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Prof. Gil de Zúñiga serves as Distinguished Research Professor at University of Salamanca, as Media Effects Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and as Senior Research Fellow at Universidad Diego Portales. His work aims to shed an empirical social scientific light over how social media, algorithms, AI, and other technologies affect society.
Recognized as Journal of Citation Reports Highly Cited Scholar, he is Fellow of the International Communication Association, and recipient of the Pennsylvania State University Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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Martino Maggetti is associate professor of political science at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests focus on regulatory governance and comparative public policy. He is the principal investigator of the project Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe (TiGRE), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme (2020-2024). He is the editor of the Swiss Political Science Review. Information on his research and publications is available at https://maggetti.org.
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Charles University Faculty of Social Arts
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Dimitri is a Civic Planning & Design Manager at the Center for Disability & Racial Justice. He is a trained urban planner/designer interested in climate adaptation, inclusive space design, and reparative planning through engagement on urban issues. He actively develops design frameworks and processes aimed at improving access for minoritized communities and has contributed to forming novel approaches to participatory and emancipatory knowledge mobilization for the disability community. He holds graduate planning and design degrees from the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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I'm the Scientific Director of Pandemic Prevention Institute @ The Rockefeller Foundation. In this capacity, I am leading a team of transdisciplinary researchers to shape, develop and coordinate integrative research into how data-driven modeling can end current and prevent future pandemics. I am building a transdisciplinary research program that leverages mathematical and computational modeling, machine learning, and data science to identify the eco-evolutionary, demographic, and environmental drivers of pathogen emergence, persistence, and spread.
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MA, MPH. Doctoral Student, Indiana University School of Public Health
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Prof. Dr. Michael Opielka is Scientific Director of the ISÖ - Institute for Social Ecology in Siegburg and Professor of Social Policy at the Ernst-Abbe-University of Jena. From 2012 to 2016 he also headed the IZT - Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin. 2015 Guest Professor for Social Sustainability at the University of Leipzig. Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley (1990-1, 2005-6). Doctorate (HU Berlin 1996) and Habilitation (Univ. Hamburg 2008) in Sociology.
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Peter Gluckman is the President of the International Science Council. He is an internationally recognized biomedical scientist, and currently heads Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures at the University of Auckland.
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My name is Amirreza Asnafi. I have a doctorate in librarianship from Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in Iran. My field of specialization and study is scientometrics, archival studies, social media. I was the director of public relations for three years, and the head of the library department at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran for six years. For seven months now, I have been a research associate dean at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran.
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social anthropologist, Charles University Prague
Barbora Spalová studied ethnology and social anthropology in Prague. She does research in the field of anthropology of religion, particularly anthropology of Christianity. She is also involved in border studies and memory studies. She lives in the Czech-Polish-German borderland. She is the editor-in-chief of Biograf, journal of qualitative research.