Moniek Tromp
Posted on November 21, 2019

Tromp

Affiliation: University of Groningen, NL

Keywords: Operando spectroscopy, Catalysis, materials, Fuel cells, Batteries, Photochemistry, X-ray spectroscopy

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Moniek Tromp finished her MSc in Chemistry, with specialisations in spectroscopy and catalysis, at the University of Utrecht (Nld) in 2000. She then obtained a PhD from the same university, in the fields of homogeneous catalysis and time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy with Profs. Koningsberger and van Koten.  After finishing with distinction (‘cum laude’, greatest honours possible) in 2004, she moved to the University of Southampton (UK) for a Post-Doctoral Research fellowship in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis and spectroscopy. In 2007, she was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship to start her own independent academic career (and became lecturer). She moved to Germany in 2010, where she took up a position as professor in Catalyst Characterisation at the Technical University Munich. In 2014, she decided to come back to the Netherlands, working at the University of Amsterdam. From July 2018 she has taken up the Chair of Materials Chemistry at the Zernike Institute at the University of Groningen.

She has been awarded prestigious fellowships/awards like the EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, NWO VIDI and the NWO Athena prize. She is active in numerous science advisory and review panels of large research facilities and universities internationally, part of a European Science Strategy team for large facilities, has published close to 100 papers in high profile journals and given over 80 invited lectures worldwide.

She is chair of the Dutch Catalysis Society (of the KNCV). She is co-chair of the organizing committee of the annual conference on Catalysis (NCCC) in The Netherlands. Gender and diversity are important for her and she has been active as Gender Equality Officer (D) and is now developing programs for primary school on science and engineering as well as gender bias issues. From April 2019, she has taken up a board position at the National Network for Female Professors (LNVH). She is a board member of the Dutch Science Association NWO (division ENW) since May 2019.

Her research focusses on the development and application of operando spectroscopy techniques in catalysis and materials research, incl. fuel cells, batteries, photochemistry, as well as arts, with a focus on X-ray spectroscopy techniques. Novel (time resolved) X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy methods have been developed as tools in catalysis and energy material (battery and fuel cell) research. This includes the development of the required operando instrumentation and cells, as well as data analysis and theoretical methods. Application of the techniques to fundamentally or industrially interesting catalytic processes and materials has been pursued, providing unprecedented insights in properties and mechanisms.

Posted on November 21, 2019

Stefanovic

Affiliation: University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad, RS

Keywords: Bioarhaeology of the Balkans, Prehistoric archaeology, Physical anthropology, Human osteology, Ferility, Paleodemography, Skeletal growth, Sociobiological consequence of aging in prehistory

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Prof. dr. Sofija Stefanović is a Full Professor of Physical Anthropology, University of Belgrade and leader of Bioarchaeology research group at the Biosense institute, University of Novi Sad. Her research in the field of prehistoric bioarchaeology is devoted to investigating the ancient biosystems in order to obtain understanding of the phenomena relevant for the modern populations-e.g. the study of fertility.

She is the first scientist from Serbia who is supported by the European Research Council for the BIRTH project. Project investigates prehistoric fertility and why and how humans survived despite difficulties accompanying birthing process.

Sofija actively participate in different bodes for improvement of conditions of archaeological heritage in Serbia (President of the Board of the Central Institute for Conservation, Belgrade), for creating better conditions for scientists in the region (Member of the Expert group for perspectives of junior scientists, founded by the German National Academy of Sciences), improvement of collaboration between science and industry (Member of the Council for Science-Industry Collaboration established by Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry).

She has (co-)authored 50 articles, three monographs and ten book chapters. Her publication track record includes numerous articles published in the top 10 Journals in Anthropology and Archaeology and book chapters published  in leading publishers, such as Oxbow or Wiley-Liss. Sofija had 50 presentations at the international scientific conferences and organized three sessions at the meetings of the European Archaeological Association and one at the World Archaeological Congress.

At the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, she was honored to supervised many talented scholars in their diploma (30 BA students), master (13 MA students), and PhD thesis (9 PhD students) in a field of physical anthropology and bioarcheology.

Posted on November 21, 2019

Siegel

Affiliation: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, DE

Keywords: Functional genomics, 3D genome architecture, Chromatin structure

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Posted on November 21, 2019

Peyrot

Affiliation: Leiden University, NL

Keywords: Historical linguistics, Indo-European studies, Tocharian language, Central Asian Buddhism, Tarim Basin, Language contact, Population prehistory

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Michaël Peyrot was trained at Leiden University in Historical Indo-European Linguistics, specializing in an extinct Indo-European language from Northwest China: Tocharian. After obtaining his PhD degree in 2010, he moved to the University of Vienna, then, with a Marie Curie Fellowship, to the Turfanforschung of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences of Humanities, before coming back to Leiden, where he is currently heading two projects: “Tracking the Tocharians” (VIDI of the Dutch Research Council, 2016–2021) and “The Tocharian Trek” (ERC-Starting Grant, 2018–2023). His research focuses on ancient Central Asian languages and the historical and prehistorical contacts between them, integrating linguistic inferences about prehistory with insights from archaeology and ancient DNA studies.

Posted on November 21, 2019

Patel-Grosz

Affiliation: University of Oslo

Keywords: Formal syntax, Formal semantics, Syntax-semantics interface, Gesture semantics, Dance cognition, Primate linguistics

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Pritty Patel-Grosz is Professor of Linguistics and director of the Super Linguistics Research Group at the University of Oslo. She was educated at University College London, and obtained a PhD in Linguistics from MIT. Her early interests include the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface and psycholinguistics. She has conducted research on individual variables, agreement and anaphoric presuppositions. In recent work, P. Patel-Grosz advocates for the emerging field of Super Linguistics, whose goal is to expand the traditional boundaries of language and linguistics, by applying formal linguistic methodology to non-standard objects beyond language. P. Patel-Grosz’s current research proposes a unified semantic theory of body movement. In collaboration with musicologists and primatologists, she has explored the semantics of narrative dance, and illustrated its similarities to linguistic semantics; this research is now being extended to non-human primates.

Posted on November 21, 2019

Niessner

Affiliation: Technical University of Munich

Keywords: Computer vision, Graphics, Machine learning

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Dr. Matthias Nießner is a Professor at the Technical University of Munich where he leads the Visual Computing Lab. Before, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Prof. Nießner’s research lies at the intersection of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning, where he is particularly interested in cutting-edge techniques for 3D reconstruction, semantic 3D scene understanding, video editing, and AI-driven video synthesis. In total, he has published over 70 academic publications, including 22 papers at the prestigious ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH / SIGGRAPH Asia) journal and 26 works at the leading vision conferences (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV); several of these works won best paper awards, including at SIGCHI’14, HPG’15, SPG’18, and the SIGGRAPH’16 Emerging Technologies Award for the best Live Demo.

For his work, Prof. Nießner received several awards: he is a TUM-IAS Rudolph Moessbauer Fellow (2017 – ongoing), he won the Google Faculty Award for Machine Perception (2017), the Nvidia Professor Partnership Award (2018), as well as the prestigious ERC Starting Grant 2018 which comes with 1.500.000 Euro in research funding; in 2019, he received the Eurographics Young Researcher Award honoring the best upcoming graphics researcher in Europe. In addition to his academic impact, Prof. Nießner is a co-founder and director of Synthesia Inc., a brand-new startup backed by Marc Cuban, whose aim is to empower storytellers with cutting-edge AI-driven video synthesis.

Dr Kate Laveant
Posted on November 21, 2019

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Dr Kate Laveant

Affiliation: Utrecht University, NL

Keywords: Medieval Literature; Early Modern Literature; Renaissance culture; Book history; Theater history

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Katell Lavéant obtained her PhD in 2007 at the University of Amsterdam with a study on theater culture in the late Middle Ages. She has a permanent position at Utrecht University since 2008 and has been promoted Associate Professor of French language and culture in 2015. She has published a monograph in 2011 and three edited volumes since 2008, and over 30 articles as sole author or first co-author, most of them in peer-reviewed journals and volumes. She has received a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in 2015, to form her own team on late medieval festive culture. Since 2008, she has been a core-member of several projects funded by the NWO in the Netherlands and by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK (Queen Mary University). She also received a Hubert Curien – Van Gogh in 2016 and 2017 for a collaboration with a French team from the University of Grenoble-Alpes. In 2018, she was awarded the Huygens-Descartes Prize for her research and her contribution to Franco-Dutch relations: with this prize, she will set up a new collaboration with a team at the University of Rennes II in 2019.

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Katell Lavéant specialises in the late medieval and early modern literary culture in France and in the Low Countries. She studies how social groups interacted thanks to drama and joyful festivities (such as Carnival) in the public space, and she analyses the literary products of such interactions. Her research is interdisciplinary and crosses several fields: literary studies, history, book history, numismatic, art history.