Flagship 1 Programme Committee

Professor at the Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science. His research and teaching focuses on urban transformations, metropolitan development, globalization, suburbanization, gentrification, segregation, immigrant neighborhoods, urban and housing policies.

Professor of Human Physiology and Pathophysiology and the Head of the Department of Physiology at the Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University. Project Manager of Epilepsy Research Centre Prague. Research focused on the mechanisms of drug-resistant epilepsies and seizures due to the malformations of cortical development and on the understanding of seizure dynamics.

Professor of Urban Geography and North America, Geography Department and Heidelberg Centre for American Studies, Heidelberg University

Professor of Genetics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Sorbonne University with research focuses on the interplay between cancer biology and therapeutics, director of the Biomedical Humanities Initiative of Alliance Sorbonne University.

Associate Professor at the University of Geneva and Researcher at the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Paris. Academic focus on induced abortion, contraception, and fertility trends in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Director of the Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva; Vice-Director of the Swiss School of Public Health, Zürich; Campus Biotech, Geneva; Service de Médecine Tropicale et Humanitaire Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève.

Professor of Psychology at the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Medical School, University of Milan. Main research topics: resource building and well-being promotion in chronic diseases and across cultures. Editor in Chief of the Journal of Happiness Studies.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milano. Chief of Medicine and Metabolic Disease Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano. Main research topics: metabolic liver diseases (non alcoholic fatty liver disease, steatohepatitis, diabetes), their genetic and epigenetic characterization, hepatic and cardiovascular complications.

Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw. Her research and teaching focuses on cancer research using high-thoughput solution and large-scale data processing.

Lecturer at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. Main research topics include the consequences of ageing population, local aspects of ageing, local finances, smart cities.