Dr Susana Valdez

Dr Susana Valdez is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Leiden University. Her doctoral thesis (Summa Cum Laude, 2019) and short-listed for the EST Young Scholar Prize, conducted in co-tutelle between Lisbon and Ghent universities, dealt with medical translation.

Her current research employs multimethod approaches to investigate translated health information, engaging directly with target communities. She will explore this challenging topic through research and impact collaboration that intersects machine translation, AI, health communication, and migration. With more than 15 years of experience in industry and academia, she has established herself as a successful partner in interdisciplinary and intersectoral projects.

Nominator: Dr David Orrego-Carmona, Translation & Transcultural Studies Section, SMLC

Dr Rabia Polat

Prof. Polat is a professor of politics at Işık University in Istanbul. She has been working on Turkey’s response to the Syrian refugee situation particularly focusing on official discourse, local narratives towards refugees and integration and social cohesion policies.

Recently, she has completed a joint project with Prof. Vivien Lowndes (University of Birmingham) funded by the British Academy (2018-2021). The Project analysed local responses to Syrian refugees drawing upon multi-level governance and interpretive policy analysis. She is also a member of the COST action “Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” which is an interdisciplinary network that aims to produce, exchange, and build knowledge and collaborations across Europe on migration and religious diversity. She will engage with multiple units of the University, particularly Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network (BREM), Department of Politics and International Studies, Department of Law, and Warwick Institute of Engagement for sharing her research and developing research collaborations.

Nominator: Prof Vicki Squire, Politics and International Studies, PAIS

Dr Vita Dumanska

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Nominator: Naomi Kay, Warwick Institute of Engagement

Prof. Yukio Maeda

Yukio Maeda is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at Soka University. He has worked on planetary political theory and critical geopolitics in the Anthropocene. In 2023, he published a book in Japanese,Planet Politics in the Anthropocene: Towards the End of Era Sufficient Only by Caring for Humans(ISBN: 9784791775613). Based on this, his current work at Warwick will comprise three areas:

1. "Territorial Trap 3.0 in the Anthropocene: New Awareness towards Life": Maeda has been working on a joint research project with Professor John Agnew (UCLA) around historical debates on the trap and targeting to update the debate with the Anthropocene.
2. "Vertical Geopolitics with Gaia in the Anthropocene": Maeda has engaged in the geopolitical topic "verticality," and he will develop this new research project, "Secure the Volume 2.0: Critical Interrogation on the Case of Mudflow Disaster in Atami, Japan."
3. "Recontextualised Earthbound Sovereignty with Non-Humans: A Reply from Non-Western Ontology": He has engaged in a new sovereign theory, which is examined through the case of Minamta's environmental pollution.

Nominator: Prof Vicki Squire, Politics and International Studies, PAIS

Dr Natércia Rodrigues Lopes

Dr Natércia Rodrigues Lopes completed an MChem in Chemistry from the University of Leicester in 2014, followed by a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Warwick in 2018. Her PhD thesis, titled ‘Ultrafast photoprotection mechanisms: expediting the molecular design of sunscreen agents’, won the Science Faculty Thesis Prize in 2019. She then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Warwick before becoming a Marie Curie Research Fellow working in an industrial setting.

Dr Rodrigues Lopes is currently a Junior Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, Portugal, where she undertakes research employing laser spectroscopy methods to understand and optimize chemical properties of health-facilitating compounds. As an IAS Visiting Fellow, Dr Rodrigues Lopes will be spending time at the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy to unveil the photodynamics of endoperoxide derivatives.

Nominator: Jack Woolley, Research Technology Platforms

Dr Bulbul Siddiqi

Dr Bulbul Siddiqi has been awarded a visiting professorship by the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick. Dr Siddiqi is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Department of Political Science and Sociology at North South University, Bangladesh and Director of the Confucius Research Institute. Dr Siddiqi leads the qualitative research in Bangladesh for TRANSFORM Work Package 1.

Dr Siddiqi was awarded a PhD in Anthropology from Cardiff University in 2014 based on research on the Tablighi Jamaat in the UK and Bangladesh. He has conducted research on Muslim identity and religious reformist groups, the health and well-being and integration of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pluralistic approaches to help-seeking. His research foregrounds the experiences of marginalised and disenfranchised groups, specifically refugees, people living in deprived urban communities and people with stigmatised health conditions, such as mental illness, and advocates for social and policy change to protect their rights and promote social inclusion.

Nominator: Prof Swaranpreet Singh, WMS

Dr Jai Shah

As a psychiatrist and researcher, Dr Jai Shah has been deeply involved in and committed to early intervention efforts, initially in psychosis and now across youth mental health. He is Associate Director of the Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychosis (PEPP) and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University, both in Montreal, Canada. He has engaged in an array of clinical research projects from neurobiology to health services and policy, with a particular focus on populations in the earliest phases of psychotic illness, clinical staging and stepped care models of mental illness, and youth mental health service transformation.

Along with PEPP, his current contributions are as a PI in the pan-Canadian project ACCESS Open Minds, which takes place in 14 sites across 6 provinces and territories; McGill Site PI for the NIMH-funded Psychosis Risk Outcomes Network (ProNET); and a 5 year CIHR grant regarding data and youth mental health services evaluation. In all cases, he is concerned not just with research but also implementation in services and broader health systems.

Jai received the 2018 Future Leaders Award from IEPA/Early Intervention in Mental Health Association. He has held consecutive clinician-scientist career awards from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé, and is an investigator on projects funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Institute of Mental Health (US), and the National Institute of Health Research (UK). He trained as a Fellow in Public Psychiatry at Yale University, following his psychiatry residency and a Dupont-Warren Research Fellowship in the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, an MD at the University of Toronto, and graduate studies in health and social policy at the London School of Economics where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He has additional background in research policy (at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research) and ethics (at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics).

Nominator: Prof Swaranpreet Singh, WMS

Professor Carole Levin

Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History Emerita at the University of Nebraska. She specializes in early modern English history. She is the author or editor of twenty books, most recentlyThe Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I: Politics, Culture, and Society(2022). She has held fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Newberry Library, where she was also the Historical Consultant for the Queen Elizabeth exhibit. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of York. In 2023 she was the co-curator for “Beyond Eve and Mary: Premodern Gender, Power, and Religion Exhibit” at the Sheldon Museum. Her most recent published article was “The Steadfast Loyalty of Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury: ‘the only contriver of bedlam opposition.’” inExplorations in Renaissance Culture, 49 (2023). She is currently working on a book on the subject of Changelings, Bastards and Fantasy Children in England from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.

Nominator: Teresa Grant, Arts

Dr Colin Jones

Colin Jones is a historian of France, who in his time in Warwick between 1996 and 2006 was one of the group of historians who helped found the Centre for the History of Medicine under Hilary Marland’s direction. After leaving Warwick, he worked at Queen Mary University of London, where he co-founded the Centre for the History of the Emotions. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, former President of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and Officier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques. In 2012 he was awarded a CBE for services to higher education and historical research.

Colin’s research stretches out beyond the history of medicine into the social and cultural history of France, particularly in the 18^thcentury and the French Revolution. He is the author or editor of over 20 books. His most recent monograph,The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris(Oxford University Press, 2021),was awarded the Franco-British Literary Award and is being translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.

In his time at Warwick, Colin built on earlier work on hospitals, charity and poor relief to co-author with Lawrence Brockliss,The Medical World of Early Modern France(Oxford University Press, 1997), an extensive and in-depth study of health provision in France from the sixteenth century to the French Revolution. He then went on to study the emergence of French dentistry in the 18^thcentury. This led to the publication in 2016 ofThe Smile Revolution in 18^th-century Paris(2016). In the book, Colin places the emergence of a dental profession in Ancien Régime France in conjunction with current ideas of politeness andsensibilité. These produced by the 1780s, he claims, the ‘modern smile’, the acceptance of smiling with an open mouth to reveal teeth, as notably shown in portraits by Elisabeth Vigée de Lebrun. The book analyses how this smile was delegitimated in the 1790s and only remerged in the 20^thcentury.

Since retirement in 2021, Colin lives mainly in Chicago and serves as Visiting Professor in the History Department at the University of Chicago,

Nominator: Charles Walton, Arts

Dr Anirban Mukherjee

Anirban Mukherjee is an assistant professor at the department of Economics, University of Calcutta. Anirban did his B.Sc in economics from Presidency College, Calcutta, M.Sc in economics from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D from the department of Economics, University of British Columbia (currently known as Vancouver School of Economics).

Before joining the University of Calcutta, he taught at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is a fellow of Global Labor Organization. His current research projects involve issues related to the history of technology in India, identity politics, gender discrimination in the labor market and the effect of court quality on entrepreneurship.

Nominator: Dr Subhasish Dey, Economics

Dr Anna Pagès Santacana

Anna Pagès Santacana was born in Barcelona on July 25, 1965. Graduated in Philosophy and Letters and PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has been linked to the Ramon Llull University project since its foundation in 1991, specifically at the Faculty of Psychology, Education Sciences and Sport-Blanquerna. She is a member of the PSITIC Research Group of the Institute for Research in Education of the Ramon Llull University. She has mainly published philosophical essays in Spanish: Al filo del pasado (At the edge of the past), 2006; Sobre el olvido (On oblivion), 2012; Cenar con Diotima, (Dinner with Diotima), 2018; Queda una voz (One voice remains. From silence to speech), 2022.

In the field of Philosophy of Education, she has coordinated the volume 5 of the collective work: A History of Western Philosophy of Education, directed by David Hansen and Megan Laverty from Teachers College at Columbia University, with the title: The Contemporary Landscape, published in 2021 by Bloomsbury publishing house in London. She has also contributed to the Journal of Philosophy of Education of Great Britain.

She is member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain and the Philosophy of Education Society of the United States.

Nominator: Emma Williams, Education Studies

Tinashe Rufurwadzo

Tinashe Rufurwadzo is an author, passionate advocate, and youth leader in global health and human rights. Currently serving as the Communications and Digital Engagement Manager at the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), Tinashe focuses on digital empowerment for youth health advocates and civil society organizations. In the Digital Health and Rights Project consortium (DHRP), a large international project hosted at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at University of Warwick, Tinashe leads the Digital Empowerment working group, coordinating educational initiatives on human rights in the digital age in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Vietnam. He also supports DHRP’s advocacy with African parliamentarians and UN agencies.

Tinashe was formerly a television presenter on Zimbabwe’s national television and is a skilled facilitator and frequently invited speaker in regional and global HIV conferences. A social media influencer on Instagram and Twitter/X, Tinashe uses his platform to inspire and inform thousands of young followers on HIV, digital rights, and youth leadership. He has successfully led the implementation of projects that collaborated with over 110 partners from 34 countries, prioritizing capacity building and empowering marginalized communities (young people living with HIV, adolescent girls, young women, and young people from key populations).

Tinashe's previous research includes studies of HIV services in prisons in Zimbabwe, and of social media as a platform for sexual and reproductive health and HIV testing services. He has published peer-reviewed research in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, and is a regular commentator and opinion columnist in national newspapers in Zimbabwe. At the Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global), Tinashe played an instrumental role in developing We Matter, Value Us, a guide to the ethical and meaningful engagement of young people living with and affected by HIV.

Tinashe earned his MA in Development Studies and has certificates in management and communications. Through his visionary leadership, Tinashe is shaping a more inclusive and equitable future in digital health and rights.

Nominator: Prof. Meg Davis

Craig Martin

Craig Martin is associate professor of the history of science and technology at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice. He works on the history of late-medieval and early modern natural philosophy and medicine, with particular emphasis on Aristotelianism and the history meteorology.

His books include Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011),Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and a translation from Latin of Girolamo Mercuriale’s On Pestilence(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022).

He has been a long-term fellow at the American Academy in Rome, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Villa I Tatti, and the Huntington Library. His current projects focus on medicine in early modern universities.

Nominator: Caroline Petit, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

Ellen W. Sapega

Ellen W. Sapega is a Professor of Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her publications include two monographs and many articles and book chapters on Portuguese modernism, memory, visual culture and commemoration since the late 19^thcentury, and the contemporary Portuguese novel.

Sapega is co-editing a Handbook of Memory Studies in Spain and Portugal for Brill (Leiden) with Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes. The volume aims to provide a synthesis of Memory Studies scholarship in the Iberian Peninsula and to point to emerging research. During her stays at Warwick, she will work with Professor Menezes on the planning, drafting, and co-writing of the volume’s introductions.

Nominator: Prof. Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, SMLC

Dr Vanessa H. Bal

Dr. Vanessa H. Bal is an Associate Professor and Karmazin and Lillard Chair in Adult Autism at the Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of the Psychological Services Clinic and LifeSPAN Autism lab at the Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services.

Her research focuses on advancing understanding of autism in adulthood, with specific interests in assessment, diagnosis, characterization of strengths and adaptation of interventions and supports to address adult mental health concerns and foster well-being.

Outside of research, she aims to promote equitable access to services through provision of graduate and professional training about autism in adulthood. Building on earlier collaborations with Professor Hastings, she will work closely with CIDD researchers who have designed mental health programs to address depression and anxiety in adults with intellectual disability to adapt these programs for use with autistic adults. She will also collaborate on CIDD’s plan for training practitioners in autism diagnostic assessment.

Nominator: Professor Kylie Gray, CIDD

Dr Quintijn Kat

Quintijn Kat obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations of the Americas from the Institute of the Americas, University College London, and is currently an assistant professor at Ashoka University, India. His main area of research concerns the agency of weaker states in international relations with a focus on US-Latin American relations. His work on this topic has appeared in the International Studies Review and Latin American Politics and Society. As an IAS Visiting Fellow, Kat will be working on three projects located within his larger research theme. The first concerns the completion of a book manuscript that explores the role of weak-state agency in hegemonic order. The second project critically examines the development of “Global IR” and asks whether it is at risk of becoming “Global South IR,” instead. The final project explores weak-state interests and agency as a determining factor in great-power politics. Going beyond existing works on weak-state agency as well as the literature on alliances, the project explores the ways in which weak states, through the pursuit of their national interest, may shape and determine the foreign policy interests of great powers.

Nominator: Tom Long, PAIS

Dr Jesús Gilberto Otero Cardona

Jesús Otero, an economist with a PhD in Economics from Warwick University, UK, currently holds the position of Professor of Economics at Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. His research spans economics, econometrics, finance, and labor studies.

Beyond academia, he has served as the Director of the Graduate School in Economics and provided external advice to the National Department of Planning. As an Associate Editor for Economic Modelling and through consultancy projects, such as forecasting fuel consumption for Cenit, a subsidiary of Ecopetrol, the Colombian National Petroleum Company, Jesús contributes to both academic scholarship and practical economic applications.

Nominator: Dr Jeisson Cardenas-Rubio, IER

Prof. Dr Waheeda Amien

Waheeda Amien (BA LLB (Cape Town) LLM (Western Cape) PhD (Ghent)) is a Professor of Legal Pluralism, Religious Family Laws, and Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town. She teaches and supervises masters’ and doctoral students in her areas of specialisation. Waheeda is a Member of the South African Law Reform Commission’s Advisory Committee on the Review of Aspects of Matrimonial Property Law. She is also a Member of the Executive Body of the International Commission on Legal Pluralism and the Steering Committee of the International Network of Scholars Researching Unofficial Marriages. Waheeda has provided expert opinions to a range of local and international entities including among others, the South African Presidency, the South African Commission on Gender Equality, and the United Nations Expert on Minority Issues.

Nominator: Dr Rajnaara Akhtar, School of Law.

Prof. Jordana Dym

Jordana Dym is Professor of History at Skidmore College, where she holds the Kenan Chair of Liberal Studies. Her research interests in the history of cartography focus on the mapping of Central America, particularly Guatemala, and the intersection between Western travel and cartography. She served as chair of trustees of the International Society for the History of the Map (2019-2023) and is a founding editor of H-Maps. In 2022, she became an editor of the journal Imago Mundi. Recent publications include Mapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps Brill Research Perspectives in Map History(Brill, 2021) and, with Carla Lois, Bound Images: maps, books, and reading in material and digital contexts maps, books, and reading in material and digital contexts" Word & Image 37 (2021).

Nominator: Dr Elizabeth Chant, Global Sustainable Development

Dr Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree is the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize, and of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, for her novel, Tomb of Sand(Ret Samadhi in the Hindi original). She has written five novels -Tomb of Sand, Mai(Mai: Silently Mother), Hamara Shahar Us Baras,Tirohit(The Roof Beneath Their Feet), and Khali Jagah (Empty Space), and five collections of short stories. Besides English, her work has been translated into many languages. Geetanjali has also worked on theatre scripts in collaboration with a Delhi based group, Vivadi, of which she is a founding member. She is frequently invited for residencies, fellowships, lectures, seminars, and workshops across the world.

Nominator: Dr. Millija Gluhovic , SCAPVC

Dr Anuradha Kapur

Anuradha Kapur is a theatre-maker and teacher. Her theatre work has travelled nationally and internationally, and she has taught in Universities in India and abroad. She is the founder member of Vivadi a cross-discipline working group of theatre-makers, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers. Almost all her works have been cross-discipline collaborations. Her writings on performance have been widely anthologized and her book Actors Pilgrims Kings and Gods: The Ramlila at Ramnagar was published by Seagull Books, Calcutta (1993, 2004). Anuradha Kapur was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Direction in 2004. Anuradha Kapur completed her term as Director National School of Drama, New Delhi in 2013. She was Visiting Professor at Ambedkar University, Delhi for several years.
 
Nominator: Dr. Millija Gluhovic , SCAPVC

Prof. Callie Grant

Callie Grant is a Professor in the Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa. A nationally rated researcher, Callie’s teaching, research and community engagement is predominantly in the field of Educational Leadership and Management (ELM). In particular, her research interests include distributed leadership, democratic leadership, teacher leadership, learner leadership as well as school leadership preparation and development. She has also done some higher education research focusing on the role of the university HOD. Further research interests include formative interventionist research in the tradition of Cultural, Historical Activity Theory, doctoral education and models of postgraduate supervision, as well as community engaged service learning.

Nominator: Pontso Moorosi , Education Studies

Prof. Olatunji Kolawole

Prof. Kolawole conducts research in the areas of infectious diseases and environmental health, related to water surveillance and wastewater reuse. He has published over 150 research articles in peer reviewed journals. He is a member of the Ministerial Expert Advisory Committee on COVID-19; National coordinator Poliovirus Laboratory Containment; Editor in Chief, Nigerian Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences; Member, Institute of Public Analyst of Nigeria, and Fellow for the Society for Environmental and Public Health Professionals. He is also two-time past Head of Department of Microbiology; Fellow, Nigerian Young Academy. His current work focuses on wastewater reuse, water surveillance, treatment and availability of potable water in Nigeria.

Embracing Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Learning, Teaching, and Research in Biological Sciences in Higher Education in the United Kingdom.

Nominator: Dr Modupe Jimoh

Dr Ajay Bhardwaj

Dr. Ajay Bhardwaj is a documentary filmmaker and public scholar with a practice spanning three decades across two continents– Punjab in India and British Columbia in Canada. He has a long engagement with memory, popular culture, social movements, immigrant labour organising, performance, and arts. In his latest feature-length documentary, he combines all this, researching transnational labour and interrogating erasures of women’s voices and subjectivity from its multimedia archive.

The first objective of Dr. Bhardwaj's visit will be to reflect on the importance of documentary filmmaking in the sociological understanding of diasporic labour mobilisation. It provides a unique and exciting opportunity to screen his new film, When the Tide Goes Out, in the UK for the first time, sparking a discussion on the complex relationships between art and activism explored by the film. The second objective will be to compare and explore the overlaps between Indian diasporic labour movements in the UK and Canada. Finally, the AHRC grant outline proposal will be developed to examine the transnational and internationalist perspective of Indian labour organising.

Nominator: Dr Virinder Karla

Dr. Basani Baloyi

Dr Basani Baloyi will be based at the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School. Dr Baloyi is Programme Co-Director at the Institute for Economic Justice South Africa. In this role, she drives innovative work on industrial policy, green transitions and development finance, with a focus on socio-economic justice in the global south. Dr Baloyi holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, UK and an MA in Public Policy and MCom in Economics from Wits University, South Africa.

Dr Baloyi has extensive policy and research experience in academia and the civil service in South Africa, including as Director of Industrial Policy and Acting Chief Director in the Industrial Procurement Unit at the Department of Trade and Industry. She has authored and edited publications on the South African political economy, development policy and climate finance, including The Evolving Structure of South Africa's Economy (2023), a significant contribution offering critical insights into South Africa’s economic landscape.

During her visit, Dr Baloyi will collaborate on the Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLiFT) project, specifically through providing insights and critiques on South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a climate finance initiative aimed at supporting developing countries in their shift to low-carbon economies.

Nominator: Professor Celine Tan

Prof Farida Fassi

Farida is a Full Professor of Physics at Mohammed V University in Rabat and a prominent Particle Physicist. She is a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, an Associated Member of CERN, and represents the ATLAS Institute at her university. Farida is also affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and is a visiting scientist at Warwick University, UK. Farida has also been honored with the ICTP-Arab Fund Associates fellowship. Farida’s academic journey began with a BSc from the University of Abdelmalek Essaâdi in Morocco in 1996. She furthered her studies in Spain, earning a Master’s in Nuclear and Particle Physics in 1999, followed by a Ph.D. in Particle Physics in 2002 from the University of Valencia. Her groundbreaking work on the ATLAS experiment at CERN earned her a European Ph.D. in Physics. In 2003, she secured a research fellowship at CSIC, and in 2007, held a senior position at CNRS, contributing to the CMS experiment. During her tenure, she also acted as France’s Tier-1 contact at CERN and served as a senior scientist at IN2P3. She joined the Spanish Center for Particle, Astroparticle, and Nuclear Physics in 2011, where her contributions to the ATLAS and CMS experiments were pivotal in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. In 2013, she was appointed as a professor and researcher at Mohammed V University in Rabat. Farida’s research spans both theoretical and experimental particle physics, with a particular focus on probing new physics and phenomena related to Dark Matter. Since 2013, she has also coordinated the ATLAS Distributed Analysis support team and served as an expert in ATLAS Distributed Computing. Farida is deeply committed to advancing physics research in Africa, especially in Morocco, and leads efforts to foster a network of researchers through international collaborations. In recognition of her contributions, Farida has been selected by the UNESCO´s DirectorGeneral as a jury member for the UNESCO-Russia Mendeleev International Prize in Basic Sciences. She is also a co-founder of the “African Strategy for Fundamental Applied Physics” and serves on the scientific committee of the “African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications.” Farida is a member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Working Group on Women in Physics and is associated member with IUPAP’s Physics Education Working Group. With an H-index of 135 (Scopus), Farida's scholarly impact is profound. In 2021, she was ranked second in Morocco, Africa, and the Arab League. Additionally, her stellar research output earned her a spot among the top 50 scientists globally in the AD Scientific Index 2021, reflecting her outstanding research productivity and academic citations. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6423-7213 Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6506648426 Web of Science: https://publons.com/researcher/2281621/farida-fassi/ Hep-Inspire: https://inspirehep.net/authors?sort=bestmatch&size=25&page=1&q=INSPIRE-0030885

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Nominator: Professor William Murray

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Associate Prof Laura-Maria Peltonen

Laura-Maria Peltonen, MHSc, RN, PhD, FEANS, FIAHSI is Associate Professor at the Department of Health and Social Management at the University of Eastern Finland and the Wellbeing services county of North Savo in Finland. Dr. Peltonen was granted the title of Docent in 2021 at the University of Turku.

Her research focuses the development, evaluation and implementation of structures and intelligent solutions to support decision-making on different levels in health service provision. Her research has led to several instruments for the assessment of issues on information management and leadership in healthcare and digital tools to support primary and secondary use of health data.

Dr. Peltonen has authored and co-authored more than one hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles and around 20 book chaptersLink opens in a new window.

She is co-director of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership (NAIL) Collaborative , Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (FIAHSI) and the European Academy of Nursing Science (FEANS). She currently serves as the Institutions Members Officer at the Executive Board of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and is a board member of the Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association (FinnSHIA). She also chairs the Governance Advisory Panel of the Nursing Informatics Group of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA NI).

Nominator: Dr Julia Walsh