Encyclopedia
Arts & Humanities
Nikos A. Salingaros
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA
Interests:
pattern languages; design complexity; architectural design; architectural theory; biophilia; fractals; urbanism; urban design; planning; neuroarchitecture; mathematics of architecture; adaptive architecture; resilience; social housing; architecture and religion
Robert Bednarik
Affiliation:
International Federation of Rock Art Organizations (IFRAO), Melbourne, Australia
Interests:
archaeology; cave art; rock art; palaeoart
Song Chong Lee
Affiliation:
Religious Studies Faculty, University of Findlay, 1000 N. Main St., Findlay, OH 45840, USA
Interests:
asian religion (Confucianism and Buddhism); korean religion and philosophy; religious education; cosmopolitanism
Biology & Life Sciences
Adrian Neagu
Affiliation:
Department of Functional Sciences, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Piata Eftimie Murgu No. 2-4, 300041 Timisoara, Romania
Interests:
biophysical theory and modeling; multicellular self-assembly; three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting; tissue engineering
Ana Marta Gonçalves
Affiliation:
Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests:
fatty acids; proteins; amino acids; carbohydrates; fibres content; ecotoxicology; aquatic ecology; trophic webs; microplastics
Antonella Prisco
Affiliation:
Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica "Adriano Buzzati Traverso" (IGB), CNR, Naples, Italy
Interests:
Immune response, Immunological memory, Antibody, Lymphocytes, Vaccine, In silico modeling, Polymer Models of Chromatin
Antonello Santini
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests:
food chemistry; safety; food safety; nutraceuticals; nanonutraceuticals; recovery from byproducts of the food indystry; food contaminants; food supplements; contaminants; risk assesment; mycotoxins and secondary metabolites; chemistry and food education; food analysis; analytical chemistry; novel techniques for sustainable products; bioavailability; mechanism of action of nutraceuticals and nanonutraceuticals
Beniamino Cenci-Goga
Affiliation:
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
Interests:
antibiotic resistance; dairy; antibiotics; bacteriology; microbial molecular biology; dairy science; animal production; molecular microbiology; PCR; applied microbiology; meat safety; food microbiology; veterinary medicine
Birgitta Dresp
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS),
ICube Lab UMR 7357 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, F-67081 Strasbourg, France
Interests:
cognitive neuroscience; brain; cognitive psychology; behavior; perceptual learning and memory; neural networks; consciousness; philosophy of artificial intelligence; principles of unsupervised learning; computing and philosophy
Fabrizio Araniti
Affiliation:
Locality Feo di Vito, Department AGRARIA, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, 89124 SNC, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests:
allelopathy; secondary metabolites; essential oils; weed management; plant nutrition; metabolomics; mode of action; chemical interaction; bio-herbicides
Francisco Solano
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Murcia. 30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests:
polyphenols; flavonoids and other antioxidants; oxidative stress and ros; antibiotics and secondary metabolism; melanin structure; function and biotechnological applications; Enzymology; tyrosinase and related proteins; copper proteins; amino acid metabolism; neurochemistry and catecholamines; nutritional biochemistry
Gerald Audette
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and the Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Interests:
protein structure & function; bacterial secretion systems; protein dynamics; protein engineering
Hieronim Jakubowski
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA
Interests:
genetic code; protein biosynthesis; tRNA synthetase; error-editing mechanisms; prebiotic chemistry; evolution of life; sulfur metabolism; homocysteine; protein modification; mTOR/autophagy; cardiovascular disease; Alzheimer's disease
Kiro Petrovski
Affiliation:
School of Animal and Veterinary Science, The University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, SA 5371, Australia
Interests:
cattle health; herd health; mastitis; antimicrobial susceptibility; colostrum; predictability of health events using precision technologies
Łukasz Stępień
Affiliation:
Department of Plant-Pathogen Interaction, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 60-479 Poznań, Poland
Interests:
fungal genetics; Fusarium; molecular biology; mycotoxins; plant pathogens; secondary metabolism
Michael Kontominas
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, GREECE
Interests:
food chemistry; food analysis; analytical aspects of
packaging and non thermal methods of food preservation, food authentication
Milva Pepi
Affiliation:
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy
Interests:
microbiology of coastal and lagoon areas; pathogenic microorganisms and public health; sustainability; bacteria of biogeochemical cycles; microbial metabolisms and valorization of agro-industrial substrates in circular economy contexts
Nikolaos Labrou
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Enzyme Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Gr-11855, Athens, Greece
Interests:
enzyme biotechnology; molecular enzymology; enzyme engineering; therapeutic enzymes; protein downstream processing; enzyme biosensor; enzybiotics; algae biotechnology; cosmetics; structure-based drug design; immobilized enzymes; enzyme biotechnology; regulatory affairs; intellectual property.
Patrícia Rijo
Affiliation:
CBIOS Lusófona's Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests:
natural product chemistry; phytochemistry; medicinal natural products; antimicrobial; plectranthus; sustainability
Philippe Gasque
Affiliation:
1. EPI Research Unit (Pharmacoimmunological Studies), University of la Réunion, 97400 St Denis, La Réunion, France
2. Biology Pole, Clinical Immunology Laboratory and experimental ZOI, LICE-OI, CHU Bellepierre, Felix Guyon, St Denis, La Reunion, France
Interests:
immunology; neuroimmunology; inflammation; infectious disease; cancer
Ravinder Nagpal
Affiliation:
Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Interests:
microbiome; functional foods; prebiotics; probiotics; gut health; gut-brain axis; aging.
Tatiana Armeni
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Interests:
cell biology; glutathione and thiols; redox signal trasduction; antioxidants; glyoxalase system; mitochondria; molecular biology and genetics.
Theodoros Varzakas
Affiliation:
Department of Food Science and Technology, University of
Peloponnese, Antikalamos 24100, Kalamata, Greece
Interests:
food technology; food engineering; food safety; food
quality; extra virgin olive oil; mycotoxins
Vsevolod V Gurevich
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University
Interests:
Arrestins Structure-function, G protein-coupled receptors, Signal transduction, Desensitization Trafficking
Business & Economics
Michael McAleer
Affiliation:
Department of Finance, College of Management, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan
Interests:
economics, financial econometrics, quantitative finance, risk and financial management, econometrics, statistics, time series analysis, energy economics and finance, sustainability, environmental modelling, carbon emissions, climate change econometrics, forecasting, informatics, and data mining
Chemistry & Materials Science
Agnieszka Ewa Wiącek
Affiliation:
Maria-Curie Sklodowska Unversity, Department of Interfacial Phenomena, Faculty of Chemistry, Lublin, Poland
Interests:
colloidal chemistry; dispersed systems; emulsion and suspension stability; dynamic light scattering; wettability; polymers and biopolymers; surfactants and biosurfactants; zeta potential; DLVO; green chemistry
Benjamin Solsona
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, ETSE, Universitat de València, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain
Interests:
heterogeneous catalysis; selective oxidation reactions; dehydrogenation; environmental catalysis (catalytic VOCs removal); metal oxides; nanoparticles
César Sequeira
Affiliation:
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, CeFEMA, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
Interests:
electrochemical fundamentals and engineering; electrocatalysis; materials degradation
Francisco J. G. Silva
Affiliation:
ISEP–School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
Interests:
wear; hard coatings; materials; manufacturing processes (machining; welding; forming; die-cast injection; plastic moulding); industrial management.
George Z. Kyzas
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, International Hellenic University, Kavala 65404, Greece
Interests:
wastewater treatment; polymers; decontamination; materials; sorption; nanobubbles; transportation phenomena
Gerald Audette
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and the Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Interests:
protein structure & function; bacterial secretion systems; protein dynamics; protein engineering
José Luis Arias Mediano
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
Interests:
active drug targeting; biomedical applications of colloids and nanoparticles; biopharmacy; drug absorption; drug delivery; drug release; formulation and evaluation of pharmaceutical dosage forms; hyperthermia-based anticancer treatment; in vivo fate of nanoplatforms; ligand–receptor interactions and nanoparticle endocytosis; long-circulating nanoparticles; magnetic colloids; nanoteranosis; passive drug targeting; PEGylated nanoparticles; pharmaceutical technology; pharmacokinetics; stimuli sensitive nanostructures; surface chemistry and interface science; surface functionalization of nanoparticles
José Sousa Câmara
Affiliation:
CQM - Centro de Química da Madeira; Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering, Universidade da Madeira, 9000-082 Funchal, Portugal
Interests:
foodomics; food bioactives; food safety and quality; metabolomics; OMICS platforms; cancer biomarkers; green extraction techniques; high resolution analytical techniques
MariaGabriella Santonicola
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Environment, Sapienza University of Rome, Via del Castro Laurenziano 7, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests:
functional polymers and composites; stimuli-responsive polymers; carbon-based nanomaterials; graphene-based nanocomposites; materials for biomedical applications; biosensors and biointerfaces
Mazeyar Parvinzadeh Gashti
Affiliation:
Research and Development Laboratory, PRE Labs Inc., #100-2600 Enterprise Way, Kelowna, BC V1X 7Y5, Canada
Interests:
synthesis of crystals by gel diffusion; evaluation of biopolymer gels in crystals by microscopic techniques; UV-induced gel formation; biocomposites for biological applications and drug delivery; surface modification of polymers and textiles
Michael I. Ojovan
Affiliation:
Department of Materials, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Interests:
glass; viscosity; glass transition; Rydberg matter; glass-composite materials; nuclear waste; immobilisation
Poul Erik Hansen
Affiliation:
Departemnt of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
Interests:
nuclear magnetic resonance; hydrogen bonding; isotope effects; natural products; humic substances
Stefano Falcinelli
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy
Interests:
chemistry and materials technology; environmental chemistry
Swee Leong Sing
Affiliation:
Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Interests:
laser-materials interactions; laser based advanced manufacturing; powder bed fusion; directed energy deposition; additive manufacturing; 3D printing; biomaterials
Victoria Samanidou
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests:
analytical chemistry; sample preparation; separations; HPLC; extraction techniques
Computer Science & Mathematics
Ahmad Taher Azar
Affiliation:
College of Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Egypt.
Interests:
control theory and applications, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, dynamic system modeling
Alessia Donato
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests:
mathematical economics; game theory; decision theory; risk management; bargaining theory; finance; econophysics; quantum finance; foundations of quantum mechanics; relativistic quantum mechanics; Schwartz distribution theory; differential manifolds; relativity
Andrew Adamatzky
Affiliation:
Director of the Unconventional Computing Centre, UWE, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
Interests:
inspired robotics; emergent behavior; morphological computation; reaction-diffusion computing; cellular automata; physarum
computing; massive parallel computation; applied mathematics; collective intelligence and robotics cellular automata
Antonella Prisco
Affiliation:
Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica "Adriano Buzzati Traverso" (IGB), CNR, Naples, Italy
Interests:
Immune response, Immunological memory, Antibody, Lymphocytes, Vaccine, In silico modeling, Polymer Models of Chromatin
Antonios Gasteratos
Affiliation:
Department of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Vas. Sophias 12, GR-671 00 Xanthi, Greece
Interests:
robotics; computer vision; mechatronics; navigation
Clemente Cesarano
Affiliation:
Section of Mathematics - Uninettuno University, C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 39, 00186 Roma, Italy
Interests:
special functions; orthogonal polynomials; differential equations; numerical analysis; fractional calculus; operator theory; Lie algebra
Ephraim Suhir
Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanics and Materials, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207, USA; 2. ERS Co., 727 Alvina Ct., Los Altos, CA 94024, USA
Interests:
applied mathematics; applied mechanics; probabilistic methods in reliability engineering; technical diagnostics; composite and smart materials and systems; shock and vibrations analyses and testing; thermal stress analysis; human-in-the-loop; aerospace missions success and safety
José Raúl Romero
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
Interests:
data science; search-based software engineering;intelligent systems;model-driven engineering
Kamran Munir
Affiliation:
Computer Science and Creative Technologies, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Interests:
data science; Big Data and analytics; Artificial Intelligence
Khalid Hafeez
Affiliation:
Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
Interests:
digital transformation; knowledge management; strategic management; supply chain management; Industry 4.0
Raffaele Di Gregorio
Affiliation:
IFToMM representative, Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara, Italy
Interests:
kinematics; dynamics; mechanism and machine theory;parallel manipulators; robot mechanics; biomechanics; vehicle mechanics;robotics
Richard Gill
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, Postbus 9512, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests:
biostatistics; genetics; survival analysis; semiparametric models; causality; machine learning; statistical image analysis, and quantum statistical information; foundational aspects of statistics, probability and quantum physics
Rui L. Aguiar
Affiliation:
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Telecomunicações, P-3810-193 AVEIRO, Portugal
Interests:
networking; B5G/6G networks; next generation Internet
Sangheon Pack
Affiliation:
School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
Interests:
network softwarization (SDN/NFV/P4); B5G and 6G; mobile multimedia networking; mobile cloud computing/mobile edge computing; vehicular networks/VANET; mobility management
Xiao-Jun Yang
Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; 2. School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests:
mathematical physics; fractional calculus and applications; fractals, analytical number theory; special functions and viscoelasticity
Engineering
Alessio Siciliano
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (Cosenza), Italy
Interests:
water and wastewater treatment; waste treatment; biogas production from organic residues; remediation of contaminated sites; water bodies quality
Antonio Formisano
Affiliation:
Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, School of Polytechnic and Basic Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale V. Tecchio, 80 - 80125 Naples, Italy
Interests:
structural engineering
Benjamin Solsona
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, ETSE, Universitat de València, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain
Interests:
heterogeneous catalysis; selective oxidation reactions; dehydrogenation; environmental catalysis (catalytic VOCs removal); metal oxides; nanoparticles
César M. A. Vasques
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests:
dynamics; vibration and damping; smart materials and structures; computational and experimental mechanics; mechatronics and structural control; structural acoustics; structural health monitoring; impact and wave propagation; composite structures; machine design; power transformers design
César Sequeira
Affiliation:
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, CeFEMA, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
Interests:
electrochemical fundamentals and engineering; electrocatalysis; materials degradation
Da-Hua Wei
Affiliation:
Institute of Manufacturing Technology/ Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology (TAIPEI TECH), Taipei 10608, Taiwan
Interests:
thin films/coatings; nanoparticles; nanostructured devices; functional nanomaterials
Juan De Oña
Affiliation:
TRYSE Research Group, University of Granada, Department of Civil Engineering, Severo Ochoa s/n, Granada 18071, Spain
Interests:
transportation engineering; civil engineering; road safety; traffic safety; quality of service
Margarida Gonçalves
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering and Resource Sustainability Center, Department of Science and Technology of Biomass, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Interests:
chemical and biochemical engineering; engineering thermodynamics; valorization of biomass wastes as a source of added-value chemicals or fuels; carbonization; pyrolysis; gasification; bioremediation; microalgae; anaerobic digestion; integrated processes; circular economy; sustainability.
Masa Noguchi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Interests:
zero energy mass customised housing; low carbon emission sustainable community development; design engineering; ZEMCH Network
Massimiliano Lo Faro
Affiliation:
Istituto di Tecnologie Avanzate per l'Energia "Nicola Giordano" - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ITAE-CNR), Via Salita S. Lucia Sopra Contesse 5, 98126 Messina, Italy
Interests:
fuel cell; electrolyser; sensor; battery; air treatment device; protonic conductors; oxygen ion conductors; cermets; electrochemistry; mixed ionic electronic conductors
Ramesh Agarwal
Affiliation:
William Palm Professor of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
Interests:
mechanical and aerospace engineering; energy and environment; computational fluid dynamics and computational physics (computational acoustics; computational electromagnetics; computational materials science and manufacturing; computational geo-sciences and computational combustion); fluid dynamics and heat transfer; hypersonic flow and rarefied gas dynamics; aerodynamics; ground effect aerodynamics; green aviation; turbo-machinery and pumps; microfluidics; bio-fluid mechanics; flow and flight control; chemical looping combustion; carbon capture; utilization and sequestration; wind, solar and bio-energy; climate modeling etc.
Rui L. Aguiar
Affiliation:
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Telecomunicações, P-3810-193 AVEIRO, Portugal
Interests:
networking; B5G/6G networks; next generation Internet
Sangheon Pack
Affiliation:
School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
Interests:
network softwarization (SDN/NFV/P4); B5G and 6G; mobile multimedia networking; mobile cloud computing/mobile edge computing; vehicular networks/VANET; mobility management
Sergei Alexandrov
Affiliation:
Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Interests:
plasticity theory and its applications
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Andrea Appolloni
Affiliation:
Department of Management and Law, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Columbia, 2 – Rome 00133, Italy
Interests:
supply chain management; sourcing & procurement in the public and private sector; e-procurement; sustainable and green procurement/sourcing; sustainable global sourcing; sustainable development and corporate social responsibility
Andrea De Montis
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Sciences, viale Italia 39a, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests:
strategic environmental assessment; landscape planning; network analysis
Andreas Angelakis
Affiliation:
1. HAO-Demeter, Agricultural Research Institution of Crete, Iraklion, Greece; 2. Hellenic Union of Municipal Enterprises for Water Supply and Sewerage, Larissa, Greece.
Interests:
waste water treatment and water reuse; small and decentralized wastewater management systems; water and wastewater technologies in ancient civilizations
Anshuman Bhardwaj
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
Interests:
remote sensing; glaciology; UAV; planetary science; cryosphere
António Vieira
Affiliation:
Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), Department of Geography, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Interests:
physical geography; geomorphology; soil erosion; natural hazards; forest fires; geoheritage; geoconservation; GIS; remote sensing; spatial analysis
Daniele Contini
Affiliation:
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), National Research Council (CNR), Str. Prv. Lecce-Monteroni km 1.2, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests:
atmosphere composition; toxicological effects of atmospheric aerosols and sources; characterisation of aerosol sources; receptor models; air quality and health; turbulent fluxes; particle deposition; nucleation process
Luca Simone Rizzo
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Culture e Civiltà, Università degli Studi di Verona, Viale dell'Università 4, 37129 Verona (IT) and Dipartimento Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata, Università degli Studi di Padova, via 8 febbraio 2, 35122 Padova, Italy
Interests:
land use and cover dynamics; changing rural-urban forms/territorial shapes (focus: in particular touristic-vocated areas and those vocated for high quality typical cultivations); landscape change and environmental implications; route-based based tourism/heritage valorization practices and sustainability; agriculture; cartography and GIS
Merv Fingas
Affiliation:
Independent Researcher
Interests:
oil chemistry; spill dynamics and behavior; spill treating agents remote sensing and detection; spill tracking; in-situ burning; and the fate and behavior of oil spills
Shifeng Dai
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Interests:
coal mineralogy; coal geochemistry; coal petrology; coal geochemistry; coal combustion products
Valentine Udoh James
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and Geosciences, College of Arts, Education, and Sciences, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA 16214, USA
Interests:
sustainable development and sustainability; conservation of natural resources; environmental sciences; environmental management; environmental planning and policy; Africa's ecology
Yuji MURAYAMA
Affiliation:
Faculty of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Japan
Interests:
geoinformatics; GIS; remote sensing; spatial analysis; urban geography; environmental science
Medicine & Pharmacology
Alessandra Durazzo
Affiliation:
CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy.
Interests:
natural products; bioactive compounds; antioxidants; food quality; nutrition; food composition databases; dietary supplements; herbs; botanicals; natural substances databases; synthesis; bioavailability, metabolic pathways
Antonio Cicchella
Affiliation:
Department for Quality of Life Studies, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests:
biomechanics and bioenergetics of human movement and sport; children; exercise; obesity; motor learning
Fabrizio Mattei
Affiliation:
Department of Oncology and Moelcular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299 - 00161 Rome, Italy.
Interests:
bioinformatics; tumor mouse models; type I Interferon pathways; IL-33/ST2 axis; organs-on-chip; granulocytes; tumor microenvironment
Gabriela Topa
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, National Distance Education University, Madrid, Spain
Interests:
organizational theory; social psychology
Harry H.X. Wang
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Interests:
hypertension and cardiovascular diseases; multimorbidity and long-term conditions; primary Health Care; epidemiology and health services research
Hueng-Chuen Fan
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Tungs' MetroHarbor Hospital,
Taichung 43503, Taiwan
Interests:
neuroscience; TRP channel; meconium aspiration; pediatrics
Maria Pia Ferraz
Affiliation:
Faculdade de Ciâncias da Saúde, Universidade Fernando Pessoa; i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto
Interests:
health sciences; medical engineering; bacterial adhesion
Masatoshi Kudo
Affiliation:
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kindai University, 377-2 Ohno-higashi, Osaka-sayama, Osaka 589-8511, Japan
Interests:
diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer; molecular targeted therapy; immunotherapy; radifrequency ablation; transarterial hemoembolization
Neven Zarkovic
Affiliation:
Division of Molecular Medicine, Laboratory for Oxidative Stress, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests:
oxidative stress; lipid peroxidation; cancer growth control; immunochemistry; pathophysiology
Ouliana Ziouzenkova
Affiliation:
College of Education and Human Ecology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43000, USA
Interests:
obesity; vitamin A metabolism; immunoglobulins; gene expression; nurtigenomics
Samir Nammour
Affiliation:
1. Director of the European Inter-university post-graduate: "Oral Laser Application" (EMDOLA group); Director of the post-graduate ; Laser Applications in Dental Medicine, Department of Dental Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liege, Quai Godfroid Kurth 45, 4020 Liege, Belgium; 2. Director of International relations of the of the World Federation for Laser Dentistry (WFLD); Former president of the World Federation for Laser Dentistry (WFLD)
Interests:
oral surgery; laser dentistry; fluoride; dentinal adhesives; dentinal hypersensitivit; peri-implantitis; periodontitis
Tak-Wah Wong
Affiliation:
Departments of Dermatology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Center of Applied Nanomedicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Interests:
dermatology; photomedicine; photodynamic therapy; wound healing; oncology; biochemistry; nanomedicine
Tao Lu
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Interests:
signaling transduction, molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, genetics, pharmacology, NF-kB signaling, post-translational modification, cancer epigenetics, drug discover
Tommaso Angelone
Affiliation:
Lab of Cellular and Molecular Cardiac Patho-physiology, Departmrnt of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
Interests:
ardioprotection; myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury; cardiotoxicity; hypertension; cardiometabolic syndrome; intracellular signaling; chromogranins; selenoproteins
Vittorio Gentile
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Interests:
biochemistry and molecular biology of transglutaminases; neurodegeneration
Physical Sciences
Alessia Donato
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests:
mathematical economics; game theory; decision theory; risk management; bargaining theory; finance; econophysics; quantum finance; foundations of quantum mechanics; relativistic quantum mechanics; Schwartz distribution theory; differential manifolds; relativity
Svilen Sabchevski
Affiliation:
Head of the Laboratory Plasma Physics and Engineering at Emil Djakov Institute of Electronics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 1040, Bulgaria
Interests:
gyrotrons; computational physics; THz waves; electron beams; modeling and simulation
Public Health & Healthcare
Harry H.X. Wang
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Interests:
hypertension and cardiovascular diseases; multimorbidity and long-term conditions; primary Health Care; epidemiology and health services research
Tetsuji Yamada
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, Camden, NJ 08102, USA
Interests:
health economics; economics of health behavior and health education; public health and health promotion; economics of social welfare and public policy; cost benefit/effective analysis; applied microeconomics; pharmaceutical economics
Social Sciences
Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo
Affiliation:
Library and Information Science, Department of Artistic and Documentary Heritage, University of Leon (Spain), Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 León, Spain
Interests:
academic libraries; electronic information; knowledge organization; open science; scholarly communication; scholars’ information behaviour; usage of information
Fiona Knight
Affiliation:
Doctoral College, Bournemouth University, Poole BH12 5BB, UK
Interests:
doctoral supervision; higher education; PGR mental health and wellbeing; PGR education; PGR student experience; PGR research culture and environment; volcanic and magmatic studies; mineralogy; geochemistry
Julia Taylor
Affiliation:
Doctoral College, Bournemouth University, Poole BH12 5BB, UK
Interests:
doctoral supervision; BBC; media history; broadcasting journals; higher education; student learning gain; recursive abstraction; PGR mental health and wellbeing; PGR education; PGR student experience; PGR research culture and environment
Kum Fai Yuen
Affiliation:
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore
Interests:
sustainable shipping management; quality management; innovation and technology management; transport resilience; supply chain integration
Marek Szopa
Affiliation:
Department of Operations Research, College of Informatics and Communication, University of Economics in Katowice, Ul. Bogucicka 3, 40-287 Katowice, Poland
Interests:
game theory; quantum games; matching markets; fair share; quantum communication; application of game theory to negotiation and decision making
Mark Runco
Affiliation:
SOU Director of Creativity Research & Programming, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR 97520, USA
Interests:
creativity; psychology of the arts and innovation
Martyn Polkinghorne
Affiliation:
Business School, Bournemouth University, Poole BH12 5BB, UK
Interests:
doctoral supervision; research culture; business and management; innovation; artificial intelligence; higher education; student learning gain; recursive abstraction; project management.
Rungtai Lin
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Creative Industry Design, National Taiwan University of Arts, New Taipei City 22058, Taiwan
Interests:
ergonomics in product design; human–computer interaction; design education and cognitive approach in design; cultural and creative product design
Sandro Serpa
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of the Azores, 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Interests:
society 5.0; education and sustainability; sociology of organizations; teaching sociology; scientific communication
Stylianos Mystakidis
Affiliation:
School of Natural Sciences, University of Patras, GR-2504 Patras, Greece
Interests:
e-learning; distance education; open education; massive open online courses; game-based learning; gamification; serious games; playful learning; problem-based learning; digital storytelling; virtual worlds; virtual reality; immersive education; augmented reality; deep meaningful learning; blended learning; educational technology; technology enhanced learning; learning innovation; personal learning environments
Xueqin Wang
Affiliation:
Department of International Logistics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea
Interests:
logistics management; sustainable shipping practices
