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Amira Latif Hernandez
Instructor, Adult Neurology
BioAmira obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the KU Leuven, Belgium, in summer 2017. During her doctoral studies, she used clinically valid tests of murine cognition, neuronal plasticity measures in hippocampal and cortical slices, brain lesion methods, pharmacological applications and resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging to characterize the pathophysiology of novel mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). One of her most gratifying contributions was the development of a new electrophysiology tool to assess synaptopathies, and the establishment of long-term synaptic plasticity from prefrontal cortex of APP knock-in mice. In Autumn 2017, she moved to Dr. Longo’s lab at the Stanford School of Medicine, where she investigates signaling pathways involved in synaptic degeneration. During 3 years of postdoctoral work, she established a multi-electrode array system with eight independent recording chambers that allows high-throughput analyses of multiple long-lasting forms of synaptic plasticity. She also gained experience in RNA-sequencing, molecular biochemistry, signaling mechanisms, target validation and drug development strategies for AD. In October 2020, Amira has been appointed as an Instructor in Neurodegenerative Disease Research, in the Longo lab, to help develop improved and more powerful approaches that will better reveal key synaptic mechanisms and candidate modules associated with neuroplasticity and affected in AD mouse models, by identifying activity-dependent gene expression signatures.
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Robert Laughlin
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
BioProfessor Laughlin is a theorist with interests ranging from hard-core engineering to cosmology. He is an expert in semiconductors (Nobel Prize 1998) and has also worked on plasma and nuclear physics issues related to fusion and nuclear-pumped X-ray lasers. His technical work at the moment focuses on “correlated-electron” phenomenology – working backward from experimental properties of materials to infer the presence (or not) of new kinds of quantum self-organization. He recently proposed that all Mott insulators – including the notorious doped ones that exhibit high-temperature superconductivity – are plagued by a new kind of subsidiary order called “orbital antiferromagnetism” that is difficult to detect directly. He is also the author of A Different Universe, a lay-accessible book explaining emergent law.
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Eloi Laurent
Overseas Studies - Paris, Bing Overseas Studies
BioDr. Éloi Laurent is a senior economist at OFCE who teaches at Ponts Paris Tech, the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), the Urban School and the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po; he has been since 2011 visiting professor at Stanford University. Macro-economist by training (PhD), he graduated from Paris-Dauphine and Sciences Po (summa cum laude).
His work focuses on the social-ecological approach and the well-being economy which he has defined as a combination of sufficiency, cooperation and health. He also works on the well-being city understood as a tapestry of social and natural bonds. He recently co-created the Well-being Economy Toolbox (https://toolbox.preventncd.eu/).
He is the author or editor of thirty books in French and English (translated into nine languages), three governmental reports and around a hundred articles published in French and international journals (partial list of publications: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pla209.html)
He was parliamentary attaché to the National Assembly and assistant in the cabinet of the French Prime Minister. He has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal, and Visiting Scholar and Professor at Harvard University.
He is Research Fellow at the Well-being Economy Alliance (WeALL), qualified expert for European institutions and was the chairman of the SHS 5 (economics and law) and Foresight (sustainable development) Commissions of the Scientific Research Fund, FRS- FNRS (Belgium).
He recently published:
- The New Environmental Economics – Sustainability and Justice (2020) https://politybooks.com/the-new-environmental-economics/
- The Well-being Transition: Analysis and Policy (2021) https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030678593,
- the Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment (2021) https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-Political-Economy-of-the-Environment/Laurent-Zwickl/p/book/9780367410704
- Toward Social-Ecological Well-Being - Rethinking Sustainability Economics for the 21st Century (2023) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38989-4
- Just Transitions - Advancing Environmental and Social Justice (2024) https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/just-transitions-9781035318407.html -
Kenzie Lauritzen
Communications and Administrative Associate, KIPAC
BioKenzie Lauritzen is the Communications & Administrative Associate at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), a collaboration between Stanford University and the SLAC National Laboratory. In this role, she leverages her skills in public relations and marketing, honed during her B.S. at the University of Idaho, to support effective communication strategies and administrative operations. Kenzie is passionate about bringing the wonders of astrophysics to the public through engaging content creation, social media engagement, and community outreach initiatives. When she’s not immersed in the science of the universe, she enjoys rock climbing and spending time with her beloved dog, Arlo.
