Dr. Nasim Alem is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering department at Penn State University.  Nasim was a postdoctoral researcher in the physics department at University of California Berkeley and National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, before joining Penn State as an assistant professor in 2013. Nasim’s research is focused on how advanced electron microscopy techniques can be utilized to further understand and address the existing challenges in novel nanostructures and devices. Nasim’s research is particularly focused on how defects and interfaces can modulate the chemical and electronic structure of the crystals and further tailor their macroscale electronic, optical and plasmonic properties. Nasim is originally from Iran and enjoys hiking, skiing, and travelling.  In her spare time, Nasim does wheel throwing and ceramic artwork.    

Jessica Greenberg is an associate professor of Anthropology. Her work is motivated by a long-standing interest in the everyday life of social movements, as well as the hopes and disappointments that have animated democratic political activism after the Cold War. Her first book, After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford 2014) chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of political transformation in Serbia. Her current research builds on this interest in democratic practice, activism and power through the lens of human rights and the rule of law. Prior to coming to UIUC, Greenberg was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and an assistant professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She is currently the Co-Editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). 

Eric Kurlander, PhD, is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Modern European History at Stetson University. Kurlander earned his BA at Bowdoin College and his MA and PhD at Harvard University. He offers courses on Modern German, European, and World History and his current book project, which is the topic of his 2020-2021 Fulbright Global Scholar Award, is titled: Before the Final Solution: A Global History of the Nazi “Jewish Question”. Kurlander’s recent monograph, Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (Yale, 2017; paperback 2018), offers the first comprehensive study of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, illustrating how the Third Reich drew upon a wide variety of occult practices, esoteric sciences and pagan religious ideas to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. The book has been reviewed positively in the Washington Post, Times of London, and Der Spiegel, among many other periodicals, and has been translated into Italian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, and Estonian (with Chinese and Russian editions appearing next year). Kurlander has published four other books and edited volumes as well as articles in leading journals, including Central European History, German History, and The Journal of Contemporary History. He has held research and writing fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the German Historical Institute; the German Academic Exchange Service; the Krupp Foundation; and Harvard University's Program for the Study of Germany and Europe. At Stetson, Kurlander has received the William Hugh McInery Award for Excellence in Teaching and has contributed to the university in numerous leadership roles. He has served as Chair of the History Department, Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, Chair of the Professional Development Committee, Chair of the Arts & Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee, and Chair of the Faculty Finance and Budget Committee as well as multiple terms on the Faculty Senate. In his free time, Kurlander enjoys parenting, reading, travel, sports, and popular culture. (https://www.stetson.edu/other/faculty/eric-kurlander.php)

Steven Wilf is Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce at the University of Connecticut School of Law.  An intellectual property scholar and a legal historian, his writings include works on both Europe’s and America’s legal past as well as on a variety of legal regimes such as copyright and patent.  He earned his law degree and a doctorate in history from Yale University, and clerked in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  His fellowships include Princeton’s Law and Public Affairs, Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, and Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the United States Copyright Office.  He is currently completing a book for Cambridge University Press on the history of intellectual property law.  During his Fulbright year at the Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle in Strasbourg, he will be working on a project to bridge the gaps between United States and European Union approaches to trade secrets. 

The conditions present at the early stages of the Universe can be experimentally emulated by accelerating heavy atoms close to the speed of light and then colliding them in a controlled environment. Currently, there does not exist a substantially accurate thermal model which describes the overarching dynamical mechanism occurring at the boundary of the aforementioned transition of the cosmic soup. My intent is to develop a statistical thermal model, alongside my collaborators in Strasbourg, to adequately describe the current phenomenological observations acquired by heavy ion colliders and to provide a better understanding about the Universe in which we reside.

My project explores changing understandings of autism in France through an analysis of the project "Construire une Université Aspie-Friendly". The "Aspie-Friendly" project is supported the French government, with additional support from private companies. Based in Toulouse, it supports students on the autism spectrum at a network of universities across France. My research will use ethnographic methods to understand how, why, and by whom, new autism categories are being constructed in France, and what that means for the young autistic adults who are at the center of this process.

Nous étudierons deux mécanismes qui prennent place dans le milieu interstellaire : la photoionisation du radical CH et la création des ions moléculaires négatifs via les résonances Feshbach rotationnelles. Pour ceci, nous développerons la théorie et les codes nécessaires, puis on comparera nos résultats aux spectres expérimentaux.