Prof. Thorsten Schumm

Austria

Research Group Leader
Vienna University of Technology

2001, Diploma in Physics, Freie Universität, Germany; 2006, PhD, Universite Paris. 2006, Postdoctoral Fellow, McLennan Physical Laboratories, Canada. Chairman, Experimental Physics, Quantum Metrology, Vienna University of Technology. Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Expertise: quantum physics, information, and metrology. Interests: science funding and organization.

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Dr Dulce M Bustamante

Guatemala

Associate Professor
San Carlos University

I am a Biologist specializing in the ecology of insect vectors of disease. I am also a professor in charge of coordinating the Introductory Biology courses for first year students at the School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, San Carlos University, Guatemala. I also teach Statistics for Biology major students. I have participated in research relating the ecology and epidemiology of Chagas disease in Guatemala, specifically for the bug species Triatoma dimidiata. My doctoral research project was about mosquito population age structure and the risk of virus transmission in Florida, USA. I am interested in working in multidisciplinary teams to solve the public health problematic ...

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Dr Jamie H Warner

United Kingdom

Royal Society University Research Fellow
University of Oxford

BSc(Hons) and PhD in Physics, University of Queensland, Australia. 1996-2004; Violette and Samuel Glasstone Fellow in Science, 2008-2010, Department of Materials, University of Oxford. Currently Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Materials, University of Oxford. Research interests: Synthesis of novel carbon based nanomaterials and their atomic structure analysis using electron microscopy. Expertise: nanomaterials, nanoscience, nanotechnology, electron microscopy. Attended 4th IAP Young Scientist Conference in Dalian held in conjunction with the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, September 2011

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Dr M J Daniel Esser

South Africa

Principal Scientist & Group Leader
CSIR National Laser Centre

Daniel Esser studied physics and engineering at University of Stellenbosch in South Africa where he completed his Masters of Science in Laser Physics Cum Laude. He further obtained a Doctorate of Engineering in Photonics from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, United Kingdom at the end of 2010 while working full-time at South Africa’s National Laser Centre at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) since 2004. At the Centre he is employed as a Principal Scientist and is Group Leader of the Laser Systems Group specialising in diode-pumped solid-state lasers and devices in the mid-infrared spectral range. His responsibilities include the development of customer specific ...

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Dr Rees Kassen

Canada

Associate professor
University of Ottawa

Dr Rees Kassen is associate professor and University Research Chair in Experimental Evolution at the University of Ottawa. He completed his PhD at McGill University and then went on to an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and Elizabeth Wordsworth Research Fellowship at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is known internationally for his integrative approach to the study of biodiversity and pioneering work using microbes to study evolutionary and ecological processes in the laboratory. Dr Kassen attended the IAP Young Scientist Conference held in conjunction with the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of New Champions first in 2010 in Tianjin and then again as a mentor in 2011 at Dalian. ...

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Professor An-Hui Lu

China

Professor
Dalian University of Technology

2001, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science; 2001-2002, Research Fellow, Physical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Würzburg University; 2002-2005, Postdoctoral Fellow and Alexander von Humboldt fellow, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. 2005-2009, Group Leader and Associate Professor, Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung; since 2008, Professor of School of Chemical engineering in Dalian University of Technology. Research interests: designed synthesis and functionalization of nanostructured materials and their applications in energy storage, adsorption, drug ...

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Professor Raghavan B Sunoj

India

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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Erik Ingelsson

Sweden

Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Karolinska Institutet

Erik Ingelsson was born in 1975 in Eskilstuna, Sweden and graduated with a medical degree in 2000 from Uppsala University. He defended his thesis ‘Insulin Resistance and Inflammation as Risk Factors for Congestive Heart Failure’ and was awarded his PhD in 2005. During 2000 to 2006 he was doing his internship and residency in general practice in Gavle and Uppsala. After a post-doc at the Framingham Heart Study in 2006-2007, and positions as Assistant and Associate Professor in Uppsala and at Karolinska Institutet in 2007-2010, he was appointed Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet in 2010. Participated in the 4th IAP Young Scientists Conference in ...

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Dr Sergio A Sepulveda

Chile

Assistant Professor
Universidad de Chile

BSc. in Geology, University of Chile; MSc in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; PhD in Engineering Geology, University of Leeds. Assistant Professor and Vice-Director, Department of Geology, University of Chile. My research interests are in natural disaster prevention, natural risk assessment and management, environmental management and energy resources. My technical expertise is mainly in landslides, debris flows and seismic hazard, engineering geology and geotechnics. I attended the 2011 IAP Young Scientist Conference in conjunction with the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of New Champions (Dalian, 2011, see http://interacademies.net/Activities/10880/15608.aspx), a ...

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Maja Bacovic

Montenegro

Associate Professor
University of Montenegro

Professor of Macroeconomics and Economic Statistics at the University of Montenegro. President of the Council of the Statistical system of Montenegro from 2006-11, member since 2011. President of the Board of Directors of Montenegro Stock Exchange from 2006-2008. Senior Analyst within Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses from 1999-2007, and member of several Economic Reforms Project Teams. Author of two books and more than 40 papers. Member of the Center of Young Scientists and Department for Economic Research within Montenegrin Academy of Arts and Science. Attended 4th IAP Young Scientists Conference and Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC) of the WEF in Dalian, China in ...

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Emma Sparr

Sweden

Associate Professor

1996 MSc in Chemistry and 2001 PhD in Physical Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden. 2002, post doctoral research, Faculty of Pharmacy, Uppsala University; 2002-03, post doctoral research in biochemistry of membranes, Utrecht University. With Lund University: 2004-10, Assistant Professor; 2009, Associate Professor; since 2011, current position. Member, Swedish Young Academy. Recipient of awards including Future Research Leader Award (2008).

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Dr Marnie E Blewitt

Australia

Laboratory head
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Completed undergraduate studies at The University of Sydney, with honours and a double major of Molecular Biology and Genetics (1999). She continued at the University for her PhD studies, working with Prof. Emma Whitelaw on mammalian epigenetics (2005). During her PhD, she designed and developed a sensitised mutagenesis screen to find novel epigenetic modifiers in the mouse, a challenging project for which she was awarded the Genetics Society of Australia DG Catcheside prize for the best PhD in Genetics. Marnie moved to Melbourne at the end of 2005 to take up a National Health and Medical Research Council Australia Peter Doherty Post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. Douglas Hilton at The ...

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