Category: ESI TEAM

Dr. Jovan Shopovski is a professor of Company Law in the Republic of Macedonia and a founding member and president of the European Scientific Institute (ESI) since 2010. He serves as an advisor to the Rector for Internationalization at Grigol Robakidze University, leveraging his expertise in enhancing international relations and improving university rankings. Dr. Shopovski has extensive experience in writing Erasmus projects and developing strategies to strengthen academic partnerships and institutional visibility on the global stage. As a visiting professor, he has delivered lectures, workshops, and training sessions in the areas of academic writing and academic publishing at universities across Spain, China, Italy, Poland, Romania, Argentina, Ecuador, and Georgia. He is also the program director of the ESI Postdoctoral Program in Social Sciences and Humanities, a unique initiative connecting researchers from diverse academic fields to address contemporary societal challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration. A staunch advocate for peace, Dr. Shopovski believes that progress can only be achieved through unity and condemns war activities in all forms. His professional journey reflects a commitment to fostering academic excellence, ethical values, and global cooperation .  

Tiffany Boury is an Associate Professor at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio USA. In 2018, she was appointed director of Franciscan University’s Catholic Leadership program. The Leadership program will serve leaders from multidisciplinary fields by providing consulting, research, leadership training and offsite professional development. Dr. Boury’s doctoral research was in the importance of providing  opportunities for teachers to study abroad and culturally relevant teaching. In 2017, she served as a visiting faculty member working with  Austrian school partnerships created during her studies. In 2018, a second school partnership was developed to provide Franciscan graduates the opportunity to assist with English instruction in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Through a joint collaboration with Franciscan University and St. Bonaventure administration, the EEP (English Empowering Program) was developed. The EEP offers teachers not only a year of mentoring and classroom ESL training, it serves as a cultural immersion for both communities. Dr. Boury received her bachelor’s degree from West Liberty University, her Masters of Education from Walden University and her PhD in Instructional Management and Leadership from Robert Morris University. In 2017, she  was named recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from Franciscan University and Associate Editor for the European Scientific Journal. As director of the MCL program, she is available for consulting and  professional development workshops in mentoring emerging leaders and school leadership training.

Assoc. Professor Dejan Marolov, PhD, is a founding member of the European Scientific Institute. Supported by the European Commission, he pursued his graduate studies at the European Institute in Nice, France, where he earned his MA degree defending his thesis “Advanced European and International Studies”. He obtained his PhD in International Law from the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD), affiliation of the University for Peace, established by the United Nations. Numerous international journals and periodicals have published his academic papers in law and international relations. He authored more than six monographs. Prof. Marolov has reviewed scientific articles for respectable international journals, including the reputable “European Scientific Journal”. He has served on many national and international committees at scientific conferences and forums.

Dr. Jacques de Vos Malan has spent the past 6 years directing Australia’s largest interdisciplinary research program, publishing evidence-based research reports for Australia’s Chief Scientist. With a group of Australian academics and Academy Fellows, each distinguished in their own field, he authored Delivering Sustainable Urban Mobility, ACOLA 2015, a major report on the future of Australian cities. He holds degrees from the Universities of Cape Town, London (King’s College) and Pretoria. His work is published in New York, Cape Town and Canberra and included in the National Library Canberra, the Gaudeamus Foundation Contemporary Music Library, Amsterdam and the New York Public Library. He worked as an arts administrator in South Africa and Australia for more than thirty years, where his roles included Executive Director of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra and Chief Executive Officer of Melbourne Recital Centre.

Dr. Jose Noronha Rodrigues holds a PhD in law from the Santiago de Compostela University, Spain. He works as an Assistant Professor at the University of the Azores and is also Director of the Centre of Law and Economics Studies at the University of the Azores, researcher and coordinator of Law courses of the Department of Economics and Business at the same University. He is a Lawyer with law office in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. He is a member of the editorial board of numerous international scientific journals including the European Scientific Journal (ESJ). He is also a member of various academic institutes and centers worldwide. Dr. Noronha Rodrigues is author of the book “A identidade e (des) identidade dos valores europeus”, “Colectânea de Legislação sobre o Estatuto Político Administrativo da Região Autónoma dos Acores” and of many papers in international and national journals. Dr. Noronha Rodrigues is an ESI chief of International Legal Studies Center.

Dr. David Perez Jorge is a Professor at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. He has been a General Education Teacher in 1991 (University of La Laguna), Degree in Philosophy and Educational Sciences in University of La Laguna in 1996, Degree in Primary Education (2015) and Doctor in Philosophy and Educational Sciences in 2008. Supplementary Training, Masters and Experts: 1) University Master: Educate in Diversity. 2) Expert in Assessing the Quality in University Education. 3) Master in Sleep, Physiology and Medicine. 4) Master in Neuroscience and behavioural Biology. 5) Master in Intervention in Special Education. 6) Master in new Educational Resources for teachers. 7) Master in Educational Competences in Intervention with Minors. 8) Master in Social Education. 9) Master in Intercultural Mediation.10) Master in Educational Competencies and Intervention with Minors.

Dr. Nino Kemertelidze is a Vice-Rector of the University “Grigol Robakidze”, Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a Doctor of linguistics, specialist of Anglistics. She works at Grigol Robakidze University from the very day of its establishment at first as an Assistant Professor, then as a Professor and the Head of the Department of International Relations. Since 1996, she is the Vice-Rector of the University. The sphere of her activities is international relations and scientific research. Success of Grigol Robakidze University, interesting international education and research programmes are connected to the Professor’s activities. She plays the particular attention to the accomplishment of students’ and lecturers’ joint research projects. She involves students into distance learning programmes of well-known foreign universities. Professor Kemertelidze is the author of two monographs and over 20 scientific articles. She is the member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. She has participated in several international projects.

John B. Strait is a Professor of Geography at Sam Houston State University in Houston, Texas  (U.S.A.), where he serves as the Assistant Chair and Geography Program Coordinator in the Department of Environmental and Geosciences. He is a long term collaborator and supporter of the ESI and serves as an Associate Editor for the Environmental Science Journal (ESJ). Dr. Strait is a broadly trained human geographer specializing in sociocultural, urban, and ethnic geographies. His main research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of racial and ethnic identities, urban residential dynamics, diaspora studies and the geographic dimensions of social movements and the ways they manifest via music, visual arts, urban street art, and  religion. He regularly directs field courses and workshops, both international and intranational in scope, that incorporate these various subject matter, particularly as they pertain to the U.S. South, the Mississippi Delta, Hawaii, Cuba, Spain and Brazil. His list of publications include papers embracing the aforementioned topics, but also include research focused on pedagogical modules that incorporate field experiences, as well as collaborations with artistic projects that have been exhibited in the U.S., China, Japan, Brazil,  and Morocco.

Professor Dr. iur. Dr. phil. Franz-Rudolf Herber is a German lawyer and philologist. At Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg he teaches inter alia road law, public service law, liability of public authorities and cross-curriculum interrelations between law and language as well as between law and literature. He disposes of great international experience in international negotiations that he acquired during his long-standing occupation in the German Ministry of Transport. His strong personal belief is that the transport sector is universal and overriding borders. Franz-Rudolf Herber is the editor of a compendium on German road law and the editor of a collection of German and European rules on road traffic law. He is publishing in German language and English language; furthermore, he is publishing in Latin language that is not bound to the borders of a particular country. His political vision is that all people are equal and that the protection of nature is a universe responsibility

Dr. Holmes has been PI on 2 NIH Grants (EARDA and Bridges) and Co-PI on 2 NSF grants (Partnerships for Innovation, and ATE). In addition I have had numerous biotechnology grants through the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and North Carolina Space Grant. I have been teaching bioprocessing and other biotechnology courses at UNC Pembroke for 25 years. I was on the team that planned and built the UNCP Biotechnology Research and Training Center and given the honor to “cut the ribbon” on March 13, 2009. My research is based at the Sartorius-stedim Fermentation Lab, at the Center. I have directed or collaborated with undergraduates, teachers, community college instructors, post-doctoral students and visiting international scientists. I have contributed to a fermentation technology training manual used in an IARI National Training Program, Delhi 2011. Many of my collaborations have resulted in peer-reviewed publications.

In Memoriam: Roberto Kertész, MD., Ph.D. Education MD(physician), 1962. Specialist in Psychiatry, 1965 Professor and Ph. D. in Medicine, School of Medicine, National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Work experience 2012 and ongoing, Rector Emeritus and Director of Postgraduate Studies and Continous Education, Univ. of Flores Previously, Rector, since 1995. President of the University Foundation since 1994. Scientific events Organized over 40 international and national conferences, as president or general secretary and presented over 800 lectures and seminars in 14 countries Training and supervision Personal analysis with Dr. Enrique Pichon Riviére, introducer of social psychology in Argentina. Supervision with Professors Edgardo Rolla and Mauricio Knobel (Argentina), Leopold Bellak, Eric Berne, Milton Erickson, Theodore Ayllon, Arnold A. Lazarus, Jacob Moreno, Paul Rosch (U.S.A.), Hans Selye, Thomas Ban, Eric Wittkower (Canada), Lennart Levi (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Teaching experiences 2014, since 1995-Full Professor, Doctorate in Psychology, Univ. of Flores and former Professor, Kennedy Univ. Doctorate career,1973-1975, Buenos Aires. Consulting and training activities International teacher and consultant in new behavioral sciences, in governmental and private institutions, 1974 to1994 Introduced Transactional Analysis (delegated by Dr. Eric Berne) and Multimodal therapy (delegated by Dr.Arnold Lazarus) and psychosocial stress management (supervised by Dr. Hans Selye) in Latin America, Spain and Hungary. Publications 20 books as sole or main author and contributor in other. Scientific papers Over 100 published in Argentine and foreign Journals, several of them refereed Distinctions (summary) Honorary Doctorate, Soka Univ. of Japan, Honory Professor,Ricardo Palma, San Martín of Porres and Norbert Wiener Universities (Peru) Honorary Member, Polish Academy of Medicine and Albert Schweitzer Institute (Poland), of Academia Tiberina(Italy) ItaliaInternational Transactional Analysis, etc.