Dr. Konstantin Luzyanin

Portugal

Research Associate
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon

Konstantin Luzyanin (born in Russian Federation, studied Chemistry at St. Petersburg State University (1997–2002), where he obtained his Diploma with Distinction. Konstantin got his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Technical University of Lisbon (under joint supervision by Profs. A.J.L. Pombeiro and V.Yu. Kukushkin) in 2007. After postdoctoral studies in organometallic chemistry with Prof. A.J.L. Pombeiro (Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon), Konstantin won a position as the Research Associate (Ciência-2008 program) at the Centro de Química Estrutural – a research center at IST. In addition, he was appointed as the Manager of IST-UTL Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center ...

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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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Professor Krista S. Walton

Assistant Professor

2000, degree in Chemical Engineering, University of Alabama, US; 2005, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University. 2005-06, Postdoctoral Research Associate and ACS PRF Fellow, Northwestern University; 2006-09, Assistant Professor, Kansas State University; since 2009, current position. Director, Separations Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Secretary/Treasurer, International Adsorption Society. Meeting Chairman, German-American Frontiers of Science, US National Academies and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Author of articles. Expertise: design, synthesis, and characterization of functional porous materials for use in CO2 capture, air purification, energy ...

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Jaime A Costales Cordero Ph.D.

Ecuador

Assistant Professor
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Training and research interests: B.Sc. in Biological Sciencies (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 1999), Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology (Ohio University, 2004), postdoctoral training (Harvard School of Public Health, 2005-2008). Currently, I am a faculty member in the Center for Infectious Disease Research of Catholic University, Quito-Ecuador. My research focuses on the biology of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas disease, a neglected tropical infection posing serious threat to millions throughout Latin America. I study both clinical and cellular/molecular aspects of the Chagas disease in Ecuador. Participation in WEF: I participated ...

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Dr. Shoji Komai

Japan

Associate Professor
Graduate Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

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Yael Hanein

Israel

Associate Professor
Tel Aviv University

Attended: 2009, 2010

I received the BSc degree in Physics from Tel Aviv University, Israel and MSc and PhD degrees in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. In 2003 I completed a four-year position as a Research Associate in Electrical Engineering and Physics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Currently, I am an associate Professor, at the School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University and a VP with Nano Retina, an Israeli start-up company developing an artificial retina. My current research interests include: nano-materials and electronic devices designed to interface with brain cells, implantable electronic brain chips, and nano-electronic devices. I participated in the second ...

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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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Jose Correa

Chile

Associate Professor
Universidad de Chile

José Correa is an Associate professor of Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Chile. He graduated as a Mathematical Engineer from Universidad de Chile in 1999 and obtained a PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 2004. Then, he was a postdoc at the Computer Science Department at Universidad de Chile and later an assistant professor at the School of Business at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. His research, focusing in combinatorial optimization and network economics, has been rewarded with the TSL best paper award in 2002 and Tucker prize finalist in 2006. He has given invited talks at several institutions, has been in the program committee of international ...

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Professor Raghavan B Sunoj

India

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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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 Rapela Regina Maphanga

South Africa

Senior Researcher
University of Limpopo

1998, BSc in Mathematics and Physics and 1999, BSc in Physics, University of the North, South Africa; 2005, PhD in Physics, University of Limpopo, South Africa. 2005-06 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Junior Lecturer, University of Limpopo; since 2007, current position, research focuses on computational modelling of battery materials for use in energy storage devices. Recipient of Awards: Women in Science; National Science and Technology Forum award sponsored by National research Foundation. Praticipated at the 4th IAP Young Scientists Conference in Dalian held in conjunction with the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, September 2011, China.

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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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