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Honour Roll 2023

08 December 2023

See which academic fellows visited UC in this 2023 Honour Roll.

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Visiting Canterbury Fellows names appear in bold. Visiting Oxford Fellows names appear in bold+italics. Visiting Cambridge Fellows names appear in BOLD+CAPS. Please click on the name of the visitor to make e-mail contact.

Accounting and Information Systems

NAMEINSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Eusebio ScornavaccaArizona State University, USA
Game Development, Game Design, Game Prototyping, Unity (Game Engine), Game Programming
Professor Anthony VanceVirginia Tech, USA
Cybersecurity: Behavioural and organizational cybersecurity, Neuroscience applications to cybersecurity
Professor Roberta MannUniversity of Oregon, USA
Tax policy, Environmental Taxation

Biological Sciences

NAME                                                                                                                               INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Noah FiererUniversity of Colorado
Microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, soil ecology
Professor Borries DemelerUniversity of Lethbridge, Canada
Solution Biophysics, Analytical Ultracentrifugation
Professor Peter GogartenUniversity of Connecticut, USA
Molecular evolution; origin and early evolution of cellular life; evolution of the eukaryotic endomembrane system; horizontal gene transfer and gene duplications; comparative genome analyses; inteins, molecular parasites, and levels of selection
Professor Daniel BolonUniversity of Massachusetts, USA
Biochemistry, genetics, and molecular evolution
Professor Owen LewisUniversity of Oxford, UK
Community ecology, conservation biology, tropical forest ecology, global change biology
Professor Colleen Cassady St ClairUniversity of Alberta, Canada
Conservation Biology, Behavioural Ecology
Professor James CahillUniversity of Alberta, Canada
Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology
Professor Colleen Cassady St Clair | Professor James CahillUniversity of Alberta, Canada
Conservation Biology, Behavioural Ecology | Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology

Chemical and Process Engineering

NAME                          INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Christina RothUniversity of Bayreuth, Germany
Electrochemistry and Energy Technologies
Professor Alex WoltornistCornell University, USA
Chemical Engineering

Child Well-being Research Institute

NAME                                          INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Rob SavageYork University, Canada
The use of technology to prevent problems in children's early reading and spelling

Civil and Natural Resources Engineering

NAME                                                                                                  INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Associate Professor Yinphan TsangUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
Ecohydrology; Watershed Hydrology; Hydrological Modeling; Ecological modeling; Stream Ecology; Aquatic Landscape Ecology; Aquatic Habitat Assessment; Water Science
Professor Gregory MillerUniversity of Washington, USA
Structural Engineering and Mechanics
Professor Eckart MeiburgUniversity of Santa Barbara
Fluid dynamics
Emeritus Professor Andreas MolenaarDelft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Pavement engineering
Professor Jean-Marc FranssenUniversity of Liège, Belgium
Structural fire engineering, computational mechanics
Professor Daman K. PanesarUniversity of Toronto, Canada
Structural materials, construction materials, cement, concrete and composites

Computer Science and Software Engineering

NAMEINSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Dr Ralph MaschottaTechnische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Software engineering, Model-Driven Software Engineering, Software Language Engineering
Professor Dali WangChristopher Newport University, USA
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor Ismael CaballeroEscuela Superior de Informática, Spain
Data Quality, Data Quality Management, Data Governance, Software Engineering

Earth and Environment

NAME                                                                     INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Assistant Professor Aaron StrongHamilton College, USA
Impacts of climate change and the dynamics of climate feedbacks in both terrestrial and marine systems
Emeritus Professor Richard LegatesSan Fransisco State University, USA
Urban and regional planning, research methods
Associate Professor Ashley StreigPortland State University, USA
Paleoseismology, Structural Geology, Geomorphology
Professor Tom KoontzUniversity of Washington Tacoma
Collaborative environmental governance and sustainability, climate change, ecosystem management policy
Professor Adrian MooreUlster University, Northern Ireland
Health Geography; Human Geography; Geographical Information Systems
Professor John WalshUniversity College Dublin, Ireland
Structural Geology and Earthquakes
Professor Guido CervonePennsylvania State University, USA
Geoinformatics, remote sensing, natural hazards
Dr Peter FretwellBritish Antarctic Survey, UK
Polar Remote Sensing
Professor Christian HaasUniversity of Bremen, Alfred Wegener Institute
Antarctic Studies

Educational Studies and Leadership

NAME                                                                                      INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Associate Professor Laura D'OlimpioUniversity of Birmingham, UK
Ethics and Moral Education, including implications for social media and online environments; Aesthetic Education; Philosophy for Children

Economics and Finance

NAME                                                                                                                                                             INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Daniel SchunkJohannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
Public Economics, Economics of Education, Behavioural Economics, Applied Econometrics/Statistics
Professor Arman EshraghiCardiff University, UK
Behavioural investing, fund management, Behavioural corporate finance, financial technology, cryptocurrencies, textual analysis, corporate governance, managerial attributes, culture and governance, Interdisciplinary and critical accounting
Professor Sabri BoubakerEM Normandie Business School, France
Corporate Governance; Corporate Finance; Financial Markets; Mutual Funds
Associate Professor Jamie MullinsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Environmental Risk, Mental Health
Dr Gerard TurleyNational University of Ireland, Ireland
Transition economies and enterprise restructuring, intergovernmental fiscal relations and local public finance, enterprise, growth, and local taxation
Professor David ChapmanUniversity of Virginia, USA
Structural models of equity and fixed income securities markets and in household portfolio choice theory with an emphasis on dynamic models of preferences

Electrical & Computer Engineering

NAME                                                                                                                                                                               INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Mr Timothy AtkinsTriVector Services, USA
Leads requirements, verification, and analyses of avionics timing for NASA’s Space Launch System. In addition, Mr. Atkins has decades of industry experience in technical project management, modelling and simulation, and life-cycle software development.

Forestry

NAME                                                           INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Nicholas CoopsUniversity of British Columbia, Canada
Remote sensing for forest resources, environmental monitoring, image processing, geomatics
Professor Thom ErdleUniversity of New Brunswick, Canada
Forest management planning; Forest measurement; Forest estate modelling
Professor Horacio BownUniversidad de Chile, Chile
Tree Physiology, Silviculture, Forest Production

Health Sciences

NAME                                                                                          INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Dr Candice MacMillanUniversity of Pretoria, South Africa
Sport exercise and medicine
Associate Professor Dawn AdamsGriffith University, Australia
Autism and intellectual disability: behaviour and mental health
Professor Clive SabelAarhus University, Denmark
Epidemiology, health, longitudinal analyses, GIS, health geography, spatial science, environmental exposure, research methods

HIT Lab

NAME                                                                                                                              INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor J Edward Swan IIMississippi State University, USA
Augmented and Virtual Reality; Data Science, Visualization; Human-Computer Interaction; Applied Perception Empirical Methods, Statistical Analysis; Interactive Computer Graphics

Humanities and Creative Arts

NAME                                                                                                                                                                           INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BENJAMIN MILLEREmory University, GA, USA
Technical Writing for Data Science, Digital Humanities, Cultural Studies, Natural Language Processing
PROFESSOR SARAH DILLONUniversity of Cambridge, UK
Contemporary literature, film, genre fiction (esp. science fiction), literature and science (especially AI), film philosophy, critical theory (esp. feminist theory), politically engaged criticism, interdisciplinary approaches, the public humanities

Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship

NAMEINSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Stacy WoodNC State University, USA
Consumer Behaviour
Professor Catherine LoughlinDalhousie University, Canada
Leadership, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion; Health
Professor Alex WoltornistUniversity of Virginia, USA
Marketing
Professor David MickUniversity of Virginia, USA
Marketing

Mathematics and Statistics

NAME                                                                           INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Sivabal SivaloganathanUniversity of Waterloo, Canada
Continuum mechanics; biomechanics; mathematical oncology; mathematical modelling of medical problems
Professor Frank WernerUniversity of Würzburg, Germany
Inverse Problems
Associate Professor Kim PlofkerUnion College, USA
History of Mathematics
Professor Giuseppe StortiUniversity of Salerno, Italy
Financial Time Series
Dr Vladimir Estivill-CastroPompeu Fabra University, Spain
Machine Ethics, Machine Learning, Trustable Systems, Formal Methods in Software Engineering

MBA Programme

NAME                                                                                                                                                                                                     INSTITIUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Jan KietzmannUniversity of Victoria, Canada
Combining organizational and social perspectives related to new and emerging technologies; current research projects including such phenomena as social media, artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing, user-generated content, gamification and sharing economies.  

Mechanical Engineering

NAME                                                                             INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Sandro WartzackFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Virtual Product Development, User-centered design; Integrated product development, Design for X
Emeritus Professor Gregory WattsUniversity of Bradford, UK
Human response to noise and vibration; soundscapes, traffic noise
Professor Gary J ShifletUniversity of Virginia, USA
Materials Science/Metallurgy; Phase Transformations in crystalline and amorphous alloys
Associate Professor Wylie AhmedCalifornia State University, Fullerton, USA
Physics – more specifically mechanics of biological systems, soft matter, active matter, nonequilibrium mechanics
Associate Professor Jay W. McMahonUniversity of Colorado Boulder, USA
Astrodynamics & Satellite Navigation Systems

Media and Communication

NAMEINSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Ralph SchroederUniversity of Oxford
Social Science of the Internet

NCRE

NAME                                            INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Dr Barrie WhartonUniversity of Limerick, Ireland
European Studies, Cultural Studies, Hispanic world politics, Arab Spring

Philosophy

NAME                                                                           INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Marty J. WolfBemidji State University
Computing Ethics, Computing Ethics in the Computer Science Curriculum, and the Philosophy of Computation
Emeritus Professor John BigelowMonash University, Australia
Metaphysics, Epistemology and the Philosophy of Language
Professor Oron ShagrirHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive and brain sciences, and philosophy of computing

Physical and Chemical Sciences

NAME                                                                                INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Ray JayawardhanaCornell University, USA
Astrophysics: specifically, exoplanets, brown dwarfs and star formation Science writing and public engagement of science
Professor Dai (David) HibbsUniversity of Sydney, Australia
Medicinal, Computational and Structural Chemistry

Product Design

NAME                                                                                                                                                        INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Professor Jeremy BondMichigan State University, USA
Game Development, Game Design, Game Prototyping, Unity (Game Engine), Game Programming
Mr Diogo BaltazarUniversity of the Arts, London, UK
Creative process of classic cosmetic formulation development; raw material chemistry vs product properties for both leave-on and rinse-off products, with a focus on skincare. Rheology and texture analysis for product characterisation

Psychology, Speech, & Hearing

NAME                                                                                                                                                                                                      INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH INTEREST
Associate Professor Roland PfisterUniversity of Wuerzburg, Germany
Experimental psychology: Rules and behaviour, error detection, dishonesty, action & perception, motor control Psychological research methods: Advanced statistics, analysis of electrophysiological data, analysis of continuous movement trajectories, Bayesian vs. classical inference, philosophy of science
Associate Professor Phil KavanaghUniversity of Canberra, Australia
Clinical Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology
Professor Mary AltUniversity of Arizona, USA
Speech Language Therapy: word learning, memory
Professor Cheryl MessickUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA
Speech/Language Pathology & Audiology: Clinical Education
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