[ BIO ] [ INTERVIEW ]   The music of Michael Ellison seamlessly integrates contemporary and traditional influences into a unique and personal idiom. His first opera, Mevlana, Say I am You (Rotterdam Operadagen and Istanbul Music Festivals, 2012) broke new ground in transcultural music, achieving an unprecedented level of integration of Turkish traditional instruments into new music—a direction his second opera, Deniz Küstü (Istanbul Music...

[ BIO ] [ INTERVIEW ]   Dr. Catarina C. Ferreira has been a conservation biologist for over 15 years with vast experience working for the private and the public sectors, and academia. Her expertise spans topics in terrestrial ecology, reintroduction biology, wildlife management, and impacts of human-driven global environmental change on biodiversity across multiple taxa, regions and scales. A Portuguese native, Dr. Ferreira completed her...

[ BIO ] [ INTERVIEW ]   After receiving her Master’s degree in International Relations at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Gerry Alons undertook a PhD in Political Science at Radboud University, Institute for Management Research. Her research focuses on foreign economic policy in the fields of trade and agriculture and particularly engages with questions on when and how ideational variables such as norms, policy frames and policy paradigms influence...

[ BIO ] [ INTERVIEW ]   Alanna K. Higgins is an MSc graduate from Newcastle University, earning an ESRC accredited research training degree in Food and Rural Development Research. Her master's dissertation focused on the discourse of the food sovereignty movements in the US and UK. She is originally from the US, obtaining her B.S. in Environmental Policies, Institutions and Behavior from Rutgers University, focusing on social and economic...

[ BIO ] [ INTERVIEW ]   Jodi Schneider is an assistant professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She studies scholarly communication and social media through the lens of arguments, evidence, and persuasion. She is developing Linked Data (ontologies, metadata, Semantic Web) approaches to manage scientific evidence. Jodi holds degrees in informatics (Ph.D., National University of Ireland,...

Christina Schneider is an Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of California, San Diego. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in 2006, and worked at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena (2006-2007), the University of Oxford (2007-2008), and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance in Princeton (2008-2009). Her research focuses on the domestic politics of cooperation and bargaining in...

IBIS Power company, founded in November 2012, is currently testing and finalizing our new wind turbine PowerNEST- a product with a captivating history throughout Europe and the United States. In 2016, the first fully functioning PowerNEST’s will be implemented in Dutch urban environments to supply their owners with renewable energy. This is a big step for the company whose ultimate goal is to bring our modern society back in balance with nature...

Dr. Albert Quintana is a Starting Grantee at the Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain. EURAXESS Links North America conducted an interview with Dr. Quintana at the Destination Europe event in Boston, MA last February 2016. Since EURAXESS Links is an initiative to promote researcher mobility, we are particularly interested in finding out more about the stages of your research career so far. Could you tell us a...

Snezana Krstic, Chem. Eng., Independent researcher and consultant, Belgrade, Serbia. She holds several international and national awards for scientific achievements and excellence. Her Marie Curie grant experience was undertaken in the CERN School of Computing. Snezana, tell us about your research background and interests I am a chemical engineer, but my research background is quite multidisciplinary with a broad interest in issues at the...

Kurtis Baute is from rural Ontario, Canada. He holds a B.A. in Biology from Wilfrid Laurier University, and is currently finishing a M.Sc. candidate in Environmental Science at the University of Guelph.   Kurtis, please tell us about your research background and interests. Currently, I’m trying to turn plants into power, by researching a form of renewable energy called ‘biogas’. It’s a super interesting field, but my passion for science...