Category: 2020 Delegate
Mr Aditya Narayan Jhariya
Aditya Narayan Jhariya is PhD Research student (ongoing) at University of Bradford, United Kingdom. He received his Masters degree in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, India. He has published 3 Research papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. He reviewed one book chapter in Springer as well. He was Assistant Professor in Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, India. He served as Government Pharmacist in India for few years.
Dr Jing Li
Jing joined University of Bradford, School of Management, which is now part of the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences, as a Lecturer in Accounting in 2008, and is now Reader in Accounting. Jing’s research interest mainly lies in reporting activities of companies, the driving force behind such activities and their impact. During the years of working at the School, Jing has been entrusted with various academic leadership roles, including Director of Studies for Accounting & Finance programme, Deputy Head for Accounting, Finance and Economics Division, Impact Champion, and Associate Dean – Research & Knowledge Transfer (ADRKT) from June 2018. As the ADRKT for the faculty, Jing provides leadership on RKT strategy and provides support to staff on RKT initiatives and activities to develop and enhance our RKT portfolio and encourage interdisciplinary research. Jing serves on various university and faculty committees and is also responsible for the co-ordination for UoA C17 Business and Management Studies’ REF submission in 2021, as well as supporting the REF co-ordinators with the submissions for UoAs A4 and C19 alongside the Head of School.
Dr Jacobo Elies
Dr Jacobo Elíes is Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Bradford. He studied Pharmacy and then undertook a PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). In 2009, Dr Elies moved to the University of Leeds to join Professor Chris Peers’ group at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine as a postdoctoral researcher. Across two postdoctoral appointments, he studied the molecular mechanisms involved in the development of cardiovascular diseases associated with skin diseases, by investigating the regulation of ion channels by gasotransmitters. In 2015, Dr Elies was awarded a Wellcome Trust ISSF Junior Investigator Development Fellowship at the University of Leeds to investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in cellular communication between different dermal cell types and how dysregulation of their functions can affect the skin microvasculature. Since then, he has continued to explore the origin of dermal endothelial dysfunction in skin autoimmune diseases such as Systemic Sclerosis, Lupus erythematosus and Psoriasis. Current projects are focused on: in vitro organotypic co-cultures for the study of skin blood vessel formation, hypoxia, oxidative stress and calcium handling in dermal microvasculature. His main interest resides in cellular communication between mesenchymal and endothelial cells and how dysregulation of integumentary system can affect the microvasculature.
Dr Nigel Trodd
Dr Nigel Trodd is Associate Head for Global Engagement in the School of Energy, Construction and Environment, Coventry University. Before he was Principal Lecturer in GIS and Earth Observation by Remote Sensing. He has led numerous curriculum developments, including the world’s first BSc GIS, the worlds first MSc GIS by distance learning and was inaugural General Secretary of UNIGIS International, a consortium of 16 universities in 13 countries on 4 continents. His research has focused on environmental change by EO, including the Kalahari drylands of Botswana, heathlands of UK, and coastal wetlands of China and Saudi Arabia. He has also led projects on smart cities and urban change and supervised 12 PhD students.
Dr Mohamed Ali
Mohamed Ali is an Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University , Malaysia since 2017. He received his Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from University Technology Petronas, Malaysia. Before joining the Heriot-Watt University, he worked as a Seniour Lecturer at Curtin University, Malaysia. His research interests consist of experimental and modelling of fluid flow in subsurface formation. He has published many papers in international journals. He is member of Energy Institute and the Society of Petroleum Engineers
Professor Kingston Nyamapfene
Prof. Kingston Nyamapfene is currently Vice Chancellor of the University of Africa, at Toru-Orua, Bayelsa State (Nigeria), a relatively new State University established by the Bayelsa State Government and created to serve as a model for how State governments can reduce the burden of higher education through Public-Private-Partnerships, with a focus on internationalization. For three years prior to that, he was President of the African University of Science and Technology (AUST), a post-graduate-only Science and Engineering university in Abuja, Nigeria, renowned for its research and high-quality graduates. Although situated in Nigeria, AUST is a pan-African university, one of the 3 Nelson Mandela African Institutes for Science and Technology. It draws students from all of sub-Saharan Africa and visiting faculty from more than 130 top institutions across the world. He is a citizen of Zimbabwe and the USA and a permanent resident of South Africa. Previous positions include Academic Vice President, International University of Grand-Bassam then a new American University in Cote d’Ivoire, Associate Provost for Distance and Online Education at Texas Southern University, Houston Texas; Dean of International Programs at SUNY’s Empire State College; holder of the Endowed, “Distinguished Leadership Chair” at Rocky Mountain College, Montana, USA; Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and Research) at the former multi-campus Vista University, South Africa with 37 000 students on 7 campuses and, simultaneously, Executive Chair of the South African Water Research Commission.
Dr Renata Archanjo
Renata Archanjo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Foreign Modern Languages and Literature and at the Postgraduate Program of Language Studies (PPgEL) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from UFRN and she has been a visiting scholar at Birkbeck College – UK, 2014 and CUNY – USA, 2015 doing research in the field of multilingualism and urban education. Her recent research interests and publications are in the field of Foreign Language teaching and learning, multilingual education, language policy and the internationalization of higher education. She is currently UFRN’s International Relations Deputy Officer.