda-platform/person/yann-le-cun_photo__yann-lecun_h71mrf.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Hang Li","id":"68494d9563371e51d83bdeae","path":"/people/hang-li","slug":"hang-li","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/hang-li","title":"Hang Li","date":"2025-10-15T06:24:33.74","description":{"plain":"I  am the Head of Research at Bytedance Technology. I joined Bytedance in 2017. I worked at NEC Research during 1990 and 2001, and Microsoft Research Asia during 2001 and 2012, Naoh’s Ark Lab of Huawei Technologies during 2012 and 2017.\nI obtained a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kyoto University in 1988 and a M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kyoto University in 1990. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tokyo in 1998.\nI am an ACM Fellow, ACL Fellow, and IEEE Fellow. 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Chick Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also holds appointments in vision science, cognitive science and Bioengineering. He received the PhD degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985 following which he joined UC Berkeley as a faculty member. He served as Chair of the Computer Science Division during 2002-2006, and of the Department of EECS during 2004-2006.\nJitendra's group has worked on computer vision, computational modeling of biological vision, computer graphics and machine learning. Several well-known concepts and algorithms arose in this work, such as anisotropic diffusion, normalized cuts, high dynamic range imaging, shape contexts and R-CNN. His publications have received numerous best paper awards, including five test of time awards - the Longuet-Higgins Prize for papers published at CVPR (twice) and the Helmholtz Prize for papers published at ICCV (three times). He received the 2013 IEEE PAMI-TC Distinguished Researcher in Computer Vision Award, the 2014 K.S. Fu Prize from the International Association of Pattern Recognition, the 2016 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, the 2018 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in AI, and the 2019 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award.\nJitendra Malik is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/jitendra-malike_photo__malik_b4waax","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1749635169/gesda-platform/person/jitendra-malike_photo__malik_b4waax.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/jitendra-malike_photo__malik_b4waax","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1749635169/gesda-platform/person/jitendra-malike_photo__malik_b4waax.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1749635169/gesda-platform/person/jitendra-malike_photo__malik_b4waax.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Bernhard Schölkopf","id":"6849511563371e51d83bdef3","path":"/people/bernhard-scholkopf","slug":"bernhard-scholkopf","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/bernhard-scholkopf","title":"Bernhard Schölkopf","date":"2025-10-15T06:25:23.78","description":{"plain":"Bernhard Schölkopf's scientific interests are in machine learning and causal inference. He has applied his methods to a number of different fields, ranging from biomedical problems to computational photography and astronomy. Bernhard studied physics and mathematics and earned his Ph.D. in computer science in 1997, becoming a Max Planck director in 2001. He has (co-)received the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Prize, the Royal Society Milner Award, the Leibniz Award, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and the ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award. He is Fellow of the ACM and of the CIFAR Program \"Learning in Machines and Brains\", a member of the German Academy of Sciences, and a Professor at ETH Zurich. He helped start the MLSS series of Machine Learning Summer Schools, the Cyber Valley Initiative, the ELLIS society, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research, an early development in open access and today the field's flagship journal. In 2023, he founded the ELLIS Institute Tuebingen, and acts as its scientific director.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/bernhard-scholkopf_photo__thumb_ticker_sm_L1170153_osniav","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1749635258/gesda-platform/person/bernhard-scholkopf_photo__thumb_ticker_sm_L1170153_osniav.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/bernhard-scholkopf_photo__thumb_ticker_sm_L1170153_osniav","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1749635258/gesda-platform/person/bernhard-scholkopf_photo__thumb_ticker_sm_L1170153_osniav.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1749635258/gesda-platform/person/bernhard-scholkopf_photo__thumb_ticker_sm_L1170153_osniav.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Maosong Sun","id":"6849516963371e51d83bdf10","path":"/people/maosong-sun","slug":"maosong-sun","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/maosong-sun","title":"Maosong Sun","date":"2025-10-15T06:25:46.79","description":{"plain":"My research interests are computational linguistics, statistical and corpus-based natural language processing (NLP), Chinese language computing (computational morphology, bilingual terminology extraction), information retrieval (Chinese text categorization, graphical model-based keyword extraction), collective intelligence (tag generation, Web trend analysis) and social computing (query log analysis, community discovery). I have participated as project leader or principal researcher in over 20 projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Social Science Foundation of China, National 863 High-Tech Program, National 973 Basic Research Program, as well as in projects funded by a number of international IT companies. I have published, together with my students, about 130 papers in academic journals and international conferences in the above fields. The total number of citations of these papers in Google Scholar is roughly 1,400. I have served as program committee member in numerous national and international conferences, and as conference chair or program committee chair for many times.\nOne of my research focus is Chinese word segmentation, the most fundamental issue in Chinese information processing. I have proposed some key concepts in word segmentation (such as maximal overlapping segmentation ambiguities, true and pseudo segmentation ambiguities, local and global statistics), and have developed an integrated Chinese word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging system, which is able to explore all sorts of knowledge, bigrams of words, parts-of-speech and characters, statistical and structural information of named entities, and local statistics of character strings. I have also tried to extend my experience in Chinese word segmentation to other languages in which word segmentation are need, resulting in an international standard \"ISO/FDIS 24614-1: Language Resource Management -- Word Segmentation of Written Texts -- Part 1: Basic Concepts and General Principles\". I am the only project leader for this ISO standard.\nRecently, I have presented an original viewpoint in NLP: NLP based on huge-scale naturally annotated corpora. The basic idea is with Web-scale corpora, natural annotation may help machine better perform some NLP tasks. There are two types of natural annotation: explicit (such as punctuations, anchor text, query log, Wikipedia, blog tags) and implicit (such as language usage patterns). 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He has developed a one-of-a-kind executive and professional training program for senior executives and government leaders.\nHe has brought together an operations team which is leading the rapid growth of the institution. He has designed and built a state-of-the-art supercomputing center optimized for distributed AI computation.\nAcademic contributions\nAs a world-leading computer scientist, Xing excels in theory, application, and system at the same time. His major contributions lie in the foundational work of statistical machine learning methodology, including pioneering work in distance metric learning; statistical models and analyses of networks; methods for learning and analyzing graphical models; and new systems, theories, and algorithms for distributed machine learning.\nMain research themes\nCore machine learning – With an emphasis on theory and algorithms for learning complex probabilistic models, learning with prior knowledge, and reasoning and decision-making in open, evolving, and uncertain possible worlds\nSystem architecture and strategies for large scale machine learning – With emphasis on developing general purpose systems for machine learning on massive data with massive models on industrial-scale multicore and distributed systems\nHealthcare and medical applications – With an emphasis on developing algorithms and solutions that address problems of practical clinical, medical, and biological concerns\nInformation and intelligent systems – With an emphasis on developing web-scale, federated, and on-line machine learning systems for social media, computer vision, and HCI applications\nComputational biology – With an emphasis on statistical and computational methodological innovation, which not only supports computational biologists’ empirical analysis of high-dimensional data in problems such as GWAS, haplotype inference, population structure, network estimation, but also advances the frontier of statistical and algorithmic research itself\nXing supports greater access to AI and open-source platforms to encourage scalable, sustainable, and repeatable processes which opens doors to greater research and industrial possibilities. As a thought leader, Xing is continually bringing together the AI community from around the world to pursue ideas which will impact society in the most beneficial way. He founded the CASL open-source project to help standardize the first truly commercial and versatile AI operating system that will make for better and seamless AI engineering and production\nPrior to joining MBZUAI\nXing served as a Professor of Computer Science at CMU, and the founder, chairman, and chief Scientist of Petuum Inc., which was recognized as a 2018 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. Xing is the founding director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at CMU, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Xing served as a visiting associate professor at Stanford University, and as a visiting research professor at Facebook Inc.\nXing is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, the Alfred P. 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He served as action editor of the Machine Learning Journal (MLJ) and Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). He has served as a member of the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) advisory group.\nXing holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. 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She has received various awards including the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, MIT Technology Review World's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 (TR35), Popular Science Brilliant 10, Science News 10 Scientists to Watch (SN10), ASEE's Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, One Mind Rising Star Award, a DoD joint US-UK multidisciplinary university research initiative (MURI) award, the DoD BARI award for US-UK collaboration on human-machine teaming, the NAE frontiers invitation, and both the NAE and NAS frontiers invitation as speaker and session chair. 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After conducting postdoctoral research in developmental biology at Purdue University, he later served on the faculty of University of California at Irvine, faculty of Yale University School of Medicine, Columbia University, UCSD, and University of California, Berkeley.\nProfessor Poo is currently the Director of Institute of Neuroscience of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), the founding director of Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai and Paul Licht Distinguished Professor at University of California, Berkeley.\nProfessor Poo’s research interests center around the development and plasticity of the brain. 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Dr. Kosmyna often collaborates with teams from Boston Dynamics, Microsoft Research, NASA, Google, Meta. Dr. Kosmyna’s solutions are successfully deployed in the classrooms, workspaces, aerospace and hospitals. These projects are also presented to general public and were tested by more than 15000 people in 2015-2024. Nataliya won multiple awards for her work, among which is L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award she received in 2016. Nataliya was also named as one of 10 Top French Talent 2017 from MIT Innovators Under 35. \nDr. Kosmyna has served as one of  24 international experts (Ad Hoc Expert Group - AHEG) for UNESCO to help prepare a first draft of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology. The final text of the Recommendation will be presented for adoption in November 2025 at the 43rd session of the General Conference. 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Subsequently, he spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1987 until 2013, Koch was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, from his initial appointment as Assistant Professor, Division of Biology and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1986, to his final position as Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive & Behavioral Biology. See here for Christof's academic pedigree and his students. Christof joined the Allen Institute for Brain Science as Chief Scientific Officer in 2011 and became President in 2015. \nChristof’s passion are neurons – the atoms of perception, memory, behavior and consciousness – their diverse shapes, electrical behaviors, and their computational function within the mammalian brain, in particular in neocortex. The Allen Institute for Brain Science is engaged in a major effort to identify all the different types of neurons in the brains of mice and humans – the cell census effort. See the papers below.\nChristof discovered that in vivo cortical neurons do not integrate over large number of small inputs given their spiking variability, how neurons can multiply, the relationship between intra- and extra-cellular potential, and how this gives rise to the local field potential and the large-scale current sinks and sources and how weak extracellular fields can entrain spiking activity via ephaptic effects. He postulated the attentional saliency map hypothesis for biological and computer vision according to which one or more topographic organized spatial maps summarize bottom-up salient information in the visual system, he co-discovered, with Itzhak Fried, an high-level, invariant and abstract single neuron representation of familiar individuals and objects in the human medial temporal lobe (the so-called “Jennifer Aniston” or concept neurons) and developed the ‘continuous flashed suppression’ masking technique.  In collaboration with Francis Crick, he initiated the modern search for the neuronal correlates of consciousness, a systematic experimental program to identify the minimal bio-physical mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept. In collaboration with Giulio Tononi, he co-developed the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness.\nChristof writings and interests integrate theoretical, computational and experimental neuroscience with philosophy and contemporary trends, in particular artificial intelligence. His latest book, The Feeling of Life Itself – Why Consciousness is Everywhere But Can’t be Computed, was published by MIT Press in Autumn of 2019.\nHis previous book, Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, blends science and memoir to explore topics in discovering the roots of consciousness. Stemming in part from a long-standing collaboration with the late Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, Christof authored the book The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach. Koch also authored the technical books Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons and Methods in Neuronal Modeling: From Ions to Networks, and served as editor for several books on neural modeling and information processing\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/christoph-koch_photo__christof_koch_web.jpg__148x148_q75_crop_subsampling-2_tcnkd8","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987026/gesda-22/person/christoph-koch_photo__christof_koch_web.jpg__148x148_q75_crop_subsampling-2_tcnkd8.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/christoph-koch_photo__christof_koch_web.jpg__148x148_q75_crop_subsampling-2_tcnkd8","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987026/gesda-22/person/christoph-koch_photo__christof_koch_web.jpg__148x148_q75_crop_subsampling-2_tcnkd8.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987026/gesda-22/person/christoph-koch_photo__christof_koch_web.jpg__148x148_q75_crop_subsampling-2_tcnkd8.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Frédérique de Vignemont","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b115","path":"/people/frederique-de-vignemont","slug":"frederique-de-vignemont","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/frederique-de-vignemont","title":"Frédérique de Vignemont","date":"2022-11-20T23:32:08.00","description":{"plain":"Frédérique de Vignemont is a CNRS research director at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. She pursues philosophical and experimental investigation of the notion of self-awareness, in its relation to social awareness and to bodily awareness. Questions about the notion of embodiment have been at the core of her research. The recent theoretical trend of embodied cognition tries to bring the mind to the body. In her work, she returns the body to the mind. She has a forthcoming book, Mind the Body, on bodily self-awareness to be published by Oxford University Press. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on social cognition, empathy, bodily sensations, pain, touch, body schema, peripersonal space, and the sense of bodily ownership.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/frederique-de-vignemont_photo__FdeVignemont_-_Version_2_lesvkl","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987127/gesda-22/person/frederique-de-vignemont_photo__FdeVignemont_-_Version_2_lesvkl.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/frederique-de-vignemont_photo__FdeVignemont_-_Version_2_lesvkl","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987127/gesda-22/person/frederique-de-vignemont_photo__FdeVignemont_-_Version_2_lesvkl.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987127/gesda-22/person/frederique-de-vignemont_photo__FdeVignemont_-_Version_2_lesvkl.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Mel Slater","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b1b8","path":"/people/mel-slater","slug":"mel-slater","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/mel-slater","title":"Mel Slater","date":"2024-09-30T07:01:45.99","description":{"plain":"Mel Slater became Professor of Virtual Environments at University College London in 1997 in the Department of Computer Science. He was a UK EPSRC Senior Research Fellow from 1999 to 2004 at UCL, during which time he worked on the virtual light field approach to computer graphics, and he set up the virtual reality Cave system at UCL. Twenty two of his PhD students have obtained their PhDs since 1989. In 2005 he was awarded the Virtual Reality Career Award by IEEE Virtual Reality\n\"In Recognition of Seminal Achievements in Engineering Virtual Reality\". He holds a Senior ERC grant entitled \"Transcending Reality: Activating Virtual Environment Responses through Sensory Enrichment\n(TRAVERSE)\". His main work is in the area of understanding how people respond to experiences in immersive virtual environments and associated technology in computer graphics and human-computer interaction, and also representation of self in immersive virtual environments. Since 2006 he has been part-time at UCL and is otherwise at the University of Barcelona.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/mel-slater_photo__MelSlater3-e1550332506119_ef8fjj","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987394/gesda-22/person/mel-slater_photo__MelSlater3-e1550332506119_ef8fjj.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/mel-slater_photo__MelSlater3-e1550332506119_ef8fjj","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987394/gesda-22/person/mel-slater_photo__MelSlater3-e1550332506119_ef8fjj.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987394/gesda-22/person/mel-slater_photo__MelSlater3-e1550332506119_ef8fjj.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Michael Herzog","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b1bd","path":"/people/michael-herzog","slug":"michael-herzog","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/michael-herzog","title":"Michael Herzog","date":"2022-11-20T23:36:46.00","description":{"plain":"I studied Mathematics, Biology, and Philosophy at the Universities of Erlangen, Tübingen (both Germany), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). In 1992, I earned a ”Diplom” in mathematics with a thesis on the structure of the ”Automorphism groups of Hamming graphs” under the supervision of Prof. Hering (University of Tübingen). In 1993, I received a Master in philosophy with an investigation about current approaches to intentionality and representation (Prof. Keuth, Tübingen). My main interest, however, is the wide field of visual perception. Under the supervision of Prof. Fahle at the Section of Visual Science (Tübingen) and Prof. Poggio at MIT, I finished a thesis on ”mathematical models and psychophysical experiments of perceptual learning” earning a Ph.D. in biology.\nIn 1998-1999, I did a post-doc in the lab of Prof. Koch at Caltech (USA) investigating the characteristics of temporal processing and feature integration. From 1999-2004, I have been a senior researcher at the section of Human Neurobiology at the University of Bremen (Head: Prof. Fahle) and was a leader of a research project at the Center of Excellence 517 ”Neurocognition” of the DFG (German Research Council). Temporarily, I held a professorship for neurobiopsychology at the University of Osnabrueck (Germany) for one year.\nSince 2004, I am a professor for psychophysics at the Brain Mind Institute (BMI) at the EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/michael-herzog_photo__herzog_eunrc8","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987404/gesda-22/person/michael-herzog_photo__herzog_eunrc8.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/michael-herzog_photo__herzog_eunrc8","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987404/gesda-22/person/michael-herzog_photo__herzog_eunrc8.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987404/gesda-22/person/michael-herzog_photo__herzog_eunrc8.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Mavi Sanchez-Vives","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b1b7","path":"/people/mavi-sanchez-vives","slug":"mavi-sanchez-vives","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/mavi-sanchez-vives","title":"Mavi Sanchez-Vives","date":"2022-11-20T23:36:34.00","description":{"plain":"Mavi Sanchez-Vives, MD, PhD in Neurosciences, has been ICREA Research Professor at the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer since 2008, where she leads the Systems Neuroscience group. She is also co-Director of the Event Lab (Experimental Virtual Environments in Neuroscience and Technology) and Adjunct Professor at the Dept. of Basic Psychology, University of Barcelona. She was previously Associate Professor of Physiology and Group Leader at the Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante (UMH-CSIC). She was postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University and at Yale University. \nResearch interests\nNeuronal and network properties determining the emergent activity in the cerebral cortex. Spontaneous rhythmic neural activity: regulating mechanisms, information encoding, neuromodulation.Using experimental and computational approach, with an interest in neurotechnology. 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Study of medicine in Munich and Paris (1962-1968), MD at University of Munich (1968), postgraduate training in psychophysics and animal behaviour, University of Sussex, Dept. of Psychology (1971), staff member in the Department of Neurophysiology at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry (1973), German Habilitation for physiology at the TU Munich (1975), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (since 1981). Founding Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt (2004), Founding Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Forum, Frankfurt (2006), Founding Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI), Frankfurt (2008).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/wolf-singer_photo__original_ptysoy","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987724/gesda-22/person/wolf-singer_photo__original_ptysoy.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/wolf-singer_photo__original_ptysoy","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987724/gesda-22/person/wolf-singer_photo__original_ptysoy.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987724/gesda-22/person/wolf-singer_photo__original_ptysoy.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Atsushi Iriki","id":"66c2843aae55546b43fe21f0","path":"/people/atsushi-iriki","slug":"atsushi-iriki","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/atsushi-iriki","title":"Atsushi Iriki","date":"2025-08-31T12:43:19.41","description":{"plain":"Atsushi IRIKI received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 1986. He held research associate positions at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University and then at The Rockefeller University (USA). He joined the faculty of Toho University Medical School as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor in Physiology (1991-1999). In 1999, he returned to Tokyo Medical and Dental University as a full professor and chairman of Cognitive Neurobiology. In 2004, Atsushi IRIKI was appointed a head of Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development at RIKEN Institute (first at its Brain Science Institute and then 2018 onward at Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, until retirement on 2023). He is currently Senior Researcher at RIKEN Innovation Design Office, Adjunct Professor of Keio University (Japan), Visiting Professor of Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (Canada), Vice President of International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (Brussels), Advisory Board Member of Institute Para Limes (Amsterdam), Science Advisory Board Member of Ernst Strüngmann Forum (Frankfurt am Main), Steering Committee Member of The Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Institute (Tokyo).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/atsushi-iriki_photo__Atsushi_Iriki_fxwuij","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1724023473/gesda-platform/person/atsushi-iriki_photo__Atsushi_Iriki_fxwuij.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/atsushi-iriki_photo__Atsushi_Iriki_fxwuij","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1724023473/gesda-platform/person/atsushi-iriki_photo__Atsushi_Iriki_fxwuij.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1724023473/gesda-platform/person/atsushi-iriki_photo__Atsushi_Iriki_fxwuij.png"}}}}},{"name":"Ryota Kanai","id":"66c2884dae55546b43fe2211","path":"/people/ryota-kanai","slug":"ryota-kanai","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/ryota-kanai","title":"Ryota Kanai","date":"2025-08-31T12:45:51.59","description":{"plain":"After graduating from the Faculty of Science at Kyoto University in 2000, he received his PhD (Cum Laude) in 2005 from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where he studied human visual information processing mechanisms. After working as a researcher at California Institute of Technology in the U.S. and University College London in the U.K., and as a JST PRESTO researcher and Associate Professor (Reader) of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sussex in the U.K., he founded Araya, Inc. and worked full time since 2015. He is engaged in research on the principles of consciousness in the brain and machines through the fusion of neuroscience and AI technologies. He has been also working on the translation of AI and neuroscience into industrial applications as the primary business of Araya.  He has received many awards, including the Young Scientist Award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the JEITA Venture Award (2020), the ET (Embedded technology)/IoT Technology Award (2019) among others. Since 2020, he has been working on the development of next-generation AI-assisted brain-machine interfaces (BMI) as a Project Manager of the Moonshot Project in the Cabinet Office. 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Dr. Dumas’s research focuses on the neural foundations of human social cognition, integrating biological, psychological, and social facets of the human mind. His laboratory cross-fertilizes AI/ML, cognitive neuroscience, and digital medicine through an interdisciplinary program with two main axes: 1) AI/ML for Mental Health, developing new algorithms to investigate the development of human cognitive architecture and deliver personalized medicine in neuropsychiatry using data from the genome to smartphones; 2) Social Neuroscience for AI/ML, translating basic brain research and dynamical systems formalism into scientific machine learning models (SciML) and machines with social learning ability (Social NeuroAI & HMI). Dr. Dumas also engages in numerous projects intersecting science and society, promoting open science, shaping AI strategy (as an expert for French national plans), and advocating for cognitive freedom (twice UN invited expert).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/guillaume-dumas_photo__Guillaume_Dumas_fdfvsq","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1723526676/gesda-platform/person/guillaume-dumas_photo__Guillaume_Dumas_fdfvsq.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/guillaume-dumas_photo__Guillaume_Dumas_fdfvsq","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1723526676/gesda-platform/person/guillaume-dumas_photo__Guillaume_Dumas_fdfvsq.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1723526676/gesda-platform/person/guillaume-dumas_photo__Guillaume_Dumas_fdfvsq.webp"}}}}},{"name":"Ken Paller","id":"66baf0bd815f2122be7bee6b","path":"/people/ken-paller","slug":"ken-paller","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/ken-paller","title":"Ken Paller","date":"2025-08-31T12:48:36.27","description":{"plain":"Ken Paller holds the James Padilla Chair in Arts & Sciences in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. 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Blanke is co-founder of Metaphysiks Engineering and member of the board of Mindmaze.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/olaf-blanke_photo__OB_photo_l7pp0w","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1724643393/gesda-platform/person/olaf-blanke_photo__OB_photo_l7pp0w.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/olaf-blanke_photo__OB_photo_l7pp0w","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1724643393/gesda-platform/person/olaf-blanke_photo__OB_photo_l7pp0w.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1724643393/gesda-platform/person/olaf-blanke_photo__OB_photo_l7pp0w.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Megan Peters","id":"66f5540d48837661683c5964","path":"/people/megan-peters","slug":"megan-peters","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/megan-peters","title":"Megan Peters","date":"2025-08-31T12:49:04.80","description":{"plain":"I am an Associate Professor in the UCI Department of Cognitive Sciences. 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Martin Patel and his group have co-ordinated and contributed to numerous national and international projects commissioned by a variety of organisations including national research funds (e.g. SNF), governmental bodies (e.g. SFOE), the European Commission, international organisations (e.g. UNECE, IEA, UNIDO and IRENA) and companies (e.g. SIG or Nestlé). Martin Patel is member of several large research consortia (most notably SCCER-CREST, SCCER-FEEB&D, SCCER-EIP and SCCER-Storage) and associations (e.g. eceee and swissesco). He is co-responsible for the Energy Track of the Environmental Master Programme (Master universitaire en sciences de l'environnement, MUSE) at University of Geneva where he also has a number of administrative tasks.\nIn the past, Martin Patel studied chemical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany where he graduated in 1992 (Dipl.-Ing.). 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He then joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain) in 2008, before becoming Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science of The University of Manchester (UK) in 2014. In 2016, he moved to Imperial College London (UK), where he worked as Associate Professor until January 2019. In February 2019, he joined the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering of ETH Zürich (Switzerland) as Associate Professor in Chemical Systems Engineering.\nDr. Guillén-Gosálbez’s research interests focus on the simultaneous optimization of the environmental and economic performance of process industries. He is at present Chair for Programming for the Sustainability Section of the AIChE Annual Meeting and Associate Editor of the journal Sustainable Production and Consumption. He has received several awards that recognize his academic and research accomplishments, including the Top Chemical Engineering Student Award (highest GPA in Spain), the Top Doctoral Student Award (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), the Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship and the Young Investigator Award of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/gonzalo-guillen-gosalbez_photo__person-detail.person_image_wh7oji","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727696816/gesda-platform/person/gonzalo-guillen-gosalbez_photo__person-detail.person_image_wh7oji.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/gonzalo-guillen-gosalbez_photo__person-detail.person_image_wh7oji","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727696816/gesda-platform/person/gonzalo-guillen-gosalbez_photo__person-detail.person_image_wh7oji.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727696816/gesda-platform/person/gonzalo-guillen-gosalbez_photo__person-detail.person_image_wh7oji.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Peter Styring","id":"66fa00d4509e3a5f0784d777","path":"/people/peter-styring","slug":"peter-styring","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/peter-styring","title":"Peter Styring","date":"2024-09-30T11:35:41.81","description":{"plain":"My expertise lies in the field of catalysis and functional materials, together with their continuous flow processing that allows reactions to be rapidly taken from the Discovery scale to the Production scale over a short time scale. 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Zhu conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University (Sustainability Science, 2013-2015) and California Institute of Technology (Applied Physics, 2015-2017).\nZhu authored about 60 academic publications (See Google citation page). Zhu’s research has also been covered by 300+ international media outlets including by Nature, Science, New York Times, BBC, and CNN, and has been cited by policy stakeholders as scientific basis for environmental policies. Zhu is the global highly citied researcher (ranking in the top 1% by citations). Zhu is the awardee of the highly citied researcher by Web of Science, the National Qiushi Scholarship and the 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/zhu-liu_photo__1672529467_01_q44yim","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727697696/gesda-platform/person/zhu-liu_photo__1672529467_01_q44yim.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/zhu-liu_photo__1672529467_01_q44yim","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727697696/gesda-platform/person/zhu-liu_photo__1672529467_01_q44yim.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727697696/gesda-platform/person/zhu-liu_photo__1672529467_01_q44yim.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Dawid Hanak","id":"66fa0132509e3a5f0784d793","path":"/people/dawid-hanak","slug":"dawid-hanak","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/dawid-hanak","title":"Dawid Hanak","date":"2024-09-30T11:33:29.18","description":{"plain":"Prof. Dawid Hanak is the Professor of Decarbonisation of Industrial Clusters at the Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre, Teesside University. 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The creation of a simulation, visualization and interaction platform for Future Cities is at the centre of his research. Gerhard Schmitt established the CAAD curriculum and research program since 1988 when he became Professor at ETH Zurich. His courses included design computing and programming, collaborative and shared authorship design, and global virtual design studios. His research focused on the development of intelligent design support systems, using artificial intelligence methods.\nFrom 1998-2008 he was Vice President for Planning and Logistics of ETH Zurich. In 2000, he initiated the development of a third, virtual campus, named ETH World with an international master plan competition. 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He was Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, at DTU, the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby and at the Technical University of Delft.\nFrom 1994-​1996 he was Dean of the Faculty and Department of Architecture at ETH, president of ETH’s Informatics Commission 1989-​1997, President of the Swiss Computer Graphics association 1996-​1998, Vice President of the Board of the HMT, the Zurich Academy for Music, Theater and Ballet, President of the Foundation Board of the Studienzentrum Pfäffikon, President of the Scientific Advisory Board of Distance Learning Switzerland FS-​CH, and Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University 2004-​2007. \n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/gerhard-schmitt_photo__asd-advisory-board-gerhard-schmitt-2021_oje6ab","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987150/gesda-22/person/gerhard-schmitt_photo__asd-advisory-board-gerhard-schmitt-2021_oje6ab.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/gerhard-schmitt_photo__asd-advisory-board-gerhard-schmitt-2021_oje6ab","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987150/gesda-22/person/gerhard-schmitt_photo__asd-advisory-board-gerhard-schmitt-2021_oje6ab.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987150/gesda-22/person/gerhard-schmitt_photo__asd-advisory-board-gerhard-schmitt-2021_oje6ab.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Andrew Rassweiler","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b097","path":"/people/andrew-rassweiler","slug":"andrew-rassweiler","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/andrew-rassweiler","title":"Andrew Rassweiler","date":"2022-11-20T23:28:54.00","description":null,"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/andrew-rassweiler_photo__Rassweiler_ygt94l","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668986933/gesda-22/person/andrew-rassweiler_photo__Rassweiler_ygt94l.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/andrew-rassweiler_photo__Rassweiler_ygt94l","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668986933/gesda-22/person/andrew-rassweiler_photo__Rassweiler_ygt94l.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668986933/gesda-22/person/andrew-rassweiler_photo__Rassweiler_ygt94l.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Armin Grün","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b0a6","path":"/people/armin-grun","slug":"armin-grun","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/armin-grun","title":"Armin Grün","date":"2022-11-20T23:29:25.00","description":{"plain":"Armin Grün has been Full Professor of Photogrammetry at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry at the ETH Zurich since August 1984 and serves currently as Head of Institute.\nProf. Grün was born on April 27, 1944 in Berneck, Germany. He studied Geodesy and received his doctorate in Photogrammetry at the Technical University in Munich in 1974. He was on the scientific staff at the German Geodetic Research Institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich (1969), scientific assistant at the Institute for Photogrammetry and Cartography (1969/1976), senior engineer at the Chair for Photogrammetry of the TU in Munich (1976/1981), Associate Professor at the Department of Geodetic Sciences of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1981/1984). He had teaching and research assignments at the University of Armed Forces, Munich, Germany, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, USA, Department of Geodesy, TU Delft, Holland, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, the Department of Geomatics, Melbourne University, Australia and the National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan.\nIn his research Prof. Grün is currently focusing on problems of automatic extraction of objects (roads, buildings) from aerial and satellite images, modelling of new linear Array Sensor Cameras, on machine vision tasks, on motion capture, cultural heritage modeling, 3D city models and generation of VR/VE.\nHe is an editorial advisor for several scientific publications, has published over 350 articles and conference papers, and is the author or co-​author of twenty books and conference volumes. Since July 2000 he is the Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).\nHis major international awards and honors include the Otto von Gruber Gold Medal (ISPRS, 1980), Talbert Abrams Award Grand Trophy (ASPRS, 1985 and 1995), Fairchild Award (ASPRS, 1995), Honorary Professorship of the Wuhan University (China, 1995), Miegunyah Distinguished Fellowship Award (University of Melbourne, 1999), U.V. Helava Award (ISPRS, 2000) and the E.H. 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She is the elected chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD). She served as a council member of the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and was the NYU lead investigator for the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment  a $32.8 million grant awarded jointly to UW, NYU, and UC Berkeley. She develops methods and systems that enable a wide range of users to obtain trustworthy insights from data. This spans topics in large-scale data analysis and integration, visualization, machine learning, provenance management, and web information discovery, and different application areas, including urban analytics, predictive modeling, and computational reproducibility. Freire has co-authored over 200 technical papers (including 11 award-winning publications), several open-source systems, and is an inventor of 12 U.S. patents. According to Google Scholar, her h-index is 60 and her work has received over 15,400 citations. She is an ACM Fellow and a recipient of an NSF CAREER, two IBM Faculty awards, and a Google Faculty Research award.  She was awarded the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in 2020. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, Sloan Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, W. M. Keck Foundation, Google, Amazon, AT&T Research, Microsoft Research, Yahoo! and IBM. She received a B.S. degree in computer science from the Federal University of Ceara (Brazil), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/juliana-freire_photo__juliana-friere_pacmdv","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987284/gesda-22/person/juliana-freire_photo__juliana-friere_pacmdv.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/juliana-freire_photo__juliana-friere_pacmdv","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987284/gesda-22/person/juliana-freire_photo__juliana-friere_pacmdv.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987284/gesda-22/person/juliana-freire_photo__juliana-friere_pacmdv.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Mike Harfoot","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b1c7","path":"/people/mike-harfoot","slug":"mike-harfoot","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/mike-harfoot","title":"Mike Harfoot","date":"2022-11-20T23:37:07.00","description":{"plain":"Mike is an earth system scientist with a strong interest in the biological world and his work primarily involves developing mechanistic models to project biodiversity futures. In particular, Mike is working with colleagues at WCMC and Microsoft Research to develop the Madingley model, a novel model of ecosystems. In addition, Mike works with others in the Centre to construct and employ models that can provide insights and answers to specific conservation questions.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/mike-harfoot_photo__michael-harfoot_qfdhlg","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987425/gesda-22/person/mike-harfoot_photo__michael-harfoot_qfdhlg.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/mike-harfoot_photo__michael-harfoot_qfdhlg","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987425/gesda-22/person/mike-harfoot_photo__michael-harfoot_qfdhlg.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987425/gesda-22/person/mike-harfoot_photo__michael-harfoot_qfdhlg.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Nicolas Gruber","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b1d9","path":"/people/nicolas-gruber","slug":"nicolas-gruber","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/nicolas-gruber","title":"Nicolas Gruber","date":"2022-11-20T23:37:42.00","description":{"plain":"Dr. Gruber's research interests are the study of biogeochemical cycles on regional to global scales and on timescales from months to millennia, with a particular focus on the interaction of these cycles with Earth's climate system.\nHis goal is to better understand the physical, chemical and biological processes that control these cycles and to be able to make predictions for the future, especially with regard to the potential feedbacks between the global carbon cycle and a changing climate. His primary research tools are the interpretation and analysis of observational data coupled with the use of models ranging in complexity from simple box models to general circulation models.\nCurriculum Vitae\nNicolas Gruber has been Full Professor of Environmental Physics at the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich since July 2006.\nDr. Gruber was born in Peru in 1968, and moved to Switzerland at the age of 6.\nAfter his Matura in 1989, he was among the first students to enter the new Environmental Sciences degree program at ETH Zurich. As part of his undergraduate studies, he spent one year at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, where he worked with the late Charles D. Keeling, sparking his interests in the human perturbation of the global carbon cycle. After earning his diploma degree in 1993, Dr. Gruber went to the University of Bern for his Ph.D. studies, which he completed in 1997. He then worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. In 2000, he joined the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, first as an assistant professor, and from 2005 until 2007 as a tenured associate professor. In 2006, he was appointed as a full professor at ETH Zurich.\nDr. Gruber has written over 170 peer-​reviewed publications, with more than 20 having appeared in Science, Nature, and the offsprings of Nature. \nDr. Gruber, together with Jorge Sarmiento from Princeton University, is author of the textbook \"Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics\" that has become a standard text in the field. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to Marine Sciences, Dr. Gruber received the Rosenstiel Award from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Miami in 2004. In 2012 he was elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He is member of several international research boards, is member of the governing board of Climate-​KIC, and serves as review editor for the Science Magazine.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/nicolas-gruber_photo__profile.person_image_tsucza","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987461/gesda-22/person/nicolas-gruber_photo__profile.person_image_tsucza.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/nicolas-gruber_photo__profile.person_image_tsucza","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987461/gesda-22/person/nicolas-gruber_photo__profile.person_image_tsucza.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987461/gesda-22/person/nicolas-gruber_photo__profile.person_image_tsucza.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Russell J. 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All of my work has been conducted in subtidal reef environments of temperate and tropical marine ecosystems using both benthic invertebrates and reef fishes as model systems. Because many marine organisms have dispersing life stages (and therefore can have local populations that are demographically open), reef systems provide the opportunity to explore issues related to connectivity, scale dependency and to the causes and consequences of variation in the contributions of different processes to abundance, dynamics and regulation. I currently serve as the Lead PI for the Moorea Coral Reef LTER site, which is part of NSF's Long Term Ecological Research Program.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/russell-j-schmitt_photo__Schmitt_profile_pix_0_uege48","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987587/gesda-22/person/russell-j-schmitt_photo__Schmitt_profile_pix_0_uege48.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/russell-j-schmitt_photo__Schmitt_profile_pix_0_uege48","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987587/gesda-22/person/russell-j-schmitt_photo__Schmitt_profile_pix_0_uege48.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987587/gesda-22/person/russell-j-schmitt_photo__Schmitt_profile_pix_0_uege48.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Sally J. 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Davies graduated in Zoology from the University of Oxford and has a PhD in Genetics from University College London. His research helped develop the field of biodiversity genomics by leading the first DNA sequencing of an entire tropical ecosystem and initiating a global network of genomic observatories. He is co-author of the book Biocode: The New Age of Genomics (Oxford University Press, 2015) and serves on the board of the Genomic Standards Consortium. With colleagues from the University of California, ETH Zurich, France’s CNRS, and Oxford University, Davies launched the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar Consortium in 2013. The IDEA Consortium aims to build ‘digital twins’ of entire social-ecological ecosystems as a key step towards the collective intelligence needed for a healthy ocean and a sustainable planet. His recent research focuses on how these holistic computational models of place might promote social equity and environmental justice. Current projects leverage Tetiaroa Society’s “Blue Climate Initiative” and the Pacific Transect Collaborative’s “4Site” network to enhance science-community dialogue, extend social-ecological foresight, and explore innovations in open democracy at nested levels of governance.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/neil-davies_photo__neil_davies_square_jmkbj3","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987449/gesda-22/person/neil-davies_photo__neil_davies_square_jmkbj3.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/neil-davies_photo__neil_davies_square_jmkbj3","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987449/gesda-22/person/neil-davies_photo__neil_davies_square_jmkbj3.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987449/gesda-22/person/neil-davies_photo__neil_davies_square_jmkbj3.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Govindasamy Bala","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b12a","path":"/people/govindasamy-bala","slug":"govindasamy-bala","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/govindasamy-bala","title":"Govindasamy Bala","date":"2025-08-05T12:38:37.47","description":{"plain":"Prof. Bala is currently a Professor at the Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received his Ph.D in atmospheric and oceanic sciences in 1994 from McGill University, Canada. His main research interests are modelling of climate change, carbon and water cycle, land cover change and climate engineering. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers on climate change and carbon cycle. He and his collaborators from China and USA won the prestigious World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Norbert Gerbier MUMM International Award for 2014. Prof. Baa has served as a Lead Author for the 5th and 6th assessment IPCC WG1 report. He is a member of the “Earth Commission” constituted by Future Earth in 2019 to identify the safe and just corridor for a resilient planet. Prof. Bala also serves as a member on the editorial boards of the journals “Earth System Dynamics” and “Environmental Research Letters\".\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/govindasamy-bala_photo__GBala-May2019_-_Govindasamy_Bala_dzxwud","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987160/gesda-22/person/govindasamy-bala_photo__GBala-May2019_-_Govindasamy_Bala_dzxwud.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/govindasamy-bala_photo__GBala-May2019_-_Govindasamy_Bala_dzxwud","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987160/gesda-22/person/govindasamy-bala_photo__GBala-May2019_-_Govindasamy_Bala_dzxwud.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987160/gesda-22/person/govindasamy-bala_photo__GBala-May2019_-_Govindasamy_Bala_dzxwud.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Henrique Barbosa","id":"66fa01f0509e3a5f0784d7ba","path":"/people/henrique-barbosa","slug":"henrique-barbosa","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/henrique-barbosa","title":"Henrique Barbosa","date":"2024-09-30T12:29:38.96","description":{"plain":"My research focuses on understanding the role of water vapor and clouds on the climate system and how it might be changed by anthropogenic influences. My interests also include biosphere-atmosphere interactions and, particularly, large-scale water vapor transport and the importance of the Amazon forest for moisture recycling and the global hydrological cycle. I have worked with physical parameterizations in climate models, particularly radiation and convection, and the development of Earth System Models.\nPrior to joining UMBC, I was a professor of Physics at the Physics Institute at the University of Sao Paulo, where I served as the head of the Applied Physics Department. I’ve spent some time as a visiting professor at the University of Granada – Spain, the University of Maryland Baltimore County – USA, and the University of Manchester – UK. I started as a postdoctoral fellow at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research for three years, where I later worked as an assistant researcher. I have a PhD in Physics from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. My PhD was in experimental astrophysics, and I studied the propagation of Nitrogen fluorescence light in the atmosphere as a technique to measure ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/henrique-barbosa_photo__Henrique_Barbosa-crop_hbuxp9","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727699198/gesda-platform/person/henrique-barbosa_photo__Henrique_Barbosa-crop_hbuxp9.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/henrique-barbosa_photo__Henrique_Barbosa-crop_hbuxp9","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727699198/gesda-platform/person/henrique-barbosa_photo__Henrique_Barbosa-crop_hbuxp9.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727699198/gesda-platform/person/henrique-barbosa_photo__Henrique_Barbosa-crop_hbuxp9.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"John Dearing ","id":"66fa0221509e3a5f0784d7c8","path":"/people/john-dearing","slug":"john-dearing","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/john-dearing","title":"John Dearing ","date":"2024-09-30T12:16:15.47","description":{"plain":"I am currently Professor of Physical Geography with over thirty years of experience of using lake sediments and other historical records to reconstruct environmental change.  Through my PhD and post-doc studies, I helped pioneer the use of magnetic analyses of sediments as a tool in erosion and pollution studies.  My recent work has highlighted the role of multi-decadal timescales in addressing the complexity concepts that populate national and international research agendas, particularly with regards social-ecological systems and resilience theory (Dearing 2008, Dearing et al. 2010, Dearing et al. 2012a).\nRecent publications in PNAS and Nature have identified new approaches for studying ecosystem service dynamics, critical transitions and early warning signals (Dearing et al 2012b, Wang et al. 2012). Since 2000, I have been PI and co-I on grants worth >£5M from UK NERC, ESRC, Belmont Forum, Leverhulme Trust and Royal Society, with 9 postdoctoral researchers and 11 graduate (PhD) students, resulting in over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters.  I have been involved as PI or co-I on four UK Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Programme grants addressing: ecosystem service dynamics in China (PI ESPA Yangtze PFG 2011) and Bangladesh (co-I ESPA Deltas 2012); methods to assess Safe Operating Spaces for Human Activities at regional scales (PI ESPA EIRG 2012); and Communicating Complexity to stakeholders (PI ESPA RIU 2012) (see ).  I have also played an active role in the activities of the International Geosphere-Biopshere Programme (IGBP).  Notably, I led the international Past Global Changes (PAGES) programme Focus 4 for the six years up to the end of 2013 where we promoted the use of palaeorecords in the study of ecosystem services and complex systems analysis.  I have also been involved with the IGBP-IHDP Integrated History and Future of Peoples on Earth (IHOPE) initiative.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/john-dearing_photo__John_Dearing.tif_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE_ragrnt","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727698521/gesda-platform/person/john-dearing_photo__John_Dearing.tif_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE_ragrnt.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/john-dearing_photo__John_Dearing.tif_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE_ragrnt","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727698521/gesda-platform/person/john-dearing_photo__John_Dearing.tif_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE_ragrnt.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727698521/gesda-platform/person/john-dearing_photo__John_Dearing.tif_SIA_JPG_fit_to_width_INLINE_ragrnt.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Katja Fennel","id":"66fa0258509e3a5f0784d7d6","path":"/people/katja-fennel","slug":"katja-fennel","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/katja-fennel","title":"Katja Fennel","date":"2024-09-30T12:58:27.02","description":{"plain":"Katja Fennel is a marine biologist and numerical mathematician with a PhD in Marine Biology and a Diploma in Numerical Mathematics from the University of Rostock, Germany. She is currently working as a Professor at the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University.\nHer research interests and expertise lie in the development of coupled physical-biogeochemical models. Such models are useful tools that can advance our understanding of marine ecosystems and of biogeochemical cycling of carbon and other essential elements. Given the prospect of global climate change, its anticipated impact on the global economy and our quality of life, and the important role of the ocean in the climate system an improved predictive understanding is urgently needed.\nCoupled physical-biogeochemical models are increasingly powerful tools. Through the assimilation of data emerging from rapidly developing ocean observing systems and the use of paleoceanographic proxies these models offer enormous potential for predicting changes in marine environments in response to climate variability and direct human influences.\nHer research program takes advantage of recent advances in the development of ocean observing systems, ocean modeling and assimilation capabilities, and benefits from expertise at the Centre for Marine Environmental Prediction (CMEP) at Dalhousie and at the Departments of Oceanography and Mathematics and Statistics. In her working group (MEMG) they are using a suite of models that range from coastal to basin-wide to global space scales, and from inter-annual and decadal to millennial time scales.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/katja-fennel_photo__1693594155908_ze1jmt","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727699661/gesda-platform/person/katja-fennel_photo__1693594155908_ze1jmt.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/katja-fennel_photo__1693594155908_ze1jmt","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727699661/gesda-platform/person/katja-fennel_photo__1693594155908_ze1jmt.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727699661/gesda-platform/person/katja-fennel_photo__1693594155908_ze1jmt.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Luciana Gatti","id":"66fa02a6509e3a5f0784d7e6","path":"/people/luciana","slug":"luciana-gatti","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/luciana-gatti","title":"Luciana Gatti","date":"2024-09-30T12:19:11.30","description":{"plain":"Luciana Gatti is a senior researcher in climate change for the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Laboratory coordinator at INPE’s General Coordination of Earth Science. She is a high-precision GHG specialist, coordinating projects in Amazonia and the Brazilian coast. Her scientific objective is to understand the Amazon GHG balance and the drivers that impact these balances, conducting international and national projects.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/luciana-gatti_photo__Luciana-Gatti_1_wblz3q","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727698635/gesda-platform/person/luciana-gatti_photo__Luciana-Gatti_1_wblz3q.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/luciana-gatti_photo__Luciana-Gatti_1_wblz3q","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727698635/gesda-platform/person/luciana-gatti_photo__Luciana-Gatti_1_wblz3q.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727698635/gesda-platform/person/luciana-gatti_photo__Luciana-Gatti_1_wblz3q.webp"}}}}},{"name":"Ray Weiss","id":"66fa02ce509e3a5f0784d7f4","path":"/people/ray-weiss","slug":"ray-weiss","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/ray-weiss","title":"Ray Weiss","date":"2024-09-30T12:41:42.62","description":{"plain":"Ray Weiss is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.  He received a BS in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1964, and a PhD in Earth sciences from the Scripps Institution in 1970. Professor Weiss’s career has been devoted to the application of chemical and isotopic measurements to the study of natural processes in the atmosphere, oceans, and deep lakes.  He has authored or co-authored more than 160 research papers appearing in the international peer-reviewed scientific literature. \nAmong his major research contributions are:  The discovery and characterization of the increase and global distribution of atmospheric nitrous oxide, a stratospheric ozone depleter and a greenhouse gas regulated by both the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols; the first experimental proof of the existence of deep-sea hydrothermal vents; the practical application of the measurement of dissolved atmospheric chlorofluorocarbons to determine the rates of ventilation, transport and mixing processes in the deep ocean and in deep lakes; the first geochemical study of mixing processes in the Weddell Sea, a major source of deep water for the world oceans; and, the first accurate calibration of the global abundance and variations of the atmospheric hydroxyl radical, the atmosphere’s primary cleansing agent. \nProfessor Weiss is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Geophysical Union.  He has served on numerous national and international scientific planning and steering committees, and on the editorial boards of a number of prominent journals in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences.  He has also been active in the international scientific assessment processes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion reports of the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization.  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In 2005, his efforts in developing telemedicine and tele-education are recognized by the creation of the UNESCO chair for telemedicine and multidisciplinary teaching, and, in 2010, of the World Health Organization collaborating center for eHealth and telemedicine.Author of more than 140 original scientific publications, his current research focuses on the development of innovative, knowledge-enabled information systems and computer-based tools for improving the quality, safety and efficiency of care processes, at the local level of the hospital, the regional level of a community healthcare informatics network, the implementation of the national eHealth strategy for Switzerland, at the global level with the Health-On-the-Net Foundation (http://www.hon.ch) and with the development of a large telemedicine network in developing countries (http://raft.hcuge.ch). 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His research included studies of the neurobiology and assessment of PTSD, hippocampus and memory in PTSD and depression, neural correlates of declarative memory and traumatic remembrance in PTSD, PET measurement of neuroreceptor binding in mood and anxiety disorders, neural correlates of myocardial ischemia, and the effects of treatments on the  brain including psychotropic medication, mindfulness training, and Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS).\nFollowing obtaining a bachelors degree in literature, Dr. Bremner attended medical school at Duke University where he graduated in 1987, followed by residency in Psychiatry (1991) and Nuclear Medicine (1997) at Yale School of Medicine, leading to a double board certification. Dr Bremner was a VA Biological Psychiatry Fellow at the West Haven VA and Yale from 1990-1993, Assistant and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology from 1993 to 2000, Director of the Yale Trauma Research Program and Associate Director of the Yale PET Center, before moving to Emory in 2000. He was Director of the Emory Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center 2000-2006 and the NIH T32 funded Training Program in Neuroimaging Sciences 2002-2010.\nDr. Bremner has authored or co-authored over 400 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and written or edited nine books, including Does Stress Damage the Brain? Understanding Trauma-Related Disorders from a Mind-Body Perspective published by W.W. Norton & Co. (2002), You Can’t Just Snap Out of It (2014) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: From Neurobiology to Treatment (Wiley, 2016, Edited). He is on the editorial boards of several journals and has received several awards for his work, including the Chaim Danieli Award for Research and Service in Traumatic Stress from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Millipub Award for highly cited publications from Emory University (2016, 2018). 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Besides activities in public outreach work and education, she is serving as Global Future Council for the World Economic Forum. 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He then obtained an M.S. in Clinical Pathology from Purdue University in 1978, a PhD in Anatomic Pathology from Purdue University in 1981 and graduated with highest honors with a MD from Indiana University Medical School in 1985.\nDr. Badylak practiced veterinary medicine at a mixed animal practice in Glenwood, Illinois and in Hobart, Indiana. Dr. Badylak began his academic career at Purdue University as an Assistant Research Scholar at the Hillenbrand Biomedical Engineering Center in 1983, and subsequently held a variety of positions including Postdoctoral Research Associate (1985), Associate Research Scholar (1988) and served as the Director of the Hillenbrand Biomedical Engineering Center from 1993-1998. Dr. Badylak served as the Head Team Physician for the Athletic Department for 16 years (1985-2001). Prior to his move to Pittsburgh, Dr. Badylak served as Senior Research Scientist within the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Badylak holds over 60 U.S. patents, 300 patents worldwide, has authored more than 350 scientific publications and 40 book chapters. He has served as the Chair of the Study Section for the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and as chair of the Bioengineering, Technology, and Surgical Sciences (BTSS) Study Section at NIH. Dr. Badylak is now a member of the College of Scientific Reviewers for NIH. Dr. Badylak has either chaired or been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to several major medical device companies.\nDr. Badylak is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, a charter member of the Tissue Engineering Society International, and past president of the Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS). He is also a member of the Society for Biomaterials. Dr. Badylak is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immunology and Regenerative Medicine and serves on the editorial board of several other journals. He has received many awards, including the Sigma Xi Scientific Society 2002 Research Award, the Pittsburgh Business Times Hero in Health Care Innovation & Research for 2005, the 2005 and 2008 Carnegie Science Center Award for Excellence, the 2005 Clemson Award from the Society for Biomaterials, and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award in 2008.\nDr. Badylak’s major research interests include: 1.) Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine; 2.) Biomaterials and Biomaterial/Tissue interactions; 3.) Developmental Biology and its Relationship to Regenerative Medicine; 4.) Relationship of the Innate Immune Response to Tissue Regeneration; 5.) Biomedical Engineering as it Relates to Device Development and Biomaterials; and 6.) 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He completed postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia (UBC). His research goal is to use the power of machines to accelerate discoveries in biology and medicine. Specifically, he pioneered the development of the first computer-designed antibiotic with efficacy in animal models, demonstrating the application of AI for antibiotic discovery and helping launch this emerging field. His lab has also been in the vanguard of developing computational methods to mine the world’s biological information, leading to the breakthrough discovery of a whole new world of antimicrobials. These efforts explored the human proteome as a source of antibiotics for the first time. De la Fuente’s group was also the first to find therapeutic molecules in extinct organisms, launching the field of molecular de-extinction. Molecular de-extinction has already yielded preclinical antibiotic candidates. Altogether, de la Fuente’s work has dramatically accelerated the time needed to discover preclinical candidates, from years to hours. Additional advances from his lab include designing algorithms for antibiotic discovery, reprogramming venoms into antimicrobials, developing autonomous nanorobots to treat infections, creating novel resistance-proof antimicrobial materials, and inventing rapid, low-cost diagnostic devices for COVID-19 and other infections. Prof. de la Fuente is an NIH MIRA investigator and has received recognition and research funding from numerous organizations. De la Fuente has received over 70 national and international awards. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), becoming one of the youngest ever to be inducted. He was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s top innovators for “digitizing evolution to make better antibiotics.” He was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Langer Prize and as an ACS Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry, an ASM Distinguished Lecturer, Waksman Foundation Lecturer, and received the Miklós Bondanszky Award, AIChE’s 35 Under 35 Award, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Young Investigator Award, and the ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award. He also received the Thermo Fisher Award, as well as the EMBS Academic Early Career Achievement Award “For the pioneering development of novel antibiotics designed using principles from computation, engineering, and biology.” Most recently, Prof. de la Fuente was awarded the prestigious Princess of Girona Prize, the ASM Award for Early Career Applied and Biotechnological Research, the Rao Makineni Lectureship Award by the American Peptide Society, and was selected as a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine. De la Fuente serves on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals and is currently an Associate Editor of Drug Resistance Updates (IF= 24.3; the premier international drug resistance journal), Nature Communications Biology, Bioactive Materials (IF = 18.9), Bioengineering & Translational Medicine, and Digital Discovery. He has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate multiple times. 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In a Program he is leading we take full advantage of phenotypes, DNA, and cells from the Ashkenazi Jewish families with exceptional longevity and the appropriate controls and his group have established at Einstein (over 2600 samples of which ~670 are centenarians) and discovered underling genomic differences associated with longevity. Longevity Genes Project (LGP) is a cross-sectional, on-going collection of blood and phenotype from families with centenarian proband. LonGenity is a longitudinal study of 1400 subjects, half offspring of parents with exceptional longevity, validating and following their aging in relationship to their genome. The second direction, for which Dr. Barzilai is holding an NIH Merit award that focuses on the metabolic decline of aging, and his team hypothesize that the brain leads this decline. His lab has identified several central pathways that specifically alter body fat distribution and insulin action and secretion by intraventricular or hypothalamic administration of several peptides that are modulated by aging including: Leptin, IGF-1, IGFBP3 and resveratrol.\nHe has received numerous grants, among them ones from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), American Federation for Aging Research, the Ellison Medical Foundation and The Glenn Medical foundation. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed papers, reviews, and textbook chapters. He is an advisor to the NIH on several projects and serves on several editorial boards and is a reviewer for numerous other journals. Dr. Barzilai is in the Scientific Director and on the board of the American Federation for Aging Research, is its co-scientific director, and has served on several NIA study section. He is also a founder of CohBar Inc., a biotech that develops mitochondrial derived peptides as therapy for aging and its diseases and of Lifebioscince biotech. Dr. Barzilai has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Beeson Fellow for Aging Research, the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging Award, the Paul F. Glenn Foundation Award, the NIA Nathan Shock Award, the 2010 Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction in Aging Research and the IPSEN Longevity Prize (2016).\nHe is currently leading an international effort to approve drugs that can target aging. Targeting Aging with METformin (TAME) is a specific study designed to prove the concept that multi-morbidities of aging can be delayed by metformin, working with the FDA to approve this approach which will serve as a template for future efforts to delay aging and its diseases in humans.\nBorn in Israel, Dr. Barzilai served as chief medic and physician in the Israel Defense Forces. 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Dr. Olshansky is on the Board of Directors of the American Federation of Aging Research; he is the first author of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging (Norton, 2001) and A Measured Breath of Life (2013); and co-edited Aging: The Longevity Dividend (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2015). In 2016, Dr. Olshansky was honored with the Donald P. Kent Award from the Gerontological Society of America, the Irving S. 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In addition, he is also the Director of the Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University Health System. Collectively, NUS ageing research seeks to demonstrate that longevity interventions can be successfully employed in humans to extend healthspan, the disease-free and highly functional period of life.\nDr. Kennedy’s research has been focused on delineating mechanisms driving biological aging and identifying interventions that extend healthspan and lifespan. His work was instrumental in uncovering roles for Sirtuins and the mTOR pathway in regulating aging. More recently, he has also focused on aging biomarker development. \nFrom 2010 to 2016, Dr. Kennedy was the President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and he maintained a professorship there through 2020. Dr. Kennedy has an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington, where he was a faculty member from 2001 to 2010, and at the Davis School of Gerontology at USC. His Ph.D. was performed in the laboratory of Leonard Guarente at M.I.T., where he published the first paper linking Sirtuins to aging.\nDr. Kennedy served as Co-Editor-In-Chief at Aging Cell from 2011-2021 and has a long track record of collaboration with scientists in China, where he was a Visiting Professor at the Aging Research Institute at Guangdong Medical College from 2009 to 2014. \n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/brian-kennedy_photo__Brian_kennedy_fatgup","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1726019264/gesda-platform/person/brian-kennedy_photo__Brian_kennedy_fatgup.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/brian-kennedy_photo__Brian_kennedy_fatgup","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1726019264/gesda-platform/person/brian-kennedy_photo__Brian_kennedy_fatgup.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1726019264/gesda-platform/person/brian-kennedy_photo__Brian_kennedy_fatgup.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"David Weinkove","id":"66f9f8eb0c1d37f97d91f322","path":"/people/david-weinkove","slug":"david-weinkove","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/david-weinkove","title":"David Weinkove","date":"2024-09-30T11:19:51.06","description":{"plain":"David is well respected in the academic fields of C. elegans and ageing biology. 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David has over 3000 citations of his work.\nDavid is passionate about applying the strength of C. elegans research to industrial application and he cofounded the Magnitude Biosciences team to bring reliable automated technology together with experienced C. elegans scientists to bring increases in productivity to the whole field.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/david-weinkove_photo__Download_6_enkhyn","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727695079/gesda-platform/person/david-weinkove_photo__Download_6_enkhyn.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/david-weinkove_photo__Download_6_enkhyn","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727695079/gesda-platform/person/david-weinkove_photo__Download_6_enkhyn.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727695079/gesda-platform/person/david-weinkove_photo__Download_6_enkhyn.webp"}}}}},{"name":"Collin Ewald","id":"67dc1ab0746707e83ea47e43","path":"/people/collin-ewald","slug":"collin-ewald","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/collin-ewald","title":"Collin Ewald","date":"2025-08-31T12:23:57.27","description":{"plain":"Over 20 years in the aging research field (academia). 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She was awarded the Chinese Academy Sciences Hundred Talent Plan and NSFC Outstanding Young Scientist Award in 2006, the Hundred Talent Plan Outstanding Achievement Award in 2009, the National Talent Program Outstanding Contribution Award in 2015, and Shanghai Science Leadership Award in 2015, selected as a Max Planck Follow in 2011 and a MaxNetAging Fellow in 2014.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/jackie-han_photo__Picture10_xfi4sk","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1742478277/gesda-platform/person/jackie-han_photo__Picture10_xfi4sk.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/jackie-han_photo__Picture10_xfi4sk","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1742478277/gesda-platform/person/jackie-han_photo__Picture10_xfi4sk.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1742478277/gesda-platform/person/jackie-han_photo__Picture10_xfi4sk.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Peter Adams","id":"68ef50b5ae9234dd2162fd09","path":"/people/peter-adams","slug":"peter-adams","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/peter-adams","title":"Peter Adams","date":"2026-01-15T01:47:00.06","description":null,"image":null}},{"name":" Luigi Ferrucci","id":"68ef539fae9234dd2162fd16","path":"/people/luigi-ferrucci","slug":"luigi-ferrucci","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/luigi-ferrucci","title":" Luigi Ferrucci","date":"2026-01-15T01:48:05.09","description":{"plain":"Dr. Luigi Ferrucci is a geriatrician and an epidemiologist who conducts research on the causal pathways leading to progressive physical and cognitive decline in older persons. In September 2002, he became the Chief of the Longitudinal Studies Section at NIA and the Director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging. Dr. Ferrucci received a Medical Degree and Board Certification in 1980, a Board Certification in Geriatrics in 1982 and Ph.D. in Biology and Pathophysiology of Aging in 1998 at the University of Florence, Italy. He spent a 2-year internship at the Intensive Care Unit of the Florence Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, and was for many years Associate Professor of Biology, Human Physiology and Statistics at the University of Florence. Between 1985 and 2002 he was Chief of Geriatric Rehabilitation at the Department of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology at the Italian National Institute of Aging. During the same period, he collaborated with the NIA Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry where he spent several periods as Visiting Scientist. Dr. Ferrucci has made major contributions in the design of many epidemiological studies conducted in the U.S. and in Europe, including the European Longitudinal Study on Aging, the \"ICare Dicomano Study,\" the AKEA study of Centenarians in Sardinia and the Women's Health and Aging Study. He was also the Principal Investigator of the InCHIANTI study, a longitudinal study conducted in the Chianti Geographical area (Tuscany, Italy) looking at risk factors for mobility disability in older persons. Dr. Ferrucci is currently refining the design of the BLSA to focus more on normal aging and the development of age-associated frailty. 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He obtained his PhD from Harvard in 1985, and subsequently trained with the Nobel Laureate Philip Sharp at the MIT Center for Cancer Research. He started his independent research career at Yale University in 1988.\nJohn Sedivy's research on cell cycle regulation and signal transduction, focusing initially on the Myc oncogene and subsequently on replicative senescence (cellular aging), has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1989. In 2003 he became interested in genomics, and his work on Myc-regulated gene networks led to an involvement in bioinformatics and systems biology. In 2004 his lab started work on single-cell assays of cellular senescence by developing a robust biomarker of telomere-initiated senescence. Using this assay they delineated the signaling pathways between dysfunctional telomeres and the cell cycle, and in 2006 published the first comprehensive in vivo quantification of cellular senescence in aging primates. In 2006 they also discovered that c-Myc contributes to the regulation of chromatin states though the Polycomb pathway, initiating their entry into epigenetics. 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Seluanov’s work has been published in high profile journals including Nature and Science. He received awards from the Ellison Medical Foundation, Life Extension Foundation and from the National Institutes of Health. The work on cancer-resistance in the naked mole rat was awarded the Cozzarelli Prize from PNAS for outstanding scientific excellence and originality, Prince Hitachi Prize in Comparative Oncology (Japan), and Davey Prize from the University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Center.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/andrei-seluanov_photo__Andrei_Seluanov_fkfqbq","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1760515256/gesda-platform/person/andrei-seluanov_photo__Andrei_Seluanov_fkfqbq.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/andrei-seluanov_photo__Andrei_Seluanov_fkfqbq","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1760515256/gesda-platform/person/andrei-seluanov_photo__Andrei_Seluanov_fkfqbq.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1760515256/gesda-platform/person/andrei-seluanov_photo__Andrei_Seluanov_fkfqbq.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Joseph Takahashi","id":"68ef557bae9234dd2162fd3d","path":"/people/joseph-takahashi","slug":"joseph-takahashi","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/joseph-takahashi","title":"Joseph Takahashi","date":"2026-01-15T01:49:43.80","description":{"plain":"Joseph S. 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For postdoctoral training, he was a pharmacology research associate at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1981-1983.\nDr. Takahashi has pioneered the use of forward genetics and positional cloning in the mouse as a tool for discovery of genes underlying neurobiology and behavior, and his discovery of the mouse and human clock genes led to a description of a conserved circadian clock mechanism in animals.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/joseph-takahashi_photo__Joseph_Takahashi_wexv9c","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1760515425/gesda-platform/person/joseph-takahashi_photo__Joseph_Takahashi_wexv9c.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/joseph-takahashi_photo__Joseph_Takahashi_wexv9c","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1760515425/gesda-platform/person/joseph-takahashi_photo__Joseph_Takahashi_wexv9c.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1760515425/gesda-platform/person/joseph-takahashi_photo__Joseph_Takahashi_wexv9c.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Tony Wyss-Coray","id":"68ef55f7ae9234dd2162fd4a","path":"/people/tony-wyss-coray","slug":"tony-wyss-coray","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/tony-wyss-coray","title":"Tony Wyss-Coray","date":"2026-01-15T01:50:11.60","description":{"plain":"Tony Wyss-Coray is the D.H. 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Liu is the Richard Merkin Professor, Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, and Vice-Chair of the Faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.\nLiu graduated first in his class at Harvard in 1994. He performed organic and bioorganic chemistry research on sterol biosynthesis under Professor E. J. Corey’s guidance as an undergraduate. During his Ph.D. research with Professor Peter Schultz at U. C. Berkeley, Liu initiated the first general effort to expand the genetic code in living cells. He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 and became Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University in the same year. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and to Full Professor in 2005. Liu became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in 2005 and joined the JASONs, academic science advisors to the U.S. government, in 2009. Liu has earned several university-wide distinctions for teaching at Harvard, including the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, the Roslyn Abramson Award, and a Harvard College Professorship.\nLiu has published >180 papers and is the inventor of >70 issued U.S. patents. His research accomplishments have earned distinctions including the Ronald Breslow Award for Biomimetic Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Pure Chemistry Award, the Arthur C. Cope Young Scholar Award, and awards from the Sloan Foundation, Beckman Foundation, NSF CAREER Program, and Searle Scholars Program. In 2016 he was named one of the Top 20 Translational Researchers in the world by Nature Biotechnology, and in 2017 was named to the Nature’s 10 researchers in world and to the Foreign Policy Leading Global Thinkers.\nProfessor Liu’s research integrates chemistry and evolution to illuminate biology and enable next-generation therapeutics. His major research interests include the engineering, evolution, and in vivo delivery of genome editing proteins such as base editors and prime editors to study and treat genetic diseases; the evolution of proteins with novel therapeutic potential using phage-assisted continuous evolution (PACE); and the discovery of bioactive synthetic small molecules and synthetic polymers using DNA-templated organic synthesis and DNA-encoded libraries. Base editing (named one of four 2017 Breakthrough of the Year finalists by Science), prime editing, PACE, and DNA-templated synthesis are four examples of technologies pioneered in his laboratory. He is the scientific founder or co-founder of seven biotechnology and therapeutics companies, including Editas Medicine, Pairwise Plants, Exo Therapeutics, Beam Therapeutics, and Prime Medicine.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/david-liu_photo__liu_1_alvpds","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987047/gesda-22/person/david-liu_photo__liu_1_alvpds.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/david-liu_photo__liu_1_alvpds","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987047/gesda-22/person/david-liu_photo__liu_1_alvpds.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987047/gesda-22/person/david-liu_photo__liu_1_alvpds.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Krishanu Saha","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b188","path":"/people/krishanu-saha","slug":"krishanu-saha","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/krishanu-saha","title":"Krishanu Saha","date":"2022-11-20T23:35:15.00","description":{"plain":"Krishanu Saha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 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He is the recipient of a 2012 Sage Bionetworks Young Investigator Award, a 2013 Rising Star Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering group, and a 2014 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/krishanu-saha_photo__saha_krishanu_kxpddj","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987313/gesda-22/person/krishanu-saha_photo__saha_krishanu_kxpddj.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/krishanu-saha_photo__saha_krishanu_kxpddj","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987313/gesda-22/person/krishanu-saha_photo__saha_krishanu_kxpddj.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987313/gesda-22/person/krishanu-saha_photo__saha_krishanu_kxpddj.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Samira Kiani","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b230","path":"/people/samira-kiani","slug":"samira-kiani","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/samira-kiani","title":"Samira Kiani","date":"2025-08-31T05:16:04.93","description":{"plain":"Samira Kiani’s career is built around her passion for applying the CRISPR technology to synthetic biology. She has demonstrated multiple transformative innovations with CRISPR, including modulatory circuits that precisely control gene modulation. She has been working in the area of genetic engineering since 2010 in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), when zinc finger nucleases and Tale Nucleases were introduced for genome engineering in human somatic and stem cells. In 2013, she started to work with the CRISPR technology while pursuing her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Ron Weiss (MIT).\nDuring her postdoctoral years, she established collaborative projects with pioneers of the field of CRISPR, including Dr. George Church’s lab (Harvard) to further advance CRISPR technology. She then started her lab an Assistant Professor in the school of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University, she has established her own independent research program to with an interest to develop safer and controllable CRISPR-based gene therapies. Recently she has moved to University of Pittsburgh as an Associate professor of Pathology. She is the receipt of a number of grants from DARPA and National Institute of Health and has recently been selected as American Association for Advancement of Science Leshner Leadership Fellow for Public engagement of science. She serves in the organizing committee of multiple CRISPR and Synthetic Biology conferences and has contributed to a number of important publications in the field. She is the cofounder of SafeGen Therapeutics a startup with the goal of generating safer CRISPR based gene therapies through immunomodulation. In addition, Dr. Kiani is co-producing a documentary film titled The Human Game about the future of humans in the era of genomics. 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He obtained his BSc in zoology at University College, London in 1975.\nHe obtained his PhD in embryology at University College London in 1978, carrying out mouse stem cell and embryo research with Martin Evans.\nAfter postdoctoral research in Cambridge, also with Martin Evans, and then in Paris, he established his independent laboratory in 1982 at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Mammalian Development Unit, University College, London, directed by Anne McLaren. In 1988 he moved to the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (now part of the Francis Crick Institute), becoming Head of Division in 1993. His lab relocated to the new Francis Crick Institute in October 2016.\nHe was elected a member of EMBO in 1993, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 2001. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA, elected 2002), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (elected 2011). He has received the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1995), the Amory Prize (Awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) (1996), the Feldberg Foundation Prize (2008), and the Waddington Medal of the British Society for Developmental Biology (2010).\nHe has been a Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, since January 1996; an Honorary Professor, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University College, London, since April 2003, and a Visiting Professor, Division of Craniofacial Development and Stem Cell Biology, Dental Institute, King’s College London, since September 2016. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor (2009-2015), and is now a Special Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is President of the Institute of Animal Technologists. He was awarded a CBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List.\nHe is also very active in both public engagement and policy work, notably around stem cells, genetics, human embryo and animal research, and in the ways science is regulated and disseminated.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1726018057/gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1726018057/gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1726018057/gesda-platform/person/robin-lovell-badge_photo__Robin-Lovell-Badge_l7aryk.png"}}}}},{"name":"Isabelle Mansuy","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b141","path":"/people/isabelle-mansuy","slug":"isabelle-mansuy","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/isabelle-mansuy","title":"Isabelle Mansuy","date":"2025-08-31T05:16:43.61","description":{"plain":"Isabelle Mansuy is professor in Neuroepigenetics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and the Department of Health Science and Technology of the ETH Zurich. She holds a Ph.D. in developmental neurobiology from the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France for a doctoral thesis conducted at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel. She trained as postdoc in the lab of Eric Kandel at the Center for Learning and Memory at Columbia University in New York and then established her own lab as assistant professor in neurobiology at ETH Zurich. \nI. Mansuy initially conducted research in molecular cognition and made landmark discoveries on the mechanisms of forgetting by identifying memory suppressors in the mammalian brain. In parallel, in early 2000s, she started to work on epigenetic inheritance and is one of the pioneers and founders of this new research discipline. I Mansuy is studying the epigenetic basis of heritable traits induced by life experiences. \nHer work demonstrated that adverse conditions in early life such as traumatic stress can alter behavior, physiology and metabolism across multiple generations in mice, and that inheritance depends on non-DNA factors in germ cells, particularly sperm RNA. \nThis discovery established the existence of an RNA-based form of heredity in mammals independent from the DNA sequence, …(text continues on next page)...\nsimilarly to what’s known in plants and invertebrates. The fundaments of these findings in mice are being validated by translational studies in trauma patients in humans. This research provides important mechanistic advances about the influence of the environment on brain and body functions and is highly relevant for heritable environmental diseases. It has a major impact on evolution and offers an alternative to classical genetics for rapid organismic plasticity. It also has important societal and ethical  implications. I. Mansuy co-authored >200 research articles, reviews and book chapters in neurosciences and epigenetics. She also published a book on epigenetics for the lay public in French and German “Reprenons le contrôle de nos gènes”, Larousse (April 2019) and “Wir können unsere Gene steuern” Berlin Verlag (Aug 2020). She is active in multiple scientific and research funding boards, is member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), and the European Molecular Biology Organization. She is Knight in the National Order of Merit and in the Legion of Honor in France.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/isabelle-mansuy_photo__Isabelle_feo4vr.jpg","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1677833661/gesda-22/person/isabelle-mansuy_photo__Isabelle_feo4vr.jpg.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/isabelle-mansuy_photo__Isabelle_feo4vr.jpg","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1677833661/gesda-22/person/isabelle-mansuy_photo__Isabelle_feo4vr.jpg.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1677833661/gesda-22/person/isabelle-mansuy_photo__Isabelle_feo4vr.jpg.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Kelly Ormond","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b185","path":"/people/kelly-ormond","slug":"kelly-ormond","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/kelly-ormond","title":"Kelly Ormond","date":"2025-08-31T05:17:16.39","description":{"plain":"Kelly Ormond is a genetic counselor (US ABGC certified) and ELSI researcher.  She received her MS in Genetic Counseling from Northwestern University (1994) and a post-​graduate certificate in Clinical Medical Ethics from the MacLean Center at the University of Chicago (2001).  She joined the Health Ethics and Policy Lab as a Senior Scientist in February 2021, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Genetics at Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA . \nPrior to joining ETH, Kelly practiced as a clinical genetic counselor in the United States for >25 years, gaining experience in reproductive genetics, teratology, pediatric/medical genetics, adult neurogenetics, cancer genetics and primary care applications of genetic testing.  She has spent over 20 years educating MS level genetic counselors as the training program director at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL 1999-​2007) and Stanford University (California 2007-​2020), including teaching courses in medical genetics, counseling skills, ethics and research skills.  She has served on appointed committees and boards for many US national genetics organizations (ASHG, NSGC, ACMG), and currently serves on the ESHG Program Committee.  She is also the current President of the Transnational Alliance for Genetic Counseling (TAGC).  \nWhile at Stanford, Kelly worked as a faculty member within the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE),  primarily participating in bioethics research about the intersection between genetics and ethics, particularly around the translation of new genetic technologies (such as genome sequencing, non-​invasive prenatal diagnosis and gene editing) into clinical practice. She also served on the hospital ethics committee at Stanford from 2008-​2020.  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He studied Physics at the University of Freiburg i. Br. and received his PhD in 1988. He was conferred the “Habilitation” degree (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) from the same University in 1994. In 2004 he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), in Durban (South Africa). In 2005 he was awarded an Innovation Fund grant to set up a Centre for Quantum Technology. In 2007 he was granted the South African Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication. At present, he is also Pro Vice-Chancellor Big Data and Informatics of UKZN, one of the Deputy Directors of the National Institute for Theoretical Physics (NITheP) and Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering of the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST).\nProf Petruccione is an elected member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu- Natal. He has published about 190 papers in refereed scientific journals. He is the co- author of a monograph on “The Theory of Open Quantum Systems ” (more than 7000 citations according to Google Scholar), that was published in 2002, reprinted as a paperback in 2007, and translated in Russian. Recently, he published a monograph (with Maria Schuld) on “Supervised Learning with Quantum Computers”. He is the editor of several proceedings volumes and of special editions of scientific journals. 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He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Calgary in 1984 and a Diploma of Imperial College supervised by Professor Sir Thomas W. B. Kibble in 1985. He completed a PhD in 1987 at Imperial College London supervised by Professor Sir Peter Knight. His postdoctoral research was at the Australian National University, the University of Queensland and the University of Waikato. Dr. Sanders was on the Macquarie University faculty from 1991 until moving to Calgary in 2003.\nDr. Sanders is especially well known for seminal contributions to theories of quantum-limited measurement, highly nonclassical light, practical quantum cryptography and optical implementations of quantum information tasks. 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At Stanford, he worked in the laboratory of Steven Chu on laser cooling and atom interferometry. Back in Konstanz, he joined Markus Oberthaler's group for his diploma thesis, investigating Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices. From 2002-2010, Philipp worked in the laboratory of Theodor W. Hänsch at LMU Munich and the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, first as a doctoral student in Jakob Reichel's team and later as leader of his own group. During this time, he performed experiments with ultracold atoms in chip-based microtraps (\"atom chips\"). He demonstrated a chip-based atomic clock and an atom interferometer, carried out first experiments on quantum metrology with entangled atoms, and explored interfaces of atoms and mechanical oscillators. In 2010, Philipp was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Basel, where he set up a group working on ultracold atoms, optomechanics, and hybrid quantum systems. 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His forty years of work on the nonclassical properties of light and the theoretical underpinnings of quantum computing have established him as an influential figure within the wider UK physics community.\nPeter was the first to predict that atoms in the presence of intense laser fields would radiate waves corresponding to high harmonics, and led the way in the development of code to describe the impact such fields would have on atomic systems.\nAlongside his many other roles, Peter served as the first non-US based President of the Optical Society of America in 2004, and was President of the Institute of Physics from 2011 to 2013. In recognition of his work in optical physics, he was knighted in the Queen’s 2005 Birthday Honours List.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/sir-peter-knight_photo__Sir_Peter_Knight_and_Dr_Andrew_Miller__287985176466_29_h826jg","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987648/gesda-22/person/sir-peter-knight_photo__Sir_Peter_Knight_and_Dr_Andrew_Miller__287985176466_29_h826jg.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/sir-peter-knight_photo__Sir_Peter_Knight_and_Dr_Andrew_Miller__287985176466_29_h826jg","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987648/gesda-22/person/sir-peter-knight_photo__Sir_Peter_Knight_and_Dr_Andrew_Miller__287985176466_29_h826jg.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987648/gesda-22/person/sir-peter-knight_photo__Sir_Peter_Knight_and_Dr_Andrew_Miller__287985176466_29_h826jg.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Rob Thew","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b220","path":"/people/rob-thew","slug":"rob-thew","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/rob-thew","title":"Rob Thew","date":"2022-12-06T02:33:45.00","description":{"plain":"Rob Thew is a senior researcher and group leader in the Quantum Technologies group at the University of Geneva. He is also chair of the Strategic Research Agenda Work Group in the context of the European Quantum Flagship initiative. He studied at the University of Queensland in Australia, completing his honours under the supervision of Profs Gerard Milburn and Bill Munro, before working with Profs Michael Nielsen and Andrew White. He received his PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in the group of Profs Nicolas Gisin and Hugo Zbinden in 2006. In 2012, with Prof Hugo Zbinden, they started the Quantum technologies group. Rob Thew is an expert in quantum communication, spanning fundamental to applied topics, and from technology development to systems integration.\nMore recently he is also working on quantum sensing in bio and molecular systems. He has been involved in European projects since FP5, including a series of Coordinating and Support Actions focusing on strategic road mapping for quantum technologies in Europe for over a decade. He is currently part of the Quantum flagship coordination office and the CSA project QFlag, charged with coordinating the Quantum flagship initiative. 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At the University of Geneva, he was appointed Director of the European studies in 2007, which he reshaped into the Global Studies Institute in 2013; he was the Director of the International Law Department from 2016 to 2019; and he also launched the Human Rights Week, which has been in place since 2012.\nHe started his professional career as a European civil servant at the Council of Europe (1991-1994), and then joined the Université libre de Bruxelles, first as a Researcher on minorities issues in Belgium and then as a Junior Professor. 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He has authored more than 90 publications in journals and books, including the edited volume Architectures of Earth System Governance: Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2020).\nKim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Earth System Governance Project, where he co-leads the Task Force on Earth System Law, the Working Group on Earth-Space Governance, and a research cluster of the Task Force on Ocean Governance. At the Copernicus Institute, he co-leads the Special Interest Group on Network Analysis for Sustainability. He sits on the editorial board of six leading journals, including Earth System Governance and Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law. Kim served as a Lead Author of the United Nations Environment Programme's flagship report Global Environment Outlook (2019) and co-authored the 10-year Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project (2018). 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Rafael’s research has focused on the ground-up construction of original datasets in areas of international politics where open data are still lacking. This was first pursued with regards to the diplomatic networks of emerging countries and is now applied to the United Nations, with outputs of this agenda featured in Third World Quarterly, International Studies Review, and International Studies Quarterly. He will be a Visiting Scholar at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies in Columbia University from December 2023 to April 2024 under the supervision of prof. Michael Doyle. While at the Institute, Rafael will work on a book manuscript providing the first data-driven account of the evolution of the UN and of the core themes of international politics by applying network analysis and NLP methods to the corpus of all UN resolutions from 1946 to present day. Rafael has also provided consultancy to the UN in the context of the “Data Diplomacy Project“, which seeks to harness the potential of data science to level the playing field and equip governments more equitably to operate in multilateral organizations. He obtained his PhD in Political Science from UFPE in 2018/9, with visits to the University of Oxford and to the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). 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His work spans topics such as political transitions, displacement, the economic effects of armed conflict, structural transformation, and studies on political risk, conflict forecasting, and conflict prevention. Through projects like conflictforecast.org and the EconAI research group, Hannes combines academic research at the intersection of text mining, machine learning, and causal inference with public outreach. 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Immersion pioneered many technologies from the first VR simulators for medical schools to the first haptic devices for consumer markets including the first haptic mice and joysticks and touchscreens.\nRosenberg also founded Microscribe, maker of 3D digitizers used in the production of video games and feature films, including major 3D films such as Shrek, Ice Age, and Bugs Life (acquired in 2009)\nRosenberg also founded Outland Research in 2004, a developer of augmented reality and mobile media technologies (acquired in 2011).\nRosenberg was also a Professor at California State University (Cal Poly) teaching engineering, design, ed-tech, and entrepreneurship.\nMost recently, Rosenberg founded Unanimous AI (2014) to amplify the intelligence of networked human groups using the biological principle of Swarm Intelligence.  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Before that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation from 2011-2019.   From 1997-2004 he had roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit, director of the Performance and Innovation Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office.  From 2004-2011 he was first CEO of the Young Foundation.   Geoff has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio and was the founder/co-founder of many organisations, including Demos, Uprising, the Social Innovation Exchange, the Australia Centre for Social Innovation and Action for Happiness.  He has a PhD in telecommunications and has been visiting professor at LSE and Melbourne University, and senior visiting scholar at Harvard University. \nGeoff has advised many governments, businesses, NGOs and foundations around the world. He is currently an adviser to the European Parliament on science and technology and a senior fellow with Demos Helsinki. He was a senior fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg (2020-2022) and a World Economic Forum Schwab Fellow (2019-22).   He recently chaired a European Commission programme on ‘Whole of Government Innovation’ and co-founded TIAL, The Institutional Architecture Lab.  \nPast books include ‘Good and Bad Power’ (Penguin, 2005), ‘The Art of Public Strategy’ (Oxford University Press, 2008), ‘The Locust and the Bee’ (Princeton University Press, 2012), ‘Big Mind: how collective intelligence can change our world’ (Princeton University Press, 2017) and ‘Social innovation: how societies find the power to change’ (Policy Press, 2019), 'Prophets at a Tangent: how art shapes social imagination' (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and ‘When Science Meets Power’ (Polity, 2023/24).  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Hirschman, I am less interested in what is probable, and more concerned about what is possible.\nMy work has been published in across a range of disciplines including management and organization theory (Academy of Management Discoveries, Human Relations, Organization Studies); strategy (Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning); accounting (Accounting, Organization and Society); ethics (Journal of Business Ethics); security studies (Journal for Security Studies); urbanism (Urban Studies); sociology (Theory, Culture and Society; Sociological Review) and philosophy (Nietzsche Studien).\nI also write textbooks (Managing and Organizations and Strategic Management, both with Sage) and monographs, including Brand Society (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Plan B (Murmann, 2015), and most recently, Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action: Connecting the Dots (Oxford University Press, 2022). Last but not least, I curate conversation around emerging themes through co-edited volumes on Business Ethics as Practice (Elgar, 2007); Urban Commons (Routledge, 2015); Making Things Valuable (Oxford University Press, 2015); Thinking Infrastructures (Research in the Sociology of Organization / Emerald, 2020) and a Special Issue on Collective Action in Crisis (in Organization Studies, 2022).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/martin-kornberger_photo__Martin_Kornberger_lwi7md","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1724025821/gesda-platform/person/martin-kornberger_photo__Martin_Kornberger_lwi7md.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/martin-kornberger_photo__Martin_Kornberger_lwi7md","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1724025821/gesda-platform/person/martin-kornberger_photo__Martin_Kornberger_lwi7md.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1724025821/gesda-platform/person/martin-kornberger_photo__Martin_Kornberger_lwi7md.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Anita Woolley","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b099","path":"/people/anita-woolley","slug":"anita-woolley","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/anita-woolley","title":"Anita Woolley","date":"2025-08-31T04:54:25.29","description":{"plain":"Anita Williams Woolley is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.  Dr. Woolley received her doctorate in organizational behavior at Harvard University, and her research focuses on collective intelligence in human teams and human-computer collaboration, with current projects funded by DARPA and the National Science Foundation focusing on how artificial intelligence can enhance the quality of synchronous and asynchronous collaboration in co-located and remote teams. Dr. Woolley’s research has been published in Science and PNAS as well as many top journals in management, applied psychology, and computer science, and she has served as a Senior Editor at Organization Science and is a founding Associate Editor of the ACM journal Collective Intelligence.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/anita-woolley_photo__thumbnail__AWoolley-headshot_m89qqi","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727438114/gesda-platform/person/anita-woolley_photo__thumbnail__AWoolley-headshot_m89qqi.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/anita-woolley_photo__thumbnail__AWoolley-headshot_m89qqi","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727438114/gesda-platform/person/anita-woolley_photo__thumbnail__AWoolley-headshot_m89qqi.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727438114/gesda-platform/person/anita-woolley_photo__thumbnail__AWoolley-headshot_m89qqi.png"}}}}},{"name":"Seth Bullock","id":"66f53ab748837661683c56d5","path":"/people/seth-bullock","slug":"seth-bullock","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/seth-bullock","title":"Seth Bullock","date":"2025-08-31T04:44:41.29","description":{"plain":"Seth Bullock received the first degree in cognitive science and the Ph.D. degree in evolutionary simulation modeling from the University of Sussex, U.K., in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is currently the Toshiba Chair of Data Science and Simulation, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, U.K. He has undertaken consultancy for the U.K. Government on Complexity in ICT, in 2004, and financial systems in 2012. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals spanning health, social sciences, biology, architecture, engineering, environmental science, computing, and physics. His research interest includes complex systems simulation modeling. He has won over £28m in research and infrastructure funding in this area. He was elected twice to the Board of Directors of the International Society for Artificial Life. He serves on the editorial boards of Adaptive Behaviour Journal, Artificial Life Journal, Frontiers in Robotics and AI Journal, and Swarm Intelligence Journal. He has given invited keynote lectures in London, Paris, Athens, Melbourne, Madrid, Granada, and Tokyo.(Based on document published on 13 April 2021).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/seth-bullock_photo__seth.medium_glrvw8","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727347257/gesda-platform/person/seth-bullock_photo__seth.medium_glrvw8.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/seth-bullock_photo__seth.medium_glrvw8","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727347257/gesda-platform/person/seth-bullock_photo__seth.medium_glrvw8.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727347257/gesda-platform/person/seth-bullock_photo__seth.medium_glrvw8.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Mirta Galesic","id":"66f53b6248837661683c56e0","path":"/people/mirta-galesic","slug":"mirta-galesic","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/mirta-galesic","title":"Mirta Galesic","date":"2025-08-31T04:45:32.65","description":{"plain":"I am Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Resident Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria and External Faculty at the Vermont Complex Systems Center, UVM. 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I am also interested in how people understand and cope with uncertainty and complexity inherent in many everyday decisions.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/mirta-galesic_photo__kem_SFI_240607_Mirta-2-86s_dlnokn","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727347535/gesda-platform/person/mirta-galesic_photo__kem_SFI_240607_Mirta-2-86s_dlnokn.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/mirta-galesic_photo__kem_SFI_240607_Mirta-2-86s_dlnokn","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727347535/gesda-platform/person/mirta-galesic_photo__kem_SFI_240607_Mirta-2-86s_dlnokn.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727347535/gesda-platform/person/mirta-galesic_photo__kem_SFI_240607_Mirta-2-86s_dlnokn.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Mark Steyvers","id":"66f53d2848837661683c572b","path":"/people/mark-steyvers","slug":"mark-steyvers","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/mark-steyvers","title":"Mark Steyvers","date":"2025-08-31T04:52:03.03","description":{"plain":"Mark Steyvers is a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine and Chancellor’s Fellow. He has a joint appointment with the  Computer Science department and is affiliated with the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems. His publications span work in cognitive science as well as machine learning and has been funded by NSF, NIH, IARPA, NAVY, and AFOSR. He received his PhD from Indiana University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. He is currently serving as Associate Editor of Computational Brain and Behavior and Consulting Editor for Psychological Review and has previously served as the President of the Society of Mathematical Psychology, Associate Editor for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review and the Journal of Mathematical Psychology. In addition, he has served as a consultant for a variety of companies such as eBay, Yahoo, Netflix, Merriam Webster, Rubicon and Gimbal on machine learning problems. Dr. Steyvers received New Investigator Awards from the American Psychological Association as well as the Society of Experimental Psychologists. He also received an award from the Future of Privacy Forum and Alfred P. 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Trained as a community organizer, he helped craft mobilization and training strategies for the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama in 2008 and Emmanuel Macron in 2017. \nDr. Paulson studied political theory at Yale, Cambridge and the Sorbonne and has led projects in democracy and governance for UNICEF, the U.S. State Department, the French National Assembly and the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C. He served as legislative counsel in the 111th U.S. Congress from 2009 until 2011, organized on four U.S. presidential campaigns and has worked to advance democratic innovation at the European Commission, as well as in India, Tunisia, Egypt, Uganda, Senegal, the Czech Republic and Ukraine.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/lex-paulson_photo__images_mggagd","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1727348203/gesda-platform/person/lex-paulson_photo__images_mggagd.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/lex-paulson_photo__images_mggagd","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1727348203/gesda-platform/person/lex-paulson_photo__images_mggagd.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1727348203/gesda-platform/person/lex-paulson_photo__images_mggagd.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Scott David","id":"65c55d249e947c438698b238","path":"/people/scott-david","slug":"scott-david","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/scott-david","title":"Scott David","date":"2025-05-13T07:39:25.64","description":{"plain":"Founder at Shapeable, a unique digital platform and consultancy for social impact networks, knowledge and data infrastructure, and Collective Intelligence.\nWorking with GESDA to deliver the Science Breakthrough Radar.\nHe has more than 20 years of experience working with global organizations, including the World Economic Forum, where he was a member of their leadership team for seven years. At the World Economic Forum Scott led digital innovation strategy and design across their platforms for data-driven knowledge and communities of global leadership. This included their flagship Global Indexes and Strategic Intelligence Maps, which reveal the context for how industries, economies and global issues inter-connect and impact each other.\nHe has been a speaker on Artificial Intelligence, digital platform strategy, and knowledge architecture, including at IBM’s World of Watson and Neo4j’s Graph Connect, and holds degrees in both Philosophy and Design.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-22/person/scott-david_photo__scott-profile-2019c_uperni","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1668987617/gesda-22/person/scott-david_photo__scott-profile-2019c_uperni.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-22/person/scott-david_photo__scott-profile-2019c_uperni","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1668987617/gesda-22/person/scott-david_photo__scott-profile-2019c_uperni.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1668987617/gesda-22/person/scott-david_photo__scott-profile-2019c_uperni.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Thomas W Malone","id":"66c3e5542e2f8caf2cc79f8e","path":"/people/thomas-w-malone","slug":"thomas-w-malone","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/thomas-w-malone","title":"Thomas W Malone","date":"2025-08-31T05:00:39.18","description":{"plain":"Thomas W. 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In 2004, he published his critically acclaimed book, The Future of Work, long before that phrase became common.  And in 2018, he published his newest book Superminds, which if history is a guide, will have again anticipated major developments in how people and computers work together in the future.\nProfessor Malone is the Founding Editor of the journal Collective Intelligence and the Founding Chair of the Steering Committee for the ACM Collective Intelligence conference series. He has also published over 100 articles, research papers, and book chapters; he is an inventor with 12 patents; and he is a co-editor of four books. He has been a cofounder of three software companies and consulted and served as a board member for a number of other organizations.  His background also includes work as a research scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a Ph.D. from Stanford University, an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich, and other degrees in applied mathematics, engineering, and psychology.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/thomas-w-malone_photo__Malone_photo_d0dszz","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1724114251/gesda-platform/person/thomas-w-malone_photo__Malone_photo_d0dszz.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/thomas-w-malone_photo__Malone_photo_d0dszz","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1724114251/gesda-platform/person/thomas-w-malone_photo__Malone_photo_d0dszz.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1724114251/gesda-platform/person/thomas-w-malone_photo__Malone_photo_d0dszz.jpg"}}}}}]}},{"data":{"id":"66adc56cfbdece682d0b641f","path":"/topics/behavioural-science-of-groups","slug":"behavioural-science-of-groups","name":"Behavioural Science of Groups","outlineNumber":"4.5","__typename":"Topic","typeLabel":"Topic","editions":[{"id":"66ab1bb636a8f2f336a557bf","name":"2024","numericValue":2024},{"id":"684951c963371e51d83bdf31","name":"2025","numericValue":2025}],"openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_topic/behavioural-science-of-groups","title":"Behavioural Science of Groups","description":{"plain":"Equipped with the tools of modern research, it is becoming possible to identify, monitor and predict how individuals cohere into groups, and how those groups behave and interact with each other — to assess collective emotion as well as collective action. \n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1726643972/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1726643972/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1726643972/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v.webp"},"card":{"id":"thumbnails-card-file_gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1726643972/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1726643972/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v.webp"}}}},"banner":{"id":"66ea7f16855ab8592c96f876","image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1726643972/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v.webp","url2x":null,"width":3800,"height":1014,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1726643972/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1726643972/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5-1_image__banner-topic-4_Header_qg392v.webp"}}},"thumbnail":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1760335239/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5_thumbnail__4.5_2026_zwzz5k.webp","url2x":null,"width":3958,"height":2167,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1760335239/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5_thumbnail__4.5_2026_zwzz5k.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1760335239/gesda-platform/banner/banner-topic-4-5_thumbnail__4.5_2026_zwzz5k.webp"}}}},"color":{"id":"65c55cbc9e947c438698a317","name":"Gold","value":"#F5A83B","veryLightValue":"#fdeed8"},"_schema":{"label":"Topic","pluralLabel":"Topics"},"people":[{"name":"Eran Halperin","id":"66b311fadd20bd94d75d4543","path":"/people/eran-halperin","slug":"eran-halperin","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/eran-halperin","title":"Eran Halperin","date":"2025-09-03T04:35:44.03","description":{"plain":"Professor Eran Halperin is a former Dean of the School of Psychology at IDC–Herzliya and now Professor in the Psychology Department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 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I focus on civil wars, terrorism, nationalism, ethnic conflict, and transitional justice after armed conflict. You can check my Google Scholar Profile here.\nI obtained my Ph.D. from Yale University in 2010. I have been an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University (2012-2017), a Niehaus Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (2015-16), and Chair of Excellence at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2017).\nMy first book, Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence during Civil War, was published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). The book, which can be purchased at Cambridge University Press or Bookshop (among other sites), was a runner-up for the Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Award (2018).  The Catalan press ICIP/Edicions Bellaterra published the Spanish translation of the book in their series Colección Paz y Seguridad.\nMy research has also been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Political Science Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Journal of Politics, Annual Review of Political Science,  Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Politics & Society, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Nations and Nationalism, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, among other outlets.\nI received (with Stathis Kalyvas) the Luebbert Award for the Best Article in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association, APSA (2011). I received (with Abel Escribà and Lesley-Ann Daniels) an Honorable Mention in the Best Paper Award of the APSA Conflict Processes Section (2016), and (with Elsa Voytas and Valeria Palanza) an Honorable Mention in the Outstanding Paper Award of the APSA Democracy & Autocracy Section (2023). From the International Studies Association (ISA), I received the Outstanding Paper award from the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration section in 2018 (with Gerard Torrats-Espinosa) and in 2020 (with Spencer Dorsey and Juan Tellez).\nAs Principal Investigator (PI), I have received grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the World Bank, UNU-WIDER, and the Catalan Institute of Peace (ICIP). I have also received collaborative grants from the ESRC (United Kingdom), the Spanish Ministry of Science, and the Research Council of Norway, among others. I am affiliated with HiCN, and a member of the International Academic Council of the Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals (IBEI).\nI am chairing the Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award committee. 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She is director of the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) at Heriot-Watt University, where she holds the Robert Buchan Chair in Sustainable Energy Engineering. RCCS is a world leading multidisciplinary centre delivering innovation for the wider deployment of low-carbon energy systems required for meeting net-zero targets. Her internationally recognised track record covers energy systems, CCUS, integration of hydrogen technologies and low carbon fuels. \nShe has held academic appointments at the University of Kentucky (1997-1998), Pennsylvania State University (1998-2004) and University of Nottingham (2005-2012). 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He was awarded the Gold Medal for securing the highest marks not only amongst the B. Engg. (Electrical) but also for securing the highest marks amongst all the B. Engg. (Civil, Mechanical and Electrical) students. He also earned a Masters of Technology Degree from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India in 1987. He was awarded the Gold Medal for securing the highest marks amongst all the M. Tech. (Electrical) students. Subsequently, he earned a PhD. Degree from the University of Cambridge, U.K., in 1991. He was awarded the Nehru Cambridge Fellowship and Overseas Research Studentship from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust for Cambridge University for his PhD studies, 1987-1991.\nHe joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore as a Lecturer in 1992. He is currently serving as an Associate Professor. 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My research focuses on the interconnected nature of buildings, mobility, and energy systems, exploring how their transformation can support decarbonization and long-term sustainability.\nAt the interface of technology, policy, and economics, my current research expands on these foundations by integrating societal dimensions into modeling approaches. By bridging science, engineering, and policy, I aim to develop solutions that are not only technically and economically sound but also socially viable, accelerating the transition toward sustainable, low-carbon cities.\nI hold a PhD in Urban Energy Systems from ETH Zurich, where my research focused on developing computational methods for the design of urban energy systems under uncertainty. Before that, I earned an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London and a Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in Mechanical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/georgios-mavromatidis_photo__image.imageformat.textsingle.320407271_zmxni6","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1753346556/gesda-platform/person/georgios-mavromatidis_photo__image.imageformat.textsingle.320407271_zmxni6.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/georgios-mavromatidis_photo__image.imageformat.textsingle.320407271_zmxni6","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1753346556/gesda-platform/person/georgios-mavromatidis_photo__image.imageformat.textsingle.320407271_zmxni6.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1753346556/gesda-platform/person/georgios-mavromatidis_photo__image.imageformat.textsingle.320407271_zmxni6.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Daniel Kammen","id":"6881f28a958c2920cfa97f09","path":"/people/daniel-kammen","slug":"daniel-kammen","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/daniel-kammen","title":"Daniel Kammen","date":"2025-08-31T13:28:27.24","description":{"plain":"Dr. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He was appointed the first Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) Fellow by Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton in April 2010.\nKammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. He has founded or is on the board of over 10 companies, and has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities.\nDr. Kammen was educated in physics at Cornell and Harvard, and held postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard. He was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University before moving to the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kammen has served as a contributing or coordinating lead author on various reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999. The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He serves on the Advisory Committee for Energy & Environment for the X-Prize Foundation.\nDuring 2010-2011 Kammen served as the World Bank Group’s Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. He was appointed to this newly-created position in October 2010, in which he provided strategic leadership on policy, technical, and operational fronts. The aim is to enhance the operational impact of the Bank’s renewable energy and energy efficiency activities while expanding the institution’s role as an enabler of global dialogue on moving energy development to a cleaner and more sustainable pathway.
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In the US, he serves on two National Academy of Sciences boards and panels.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/daniel-kammen_photo__Kammen_solar_q14ekk","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1753346651/gesda-platform/person/daniel-kammen_photo__Kammen_solar_q14ekk.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/daniel-kammen_photo__Kammen_solar_q14ekk","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1753346651/gesda-platform/person/daniel-kammen_photo__Kammen_solar_q14ekk.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1753346651/gesda-platform/person/daniel-kammen_photo__Kammen_solar_q14ekk.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Mark Sutton","id":"6881f347958c2920cfa97f55","path":"/people/mark-sutton","slug":"mark-sutton","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/mark-sutton","title":"Mark Sutton","date":"2025-08-31T13:30:24.32","description":{"plain":"The work of Prof. Sutton focuses on ammonia and the wider nitrogen cycle, linking disciplines from micrometeorology and atmospheric chemistry to plant ecology and policy analysis, leading to new understanding and quantitative models.  Prof. Sutton has led a series of key national and international collaborative projects including the NitroEurope Integrated Project (€28M, 64 partner institutes) for the EU.  A key outcome was the first European Nitrogen Assessment (Cambridge University Press).\nProf. Sutton is co-chair of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN), a body of the Geneva Air Convention, and recently led the first UNECE Guidance Document on Integrated Sustainable Nitrogen Management (published 2022).  He served as chair of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) for 2012-2018.  Since 2012 Prof Sutton has been working with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), leading to publication of ‘Our Nutrient World’ (2013) and his spear-heading the GEF/UNEP ‘International Nitrogen Management System’ as a science support mechanism for nitrogen policy, also leading to the first ever International Nitrogen Assessment. \nSince 2019 Prof, Sutton has been Director of the GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub (£17M, 40 organizations) through the Global Challenges Research Fund of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).  This is working with the South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) to develop the community of South Asian scientists and policy makers as global nitrogen champions. This has led to the 'Colombo Declaration' (adopted on UN Day 2019) and the first resolutions (4/14, 5/2) on Sustainable Nitrogen Management adopted by the UN Environment Assembly in close partnership with Prof. Sutton and the INMS and SANH communities. \n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/mark-sutton_photo__picture-998-1504712399_imvsed","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1753346835/gesda-platform/person/mark-sutton_photo__picture-998-1504712399_imvsed.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/mark-sutton_photo__picture-998-1504712399_imvsed","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1753346835/gesda-platform/person/mark-sutton_photo__picture-998-1504712399_imvsed.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1753346835/gesda-platform/person/mark-sutton_photo__picture-998-1504712399_imvsed.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Anna Korre","id":"6881f391958c2920cfa97f6f","path":"/people/anna-korre","slug":"anna-korre","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/anna-korre","title":"Anna Korre","date":"2025-08-31T13:30:04.63","description":{"plain":"Anna Korre is Professor of Environmental Engineering and has been Co-Director of Energy Futures Lab at Imperial, the College’s energy institute between Sept. 2018 and Aug. 2024. Anna also heads the Minerals Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Group, developing engineering solutions to the supply of clean energy, the sustainable production of natural resources, and mitigating environmental impacts and risks. Her research focus is in the areas of modelling risk and uncertainty and assessing the environmental and life cycle impacts of engineering systems. \nShe has led several multi-million international and multidisciplinary projects funded by industry, UKRI, DESNZ/BEIS, The Crown Estate and EU developing engineering tools and carrying out environmental, ecological and human health studies to assess and minimise the impacts of the minerals and energy industries in terms of operational performance, environmental footprint and cost. \nAnna has been a member of the University's Sustainability Strategy Committee (while at Energy Futures Lab), the Faculty of Engineering Sustainability Committee and chairs the Earth Science and Engineering Sustainability Committee. \nCan find out more about Anna's work and impact on the community and sustainability for industry all around the world looking through the research projects and her publications, the three videos below and the podcast of her interview for The Life Scientific with Jim Al Khalili on Capturing Carbon Dioxide and defying Expectations in September 2024.\nhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00237pc\nA risky ride on natural resources – where do we go? 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Yet life on Earth faces multiple threats, from infrastructure encroachment, pollution and over-exploitation to climate change.1 These factors are accelerating and expanding in scale, often originating very far from the impacted places. Consequently, it is essential to improve our understanding of how ecosystems are changing in order to build a future where humans and nonhuman life thrive.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1760320994/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1760320994/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1760320994/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht.jpg"},"card":{"id":"thumbnails-card-file_gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1760320994/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1760320994/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht.jpg"}}}},"banner":{"id":"68ec5e1d7269265f6e27206a","image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1760320994/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht.jpg","url2x":null,"width":3800,"height":1014,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1760320994/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1760320994/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_image__banner-topic-3-5_image__3_Header_foxoht.jpg"}}},"thumbnail":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1760333665/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_thumbnail__3.2_2026_jxbu9f.webp","url2x":null,"width":3958,"height":2167,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1760333665/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_thumbnail__3.2_2026_jxbu9f.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1760333665/gesda-platform/banner/2026-3-2-ecology_thumbnail__3.2_2026_jxbu9f.webp"}}}},"color":{"id":"65c55cbc9e947c438698a319","name":"Green","value":"#0AA288","veryLightValue":"#ceece7"},"_schema":{"label":"Topic","pluralLabel":"Topics"},"people":[{"name":"Sandra Díaz","id":"68593a0361a62d5c68a17beb","path":"/people/sandra-diaz","slug":"sandra-diaz","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/sandra-diaz","title":"Sandra Díaz","date":"2025-08-31T13:32:08.82","description":{"plain":"Sandra Díaz is Professor of Ecology at Córdoba National University, senior member of the Argentine National Research Council and Visiting Professor at Oxford University. She is interested in plant functional traits and syndromes, their effects on ecosystem properties and their interactions with global change drivers. She constructed the first global quantitative picture of essential functional diversity of vascular plants – the global spectrum of plant form and function.\nShe has advanced theory and implementation of the concept of functional diversity and its effects on ecosystem properties and benefits. She combines ecology studies with interdisciplinary work on how different societies value and reconfigure nature. She founded Núcleo DiverSus on Diversity and Sustainability, and co-founded the Global Communal Plant Trait Initiative TRY.\nShe co-chaired the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. She is a member of the Academies of Sciences of Argentina, USA, France, Norway, Latin America and the Developing World, and Foreign Fellow of the British Royal Society and member of the American Philosophical Society. Her awards include Margalef Prize in Ecology (2017), Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science (2019), Kew International Medal (2020) and BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge in Ecology and Conservation Award (2021).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/sandra-diaz_photo__download_4_oemfiw","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1750677932/gesda-platform/person/sandra-diaz_photo__download_4_oemfiw.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/sandra-diaz_photo__download_4_oemfiw","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1750677932/gesda-platform/person/sandra-diaz_photo__download_4_oemfiw.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1750677932/gesda-platform/person/sandra-diaz_photo__download_4_oemfiw.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Alexander Bailey","id":"68593aa961a62d5c68a17bfd","path":"/people/alexander-bailey","slug":"alexander-bailey","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/alexander-bailey","title":"Alexander Bailey","date":"2025-08-31T13:33:37.40","description":null,"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/alexander-bailey_photo__1656001610932_nffvly","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1750678154/gesda-platform/person/alexander-bailey_photo__1656001610932_nffvly.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/alexander-bailey_photo__1656001610932_nffvly","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1750678154/gesda-platform/person/alexander-bailey_photo__1656001610932_nffvly.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1750678154/gesda-platform/person/alexander-bailey_photo__1656001610932_nffvly.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Jeannine Cavender-Bares","id":"68593afa61a62d5c68a17c0f","path":"/people/jeannine-cavender-bares","slug":"jeannine-cavender-bares","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/jeannine-cavender-bares","title":"Jeannine Cavender-Bares","date":"2025-08-31T13:34:13.71","description":{"plain":"Our work focuses on the physiological and evolutionary dimensions of plant ecology that influence community assembly and ecosystem function. We are particularly interested in the genetic and evolutionary basis of variation in plant phenotypes and spectral properties that can be detected at scales from leaves to landscapes. Through our work in spectral biology, we aim to advance remote sensing of biodiversity and the detection of biological processes across scales and their changes through time. A current focus is a collaborative effort to determine protocols and best practices for NextGen spectral digitization of herbarium specimens. We are committed to advancing international efforts for global monitoring and assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services to aid management efforts towards sustainability on our rapidly changing planet.\nThe Cavender-Bares Lab's ongoing projects include: detecting tree diseases and mapping forest composition and diversity using remote sensing; determining the mechanisms and ecosystem consequences of tree species interactions (particularly in the FAB tree diversity experiments); using spectral phenotypes in phylogeographic studies and to test for selection; understanding the ecophysiological mechanisms that influence species distributions; and understanding the evolutionary history of physiological traits that influence long-term ecological processes and can help predict future shifts as the climate changes.\nDr. Cavender-Bares also directs the NSF ASCEND Biology Integration Institute.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/jeannine-cavender-bares_photo__Cavender-Bares_6_2025_f5hnsz","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1750678217/gesda-platform/person/jeannine-cavender-bares_photo__Cavender-Bares_6_2025_f5hnsz.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/jeannine-cavender-bares_photo__Cavender-Bares_6_2025_f5hnsz","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1750678217/gesda-platform/person/jeannine-cavender-bares_photo__Cavender-Bares_6_2025_f5hnsz.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1750678217/gesda-platform/person/jeannine-cavender-bares_photo__Cavender-Bares_6_2025_f5hnsz.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"George Christophides","id":"68593b4061a62d5c68a17c21","path":"/people/george-christophides","slug":"george-christophides","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/george-christophides","title":"George Christophides","date":"2025-08-31T13:34:51.71","description":{"plain":"I am a Professor of Infectious Diseases and Immunity and serve as the Director of the Vector Immunogenomics and Infection Laboratory at Imperial College London. I earned my PhD from the University of Athens and began my research career at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory as a Marie Curie Fellow and later as a staff scientist. In 2005, I joined Imperial College as a Senior Lecturer, progressing to Reader and then Professor in 2011. Since 2013, I have also been an Adjunct Professor at the Cyprus Institute, where I served as Associate Dean and later as its President. Additionally, I have held visiting professorships at the State University of São Paulo and through a joint research initiative between Tsinghua University and the Shenzhen CDC.\nThroughout my career, I have made significant contributions to the fields of insect innate immunity and mosquito-microbe interactions, publishing a series of influential papers that have advanced these areas of study. I played a pioneering role in establishing the field of mosquito functional genomics and contributed to sequencing the genomes of several disease vector mosquitoes. My expertise has enabled me to coordinate numerous international research projects and advise prestigious global organizations.\nI hold roles in various committees and institutes and am an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. From 2015 to 2021, I was a Wellcome Trust Investigator, receiving a prestigious award to explore the complex interactions between malaria parasites and their mosquito vectors. Currently, my work focuses on translating this knowledge into the genetic engineering of malaria-resistant mosquitoes, supported by funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. These engineered mosquitoes are being developed for use in gene drive strategies aimed at vector population replacement, contributing to the control and elimination of malaria.\nMy scientific interests also intersect with climate change and health, particularly in the Mediterranean Region and Southern Europe. I contributed to a European Academies Scientific Advisory Council Report and an InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Global Report on climate change and health. Additionally, I have advised the IAP on case studies and participated in the IPCC Special Report pre-scoping on climate and cities.\nMy dedication to advancing scientific knowledge, addressing global health challenges, and contributing to infectious diseases, innate immunity, and vector biology has established my reputation as a leading figure in the international scientific community.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/george-christophides_photo__photo_1_vqaqou","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1750678299/gesda-platform/person/george-christophides_photo__photo_1_vqaqou.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/george-christophides_photo__photo_1_vqaqou","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1750678299/gesda-platform/person/george-christophides_photo__photo_1_vqaqou.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1750678299/gesda-platform/person/george-christophides_photo__photo_1_vqaqou.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Kiyoko Gotanda","id":"68593ba961a62d5c68a17c39","path":"/people/kiyoko-gotanda","slug":"kiyoko-gotanda","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/kiyoko-gotanda","title":"Kiyoko Gotanda","date":"2025-08-31T13:35:34.56","description":{"plain":"I am an assistant professor at Brock University in southern Ontario and am affiliated with Universidad de San Francisco Quito. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Université de Sherbrooke and a Banting and FQRNT postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. 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He obtained a PhD in ecology in 1993 (San Diego State University & University of California, Davis, USA).\nHis research activities focus on: 1) the impacts of global change, particularly those of climate change and of increasing CO2 levels on ecosystem functioning and plant diversity in terrestrial ecosystems; 2) the interactions between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; and 3) the modelling of nutrient competition between plants as well as rhizosphere interactions between plants and soil micro-organisms.\nAt the international level, Paul Leadley has been involved in various scientific research programmes: Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems, Global Land Project, and DIVERSITAS (International Biodiversity Programme). He is currently the Coordinator of the bioDISCOVERY project of DIVERSITAS that focuses on improving the science of biodiversity assessments, monitoring and scenarios. Paul Leadley co-ordinated the Biodiversity Scenarios Report “Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO3)” for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), published in 2010, and participated in the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES); he is also one of the lead authors of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report.\nAt the national level, Paul Leadley is a member of the scientific steering committee of the Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB), the French National Alliance for Environmental Research (AllEnvi), and a regional program for interdisciplinary research on global change (GIS “Climate, Environment, Society”).\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/paul-leadley_photo__Leadley_r6qjod","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1750678476/gesda-platform/person/paul-leadley_photo__Leadley_r6qjod.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/paul-leadley_photo__Leadley_r6qjod","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1750678476/gesda-platform/person/paul-leadley_photo__Leadley_r6qjod.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1750678476/gesda-platform/person/paul-leadley_photo__Leadley_r6qjod.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Yadvinder Malhi","id":"68593c7361a62d5c68a17c5e","path":"/people/yadvinder-malhi","slug":"yadvinder-malhi","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/yadvinder-malhi","title":"Yadvinder Malhi","date":"2025-08-31T13:36:55.17","description":{"plain":"Yadvinder Malhi CBE FRS is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, and Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College.\nProfessor Malhi explores the functioning of the biosphere and its interactions with global change, including climate change. He has a particular fascination with and love for tropical forests, though he has recently been spotted in ecosystems ranging from savannas, the Arctic, tropical coral reefs and Oxfordshire's woodlands and floodplain meadows.\nHe looks at how natural ecosystems may be shifting in response to global atmospheric change, and how protecting or restoring natural ecosystems can help tackle climate change, and help adaptation to the consequences of climate change.\nHis team at the Environmental Change Institute is known for collecting intensive field data from fascinating but sometimes tough and remote forests. They have ongoing programmes of research in Asia, Africa, the Amazon and Andes regions, and Oxford's own Wytham Woods. A new recent focus has been on nature recovery and biodiversity restoration in the UK.\nWhile addressing fundamental questions about ecosystem function and dynamics, his research findings are significant for conservation and adaptation to climate change. He is a Trustee of the Natural History Museum of London, President-Elect of the British Ecological Society, chairs a number of programmes on biodiversity at the Royal Society, and is a scientific advisor on nature restoration for the UK government and the government of Scotland.\nHe leads an active Ecosystem Dynamics research lab focussing on forest vegetation-atmosphere interactions, employing field studies, satellite remote sensing and ecosystem modelling.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/yadvinder-malhi_photo__ymalhi_g6amub","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1750678590/gesda-platform/person/yadvinder-malhi_photo__ymalhi_g6amub.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/yadvinder-malhi_photo__ymalhi_g6amub","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1750678590/gesda-platform/person/yadvinder-malhi_photo__ymalhi_g6amub.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1750678590/gesda-platform/person/yadvinder-malhi_photo__ymalhi_g6amub.png"}}}}},{"name":"Angela Moles","id":"68593cdb61a62d5c68a17c70","path":"/people/angela-moles","slug":"angela-moles","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/angela-moles","title":"Angela Moles","date":"2025-08-31T13:37:32.70","description":{"plain":"Professor Angela Moles runs the Big Ecology Lab, in the Evolution & Ecology Research Centre at UNSW Sydney. 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At home, Angela has two children and a golden retriever, and is a surf lifesaver.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/angela-moles_photo__Angela_Banksia_herbivory2_ia18sm","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1750678678/gesda-platform/person/angela-moles_photo__Angela_Banksia_herbivory2_ia18sm.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/angela-moles_photo__Angela_Banksia_herbivory2_ia18sm","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1750678678/gesda-platform/person/angela-moles_photo__Angela_Banksia_herbivory2_ia18sm.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1750678678/gesda-platform/person/angela-moles_photo__Angela_Banksia_herbivory2_ia18sm.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Laura Pereira","id":"68593d2361a62d5c68a17c82","path":"/people/laura-pereira","slug":"laura-pereira","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/laura-pereira","title":"Laura Pereira","date":"2025-08-31T13:38:10.75","description":{"plain":"Laura Pereira is a Professor in Sustainability Transformations and Futures at the Global Change Institute at Wits University and a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. 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She is interested in the interface between indigenous and local knowledges and innovation, the role of futures techniques and visioning in enabling transformative change and developing innovative methods for knowledge co-production in Global South contexts. She is passionate about making stronger connections between the ocean community and work happening in terrestrial spaces, especially at the intersection between qualitative aspirational futuring and quantitative models, exemplified in her liaison role with the Earth Commission’s Ocean workstream. 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Blasi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and Yale University.\nDuring the fellowship year, Blasi is investigating a domain of language at the intersection of culture and biology: the lexical representation of the human body across languages.\nBlasi completed his PhD in computer science at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. His research has been published in such prestigious scientific venues as Nature Human Behaviour, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science, and it has attracted the attention of international journalism, including at the Economist, the Guardian, the New York Times, and Scientific American, among others. 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I was awarded my doctorate in 2007, with a thesis investigating the influence of creative translation on Italo Calvino's style and reflections on the evolution of the Italian language. I joined the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham in September 2006 and worked there until 2014.\n"},"image":{"id":"image_gesda-platform/person/federico-m-federici_photo__photo_dbxgg2","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1747236047/gesda-platform/person/federico-m-federici_photo__photo_dbxgg2.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"small":{"id":"thumbnails-small-file_gesda-platform/person/federico-m-federici_photo__photo_dbxgg2","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_64/v1747236047/gesda-platform/person/federico-m-federici_photo__photo_dbxgg2.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,h_128/v1747236047/gesda-platform/person/federico-m-federici_photo__photo_dbxgg2.jpg"}}}}},{"name":"Ryan Nefdt","id":"6824b5a84712b098d1fb6d3e","path":"/people/ryan-nefdt","slug":"ryan-nefdt","__typename":"Person","openGraph":{"id":"openGraph_person/ryan-nefdt","title":"Ryan Nefdt","date":"2025-09-03T04:40:39.66","description":{"plain":"Ryan M. 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Currently I am a  Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Translation and Language Science at Pompeu Fabra University. I am a member of the Computational Linguistics and Linguistics Theory research unit, where I research the cognitive constraints that shape language structure using experimental methods and quantitative typology.  In particular, I investigate the impact of human cognition on cross-linguistic regularities in  morphology and their evolution over time.\nPreviously I was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Zurich (2019-2024), within the Distributional Lingusitics Lab (PI:  Balthasar Bickel). Before that, I collaborated in two ERC projects at the University of Edinburgh (2018-2019), The Evolution of Linguistic Complexity (PI: Kenny Smith) and SYNCOG (PI: Jennifer Culbertson). 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In 2006 and 2007, he won the Most Cited Journal Paper award from CAD and the Research Excellence award in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. In 2009, he won the Outstanding Commercialization award from Purdue University. He was the co-founder of the world’s first commercial shape-based parts search engine (VizSeek) and more recently co-founded ZeroUI whose product (Ziro) won the Best of Consumer Electronics Show Finalist (CES 2016). His research interests are in the internet-of-things, augmented reality, modular and flexible robotic platforms, and human-machine interactions. His current projects include computer vision for object detection and grasp planning, modular robotic platform design, shape recognition using geometric deep learning, and physical reality simulation platform. 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Their studies elucidated the central role of FKBP12 in forming complexes with FK506 and rapamycin that inhibit cell signaling and growth, discovered Tor1 and Tor2 as the targets of rapamycin, and contributed to the appreciation that immunosuppressive drugs inhibit signal transduction cascades that are conserved from yeasts to humans.\nDr. Heitman moved to Duke University in 1992, and is a member of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology where his studies focus on microorganisms addressing fundamental biological questions and unmet medical needs.  Dr. Heitman and colleagues focus on model and pathogenic yeasts including Cryptococcus neoformans and other diverse species from the fungal kingdom. Their studies with fungi as genetic models have revealed biological and genetic principles that can be generalized as models for eukaryotic cell and organism function. 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Recent studies have unveiled novel mechanisms of antimicrobial drug resistance involving epimutations that silence drug-target genes via RNAi, functions of RNAi in genomic integrity of microbial pathogens, and loss of RNAi in hypervirulent outbreak lineages.\nDr. Heitman is a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Scholar Award in Molecular Pathogenic Mycology (1998-2005), the 2002 ASBMB AMGEN award for significant contributions using molecular biology to our understanding of human disease, and the 2003 Squibb Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) for outstanding contributions to infectious disease research, the 2018 Korsmeyer Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the 2018 Rhoda Benham Award from the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas.  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