Dr Augustine Ocloo

Ghana

Senior Lecturer

Augustine Ocloo Senior Lecturer; Head, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Ghana, Ghana 1998: BSc in Biochemistry, University of Ghana; 2004: PhD, University of Cambridge, UK; Since 2006, Member, Mitochondrial Research Society, US; Ghana Science Association, Ghana; Life Fellow, Cambridge Commonwealth Society, UK; Fellow, Global Young Academy, Berlin Germany; Participant, 4th IAP Young Scientist Conference in Dalian held in conjunction with the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, September 2011. Reseach Interests: 1. Medicinal plant research: Mitochondria as Pharmacological Targets in Medicinal Plant ...

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Dr. Madhur Anand

Canada

Associate Professor
University of Guelph

Madhur Anand is an internationally-recognized scientist in the fields of biodiversity and conservation, forest ecology, and ecological modelling. She has held two Canada Research Chairs, visiting professor/scholar positions at McGill University and Princeton University and currently directs the Global Ecological Change laboratory at the University of Guelph. Her research has won several awards and attracted funding from national and international sources and the private sector. She was named top 40 under 40 for the city of Guelph in 2010 and received the Young Alumni Award of Merit from the University of Western Ontario in 2006. Author or co-author of over 60 scientific articles and 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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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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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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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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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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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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Dr Patience Mthunzi

South Africa

Senior Scientist
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Patience Mthunzi holds a PhD (2010) in Physics (Biophotonics – Optical Tweezers Area) from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. She is the first known person in South Africa to qualify for a PhD in this field of study. She started employment with the National Laser Centre (NLC) in the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)in the Biophotonics group in October 2004. During November 2005 to April 2006 she set up a fully functional cell culture facility at the NLC before commencing her PhD (May 2006) in the UK. She is currently a senior scientist researcher at the NLC in the Biophotonics group, leading single cell and/or molecule projects. Her work is pretty varied. The ...

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Artiwan Shotipruk

Thailand

Associate Professor
Chulalongkorn University

Associate Professor Artiwan Shotipruk graduated from The Johns Hopkins University with a Bachelor degree in 1995 and completed her graduate studies in chemical engineering at The University of Michigan, USA, in 2001. Currently, she holds teaching and research position at the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University. Her research interest is in extraction and purification of natural compounds, particularly applying sub and supercritical fluids technology. Recently, she received the Young Scientist Award, from the Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology under Patronage of His Majesty the King in 2008, the “For Women in Science” Fellowship, from ...

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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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