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Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Giorgio Coricelli
Department of Economics – KAP 306D, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0253, USA
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Research interests: Neuroeconomics; Experimental economics; Game theory
Prof. Dr. Natascha Gentz
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LH, UK
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Research interests: Media studies/communication, Chinese media history theory, politics; Global knowledge circulation; Transnational studies
Prof. Dr. Robyn Gillies
School of Education, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
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Research interests: Learning sciences; Classroom discourses; Cooperative learning; Classroom instruction; Educational psychology; Guidance, counselling and careers; Classroom behaviour
Prof. Dr. Joel Harrington
Department of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 3723, USA
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Research interests: History of early modern Germany; History of marriage, children, family; Reformation; History of Christianity
Prof. Dr. Daniel Herwitz
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285, USA
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Research interests: Aesthetics of film and media including new technologies, visual art, architecture, music, study of contemporary culture and politics
Dr. Wol A Kang
Chinese Section of Modern Languages and Literatures, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA
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Research interests: Modern languages and literatures
Prof. Dr. Teresa Kennedy
School of Education, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX 75799, USA
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Research interests: Online teaching and learning; Content-based second language teaching and learning focused on science, mathematics and social studies; Brain research in relation to second language acquisition and bilingualism; Earth science, space science and engineering education
Prof. Dr. Haider Khan
Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
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Research interests: Political economy; Economic modeling and development, including trade liberalization and poverty reduction; Economics projects on energy and development in Asia and Latin America; Development finance and international finance; Globalization and ethics
Prof. Dr. Marilee J. Bresciani Ludvik
Department of Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92108, USA
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Research interests: Using translational neuroscience and mindful compassion practices to inform the design and evaluation of workshops, curriculum, and coaching practices to decrease students’, faculty, and administrators’ stress and anxiety while also increasing their attention and emotion regulation, cognitive flexibility, and enhancing compassion, inquiry, creativity, and overall well-being
Prof. Dr. Greg Newbold
School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury, Pte Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Research interests: Criminal justice; Criminology; Social history
Prof. Dr. Edoardo Ongaro
School of Business, Open University, Milton Keynes MK76AA, UK
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Research interests: Public management; Public policy and administration; Comparative public administration/comparative analysis of public management reform; Strategic management in public services organisations; Organisation of the public sector; Management and governance of European Union Institutions; Multi-level frameworks of governance and intergovernmental relations
Prof. Dr. Gavin Oxburgh
School of Psychology, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
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Research interests: International human rights (incl. the prevention of torture); The investigative interviewing of victims, witnesses and suspected offenders (incl. vulnerability, culture, empathy, and rapport-building); Mental health; false and recovered memories; (Cyber) crime in the cloud
Prof. Dr. Donald E. Pease
Department of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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Research interests: 19th-century American literature; Literary theory; American cultural studies
Prof. Dr. John Pratt
School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600 Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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Research interests: History and sociology of punishment
Prof. Dr. Timothy Rasinski
School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA
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Research interests: Teaching; Learning and curriculum studies; Reading; Literacy education; Reading fluency; Word study; Dyslexia; Struggling readers
Prof. Dr. Russell Reising
Department of English Language and Literature, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, USA
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Research interests: American literature and culture; Japanese literature and culture, popular culture and popular music
Prof. Dr. Stephen Roddy
College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080, USA
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Research interests: Influences of Chinese fiction on late-Tokugawa writers; Meiji-period thinkers on essayists of the late-Qing
Prof. Dr. Dominick Salvatore
Department of Economics, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
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Research interests: Microeconomics; International economics; Development economics; Managerial economics
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chris Shei
Department of Applied Linguistics, Swansea University, Swansea, West Glamorgan, UK
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Research interests: Chinese linguistics; Chinese language teaching; Translating between English and Chinese; TEFL; Language and translation technology; Discourse analysis
Prof. Dr. Nancy S. Steinhardt
School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305, USA
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Research interests: The art, architecture, and archaeology of China, Korea, and Japan from the 2nd through 14th centuries
Biology and Life Sciences
Prof. Dr. Isabel Lara Ayala
Department of Chemistry, Postharvest Unit, University of Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
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Research interests: Biochemistry and physiology of fruit ripening; Postharvest biology; Technology of fruit produce
Prof. Dr. Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz
Department of Pathology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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Research interests: Cell proliferation and apoptosis; Analysis of cell-cycle specificity of antitumor drugs
Prof. Dr. Pedram Hamrah
Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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Research interests: Dendritic cells found in the eye with special emphasis on the function of these cells in corneal transplantation, neurotrophic keratitis, and herpetic keratitis; Using novel mouse models for corneal diseases, imaging models; Clinical trials that use confocal microscopy in various types of infectious keratitis and dry eye disease, with focus on the corneal dendritic cells that we study in our laboratory
Prof. Jukka Jokimäki
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland
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Research interests: Urban ecology; Ornithology; Conservation biology
Prof. Dr. Robert H. Miller
The School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
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Research interests: Neural development/stem cells; Myelin repair; Brain tumor biology; Spinal cord injury
Prof. Dr. Satyajit Sarker
School of Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
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Research interests: Drug discovery from natural products; Drug design-novel indane derivatives as analgesic compounds; Drug design-dimeric steroids as molecular umbrellas; Synthesis of bioactive natural products; Metabolomics of medicinal plants; Production of compound libraries of dereplicated natural products for high throughput screening (HTS); Toxicological evaluation and quality control of herbal medicine; Development of bioassays for screening plant extracts and isolated compounds; Application of 1D and 2D NMR techniques in drug discovery and design; Chemotaxonomy; PharmInformatics
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Prof. Dr. Nadhir Al-Ansari
Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Lulea 971 87, Lulea, Sweden
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Research interests: Water resources; Environment; Geology; Civil engineering
Prof. Dr. Viney P. Aneja
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, USA
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Research interests: Environment, air quality, and climate; Emission, transport, transformation, and fate of pollutants; Agricultural air quality; Climate change; Biogeochemical cycling of pollutants; Measurement and modeling of biogenic emissions of trace gases; Photochemical oxidants and gas-to-particle conversion; Biospheric-atmospheric interactions; Bioenergy; Aqueous waste purification; Bioenvironmental engineering; Pollutant monitoring and control
Prof. Dr. Evangelos Baltas
School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 5 Iroon Polytechneiou Str, 15780, Athens, Greece
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Research interests: Water resources management; Water resources systems planning and operation; Hydrometeorology; Hydrological modeling; Climate change and land use change at the catchment scale; Flood forecasting; Risk assessment and mapping analysis
Prof. Dr. Ian Coulson
Department of Geology, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
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Research interests: Volcanology; Igneous petrology; Mineralogy; Archaeology and meteoritics
Prof. Dr. Martin Feely
School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, UK
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Research interests: The geological evolution of Connemara and trans-Atlantic correlations with Newfoundland and New England; Hydrocarbon and aqueous fluid inclusion studies in numerous geological settings including the onshore and offshore Irish Massif, the Newfoundland Basin, UK, China and Colombia; Granites of the High Sierras, California; Gemstone studies of Brazilian emeralds; Seaweed bedrock interactions; Digital perspectives of the Connemara landscape
Prof. Dr. Thomas B. Fischer
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
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Research interests: Strategic environmental assessment, environmental impact assessment, sustainability appraisal, health impact assessment; Environmental assessment and management higher education; Environmentally sustainable planning processes; European spatial planning, transport policy, plan, programme and project making
Prof. Dr. Teodoro Georgiadis
CNR, National Research Council of Italy, Institute of BioMeteorology, Bologna Section.Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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Research interests: Urban climate; Urban meteorology; Urban pollution; Urban planning
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veera Gnaneswar Gude
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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Research interests: Novel desalination and biofuel process technologies; Energy-water nexus and energy-environment nexus; Clean and combined energy-water production
Prof. Dr. Yakun Guo
Faculty of Engineering & Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK
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Research interests: Environmental hydraulics; Numerical simulation of turbulent flows; Flow-structure-interaction; Marine renewable energy and coastal and estuary hydrodynamics and sediment transport
Prof. Dr. Gregorio Iglesias
School of Engineering, University College Cork, College Road, Cork, UK
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Research interests: Wave energy; Tidal energy; Offshore wind energy; Observation, operations and maintenance; Device design, testing & evaluation; Marine governance; Climate change and adaptation; Coastal dynamics & marine systems modelling
Prof. Dr. Hanumantha Rao Kota
Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, NTNU–Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 TRONDHEIM, Norway
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Research interests: Physico-chemical processing and recovering of valuable minerals from ores, lean ores and waste materials; Theoretical thermodynamic equilibrium calculation of chemical species involving solid, liquid and gaseous phases; Mineral-reagent interactions based on wet chemistry methods and advanced in-situ and ex-situ FTIR and XPS techniques; Mineral-microbe/biomolecule interactions concerned with minerals bioprocessing; Molecular modelling of inorganic/organic interfaces with the aim of designing mineral specific reagents in flotaion; Dry processing methods for industrial minerals and coal preparation.
Prof. Dr. Theo J. Mertzimekis
Department of Physics, University of Athens, GR-15784 Athens, Greece
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Research interests: Applications of ion-beam and synchrotron radiation in geochemistry; Environmental and oceanography studies; Environmental radioactivity studies; Radiation detectors for extreme environments; Big data and machine learning
Prof. Dr. Nicole Mölders
Geophysical Institute, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, USA
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Research interests: Human and natural impacts on weather, climate and air quality at various spatial and temporal scales; Atmospheric sciences, meteorology, hydrology, geophysics, air quality and mesoscale modeling; Impact of land-use and land-cover changes on weather, and air quality; Wind energy; Data mining; Remote sensing
Prof. Dr. Osmo Tapani Rämö
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, FIN‐00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Research interests: Petrology; Geology; Mineralogy; Geochemistry; Volcanology
Prof. Dr. Vijay Singh
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering & Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2117, USA
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Research interests: Watershed modeling; Erosion and sediment transport in upland watersheds; Streamflow forecasting; Dam break analysis; Entropy-based modeling; Network design; Groundwater modeling; Hydrologic impacts of climate change
Prof. Dr. Chuixiang Yi
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
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Research interests: Canopy flow and complex terrain; Boundary layer dynamics; Biosphere-atmosphere interaction; Nonlinear dynamics of abrupt climate change; Theoretical modeling; Numerical modeling; Statistical modeling; Tree mortality and climate change; Forest resilience and tipping point; Extreme weather and global warming; Climate change and carbon cycling; Regional dendroclimatic reconstruction; FLUXNET data analysis; Tree-ring data analysis
Health Sciences
Assoc. Prof. Dr. James David Adams
School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Research interests: “Smart” drugs; Human metabolism of pharmaceutical drugs; Toxicity testing; Oxygen free radicals; Vitamin E and other antioxidants; Parkinson’s disease; Ruptured berry aneurysm; Stroke; Nicotinamide; Apoptosis/ delayed cell death; Herbal drugs
Prof. Dr. Hua-Hong Chien
College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Research interests: Implant research, focusing on cone beam CT analysis of ridge-split procedure in conjunction with implant placement; The influence of implant platform switching on the composition of perio-implant crevicular fluid during soft tissue healing; Periodontal regeneration and the effects of the herbal mouth rinse on gingival angiogenesis
Prof. Dr. Lesley Diack
School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen AB10 7GJ, UK
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Research interests: The development of pharmacy education including the use of online courses, online tutoring and web based learning; Shared learning and inter-professional practice; Learning strategies for student clinical experience especially in public health and non medical prescribing
Dr. Andrew Hatchett
Department of Exercise and Sports Science, The University of South Carolina, Aiken, SC 29801, USA
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Research interests: Exercise science; Sports science; Strength & conditioning; Exercise testing; Social cognitive theory
Prof. Dr. Liaquat Hossain
Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Research interests: Complex systems; Social networks; Evolutionary systems; Information flow; Self organisation; Bio-security; Epidemics and public health interventions
Prof. Dr. Sivarama Vinjamury
College of Eastern Medicine, Southern California University of Health Sciences, Whittier, CA, USA
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Research interests: Managing internal medicine conditions, specifically gastrointestinal, respiratory, immunological, psychological, and cardiovascular conditions
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Prof. Dr. Alberto Cabada
Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Research interests: Numerical analysis; Engineering, applied and computational mathematics; Mathematical modelling; Mathematical analysis; Nonlinear analysis; Applied mathematics; Dynamics; Functional analysis; Analysis; Numerical mathematics; Nonlinear dynamics; Real analysis; Real and complex analysis; Differential equations; Student supervision; Mathematical physics; Differentiation; Partial differential equations; Mathematical computing; Integration; Operator theory; Papers; Measure theory; Applied analysis; Fixed point theory; Ordinary differential equations; Mathematical models; Calculus; Integral equations; Linear systems; Asymptotic theory; Iterative methods; Constructive approximation; Approximate analytical methods; Fractional differential equations; Functional equations; Boundary condition; Boundary value problem; Difference equations; Research supervision; Conference organizing; Green’s function; Time-scale
Prof. Dr. Alasdair Cairns
Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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Research interests: Internal combustion engine combustion, performance, fuel economy & emissions; Powertrain thermal management (ICE, hybrid, BEV); IC engine parasitic loss reduction; Automotive energy recovery systems (thermal and kinetic)
Prof. Dr. Cinzia Cirillo
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Research interests: Discrete choice analysis; Advanced demand modeling; Large-scale model systems; Value of time studies
Prof. Dr. Tarasankar Debroy
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Research interests: Numerical modeling; Materials engineering; Welding; Additive manufacturing; Solidification; Aluminum alloys; Friction-stir welding; Transport phenomena; Laser welding
Prof. Dr. Zhengtao Ding
Control, Communication and Signal Processing Division, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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Research interests: Nonlinear control systems; Adaptive control systems; Cooperative and consensus control; Disturbance rejection and output regulation with applications; Dynamic systems with delay; Distributed optimization; Fault detection and diagnostics for dynamic systems; Control applications to power systems and process control; Vibration control and suppression
Prof. Dr. Harry Eccles
School of Physical Sciences and Computing, University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire, UK
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Research interests: Separation technologies for irradiated fuel; Chromatographic separation of radionuclides; Decontamination processes for nuclear wastes; Bioavailability of radionuclides
Prof. Dr. Luigi Fortuna
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy
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Research interests: Robust control; Nonlinear science and complexity; Chaos, cellular neural networks; Soft-computing strategies for control; Robotics; Micro-nanosensor and smart devices for control; Nano-cellular neural networks modelling
Prof. Dr. Morgan Heikal
School of Computing Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK
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Research interests: Internal combustion engines; Laser diagnostic techniques; Compact heat exchangers
Prof. Dr. Lester Ingber
Lester Ingber Research, Ashland, OR, USA
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Research interests: Adaptive-simulated-annealing; Statistical mechanical analyses of combat and simulations; Statistical mechanical analyses of financial markets, bond futures, options, risk, portfolios, trading; Nucleons, nuclear matter, riemannian interactions; Path integrals in stochastic systems with nonlinear diffusion; Statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions, applications to Memory, EEG, intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Palle Jorgensen
Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1419, USA
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Research interests: Stochastic analysis; Mathematical physics; Representation theory; Wavelets; Signal & image processing
Prof. Dr. Vassili Kolokoltsov
Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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Research interests: Probability and stochastic processes; Optimization and games with applications to business; Biology and finances; Mathematical physics; Differential equations and functional analysis
Prof. Dr. Marco Marengo
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK
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Research interests: Physics of drop, sprays and liquid interfaces; Phase change phenomena; Heat pipes and passive thermal systems; DNS/VOF simulations of two-phase flows; Dynamic energy simulations of buildings
Prof. Dr. Mariofanna Milanova
Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204, USA
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Research interests: Intelligent information systems; Soft computing; Neuro-computing; Bioinformatics; Brain study; Bio-inspired methods for data mining and knowledge discovery; Graphics and image processing
Prof. Dr. Norbert Marcel Nemes
Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, E-28040, Madrid, Spain
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Research interests: Thin films and nanotechnology; Materials science; Thin films; Electronic structure; Condensed matter physics; Solid state physics; Magnetic properties; Carbon nanotubes; Magnetic materials; Superconductivity; Magnetization; Magnetic field; Spintronics; Superconductors; Ferroelectrics; Nanotubes; Multiferroics; Superconductivity and superconductors; Magnetism; Spin engineering
Prof. Dr. Duc Truong Pham
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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Research interests: Rapid manufacturing; Micro manufacturing; Automation; Robotics; IT and intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Luigi Rodino
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universit`a di Torino, via Carlo Alberto 10, 10123 Torino, Italy
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Research interests: Applied mathematics; Statistics
Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Yokoyama
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
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Research interests: Liquid crystals; Surface and colloid science; Organic thin films; Scanning probe technology
Prof. Dr. Aibing Yu
Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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Research interests: Powder/particle technology; Particle characterization and data interpretation; Particle packing characteristics and porosity prediction; Particle-structure-property relations; Nano-particles and application; Solids flow and segregation; Fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in packed and fluidised beds; Processing and handling of bulk/particulate materials; Simulation of particulate systems; Inter-facial engineering in multi-phase processes; Physical and mathematical modelling of particulate and multiphase processes; Industrial application