Category: ESI TEAM

Professor Dr. Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, Spanish is now Professor with Chair at the University of Almería (Spain) and she was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Granada from 1979 on. Thirty nine years of the teaching and researching experience. She is the Director of Research Group HUM113-Estudios Filológicos from Program of Research of Andalusian Government, where she has managed and directed several academic and scientific contracts and research projects, as well as a Member of Athens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER) in Greece, The Academic Genesis Platform (UAGP) in UK&Turkey and Experts of Academic Excellence Research Centre (EAERC) in Jordan; etc. She is author of a many works on several aspects of the Arabic science and literature in the Middle Ages, as well as Arabic language and linguistics. She has also participated in different prestigious international scientific Conferences. She has visited a many universities and academic institutions of Europe, United States and Arab countries in order to teach and research. Among her works, we have the study and the translation to Spanish of some treatises of Kitab al-tasrif´s Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Qutayba´s texts, Maqamas of Al-Hariri, The Sicilian Questions of Ibn Sab´in, etcetera.

Mondira Dutta, PhD, is currently the Chairperson of Centre for Inner Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has been the Director of UGC Central Asia Area Studies Programme for three consecutive terms. She has been actively involved in teaching and research activities for over three decades. Her fields of specialization include Gender & Human Security with particular reference to Violence against Women in South Asia, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Impact Studies and Child Labor. She has been the former Chairperson of the ‘Gender Sensitization Committee against Sexual Harassment’ (GSCASH), Jawaharlal Nehru University (2008). She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, at the International Congress of Women for Justice, Equality, Peace and Progress, sponsored jointly by United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan, Govt of India, FICCI and The India Today Group, New Delhi, on 7th March 2009. She has been a UN Women consultant from 2009 to 2013 and also been a Consultant to several national and international organizations. To name a few include the British Council, Ford Foundation, NOVIB (The Netherlands), the DFID, The World Bank, International Human Rights Commission, Geneva, Human Rights Commission (Maldives), UNESCO, UN Women (South Asia), besides the government of India’s Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Women and Child Development and the National Commission for Women. The National Strategy on anti–trafficking measures, from Aug 2011 to Dec 2011. During the period her study ‘Understanding Gender Equality, 2012’ was published by the National Commission for Women, Govt of India and released on 13 March 2012. She has been a guest researcher at the Stockholm University, Sweden, for a period of one month from September – October 2012 for research and lectures.

Dr. Jorge Balladares is an Associate Professor and Researcher at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador. His re- search interest are: ICT for Education, Design-based Research, Educational Technology, Digital Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence applied in Education. He got his Ph.D. in Teaching and ICT in Education at Extremadura University, Spain. He got his Post- Doc at European Scientific Institute (ESI).  He got his Master Degrees in Philosophy and ICT in Education at the Pontifical Catholic University in Ecuador.  He got his Bachelor Degree in Philosophy and Pedagogy at Universidad del Salvador, Argentina.

Prof. Franca Daniele received her degree in Medicine and Surgery, and then a Specialization degree in Sports Medicine from “G. d’Annunzio” University Medical School, Chieti-Pescara, Italy. She serves as professor of English language and translation in the Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences at “G. d’Annunzio” University Medical School, Italy. She has been Director of the Medical English Unit, at “G. d’Annunzio” University. She has been appointed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) to cooperate with the Committee for the Evaluation of Research (CIVR). She is member of the Linguistic Society of America. She is mentor for young researchers. She is active reviewer/referee for many international journals. Prof. Daniele’s list of publications includes theoretical and research papers in the field of English linguistics, translation studies, discourse analysis, doctor-patient interaction, ESP and more specifically medical English, English learning and development in multicultural settings. Her most recent research interests include in depth studies in the field of traslation of medical language and more specifically, machine and AI medical translations.

Emeritus Professor Keith Morrison has worked in higher education for 40+ years, in the UK and South-East Asia, formerly at the University of Durham, UK and, since 2000, in Macau, where he has been Dean of a School of Education, Registrar, Director and Adviser for Institutional Development, and a university Vice rector. He is the author/co-author of 20 academic books on education, and for many years was the Co editor of the international peer reviewed journal Educational Research and Evaluation. He has conducted consultancies for governments, companies, organisations, and institutions in the UK, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, USA, Hong Kong, and Macau, and he has produced reports, papers, policy documents, and technical reports for government agencies and officers in several countries and educational institutions. He is a reviewer for funded research proposals for government grants agencies. He has been a reviewer for 25 international journals and for several leading international book publishers, has been a member of several Editorial Boards of peer-reviewed journals in education, and is a regular contributor to Macau Business. He is in the top 10 of Google Scholar’s world’s most cited authors in education. Before moving into higher education he taught in kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools in the UK. He has worked on research, consultancy, and development projects in schools and teacher education. He has been a prize winning music scholar and cathedral choral scholar/lay clerk; he is an organist, a member of the Royal College of Organists, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His recent work in higher education academic, management, and administration fields has been in research methods, quality assurance, educational development and training for higher education academic, research, and administrative staff.

Angelo Viglianisi Ferraro is Aggregate Professor and Dean’s Proxy for International Affairs at the Department of Law and Economics of the “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, Italy where he is also the Director of a LL. M. in European Private Law and of the “Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research” (www.michr.unirc.it). He was a speaker at conferences, seminars and round tables, and an invited lecturer (for students and PhD candidates) in over 70 foreign universities in Europe, South America and China. He is an author of 2 books and coauthor of 5 books. He has also published numerous articles on civil liability, consumer law, family law, and fundamental rights.

Dr. Elena Hunt is a professor emerita at Laurentian University in Canada and an internationally recognized researcher in mental health, transcultural care, health equity, and epidemiology. With a PhD in Psychology from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and over three decades of multilingual academic and clinical experience, she has led pioneering studies on social support, violence in mental illness, and online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Hunt has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to multiple international research collaborations. She served as project supervisor at the European Scientific Institute and remains deeply engaged in community health initiatives and immigrant and refugee support programs in Ontario.