UBIAS Directors' Conference Participants

Clarissa Ball

Professor Clarissa Ball has been the Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia since 2011. Prior to taking up her role at the Institute, Clarissa was the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Visual Arts at the University of Western Australia. She is an art historian and currently serves as the Chair of the History of Art programme at the University.

César Barreira

Full Professor in Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences and of the Postgraduate Program in Sociology of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). Coordinator of the Laboratory of Studies in Violence (LEV) at the same institution. Director of the College of Advanced Studies - CEA / UFC.

Barreira holds a masters' degree in Sociology from the University of Brasília (1977), a PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (1987), a postdoctoral degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (1990) and another postdoctoral degree from the Social Sciences Institute of Lisbon (2008).

Researcher at CNPq (IA), leader of the Research Group on "Power, Violence and Citizenship" of CNPq and coordinating researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology "Violence and Public Security" of INCT / CNPq.

Luís Barros

Visiting Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and of the Postgraduate Program in Sociology of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). Collaborator at the Laboratory of Studies in Violence (LEV) at the same institution. Collaborator of the College of Advanced Studies - CEA / UFC.

Master in Latin American Studies (2008) and PhD-holder in Anthropology (2016) from the University of Arizona - UoA (2008), revalidated into Sociology at UFC.

Lena Bering

Communications Officer, MA
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University (AIAS), Denmark

Lena Bering is managing all aspects of communication at AIAS, and is responsible for coordinating larger events at the Institute. She has also played an active role in the UBIAS network from 2016-2018, during AIAS’ period as chair/ coordinator of the network. She has been with AIAS since the opening of the Institute in 2013. Prior to AIAS, she has been working in industry, as a high-school teacher (at the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme) and with science communication for a Research Centre at Aarhus University Hospital. She holds an MA degree in English and Nordic languages from Aarhus University and University of East Anglia, UK.

Olivier Bouin

Olivier Bouin is the Director of the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study (RFIEA), a Research Foundation/Excellence Laboratory funded by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Since 2008, he has been a member of the UBIAS Steering Committee. Since 2009, he has been the Secretary-General of NetIAS, a network of 23 Institutes for Advanced Study in Europe. He is chief coordinator for the EURIAS Fellowship Programme EURIAS that regroups 19 IAS and is funded by the European Commission (FP7 Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND for the 2010-2019 period).

He is the head of the International Department of the Alliance Athena (French Alliance for the Social Sciences and the Humanities that regroups all the major research organisations) and vice-President of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH). Among other academic responsibilities, he has been the co-director of the International Panel on Social Progress, an international and multidisciplinary initiative that has gathered over 350 social scientists in the world. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book « Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: A Manifesto for Social Progress » (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Laurent Callegarin

Lecturer in archaeology and ancient history in the University of Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France) since 2001. Director of studies for the ancient and medieval periods in the Casa de Velázquez (French School Abroad) since september 2013 and member of Executive Committee of Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (Spain).

Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas

Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas has completed his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering at UFMG and holds a master's degree from PUC-Rio. His PhD in Structural Engineering was obtained at Purdue University in 1988. He was a visiting professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia from 1995 to 1996. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at UFMG and director of the Institute of Transdisciplinary Advanced Studies at UFMG (IEAT).

De Las Casas works in the areas of Computational Mechanics and Biomechanics, advising undergraduate and postgraduate students, besides postdoctoral students of Engineering and Health, the latter two through the courses of Structural Engineering and Mechanics. He has published more than 250 articles in events and periodicals, in addition to having organized a book in Spain and three in Brazil, and holding two patents, with four other patent applications filed.

He was one of the creators and coordinators of the First National Meeting of Biomechanical Engineering and of the first Symposium of Computational Mechanics, and coordinated one of the versions of CILAMCE, or the Ibero-Latin American Congress of Computational Methods. He has organized several symposiums in international and national congresses, and participated in several Scientific Committees of congresses.

Secretary of the Bioengineering Committee of the Brazilian Association of Mechanical Sciences (2006-2007). He is a founding partner and has been the first president of the Brazilian Association of Computational Methods (ABMEC), and a member of its Advisory Board. He has coordinated exchange projects with the University of Texas in Austin, with the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon, with the University of Zaragoza, besides cooperation initiatives with the Universities of Coimbra, Nacional de Colombia and Catalonia. He has coordinated a research network in biomechanics involving researchers from UFSC, UNESP, UFU, UFPr, UFJF, PUC-Rio and UFES, all important Brazilian institutions. Guest speaker at universities in the United States, Japan and Europe. He participates in the editorial board of the journals Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Bioengineering (Taylor and Francis) and International Journal of Engineering Calculus and Design (Elsevier).

He has coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Structural Engineering at UFMG. He coordinated the Engineering and Architecture Chamber of FAPEMIG and was the Evaluation Coordinator of CAPES Engineering (2011-2014), after having participated in two previous triennial evaluations.

Martin Cloonan

Professor Martin Cloonan is Director of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests are centred on the political economy of the music industries, especially live music, as well as issues of freedom of musical expression and music policy.. Recent publications include Players' Work Time: A History of the British Musicians' Union, 1893-2013 (Manchester University Press, 2016).

Caitriona Curtis

Caitriona has been the Institute Manager of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin, the Trinity long Room Hub, since 2012. She works closely with the Director on the development and implementation of the Institute’s strategic policies, programmes and initiatives. Prior to this Caitriona worked directly with the President of the University, managing the diverse demands of this high profile office as well as contributing to the development and support of key university initiatives such as strategic planning. Caitriona has a PhD in 20th century Irish history.

Carsten Dose

Dr. Dose joined Freiburg University with the launch of its university-based IAS in 2008. In this function he was in charge of the expeditious establishment of the institute and its fellowship programmes. Together with the scientific director, he is responsible for the institutes’s strategic planning and budget, its staff and for securing third-party funding. He oversees public relations of the institute and represents the institute to local, national and international partners.

He was actively involved in preparations for the inaugural conference of the UBIAS-network in 2010 and has been the network’s coordinator until 2016.

From 2001 to 2008, Carsten Dose worked for the German Council of Science and Humanities, an advisory body to the national and state governments on all matters of higher education and science policy.

Carsten Dose studied sociology at Frankfurt University and holds a PhD from the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he was a member of a DFG/GRC-research training group focusing on science and technology studies from a social sciences perspective.

C. Giovanni Galizia

Professor for Neuroscience and Zoology at the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz, Germany, as well as Director of the Zukunftskolleg, an Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Konstanz that promotes early career researchers from the humanities, natural and social sciences. As Director, he heads the Zukunftskolleg and represents the institution both internally and externally. In his academic life, Galizia heads the German Priority Research Program about "Integrative Analysis of Olfaction", forming network of 36 research groups across Germany and Switzerland. He has published widely, including the University textbook Neurosciences, organized international symposia, and is editor of the European Journal of Neuroscience, and the Journal of Comparative Physiology A.

Contact: giovanni.galizia@uni-konstanz.de

Risto Heiskala

Professor and Director of the Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR) at the University of Tampere, Finland. He completed his PhD at the University of Helsinki in 1997 and has since been Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Professor of Public and Social Policy at the University of Jyväskylä and Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere. He is Member of the Board of the University of Tampere and Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Neostructuralist Theory of Culture and Society (Peter Lang 2003) as well as articles in several journals.

Thomas Hengartner

Thomas Hengartner (1960), 1996-2010 full professor for Cultural Anthropology/Cultural Studies at the University of Hamburg; since 2010 full professor for Cultural Anthropology/Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich and Head of the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies; since 2016 director of the Collegium Helveticum. 2002 Leibniz-Award of the DFG (German Research Foundation). Research areas: Culture and Technology; Urban Anthropology; Consumption and Addiction-Studies; Anthropology of the Senses, Transdisciplinarity.

http://www.collegium.ethz.ch/de/ueber-uns/collegium- helveticum/personen/prof-dr- thomas- hengartner/

Stuart Humphries

Stuart Humphries is the founding Director of the Lincoln Institute of Advanced Studies and professor of Evolutionary Biophysics. He joined Lincoln 2014 and is the Research Group Lead for Lincoln’s Evolution and Ecology Research Group. Stuart studied marine biology at the University of Swansea and gained a PhD in Theoretical Ecology from the University of Glasgow. He has held a Pioneer Research Fellowship from the Freshwater Biological Association and UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), a NERC Advanced Fellowship at the universities of Reading and Sheffield, and was a lecturer at the University of Hull from 2009. He leads collaborative interdisciplinary research at the interface of biology, physics and engineering, on subjects ranging from the ecology of microbes in the oceans to the evolution of dinosaurs.

Maya Jepsen

Maya Jepsen is deputy director at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. She has a background in Political Science from Aarhus University and has specialized in education and research policy and university administration.

Jochen Kemner

Ph.D. is Managing Director of the Maria Sybilla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CALAS) in Guadalajara. Before he was Senior Researcher at the Center for Interamerican Studies at Bielefeld University where he obtained his Ph.D. in Latin American History. His research involves topics like slavery and free people of color in the Americas, indigeneity and transnational organizations, human rights and development policies.

Bernd Kortmann

Bernd Kortmann is Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He has published on semantics, semantic change, grammaticalization, typology, language complexity, history of linguistics, and English grammar. His main research interest over the last decade has been the grammar of non-standard varieties of English around the world, especially from a typological perspective. His main research interest over the last decade has been the grammar of non-standard varieties of English around the world, especially from a typological perspective. Since 2012 he has been a member of the selection panel of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowships. From April 2008 until September 2009 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Language and Literature of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS). In December 2013 he was appointed Director of the FRIAS for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and as of October 2015 Speaker of the Board of Directors (Executive Director) of FRIAS. Bernd Kortmann holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Eastern Finland and is an elected member of the Academia Europaea.

Daniela Kromrey

Daniela Kromrey is the Program Director for Internationalization at the Zukunftskolleg, an Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Konstanz. She is responsible for the strategic and conceptual development of the international focus of the institute. Daniela also coordinates the Marie Curie "Zukunftskolleg Incoming Fellowships" Program co-funded by the European Union. Currently, she is working on new funding instruments to increase the international mobility of Zukunftskolleg Fellows and to encourage research stays of excellent early career researchers from around the world at the Zukunftskolleg. Daniela received her PhD from the University of Konstanz. Her research focussed on traditional authorities in Africa, components of democracy and comparative democratization as well as survey research. Daniela’s work has been published in African Affairs, Political Research Quarterly, and Journal of Peace Research.

Contact: daniela.kromrey@uni-konstanz.de

Ana Santos Kühn

Ana Santos Kühn studied Chemical Engineering in Lisbon and received her doctoral degree in Chemistry under the supervision of current TUM president Prof. Wolfgang A. Herrmann, in 2000.

She worked as a researcher at both TUM and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, collaborating with research institutions all over the world (for example in China, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Singapore and the US). Her research focused mainly on the synthesis and characterization of organometallic compounds and their applications in catalysis.

After two years in corporate management in her home country Portugal, she returned to TUM for good in 2006 as the chief of staff of the TUM presidential office. After her maternity leave, she had a two-year term of managing director of the TUM-IAS, then served as the director of the TUM International Center until mid-2015, during which time she contributed significantly to the university’s global strategy and lead a major restructuration process of this unit. She then returned to the IAS as Managing Director.

In July 2017, she has additionally joined the TUM Board of Management, where she serves as a Vice President for International Faculty Recruiting and Career Programs.

Morten Kyndrup

Executive director, dr. phil., professor (chair) of Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University (since 1995). Director (1993-98) of the Research Program "Contemporary Aesthetic Theory: Current Functional Change of the Aesthetic" under The Danish Research Council for the Humanities. Director (Centre for Cultural Research) 1996, founder and director of The Doctoral School of Arts and Aesthetics 2001-11. Executive director, AIAS (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies) since 2012.

Arnaud Lefranc

Arnaud Lefranc is Vice-President in charge of the the International Scientific Development at the University of Cergy-Pontoise and the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies. He is also Professor of economics at the University of Cergy-Pontoise and former director of the Center for Excellence in Economic and Mathematical Modelling.

Arnaud Lefranc is also a Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. He held visiting positions at the European University Institute (Italy), Doshisha University (Japan), Princeton University (USA). He obtained a PhD in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and his BSc from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. His research interests include the economics of inequality, equality of opportunity, intergenerational transmission, education and family economics.

Michal Linial

Michal Linial is a Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Bioinformatics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and the Director of the Israeli Institute for Advance studies (IIAS) in Jerusalem (2012-2018). She served as the Director of the Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology at the Hebrew University (2003-2010).

Prof. Linial obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular biology (1986) from HUJI. She then completed her post-doctoral training at Stanford, CA-USA, on the field of cellular neurochemistry. On 1989 she joined the faculty of HUJI in the Biological Chemistry department. She is a founder (imitated in 1999) and chair of the honor educational program for Computational Biology in HUJI. She is the representative of Israel in the pan-European project of ELIXIR. ML serves in the Board of Directors and as a Vice-President of the International Society of Computational Biology and was selected as a fellow of the society. From 2005 she serves at the steering committee of ISMB, RECOM and ECCB the flagship international conferences of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology communities. ML was a visiting professor in University of Washington in Seattle and Microsoft Research Center in Cambridge, MA- USA.

ML has authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to the development of bioinformatics databases and websites that are open to the large communities of the biomedical and Life science researchers. Her current research interests covers host- pathogen co-evolution, protein family evolution, microRNA mode of action and prediction tools for the benefit of human health focusing on aging and complex phenotypes and diseases. Her laboratory applies large-scale technologies including proteomics, genomics and systems biology in the context of comparative genomics and design principles in the molecular basis of human health and disease.

Joachim Michael

Joachim Michael holds a professorship for Interamerican Studies at Bielefeld University. He earned his Ph.D. in Romance Languages at University of Freiburg und finished his Habilitation in the same study field at University of Hamburg.  His main research fields are related to Normativity and Mediality in the Context of Time, History, and Apocalypse, Memory and Trauma; and Film Studies. He is member of the CALAS Steering Committee.

Atsushi Nishizawa

Atsushi Nishizawa is a Lecturer at Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya Universiy since 2013. He graduated Nagoya University and received Ph.D in physics (2008). He has posdoc careers at National Astronomical Observatory Japan, Tohoku University and Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of Universe (Tokyo). His research topic involves observational cosmology and astronomy especially based on the statistical method and big data analysis such as machine learning algorithm. He is one of the organizer of the first UBIAS Intercontinental Academia Nagoya workshop.

Jane Ohlmeyer

Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin and the Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity’s research institute for the Arts and Humanities, since 2015. She was Trinity’s first Vice-President for Global Relations (2011-14) and since September 2015 has served as Chair of the Irish Research Council. She is an expert on the New British and Atlantic Histories and has published widely on a number of themes in early modern Irish and British history.

Britta Padberg

Britta Padberg has been the Managing Director of the Center for interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung ZiF) since 2008. She is an biological anthropologist and historian by education and received her PhD at Göttingen University. In former positions she was concerned with fostering high-gifted students for the Cusanuswerk (Bonn) and with organizing the Excellence Initiative for the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat Köln).

Guilherme Ary Plonski

Guilherme Ary Plonski holds master and doctoral degrees in Industrial Engineering, and was a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholarship at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Science and Technology Policy. He has a double appointment at University of São Paulo – full professor at the Business School and associate professor at the Engineering School, and is also the Research Director of its Center for Technology Policy and Management. He was the CEO of the São Paulo State Institute for Technological Research, the largest of its kind in Latin America, and the president of the Brazilian Association of Science Parks and Business Incubators. Plonski is or was a member of the board of relevant entities of the Brazilian System of Science, Technology and Innovation, including the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development; the Brazilian Innovation Agency; the Center for Strategic Studies and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation; the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service; and the Brazilian Association for Research and Development of Innovative Companies. He is currently the director of the Latin Ibero-American Association of Technology Management, and a board member of the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation.

Before becoming the deputy director of IEA for the 2016-2020 tenure, Professor Plonski has previously been a board member at the Institute.

Paulo Saldiva

Pathologist Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva, a professor at USP's Faculty of Medicine (FMUSP), was elected by the Institute's Electoral College on February 18, 2016. Saldiva is a full professor since 1996, having graduated in medicine and obtaining a PhD in pathology from the FMUSP. He has been a member of the Scientific Committee of Harvard University's School of Public Health and member of the Air Quality Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO). He is currently a member of the Council of the City of São Paulo. His research focuses on pathology, pulmonary pathophysiology, respiratory diseases, and environmental health and applied ecology.

José Vicente Tavares dos Santos

Director of the Latin American Institute for Advanced Studies - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Professor of Sociology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (since 1978).

Senior Research at CNPq - National Council of Scientific Development (since 1988). Titles: Bachelor of Social Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1971), Master of Sociology, University of Sao Paulo (1977), Ph.D. (Docteur d´État), University of Paris X, Nanterre (1987).

Visiting Fellow: University of Salamanca, Spain (2018); Université de Montréal (2016); University of Cambridge, UK (2008); University of Coimbra, Portugal; EHESS, Paris; Foundation des Sciences Politiques, France (2002); University of Republica, Uruguay; University of Sao Paulo, State University of Ceara, Federal University of Ceara and Federal University of Para, Brazil (Since 2000); Harvard University (Student Fellowship, 1970).

Associations: ISA - International Sociological Association - President of Research Committee “Social Control and Deviance” (2014-2018). CLACSO – Latin American Council of Social Sciences, President of the RC Paradox of Citizenship Security (2014-2020). Former President of the Latin American Sociological Association. Former President of the Brazilian Society of Sociology. Consultant of the United Nations, SSR – Security Sector Reform.

Email: josevtavares@gmail.com

Gonzalo Sozzo

Gonzalo Sozzo is a Doctor in Legal and Social Sciences (2003). He is vice-dean of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) since 2014, besides being a category I research professor. He currently directs a research group on global environmental change at the Humanities and Social Sciences Institute of the UNL.

Sozzo is a Tenured Professor of Contract Law since 2010 and of Consumer Law. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Obligations Law, all subjects of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences.

He was a resident of the Institut de Études Avancées de Nantes in France (2012). He is a member of different international research projects. He has participated as an exhibitor at international conferences in Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Montevideo, Paris, Limoges, Nantes and Bogotá. He was a visiting professor at the University of Limoges-France (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018) and the University of Nantes-France (2014, 2015).

Jens Stoye

Jens Stoye has been a professor of Genome Informatics at Bielefeld University since 2002. He has been a member of the board of directors of his university's Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) since 2004, served as dean of the Faculty of Technology between 2007 and 2013, and has been appointed a director of Bielefeld's Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in 2017. His current research interests are algorithmic bioinformatics and the development of computational methods for biological sequence analysis and comparative genomics.

Kazuhisa Takemura

Kazuhisa Takemura is Associate Director of Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS), a psychologist and an educator who holds many academic positions.  Besides working as a professor at Department of Psychology, Waseda University, he is also engaged as Director of the Institute for Decision Research, Waseda University, a professor of Waseda Business School as well as a research fellow of the Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering.  He received his BA and MA from the Department of Psychology, Doshisha University in 1983 and 1985, and received his Ph.D. (System Science) from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1994 and Ph.D. (Medical Science) from Kitasato University in 2013.  His main research topics are human judgment and decision making, especially modeling of preferential judgment and choice.  He received Hayashi Award (Distinguished Scholar) from The Behaviormetric Society in 2002, Excellent Paper Award from Japan Society of Kansei Engineering in 2003, the Book Award from Japanese Society of Social Psychology in 2010 and the Book Award from Behaviormetric Society in 2016. He wrote several books including "Economic psychology: Psychological foundations of Behavioral Economics”, Baiifukan (2015) and "Behavioral decision theory: Psychological an mathematical representations of human choice behavior", Springer (2014).

Kazuhisa Tenjin

Kazuhisa Tenjin has been appointed as Administrative Director of Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies since June 2015.  He earned his MA from Graduate School of international politics, economics and communication, Aoyama Gakuin University.  After working at Japanese major telecommunication company for ten years, he moved to Waseda University in 1999 and spent many years working in the administrative office of Graduate School of international telecommunication studies.

Javier Trejos

Licence in Mathematics (University of Costa Rica, 1989) and Doctor in Applied Mathematics (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, 1994). Full professor at the School of Mathematics, researcher in multivariate data analysis and optimization at the Research Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA), University of Costa Rica. At the present time Dean of the Faculty of Science and coordinator of the Advaced Studies Centre (UCREA).

Peter Vale

Peter Vale is Professor of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, and Director of JIAS. He holds BA and BA (Honours) degrees from Wits University, and an MA and PhD from the University of Leicester.

He previously worked as Director of Research at the South African Institute of International Affairs; Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University, where he was also Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics; co-Director (with Rob Davies) of the Centre for Southern African Studies at the University of the Western Cape; and, later, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at the same university.

He has served as UNESCO Professor of African Studies at Utrecht University; Professor of Politics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia; and Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway.

He is an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, a member of the Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, and a Fellow of the World Academy for Arts and Science. He was recently elected as a member of the African Academy of Science.

Between 2008 and 2011, he co-chaired (with Jonathan Jansen) the first inquiry into the state of the Humanities in South Africa for the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). He also chairs the Academy Advisory Board of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS).

Prof Vale’s research interests include social thought, intellectual traditions in South Africa, the future and politics of higher education, and the origins of international relations in South Africa, and he has published extensively in all these fields.

He has received the International Medal of the University of Utrecht, and Rhodes University’s Distinguished Senior Research Award. His book Security and Politics in South Africa: The Regional Dimension (University of Cape Town Press, 2004) received the Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award at Rhodes University.

In 2013, he delivered the EH Carr Memorial Lecture at Aberystwyth University, Wales, the most prestigious lecture in the field of International Relations.

Prof Vale has contributed extensively to the public debate in South Africa and elsewhere. He regularly writes on higher education for the Johannesburg-based national weekly Mail & Guardian.

Carlos Vogt

Carlos Vogt is the former president of São Paulo Virtual University (UNIVESP), which he helped to launch in 2010. Both a linguist and a poet, he is full professor in the field of argumentative semantics at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), of which he was president (1990-1994) and associate dean and general coordinator (1986-1990). Since 1995, he has been coordinator of UNICAMP’s Laboratory of Advanced Studies in Journalism (LABJOR). He graduated in Literature from University of São Paulo (USP), has a master’s degree in Modern Literature from Université de Franche-Comté (France) and a doctorate in Social Sciences from UNICAMP’s Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences. He was secretary of higher education of the state of São Paulo (2009-2010), president of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (2002-2007) and vice-president of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC) (2001-2005). In 2005, he received the President’s Commendation of the National Order of Scientific Merit, as well as the title of doctor honoris causa from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France). He is the numerous books, including O intervalo semântico: contribuição para uma teoria semântica argumentativa (2009), Poesia reunida (2008), Ilhas Brasil (poems, 2002), A imprensa em questão (co-author, 1997), Mascarada (poems, 1997), Cafundó: A África no Brasil (co-author, 1996), A solidez do sonho (1993), Metalurgia(poems, 1991), Linguagem, pragmática e ideologia (1989) and Crítica ligeira (1989).

Véronique Zanetti

Véronique Zanetti, born in Lausanne (SUI), is a philosopher and has held a professorship at Bielefeld University since 2004. Her research focuses on the philosophy of international relations. This branch of philosophy addresses, among others, questions of migration, secession, global poverty, justification of military power and their normative implications for the moral rights and duties of states and other international actors. Hence, there are close contacts to other disciplines, notably international law, political science and sociology. Véronique has been a member of ZiF's Board of Directors since 2015 and the Excecutive Director since 2017.

Hideaki Miyajima

Hideaki Miyajima is Director, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study(WIAS), Professor of Japanese Economy, Ph.D. in Commerce, Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University. He is teaching Japanese Economy, and Corporate Governance in Japan. He finished his Ph.D course work at University of Tokyo in Economics. He stayed at Reischauer Institute at Harvard University as a visiting scholar for 1992-94 and 2004- 05. He was asked to consult by several institutions such as the World Bank, Hawaii University, Hebrew University, and Korean Development Institute. He was also appointed at numerous positions: Faculty Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry, a Special Research Fellow of Policy Research Institute (Ministry of Finance), Research Fellow of EHESS (Paris), and an Adjunct Professor of Chung-Ang University (Seoul). He wrote several books and numerous papers including: The Ownership of Japanese Corporations in the 20th Century, Review of Financial Studies, 2014, Corporate Governance in Japan, Oxford University Press, 2007 (co-edited).

Peter Scott

Professor Scott was appointed to Director of the Institute in September 2017. He joined Warwick’s Department of Chemistry in 1997 as a Lecturer and has served in a variety of roles for the department and university and is a Royal Society Industry Fellow. Peter is also the founder and scientific director of the Warwick spin-out Interface Polymers Ltd. Educated at Salford and Oxford he undertook post-doctoral work at Universität Konstanz in Germany and Sussex University, holding a Royal Society European Research Fellowship and the Ramsay Memorial Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chair of the National Chemical Database Service Advisory Board. He leads collaborative interdisciplinary research in two areas: the discovery of self-assembling molecules as antimicrobials and cancer medicines, and interfacially-active polyolefin materials for industry.

Peter Sloot

Professor Peter M.A. Sloot is distinguished research professor computational science and scientific director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Amsterdam, and a full professor and director of the Complexity Institute in the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has been the principal investigator of many international research programmes on complex systems, like www.virolab.org and www.dynanets.org. His theoretical work focuses on out of equilibrium dynamics of Complex Adaptive Systems using Information Theory and Thermodynamics.

Angela Alonso

Angela Alonso is associate professor of sociology and coordinator of the MeciLA-USP. She is also president of Cebrap (Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning), an interdisciplinary research centre. She holds a post-doc by Yale University (2009–10) and authors articles, chapters and three books on intellectual and political movements in Brazil, two of them awarded Brazilian prizes and translated to French. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009) and her last book, Flowers, Ballots and Bullets: the movement for abolition of slavery in Brazil (1868-1888), won two national prizes in 2016 (best book in human sciences - Jabuti Prize, and the best book of the year (Brazilian Academy of Letters) and is forthcoming in English by Cambridge University Press.

Eugênio Bucci

Eugênio Bucci graduated in Social Communication from the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP) in 1982. He also holds a graduation degree in Law from USP.

In 1984 he was named president of the Faculty of Law's student union, a position reached after his campaign with the group "The Pravda", in a reference to The New York Times and the official soviet publication Pravda. The same group would later elect his successor, Fernando Haddad, current mayor of São Paulo. Affiliated to the Worker's Party in the early 80s, he has been the creator and first editor of the magazine Teoria e Debate, published by the Perseu Abramo foundation.

As a journalist, he was director of magazines such as Set,Superinteressante, Playboy and Quatro Rodas, culture and television critic in newspapers likeFolha de São Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo and Jornal do Brasil, besides being Editorial Secretary of Editora Abril. In 2002 he became doctor in Communication Science from ECA-USP.

He taught journalistic ethics at Faculdade Cásper Líbero in 2001 and 2002. After leaving the position of director at Radiobras (January 2003 to April 2007), he became Visiting Professor at the IEA-USP. In 2008, he became a professor at ECA-USP. Two years later, he became director of the post-graduation course of journalism at ESPM, although he still works at USP.

Massimo Canevacci

Massimo Canevacci (1942) is an Italian ethnographer and critical thinker. He is a professor of Cultural Anthropology and of Art and Digital Cultures at Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy. His research focuses on the areas of ethnography, visual communication, art, and digital culture. He has previously been in Brazil as a visiting professor to the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC).

He also directed the Italian magazine 'Avatar' from 2001 to 2006. He is particularly well known for the development of the concepts of 'communicational metropolis', 'multividual' as well as the tensions between 'self-and hetero-representation'. He is also known for his contribution to the study of digital cultures and his dialogic relationship with 'native' populations such as the Bororo and the Xavante of Central Brazil.

Sylvio Canuto

Sylvio Canuto is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences, the coordinator of the Area of ​​Astronomy and Physics at CAPES and a representative of the CTC-ES at the Higher Council of CAPES. Since 2018, he is also a member of TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences).

He is Editor of the journal Spectrochimica Acta A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy (Elsevier).

Bachelor and Master in Physics from the University of Brasília and PhD in Quantum Chemistry (1979) from the University of Uppsala (Sweden). He was a full professor of the Physics Department of UFPE (1989-1994), and since 1994 he was a full professor of the Institute of Physics at USP. He has been a visiting professor at more than 20 different international institutions. He was Specialist Editor of Computer Physics Communications in different terms (1987-1990, 2002-2006) and a member of the Chemical Physics Letters Editorial Board for two terms (2004-2009). He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (2001-) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal of the Argentine Chemical Society, having been a 10-year associate editor of the Brazilian Journal of Physics.

He was the head of the General Physics Department of IFUSP (2008-2012), and was head of the Physics Department at UFPE (1989-1991) and head of the IFUSP Materials Physics Department (2004-2006).

His specialty is in Theory of Many Bodies, Computational Simulation and Molecular Modeling, with emphasis on the study of solvent effects on spectroscopy and reactivity of molecular fluids.

He is the author or co-author of more than 265 published articles (in periodicals and chapters of books) of international circulation, with more than 4000 quotations, and Factor H = 33. The average number of citations of his articles is currently 14.71 . Data from Google scholar: h = 40 and i10 = 146, with more than 5320 citations, ResearchGate index = 43.21.

His publications involve co-authorship with collaborators from 23 different countries and the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry has dedicated a special edition in his honor to his 60th birthday.

Cássia Carrascoza

Cássia Carrascoza graduated in Flute from USP, studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Budapest and has earned master and doctoral degrees at USP. She has been first flute of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra for many years and played in chamber groups as Camerata Aberta and Percorso Ensemble.

José Goldemberg

José Goldemberg is a tenured professor at USP’s Institute of Physics, which he directed from 1970 to 1978. He was president of the University of São Paulo (1986-1990), of the Brazilian Society of Physics (1975-1979) and of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) (1979-1981). He held several positions in government: president of Companhia Energética de São Paulo (CESP) (1982-1986); President’s Secretary of Science and Technology (Ministry of Science and Technology) (1990-1991); Minister of Education (1991-1992); President’s Secretary of the Environment (1992); and Secretary of the Environment of the state of São Paulo (2002-2006). He was a visiting professor at Stanford University and Princeton University (both in the United States), and at the International Academy of the Environment, IAE (Switzerland); a professor at University of Toronto (Canada) and Université Paris-Orsay (France); and a researcher at University of Sussex (England) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria). Goldemberg is member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS); and co-chair of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA). He is the author of numerous articles and books on nuclear physics, environment, energy planning and biomass. In 2007, he was named by Time magazine one of thirteen “Heroes of the Environment” in the category “Leaders and Visionaries.” He was awarded the Blue Planet Prize in 2008 by the Asahi Glass Foundation.

Martin Grossmann

Martin Grossmann is full professor at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo / ECA-USP, Brazil. He is the creator and coordinator of Fórum Permanente: Cultural System between the Public and the Private, a platform specialised in analysing and discussing the relationship between contemporary art and its spaces of social reception.

From 2012 to 2016, Martin Grossmann was the director of USP's Institute of Advanced Studies -IEA. Prior to this position, he was the general director of Centro Cultural São Paulo - CCSP from 2006 to 2010 and deputy director of USP’s Museum of Contemporary Art - MAC, from 1998 to 2002. Still at the IEA-USP, he is a member of the Scientific Board of UBIAS' Intercontinental Academia and the academic coordinator of the Olavo Setúbal Chair for the Arts, Culture & Science. He coordinates the Research Group Fórum Permanente: Cultural System between the Public and the Private.

From September to December 2016 he was a visiting fellow at the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. From December 2015 to July 2016 he was a distinguished visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Birmingham, England.

Member of the Sao Paulo State Education Council and member of the Lasar Segall Museum Board, a Brazilian Federal Museum.

He has a degree in Visual Arts from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), a Masters of Arts from USP’s School of Communication and Arts (ECA) and a PhD from the University of Liverpool.

He is the creator and coordinator of the first USP website (USP Online), from 1995 to 1998 and also of the Education and Outreach Department of USP's Museum of Contemporary Art, back in 1985.

Grossmann's research discusses the transition of material culture to a culture in virtuality, the relationship between contemporary art, its agents and institutions, the processes of artistic and cultural mediation and the development and maintenance of information systems for art and culture. His role as manager of cultural institutions and projects is based on research and studies done on curatorship; cultural & visual culture studies; museum studies; art criticism; theory and history of art and architecture; and history of ideas.

Thiago Junqueira

Geriatrician Thiago Junqueira is a visiting professor and research director at USP's School of Medicine, linked to the Department of Internal Medicine's Division of Geriatrics. He is also an assistant professor of Internal Medicine at the Albert Einstein Israeli College of Health Sciences.

Alberto Pfeifer

He holds a degree in Agronomy Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP) (1986), a Law degree from USP (1998), a Master's Degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2002), and in Science (Applied Economics) from USP (1990), and a PhD in Geography (Human Geography) from USP (2000). He is currently a contributing professor at USP's Institute of International Relations.

Ana Lydia Sawaya

Ana Lydia Sawaya is a professor of the Department of Physiology at São Paulo Federal University (UNIFESP), coordinator of IEA’s research group on Nutrition and Poverty, and scientific director of the university extension project of the Center for Nutritional Recovery and Education (CREN), which she started and coordinated for 12 years. She graduated in Biological Sciences and has a master’s degree in Physiology from USP; she also earned a master’s and a Ph.D. in Nutrition from the University of Cambridge (England). She completed two post-doctoral internships, one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and another at Tufts University (both in the United States), and worked as a visiting scholar in both institutions. She currently researches the impacts of protein-energy deficiency in children, adolescents and adults, and how these impacts are associated with obesity and the risk of chronic diseases. She has recently begun to study the effects of nutritional recovery on malnourished children.

Rodolfo Coelho de Souza

Rodolfo Coelho de Souza graduated as Engineer from USP and earned a DMA in Musical Composition from the University of Texas at Austin. He was co-director of the Festival Música Nova of Santos and has more than 80 compositions for orchestra, chamber music and electronics published and recorded in Brazil and abroad.

Eliana Sulpício

Eliana Sulpício graduated in Music from UNESP, earned a Master in Performance from the Boston University and later a PhD in Musicology from USP. At UNESP, she has been a member of the PIAP Percussion Ensemble and now she directs the Grupuri Percussion Ensemble at USP-Ribeirão Preto and performs with In Tempori Duo.