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Visiting Participants

2019 Conference Schedule Visiting Participants UNC Participants

 

Pushkal Agarwal
pushkal.agarwal@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

Pushkal is an MPhil/PhD Scholar on “The Professor Sir Richard Trainor Scholarship-2017” and an avid technology enthusiast. His work focuses on social media analysis in the context of digital citizen engagement. Before joining King’s College London (UK), he was a Data Analyst at Nielsen (India) Pvt. Ltd. in Hyderabad, India. His honours include a Chairman’s Gold Medal for best all-round performance in graduating class of 2017 (BTech. CSE) from LNMIIT, India. He also likes to manage events, writes his experiences, poems and plays table-tennis.

You can find more about him – https://pushkal17.github.io/

Pushkal Agarwal

Margarita Amaxopoulou
margarita.amaxopoulou@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

My name is Margarita Amaxopoulou and I am an MPhil/PhD Candidate at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. I am also an LLM in Transnational Law (Distinction) graduate from the same School. The Dickson Poon School of Law has financially supported my so-far studies-  I was awarded two scholarships, covering the costs required both for my Master’s Degree and my PhD. My research interests generally revolve around Law and New Technologies. My project is exploring whether and how algorithmic governance has the capacity to challenge the hierarchical regulator- regulatee dynamics in the context of the ‘gig economy’. While drawing on Regulatory Space Theory, Transnational Law and AI and Law Literature my research exposes the novel dynamics emerging between gig economy enterprises and local/ transnational regulators.

Margarita Amaxopoulou

Bethan Cornell
bethan.cornell@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

Bethan is a PhD student in Physics at King’s College London. I took part in the Royster conference for the first time last year and am so excited to be back and discussing a new theme! Although my work is theoretical, I love it because the applications are real. I work with a group interested in why cells go wrong, in particular, why they turn ‘gloopy’. It’s known that many diseases, such as cell malignancy and Alzheimer’s disease, are associated with highly viscous cells, but we don’t know why, or whether this will be a key factor in treatment. Before we come up with solutions, we need a good way of measuring cell viscosity. My research focuses on developing and understanding the tools needed to do this.

Bethan Cornell

Gamze Damat
gamze.damat@gmx.de
University of Tübingen

Education

  • since 02/2018: Doctoral candidate, University of Tübingen
    • Ph.D. project „The economization of silence – A study about De-Mediatization“
    • associated with the doctoral association „Theory of Balance“
  • 2015: M.A., Journalism and Communication, University of Vienna
  • 2012: B.A., Journalism and Communication, University of Vienna

Previous Positions

  • 2013 – 2015: Tutor, Journalism and Communication, University of Vienna
  • August 2007: Internship, Ruhr Nachrichten Daily Newspaper
  • 2000 – 2005: Freelancer, Westfaelische Rundschau

Publications and Programs

  • March 25 – April 5 2019: International Visitor Leadership Program, U.S. Department of State: Preventing Online Harassment
  • 2019: Soziale Medien als Variable in Annäherungsprozessen – Pädagogische Antworten, In: Hafeneger, Benno / Unkelbach, Katarina / Widmaier, Benedikt (Hrsg.): Rassismuskritische politische Bildung.158-175. Wochenschau Verlag: Frankfurt a.M.
  • 2014: ‚Visible Stigma’: Rassifizierungstendenzen von Menschen mit Übergewicht und Adipositas immedialen Diskurs (with Dr. Ulli Weish) In: „Medien Journal. Zeitschrift für Kommunikationskultur“ – Intersektionalität 38 (3/2014)

 

Poushali Ganguli
poushali.ganguli@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

Poushali is a part-time PhD student at King’s Health Economics. She has a background in child and adolescent mental health and her current work is focused on school-based interventions. Poushali holds a degree in physiology from King’s and has completed a Master’s in global mental health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and King’s College London.

Prior to her master’s Poushali spent two years coordinating an international cohort study examining how biological, psychological and environmental factors during adolescence may influence brain development and mental health. She has also worked on the Ebola response at the World Health Organisation.

Poushali Ganguli

Suraj Gogoi
surajgogoi@u.nus.edu
National University of Singapore

Suraj is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the National University of Singapore and his doctoral project looks at riverine areas and people in contemporary Assam to understand state making in the region. He is interested in the social and political life-world of Northeast India, Water, Liminality, Citizenship, Non-Philosophy, Ethnography, Tribal Philosophy and De-colonial Thought. He has published his works in journals such as Exemplar: Journal of South Asian Studies, Economic and Political Weekly and Asian Ethnicity. His opinion pieces and articles on various social and political issues in India have appeared in Fountain Ink, Asia Times, The Wire, Newslaundry, Countercurrents, Firstpost, LSE South Asia Blog, The Hindu, The Statesman, Himal South Asian, Sabrang India, and Kafila. He is also a part of the Pangsau Collective which manages an academic blog on Northeast India.

Thomas Hardiman
thomas.hardiman@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

During my Biochemistry BSc at King’s College London (KCL) I gained my first experience in bioinformatics through an internship working to extending the functionality of the coMET R package. In September 2017, I completed an MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology at Imperial College London, acquiring solid knowledge in various coding languages and statistical analyses of large datasets. In October 2017, I started my MRC-funded PhD in the Cancer Bioinformatics group at KCL, investigating the molecular characteristics of lymph node (either tumour-invaded or tumour-free) to identify predictive features for developing distant metastasis in breast cancer.

Thomas Hardiman

Alexandra Lautarescu
alexandra.lautarescu@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

Alexandra is a 2nd year PhD student in Perinatal imaging and health, working on the relationship between maternal mental health (anxiety and depression) and early brain development (fetal and neonatal MRI).

Alexandra Lautarescu

Fernanda Loayza
mfloayzav@usfq.edu.ec
Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Fernanda is a professional in clinical laboratory and microbiology Master at San Francisco de Quito University in Ecuador. Currently, she is in the last year of Microbiology PhD program. She is working on infectious diseases and environmental biotechnology development. Her interest is focus on One Health approach, antimicrobial resistance dynamics and spread in humans, animals and the environment.

Olatz Mompeo Masachs
olatz.mompeo@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

Olatz is a PhD student researching the gene-environment interplay and how they shape our health at the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, KCL. Her aim is to design the most suitable diet for everyone depending on their genes. During her free time she enjoys cycling around London, bargain shopping at the weekends, and coffee.

Olatz Mompeo Masachs

Massirfufulay (Maz) K. Musa 
Massirfufulay.musa@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

I am a PhD Student at the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College London.  My research topic is: improving faecal continence among older people living in care homes – developing an intervention and conducting a feasibility study.  I am a General Registered Nurse (RGN) with a bachelor degree in Adult Nursing, a Master in Public Health (MPH), and a graduate diploma in Law (GDL).  I am an active student member of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS), and an author/editor of the Cochrane Incontinence Database.  My research interests include: complex interventions research methods, mixed methods research, secondary research including systematic reviews, and generic health research such as epidemiology, or public health research.

Massirfufulay K. Musa (Maz)

Rakhee Patel
rakhee.patel@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

Rakhee is a Dental Public Health Consultant and has secured a Doctoral Research Fellowship grant from the National Institute for Health Research to undertake a randomised clinical trial on the feasibility of fluoride interventions to prevent tooth decay in older people in care. I am doing the PhD part time (3 days over 5 years) and I work as a Dental Public Health Consultant in Public Health England the rest of week.

This area of interest came from my previous clinical career delivering home dental care. The care I could deliver was limited due to the setting and complex needs of the residents in care homes. The oral health of residents was really poor, and caused significant suffering due to pain, not being able to eat, and not socialising. There was no offer of prevention, despite policy guidance and a focus on prevention in the dental clinic. It is of course better to  prevent the disease before it starts, especially as there was so little I could offer in terms of treatment, but found advocating for this was hindered by a lack of evidence. I therefore applied for a grant to NIHR to build the evidence around feasibility, efficacy and cost, with the aim that this research could underpin advocating for a national dental prevention programme in care homes.

On a personal note, I live in Hertfordshire (just outside London) with my husband and 2 daughters who are 4 and 3 years old. On the rare occasion I get some time to myself, I like to play badminton, go to the gym or watch a good movie.

Rakhee Patel

Alfio Puglisi
alfio.puglisi@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

Alfio is a Doctoral researcher at King’s College London in the School of Politics and Economics, under the supervision of Dr. Adam William Chalmers and Dr. Scott James, researching on digital assets (i.e. cryptocurrencies), blockchain applications, financial regulations, econometrics modelling, and the politics of international investments. He is member of the British Blockchain Association. He is currently an advisor to regulatory bodies, investment funds and start-ups working on the DLT space.

Previously, he worked as a Policy Analyst at the European Banking Authority in London, actively involved into EU-wide mapping exercise of Financial Technology. He read Economics at the University of Edinburgh, awarded full scholarship.

Alfio Puglisi

Matthias Röck
matthiasroeck@gmx.net
University of Tübingen

EDUCATION

  • Doctoral candidate, University of Tübingen since 03/2018
    • Ph.D. project “Out In Control – Strategies of De-Mediatization” –
      • Recipient of research fellowship at doctoral association
      • “Theory of Balance – Forms and Figures of Balance in Media, Art and Literature”
  • A. Degree, University of Tübingen September 2016
    • Media Studies
  • Visiting student, Sorbonne University, Paris 02/2013 – 07/2013
    • Philosophy
  • A. Degree, University of Tübingen February 2013
    • Philosophy, Rhetoric

CONFERENCES

  • November 2018 University of Tübingen
    • Conference: „Balance and Economy“
      • Conceptualization and implementation
      • Organization and writing of conference publication

EDITORIAL & MEDIA EXPERIENCE

  • 07/2017 – 09/2017
    • PR agency fischerAppelt, Hamburg
    • Press and Public Relations
  • 10/2015 – 12/2015
    • ARTE Creative, Strasbourg
    • Online Editorial Office
  • 05/2015 – 07/2015
    • Edelman, Berlin
    • Public Affairs
  • 10/2014 – 11/2014
    • Festival TV, Tübingen
    • Television Editorial Office
  • 08/2014 – 09/2014
    • ZDF, Munich
    • Television Editorial Office

 

Diego Salazar Morales
diego.salazar_morales@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

Diego A. Salazar-Morales is doctoral candidate at the King’s College London. He has previously held research positions at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Dahrendorf Forum at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also completed an MSc in Public Policy and Administration. Diego’s thesis explains how indigenous peoples’ knowledges concerning health and wellbeing have been differently incorporated into the governmental health infrastructures of Peru and Ecuador. He is also founder of Instituto Andino de Estudios Políticos (www.iepa.org.pe) and principal editor of the Revista Andina de Estudios Políticos (ESCI-Thomson Reuters, Latindex, and ProQuest).

Diego has also professional experience in various governmental positions of the Peruvian government including: Ministry of Education, Superintendence of Higher Education and National Planning Centre. He has transdisciplinary research interests with a special focus in health and education critical theories.

Diego Salazar Morales

Xiaochuan Tong
xiaochuan.tong@kcl.ac.uk
Kings College London

Xiaochuan Tong is a 2019 Royster Global Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a post-graduate research student at King’s College London. He held a visiting position at Copenhagen Business School from April to mid-May 2019. Prior to pursuing his research in Europe, he studied and worked in Boston, Shanghai and Beijing.

His research interests relate to topics of behavioural finance, quantitative investment strategies, high-frequency trading and market microstructure. His current research focuses on behavioural finance – particularly, on the psychological and sociological aspects of finance – how does a complex human system affect the behaviour of investors and asset prices. His research has broad implications on investments, mechanism designs and regulations. He has presented his work at leading universities in Europe, including King’s College London, University College London, University of Edinburgh and Copenhagen Business School.

His teaching interests are closely aligned with his research and work experience, including amongst others, behavioural finance, asset pricing, corporate finance and accounting & financial management. He has obtained teaching experience in behavioural finance, corporate finance, the social psychology of financial markets, financial accounting and management accounting at King’s Business School, King’s College London.

Xiaochuan Tong