Author: Jesus Acapulco

Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin, IR

Keywords: Molecular science, Inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, Coordination chemistry, 2D nanomaterials, Reaction mechanism elucidation

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Aidan hails from Dublin, Ireland. He obtained a first class honours degree in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, in 2002. From 2003 until 2008 he performed Ph.D. research in Organometallic Chemistry in the group of Prof. Dr. Gerard van Koten at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. From 2008 until 2012 he was a Postdoctoral research fellow in Bioinorganic Chemistry in the group of Prof. Lawrence Que, Jr., at the University of Minnesota, USA. In 2012 Aidan was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin, and was recently (2017) promoted to Associate Professor. Aidan was the holder of a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellowship (2009-11) and was previously a Marie Curie Career Integration fellow (2013-17). In late 2015 Aidan was awarded an ERC starting grant, and in late 2016 a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

Aidan’s research group’s interests revolve around the multidisciplinary field of Bioinorganic Chemistry. His groups strives to prepare highly reactive oxidants for the up-conversion of saturated hydrocarbons. His group also explores the Chemistry of 2-dimensional nanomaterials.

Affiliation: Universidad de Zaragoza, ES

Keywords: Nanocarbon and related materials (including nanodiamonds, nanotubes…); Plasmonics; Transmission electron microscopy – electron energy loss spectroscopy; 2D materiales (graphene, h-BN, MoS2,…)

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Dr. Raul Arenal received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Univ. Paris-Sud (Orsay, France, 2005) and in 2013, he obtained his Habilitation (HDR) also at this University. From April 2005 to August 2007, he joined the Electron Microscopy Center in Argonne National Laboratory (ANL, USA) as post doctoral fellow. In 2007, he became research scientist (Chargé de Recherches) at the CNRS (France), working at the LEM, CNRS-ONERA (Chatillon, France). From September 2010 to December 2011, he was visiting scientist (sabbatical position) at the Laboratorio de Microscopias Avanzadas (LMA) at the Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragon (INA) of the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Since 2012, Dr. Arenal is on leave from the CNRS, and he is currently ARAID research scientist at the LMA-INA-Universidad de Zaragoza. In addition, since 2007 he is visiting researcher at the ANL (USA). His broad area of research interest lies in electron microscopy focused on materials science and nanoscience: TEM (EELS, HR(S)TEM, electron diffraction, electron tomography). These studies are mainly focused on the growth mechanism, structural and physical (electronic, optical, vibrational (Raman spectroscopy), mechanical) properties of nanomaterials based on carbon, boron and nitrogen as well as other nano-structures (in particular, metallic nano-objects for plasmonic/photonic interest).

Affiliation: Koç University, Istanbul, TR

Keywords: Social welfare, social movements, political sociology, historical sociology

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Erdem Yörük is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Koç University and an Associate Member at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at University of Oxford. He is the principle investigator of the ERC project, “The New Politics of Welfare: Towards an ‘Emerging Markets’ Welfare State Regime.” He holds a PhD from the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University (2012), an MA in Sociology and a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogaziçi University. His work focuses on social welfare and social policy, social movements, political sociology, and comparative and historical sociology. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Ford Foundation, European Commission Marie Curie CIG and ERC. His articles have appeared in Politics & Society, New Left Review, Current Sociology, South Atlantic Quarterly and International Journal of Communication, among others.

Affiliation: University of Konstanz, DE

Keywords: Comparative public policy, Welfare states, Political economy, Education policy, Public opinion on social policy and redistribution, Vocational education and training policies

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Affiliation: University of Freiburg, DE

Keywords: English literature, listology (lists in literature and culture), narrative theory / narratology, medieval studies

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Eva von Contzen is assistant professor of English literature at the University of Freiburg and the principal investigator of the ERC-funded project “Lists in Literature and Culture”. She has recently published The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration (Manchester 2016) and pursues her interest in narrative and medieval literature in the interdisciplinary network “Medieval Narratology”. Her research interests include narrative theory, in particular its diachronic and historical dimension, epic catalogues, the reception of classical literature in contemporary literature and culture, and cognitive literary studies. Currently, her main project is devoted to lists and enumerations in literary texts from antiquity to postmodernism.

Affiliation: Bangor University, UK

Keywords: Action, perception, brain imaging, social neuroscience, dance, aesthetics, learning, robotics

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Emily is a professor of social neuroscience and dancer based at the School of Psychology at Bangor University, where she directs the Social Brain in Action Laboratory. Using intensive training procedures, functional neuroimaging, and paradigms involving dance, acrobatics and robots, she explores observational learning throughout the lifespan, how motor expertise is manifest, and social influences on human-robot interaction. Emily received a BA in psychology and dance from Pomona College, an MSc in cognitive psychology from the University of Otago as a Fulbright Fellow in New Zealand, and a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Dartmouth College. She undertook postdoctoral training at University of Nottingham and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and was previously an assistant professor at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (USA), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Economic and Social Research Council (UK), Ministry of Defence (UK), and European Research Council.

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Through her research, Emily examines how experience-dependent plasticity is manifest in the human brain and behaviour. In particular, her work probes how different types of experience (including physical and observational training, aesthetic evaluation, and observers’ expectations about other agents) shape perception, and how these different kinds of experience-based plasticity changes throughout the lifespan. The tools she uses to tackle these questions include intensive behavioural training paradigms, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), and neurostimulation (TMS/tDCS) techniques.

Affiliation: Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, NL

Keywords: Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Neurochemistry, Dopamine, Habit Formation, Drug Addiction, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

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Ingo Willuhn received his PhD from The Chicago Medical School in 2007. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle before accepting his position as group leader at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Associate Professor at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam in 2013. Ingo is a behavioral neuroscientist with a background in functional neuroanatomy who is interested in how neuromodulators such as dopamine regulate brain networks under normal (e.g., reward learning) as well as pathological conditions (e.g., addiction). Throughout his career, he pursued these interests by combining state-of-the-art neuroscience tools and behavioral testing paradigms. His pre-clinical group studies the neurobiology of compulsive behavior and basic behavioral functions potentially contributing to compulsivity. The team has close ties to clinical scientists studying and treating such behaviors, thus, providing optimal conditions for a translational, multidisciplinary approach.

Affiliation: RIMLS, Tumour Immunology Lab, NL

Keywords: Chemical Immunology, Chemical Biology, Tumor Immunology, Cancer Immunotherapy, Cancer Vaccines, Tumor Microenvironment, Activity-based Probes, Proteases

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Martijn Verdoes obtained his PhD degree in Organic Chemistry from Leiden University in 2008. His thesis work mainly focused on the design and synthesis of activity-based inhibitors and probes to study proteasome function. In 2009, Martijn got awarded a NWO Rubicon Fellowship and he joined the lab of Prof. Matthew Bogyo at the Stanford School of Medicine, California, USA, where he designed and synthesized quenched activity-based probes (qABPs) for non-invasive imaging of cancer. Inspired by the observation that his qABPs got activated in specific immune cells in tumors he joined the Tumor Immunology Department in the Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (RIMLS) in 2013. In 2015, he got awarded an Institute of Chemical Immunology Tenure Track Fellowship as well as an ERC Starting Grant. Martijn Verdoes is Assistant Professor at the Department of Tumor Immunology, Radboudumc and is affiliated with Bio-organic Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, Radboud University.

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Research interests include organic chemistry, chemical biology and tumor immunology with the aim to combine all these disciplines in the new and emerging field of chemical immunology. Current research projects focus on the development of novel immunomodulatory approaches to aid cancer immunotherapy. Molecularly defined macromolecules are synthesized to deliver tumor antigens to dendritic cells to educate the immune system. Furthermore, molecules which are able to dampen the immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment are designed and synthesized to prime a tumor for infiltrating effector immune cells. To study the role of proteases in cancer, in specific immune cells and in specific cellular compartments, smart imaging tools – activity-based probes – are designed and synthesized and applied in noninvasive optical imaging, intravital microscopy and biochemical characterization studies. Together, the research efforts at the interface of chemistry and immunology will give us new insights in the development of more effective and safer immunotherapeutic approaches.

Affiliation: VU University, NL
Keywords: High energy physics, quantum chromodynamics, machine learning, particle physics at colliders

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Juan Rojo obtained his PhD in Barcelona (2006) with a study of the proton structure based on artificial neural networks. He has been postdoc in Paris and Milan, a Marie Curie Fellow at the Theory Division of CERN (Geneva), and between 2014 and 2016 he held a junior faculty position (STFC Rutherford Fellow) at the University of Oxford. Since 2016 he’s associate professor at the VU in Amsterdam as well as staff member at the theory group of Nikhef. He has published over 70 papers (cited 7000 times with h-index of 42). He has received funding among other bodies from the ERC (Starting Grant 2013) and from the UK STFC (Rutherford Grant 2012). Juan was selected for the Young Academy of Europe in 2017. Juan is also very active in outreach activities, and in 2016 he published a popular science book in Spanish, “The inner life of particles”.

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Quantum Chromodynamics, Large Hadron Collider phenomenology, parton distributions functions, jet reconstruction and substructure and opportunities for Beyond the Standard Model searches from precision observables. I am one of the leading authors of the NNPDF sets of parton distribution functions, as well as author of frequency used codes for high energy physics phenomenology such as APFEL, Hoppet and the aMCfast interface to aMC@NLO.