Author: Jesus Acapulco

Affiliation: UUniversity of Primorska and InnoRenew CoE, SI

Keywords: wood composites, thermo hydro mechanical treatment, adhesive bonding, sustainable development, LCA

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Andreja Kutnar obtained her PhD in 2008 at the Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Wood Science and Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Since 2012 she has worked as an Associate Professor in the field wood science at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia where she led the development of the Sustainable Built Environments Masters degree programme. Since 2014 she has served as the Acting Head of the Department of Technology at the Andrej Marušič Institute, University of Primorska, Slovenia. In 2017 she became the director of the InnoRenew CoE, a research institute founded as a result of a successful H2020 Widespread-Teaming grant application. She is also an affiliated faculty member at the Department of Wood Science and Engineering, Oregon State University, USA. In 2018 she was a DAAD Guest Professor at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. Andreja is active in international associations and networks. She is an Executive Board member of InnovaWood and the vice president of the Society of Wood Science and Technology. She is chair of COST Action FP1407 “Understanding wood modification through an integrated scientific and environmental impact approach” (ModWoodLife). Andreja is co-editor of Wood Materials Science and Engineering (Taylor & Francis) and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals. She has published over 100 papers. In 2014, she co-authored, “Contemporary Slovenian Timber Architecture for Sustainability”, a book published by Springer International Publishing AG in the Green Energy and Technology series. In 2016 she co-edited “Environmental Impacts of Traditional and Innovative Forest-based Bioproducts” a scientific book published by Springer International Publishing AG in the Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes series.

She was awarded the “Jesenko award” for the best PhD student graduating in the year 2008 and in 2004 she received the “Jesenko award” for excellent undergraduate study success. Both awards were received from Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Moreover, she received funding for many National research projects and for several international projects including the H2020 Teaming Renewable materials and healthy environments research and innovation centre of excellence (InnoRenew CoE). In 2016 she received the »Prometej« award for Excellence in science communication for successful communication of wood science in support of the implementation of the sustainable development paradigm.

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She works in the field wood science, focusing on wood composites, thermo hydro mechanical treatment of wood, and adhesive bonding. Her research includes environmental impact assessment of new materials, products, and technologies from origin, manufacturing, use/alteration to reuse or recycle. Furthermore, her research addresses an advanced understanding of wood use beyond conventional measures of performance through interdisciplinary scientific research teams.

Affiliation: University Politehnica of Bucharest – Center for Advanced Research on New Materials, Products and Innovative Processes, RO

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A. Badescu received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (2006), Romania, and the M.Sc.degree in Radio Astronomy and Space Science from Chalmers University, Sweden (2008). In 2011 she received her PhD from University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and is currently an associate professor at the Department of Telecommunications. She has been conducted several international research projects, funded by European Research Council, John Templeton Foundation (USA) etc., mainly regarding radio frequency systems. She has authored and co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, and several book. She has chaired several sessions in international conferences, and participated in the technical committees. Alina Badescu is a member in international collaborations and associations, such as: ASPERA, Euroscience, IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (vice-president, Romania section-starting 2017) and was the country representative of “Graduate Women in Science” and “Space Generation Advisory Council” (2013-2016). She was awarded several national and international prizes.

Affiliation: Ghent University, BE

Keywords: Cognitive psychology and neuroscience, Impulse control, Gambling, Brain stimulation

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I received my Ph.D. from Ghent University in 2005. I was a visiting fellow at Vanderbilt University and Cardiff University before I became a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter. In 2012, I was appointed to a Chair in Cognitive Psychology at Exeter. In 2017, I moved back to Ghent University to take up Research Professorship.

My contributions to psychology are in the study of executive control mechanisms. I examine how people withhold or suppress inappropriate or risky actions, switch between tasks and response strategies, and adjust behavior after bad outcomes. I also study how executive control and learning interact, and how action control, decision-making, and motivation are related. As well as my theoretical and methodological contributions to the field, my work has opened up promising new avenues for treating impulsive disorders.

Affiliation: University of Twente, NL

Keywords: Electronic structure theory, Green’s function-based many-body perturbation theory, density functional theory, light-harvesting, perovskites, photovoltaics, photosynthesis

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After completing a PhD in physics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, Dr. Linn Leppert moved to the beautiful shores of Berkeley for a two-year postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2017 she returned to her alma mater, now leading an independent junior research group in the Department of Physics. Linn has received funding from the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation, the German research foundation, and the Elite Network of Bavaria, and awards for her dissertation and postdoctoral research. Her research interests and main expertise are the development and application of accurate methods for calculating the electronic structure and dynamics of light-converting systems: from halide perovskites for photovoltaic applications to the chlorophyll molecules at the heart of charge excitation and transfer in photosynthesis.

Affiliation: BC Materials, ES

Keywords: Sustainable Energy, Photovoltaics, Molecular solar cells, Energy Storage, Electrochemistry, Physical Chemistry, Electron transfer reaction, Photo-electrochemistry.

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Born and brought up in India, studied Materials Chemistry (2002) and finished his Ph.D. (2006). Subsequently he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow to work on surface and interface studies of electrodeposited layers in ionic liquids by scanning probe microscopy. He was a regular visitor at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, where he developed nanoporous films for metal-free electro-catalysis and new redox shuttle. In 2011 he accepted the offer as program head of new concept in photovoltaics and advanced materials and was the strategic hire for the Abengoa Research, a corporate research centre of multinational energy based conglomerate Abengoa. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, board member of Journals, and recently his work was endorsed by European research council consolidator grant (2016). He is the inventor of 7 family of patents (23 patents), the impact of work led to the invitation to speak at many conferences and institutional seminars. His work has been summarized in >100 articles, along with many popular science articles, and the publications list reflects his diverse field of interest in the domain of physical chemistry, nanotechnology and materials science. In summer 2017, he accepted the call from Ikerbasque to work as professor at Basque centre for materials, applications and Nanostructures. His research mission is the development of new materials for energy storage and conversion application.

Affiliation: Durham University, UK

Keywords: History of philosophy: from the early Greek Philosophers to Aquinas
Metaphysics: fundamentality; composition and structure; the nature of properties, dispositions, relations; the metaphysics of substance; causation.

Philosophy of mind: Perception
Philosophy of religion: incarnation and trinity

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Anna is currently affiliated to Corpus as a Research Fellow and is an associate Faculty member in the Philosophy Faculty, while she concomitantly holds the Chair of Metaphysics (2017-) at Durham University. Anna came to Corpus in 2007, after earning her doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh (2006) and her Laurea, also in Philosophy, from the University of Pisa (2000). In her 11 years at Corpus, Anna has also been a Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy in the Faculty and in College (2007-08), a Junior Research Fellow (funded by a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-11), and an Official Fellow in philosophy (2011-2017). She has so far served in College as SCR Master, Tutor for Women, Dean of Degrees, and University Pro-Proctor. She lives in Oxford.

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Anna specializes in two research areas: on the one hand, ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy, and on the other, metaphysics. She also has strong research interest in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. In metaphysics she is particularly interested in questions concerning fundamentality; composition and structure; the nature of properties, dispositions, relations; the metaphysics of substance; and causation. In the history of philosophy, she has worked on an eclectic collection of topics, in Anaxagoras, Aristotle, Plotinus, the Stoics, Gregory of Nyssa, and Thomas Aquinas. Anna has published monographs, edited books and journal articles in all these areas. She is currently working on a new monograph, Forms and Structure in Plato’s Metaphysics. She has been directing a large-scale multidisciplinary research group, with funding (in successive stages) from the European Research Council, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the AHRC, with a combined research budget of over £2,5M. She is also the founder and co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Dialogoi. Ancient Philosophy Today, published by Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in press from 2019.