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Affiliation: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Keywords: volcanology, geology, geothermal, geomechanics, rock physics

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Jackie Evan Kendrick is an Experimental Volcanologist in the Faculty of Geosciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She uses magma deformation tests, rock mechanics, microstructural work and geochemical analytical approaches to understand volcanic, magmatic and hydrothermal systems. She obtained her PhD in Mineralogy from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2013, and has a Masters in Geology from University College London. Since then she has worked as a Research Associate in The University of Edinburgh and held a prestigious Early Career Fellowship of the Leverhulme Trust at the University of Liverpool. Jackie has won several grants and collaborative projects, funded by the European Research Council, UK Research and Innovation and the German Research Foundation (DFG) amongst others. In 2016 she received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the Geochemistry-Mineralogy-Petrology-Volcanology division of the European Geosicences Union. Jackie’s expertise include magma rheology, rock physics, dome-building volcanoes and eruptions, magma and rock permeability, sector collapses and large mass movements/ landslides, thermal and mechanical stimulation, volcano monitoring, microseismics and seismology, geomagnetism, hydrothermal alteration, building and structure resilience to ballistic impacts, and technological development including in-situ 4D tomography at high temperature, and design of bespoke high temperature and high pressure experimental apparatus. Jackie is also interested in the development of online, accessible teaching materials, specifically virtual experiments and field trips and has taught on an annual residential training programme for Teachers of Geology accredited by the Geological Society of London. She has over 70 published journal articles and book chapters, is member of a number of governing and advisory bodies, and has sat on panels for various European funding agencies. She is also an Editor for Frontiers and Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, has chaired sessions at national and international conferences and was the lead organiser of the Joint Assembly, a specialist conference with >450 attendees in Liverpool in 2017. Jackie became a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe in 2019.

Affiliation: Tel Aviv University, IL

Keywords: Databases, Web Data Management, Data Provenance

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Daniel Deutch is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of Tel Aviv University. His Ph.D. in Computer Science is from Tel Aviv University and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and INRIA France. His research focuses on advanced database applications and web data management, studying both theoretical and practical aspects of issues such as data provenance, analysis of web applications and data, and dealing with data uncertainty. Daniel’s research has been disseminated by papers in the top conferences and journals on data and web data management, including VLDB, SIGMOD/PODS, WWW, VLDBJ, TODS and others. He has served on the Program Committee of top conferences including VLDB, SIGMOD, PODS and WWW. He has won a number of research awards including the VLDB 2017 best paper award, the 2016 Krill Prize (awarded by the Wolf Foundation) and the 2013-14 Yahoo! Early Career Award. His research was awarded multiple competitive grants by the European Research Council (ERC starting grant), Israeli Science Foundation (ISF, twice), the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the Broadcom Foundation, the Israeli Ministry of Science (MOST), and the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Institute (ICRC).

Affiliation: Tilburg University, NL; Vrije Universiteit Brussels, BE

Keywords: Legal history, Commercial law, Economic history

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My research is focused on themes regarding the history of commercial and private law until the present day. The main topics of research are insolvency and company law, and my period of expertise is the later middle ages and the early modern period.

Affiliation: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES

Keywords: History and Philosophy of 18^th and 20^th century Physics, History and Philosophy Cosmology, Explanation and idealization in the natural sciences and engineering, Immanuel Kant, Hermann Weyl

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After receiving her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, she worked as post-doc in UK (University College London), Germany (Siegen University and TU Dortmund) and France (ENS Paris). In 2014 she moved to Barcelona and worked as Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science of the UAB. In 2017, she joined the Department of Philosophy as Ramón y Cajal Fellow. On the very same year she was awarded the ERC-StG Grant n. 758145: PROTEUS “Paradoxes and Metaphors of Time in Early Universe(s)” (Project website: http://www.proteus-pmte.eu/)

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Her research interests cover epistemological questions emerging in Immanuel Kant’s philosophy and natural science, as well as in Hermann Weyl’s scientific and philosophical works. She develops methodologies that integrate the history and philosophy of science and explores how models work in scientific practice. In 2017 she undertook the project RYC-2015-17289: “From the origin of Earth to ethics: Kant and the sciences of his time” (2017-2022). In September 2018 she started leading as PI the ERC-STG project PROTEUS “Paradoxes and Metaphors of Time in Early Universe(s)” (2018-2023) that investigates through a multidisciplinary research team different cosmological models and their implications for the philosophy of time and metaphysics.

Affiliation: University of Edinburgh, UK

Keywords: Experimental linguistics, Syntax, Morphology, Language evolution, Language acquisition

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Jennifer Culbertson obtained her PhD in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2010. Her dissertation was awarded the Robert J. Glushko Prize for Outstanding Dissertations in Cognitive Science in 2011. In 2014 she took up a Chancellor’s Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, and was promoted to Reader in 2018. She is a founding member of the Centre for Language Evolution at Edinburgh. Her research has been supported by over €2 million in funding from the ESRC and ERC (including an ERC Starting Grant). She was selected for the Young Academy of Europe in 2019.

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Her main area of research is linguistics, specifically grammatical structures (like word order) and morphological categories (like gender and person systems). She uses experimental and computational tools to investigate how these key features of language are shaped by properties of the human cognitive system through learning and use.

Affiliation: University of Pavia, IT

Keywords: Hybrid perovskite, Solar cells, Interface physics, Charge dynamics, Ultrafast spectroscopy, Halide perovskites interfaces, Photophysics

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Giulia Grancini is currently Team Leader at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Valais  based in Sion (Switzerland). In 2012, she obtained her PhD in Physics cum Laude from the Politecnico of Milan with an experimental thesis focused on the realization of a new femtosecond-microscope for mapping the ultrafast phenomena at organic interfaces. During the PhD she worked for one year at the Physics Department of Oxford University where she pioneered new concepts within polymer/oxide solar cell technology. From 2012-2015, she has been post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (CNST@PoliMi) in Milan. From 2015 to 2019 she joined the group of Prof. Nazeeruddin at EPFL awarded first with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship and, since 2017 with the Swiss Ambizione Energy Grant, which provides independent young researchers with up to 1million CHF for leading innovative projects in the energy sector. In July 2018 she has been awarded with a ERC Starting Grant on Hybrid Nanostructured Interfaces for efficient and stable new generation solar cells. From 1^st July 2019 she will join as Associate Professor the Chemistry-Physics Departement of the Univeristy of Pavia, Italy, where she will lead a group on state of the art research in multi-dimensional hybrid perovskites field for photovoltaics and beyond.

Giulia received an MS in Physical Engineering in 2008 and obtained her PhD in Physics cum laude in 2012 at the Politecnico of Milan. Her experimental thesis focused on the realisation of a new femtosecond-microscope for mapping the ultrafast phenomena at organic interfaces. During her PhD, she worked for one year at the Physics Department of Oxford University where she pioneered new concepts within polymer/oxide solar cell technology. From 2012-2015, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in Milan. In 2015, she joined the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with a Co-Funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. From 2016 to 2019, she has been awarded by the Swiss Ambizione Energy Grant providing a platform to lead her independent research group at EPFL.

Since July 2019, Giulia is Associate Professor at Physical Chemistry Unit at University of Pavia, leading the PVsquared2 team, and PI of the ERCStG Project “HYNANO”aiming at the development of advanced hybrid perovskites materials and innovative functional interfaces for efficient, cheap and stable photovoltaics. Within this field, Giulia contributed to reveal the fundamental lightinduced dynamical processes underlying the operation of such advanced optoelectronic devices whose understanding is paramount for a smart device optimization.

She is author of 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers bringing her h-index to 43 (>13’000 citations), focused on material design and understanding of the interface physics which governs the operation of organic and hybrid perovskite devices.

Recently, she received the USERN prize in Physical Science, the Swiss Physical Society Award in 2018 for Young Researcher and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics. She is currently USERN Ambassador for Italy and board member of the Young Academy of Europe.

Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO

Keywords: Greek and Roman literature, textual criticism and classical philology, literary theory, allusion and intertextuality, reception studies and the classical tradition.

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Thea S. Thorsen earned her PhD in Bergen (Norway) with a study of the authenticity of a poem traditionally attributed to the Roman poet Ovid (2007). She has worked at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway) since 2009, first as a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Research Council of Norway and then, from 2014, as an Associate Professor. She is the author of more than fifty articles and book chapters, and the author and/or editor of eleven books, including The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Ovid’s Early Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Dynamics of Ancient Prose (De Gruyter, 2018) and Roman Receptions of Sappho (Oxford University Press, 2019). She has formed part of tribunals for Master’s and PhD ceremonies and evaluation committees (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden), and is a reviewer for a number of world-leading publishers and journals. She has received funding from a number of organizations, including the Research Council of Norway, e.g. through the Young Research Talent programme. In 2019 she was selected for the Young Academy of Europe.

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Thea S. Thorsen focuses on forms of expression in Antiquity that are not in line with the ideals promoted by powerholders or norm-setters. Hierarchies of various kinds have an especially interesting bearing on the study of these expressions, such as that between hetero- and homoerotic love, male and female authority, genuine and spurious works, and different literary forms. She also pursues these issues as they relate to the post-classical tradition.

Affiliation: University of Reading, UK

Keywords: Empathy, Emotion, Social Behaviour, Autism, Individual Differences, Phenotype, Mobile health (mHealth) technologies

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Bhismadev Chakrabarti is Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Research Director of the Centre for Autism at the University of Reading, UK. After a first degree in Chemistry from the University of Delhi, he moved to the University of Cambridge. Here, he studied Neurobiology, and completed his doctoral and postdoctoral research on individual differences in emotion processing, for which was awarded the Charles and Katharine Darwin Research Fellowship. In 2009, he moved to set up his own research group within the newly formed Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics at the University of Reading. He has won multiple research grants from the Medical Research Council UK, and supervised over ten doctoral students. In 2015, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology in recognition of his achievements. He was elected to the Young Academy of Europe in 2019.

The fundamental arm of his research focuses on studying factors that influence the social-emotional phenotypic dimensions of human behaviour, which are often associated with difficulties in autistic individuals. His research uses multiple techniques that measure behaviour, autonomic, and neural activity (eye-tracking, psychophysics, facial EMG, EEG, and fMRI). In a parallel, applied arm of research, his lab has been working in India to build an autism research toolkit, through validating widely used screening and diagnostic tools, as well as cognitive measures linked to autism. His lab has used these tools to conduct the first systematic study of autism prevalence in Indian schoolchildren. He currently leads an international consortium that aims to develop a tablet-based platform for scalable neurodevelopmental phenotyping in low-resource settings.

Affiliation: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), DE

Keywords: Plasmonics, Photocatalysis, Electrocatalysis, Surface and Colloidal Chemistry

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Emiliano holds a W2 tenure-track professorship at the Faculty of Physics in LMU Munich and is the academic lead of the Plasmonic Chemistry Group. He is also a visiting researcher at the Chemistry Department, University College London, UK, and at the Physics Department, Imperial College London, UK. His research interests lie at the interface between chemistry and physics, focusing on the development of novel nanomaterials and techniques with applications in energy conversion, photo and electrocatalysis.

Emiliano studied chemistry at the National University of La Plata in Argentina. He was one of the founders of Nanodetection, a start-up company based on plasmonic sensing. He was also a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at Imperial College London, UK. In 2018, he was awarded with the ERC Starting Grant from the European Commission for his project CATALIGHT. He is currently a Principal Investigator (PI) of two German excellence research clusters, Nanoinitiative Munich (NIM) and e-conversion.

Affiliation: University of Belgrade, RS

Keywords: Relativistic heavy ion physics, Theoretical nuclear physics, Finite temperature quantum field theory, Perturbative chromodynamics, Quark-gluon plasma tomography, Jet energy loss, Theoretical biophysics, Bacterial immune system

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Magdalena Djordjevic got her Diploma in Physics in University of Belgrade, Serbia (2000). She obtained her PhD in Columbia University (USA) in theoretical nuclear and high energy physics (2005). For her PhD thesis work, she was awarded “2007 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics” by the American Physical Society, while at the end of her postdoc, she was offered prestigious “J. Robert Oppenheimer Fellowship” by Los Alamos National Lab. For her work as an Assistant professor in USA, she was awarded “Ralph E. Powe Jr. Faculty Enhancement Award” (during that time, her work was also highlighted in APS Physics). In 2010, she returned to Serbia, where she is now research professor at the Institute of Physics Belgrade (IPB) and a leader of Relativistic Heavy Ion Group. Upon return to Serbia, she received “FP7 Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant” by European Commission, “L’Oréal-UNESCO “For women in science” award” in Serbia, “SCOPES” grant by Swiss National Science Foundation, “IPB 2016 Annual Research Prize” and “Horizon2020 ERC Consolidator grant”. She is author or co-author on 56 peer reviewed papers, being the first, single or corresponding author on 41 of these papers. Her papers were cited more than 4000 times, with the average impact factor of 4.4.

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Main research direction of Magdalena Djordjevic is theoretical nuclear physics, in particular quark-gluon plasma (QGP). QGP is a new form of matter, which existed immediately after the Big Bang, and is today created at extreme energy densities in CERN (LHC experiments) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (RHIC experiments). The main idea of her research is probing the QGP properties with high energy particles, where her theoretical predictions are directly compared with the large amount of existing and upcoming experimental data from landmark science experiments (RHIC and LHC). She is also interested in theoretical biophysics, in particular in quantitatively understanding function of bacterial immune systems (CRISPR/Cas and restriction-modification systems).