Editorial Board

Bruce was a two-time Fulbright Senior Scholar to Thailand (2006-2007; 2014-2015) and is a recent ASEAN Fulbright Research Award recipient (2022). He is a lifetime member of the Fulbright Alumni Association. His Fulbright work focusses on spreading the discipline of contemporary psychology, assisting faculty with curriculum development and scholarly publishing, researching psychology infrastructure in higher education, and assessing mental health care systems and ASEAN’s critical need to train more professional psychologists. Bruce is professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at the State University of New York at Albany and has also held visiting appointments at a number of leading Asian institutions. He has extensive publishing and editing experience in the fields of behavioral neuroscience, sports reform and international education. He has received research grants from NSF, NIDA, NIMH, NIA and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

Kevin was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Thailand and Laos in 2007, and was a FSS again in Thailand in 2022, and is a life member of the Fulbright Alumni Association.  He has broad, innovative, results-oriented leadership experiences in mission-oriented institutions.  These include president of Marlboro College, president of the National Peace Corps Association, executive director of the Global Alliance for Workers and Communities and director of public policy at the Pew Charitable Trusts. Kevin has done extensive teaching and publishing as an academic practitioner. At NPCA for nearly a decade, he was the publisher of Worldview, the magazine for the Peace Corps community.  Kevin has served on the boards of the American University of Afghanistan, the American University of Nigeria, Parami University in Myanmar and Swarthmore College.

Habiba I. Atta was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the year 2021, at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. Her area of specialization is Environmental Microbiology, and her research during her Fulbright visit was focused on studying aromatic hydrocarbon degrading bacteria using whole genome sequencing and other molecular tools. The research is targeted at harnessing beneficial soil bacteria in the removal of pollutants from the environment as a sustainable approach in remediating polluted ecosystems. She is currently a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Microbiology in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. She was a beneficiary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund postgraduate scholarship, (Nigeria) for her PhD research in the molecular characterization of soil bacteria with potential for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation. She has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles, contributed to book publications and served as a guest contributor to the blog of the American Society for Microbiology.  Habiba is passionate about science communication and is the Managing Editor of the West African Journal of Microbiology, and a member of the Colloquium committee in the Faculty of Life Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University. She is a strong advocate for STEM education thus she is currently the Institutional Coordinator of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing world (OWSD), Ahmadu Bello University Branch. She is a member of the Nigerian Society for Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology, Society for General Microbiology, and 500 Women Scientists. She is also a Book reviewer for the Fulbright Chronicles.

Melanie was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Mindanao, Philippines in 2015. For her Fulbright project, she investigated how school leaders influence school structures, policies, and practices related to social justice, religion, and faith identity. Melanie taught at Capitol University in Cagayan de Oro and assisted Filipino PK-12 educators to integrate research into their teaching. She also supported university faculty by providing professional development related to qualitative research methodology. Currently a Senior Lecturer of Educational Leadership at Monash University in Australia, Melanie is author of Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension: Inside an American Islamic School (2019, Routledge). She has written numerous peer reviewed articles and led edited monographs and special issues of journals on topics related to race, faith, and social justice in education. Along with preparing future school leaders and teachers, Melanie is currently leading the development of a documentary film about Islamic schooling in Indonesia and Australia, funded by Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has worked at several universities throughout the United States and was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer to Thailand.

José is a Portuguese chemist, historian and philosopher of science. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, in 2022. He worked with Professor Cailin O’Connor on the dynamics of scientific knowledge and how it moves through scientists, the public and policymakers, on emerging science-based legislation. His work includes building computer-based epistemic models to predict future science-based discovery outcomes and exploring the explanatory power of scientific endeavors. José is currently a researcher on the MIT Portugal Program at the LAQV-REQUIMTE Lab – University of Porto (Portugal) developing Data Science and Artificial Intelligence methods towards chemical property and reaction predictions. He collaborates as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History – University of Évora (Portugal), working on chemistry’s role in the emergence of science-based regulations and how it can help understand ongoing issues on fake-science and misinformation. José has also authored several peer-reviewed publications and research communications on the interdisciplinary scope of the history of science, student engagement, and science communication. Through the years, José has received several research grants and serves at various scientific organizations such as the “Portuguese Chemistry Society”, the “International Younger Chemists Network” and the “European Society for the History of Science”.

Raymond was a visiting Australian Fulbright scholar at Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice and Palo Alto Research Center in 2009. His Fulbright work focusses on identifying emerging cyberthreats, predicting which targets are likely to carry greatest risk, and developing responses that will neutralize cybercrime opportunities before they arise. He currently holds the Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Since joining UTSA in Fall 2016, he has received funding from NASA, NSA, NSF, U.S. DoD, CPS Energy, LGS Innovations, and Texas National Security Network Excellence Fund. He is also the founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research & Practice, founding Chair of IEEE TEMS Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, ACM Distinguished Speaker and IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, and a Web of Science’s Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field – 2020.

JohnBosco was a Fulbright Junior Scholar to the United States of America (2019-2020) and a member of the Fulbright Alumni Association. As a volunteer for Happy World Foundation, he has been involved in educating American children and youth about the culture and people of Nigeria through the Global Connect database. JohnBosco is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Clinical/Health Psychology at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He also serves as Editor of the Nigerian Journal of Psychological Research, in addition to other editorial positions in some reputable journals. He is listed in top 500 authors in all research fields by scholarly output (see SciVal – Elsevier Authors Ranking of Nigerian Authors 2020) and received the Global Peer Reviewer Award 2019 (Top 1% in Psychiatry and Psychology) through Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics (Thompson Reuters).

Steven has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and is professor emeritus of Linguistics and Education at Rutgers University. He has had three Fulbrights; to India, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. In India, he taught Technical Writing at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi. In Uzbekistan, he taught Management at the Tashkent Financial Institute and prepared a textbook. In Ukraine, he taught English for Management at the Institute of Linguistics & Management, as well as creative writing at Shevchenko University. Darian has lived and worked and studied in six other countries. He is currently Editorial Director for a small publishing house in NY and has edited over a hundred book manuscripts. He has written more than a dozen books, in every genre.  In addition to a travel book about the Ganges River and a historical novel set in Samarkand in the time of Tamerlane, these books include: The China Business Reader, Understanding the Language of Science, The Role of Religion in Just About Everything, Technique in Nonfiction, The Illuminator, and The Wanderer: Travels & Adventures Beyond the Pale.

Serena was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in 2019. Her research, developed at Columbia University in New York City, focused on mathematical analysis and specifically on models for long-range phase coexistence and their connections with relevant geometric objects called nonlocal minimal surfaces. The outcome of this research consisted in the discovery of a new phenomenon of nonlocal minimal surfaces which has been called “stickiness”.  After her PhD in Mathematical Analysis at SISSA Trieste (Italy) in 2012, Serena held Postdoctoral positions at the Universidad de Chile and the University of Edinburgh, a Humboldt Fellowship in Germany and permanent positions at the University of Melbourne and the University of Milan. Also, she visited several top institutions around the world. Today Serena is professor at the University of Western Australia and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Dr. Nathan Gehlert is a Licensed Professional Counselor, having earned his Ph.D. from Loyola University Maryland in 2011. He is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Fulbright University Vietnam. With a deep commitment to advancing the fields of psychology and counseling, Dr. Gehlert maintains a dynamic teaching and research portfolio. His scholarship delves into the realms of joy and happiness, motivation, multicultural counseling, personality theory, and relationship counseling.

Dr. Gehlert’s involvement in Vietnam’s emerging psychology landscape began in 2015, marked by his instrumental roles at numerous universities across Vietnam. His academic work centers on nurturing the growth of psychology and molding aspiring psychologists and counselors. Between 2021 and 2022, Dr. Gehlert served as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar through the United States Department of State, lending his expertise as an educator and researcher to both Fulbright University and the Vietnam National University.

In 2023, Dr. Gehlert founded the Vietnam Institute of Psychology, which strives to transform lives with personalized psychological services and educational innovations. The Institute’s B2B services include leadership development, resilience training, communication skills enhancement, conflict resolution, and consultation to boost productivity and cohesion.

From 2012 to 2023, Dr. Gehlert held pivotal roles at John Carroll University in the United States. During his tenure, he assumed leadership of the Department of Counseling and established the Integrated Behavioral Health Specialization, placing students in underserved communities during pivotal clinical internship semesters. Dr. Gehlert’s efforts secured $1.3 million in grant funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, underpinning the program’s success.

Polat Goktas, Ph.D. was awarded a Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2017-18 at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. Polat, a distinguished Marie-Curie Research Fellow, is currently positioned at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. Specializing in the cutting-edge realms of human-computer interaction, generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and explainable AI, he is devoted to developing practical AI solutions. His academic journey commenced at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey where he pursued Electrical and Electronics Engineering, culminating in an MSc and Ph.D. Throughout his academic pursuits, he has been recognized with several accolades, including the “Dr. Akin Cakmakci Industrial Application Thesis Award of 2016” and the “Best Paper Award” at the Modelling and Simulation Conference of Turkey in 2016. His career highlights include the 2016 Young Scientist Award at the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, the 2017 IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Grant, the 2020 Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship, and the 2021 METU Serhat Ozyar Young Scientist of the Year Award, and among others. Dr. Goktas engages in various community roles, including as a lead member of the AI Task Force within the Futurist Association in Turkey and a member of the IEEE Young Professional in Climate and Sustainability Task Force. He contributes to the Editorial Board of the Marie-Curie Alumni Association Newsletter and serves on the Advisory Board for the Turkish Nobel Community. His mentorship role in the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society’s Student Mentoring Program (IEEE EMBS SMP) underscores his commitment to nurturing the next generation of scientists.

Santoshi Halder, is a professor, at the Department of Education, University of Calcutta, India. She has a Post-graduation in Education and Ph.D. in Applied Psychology. She is a Board-Certified Behaviour Analyst (BACB, USA) and is also Special Educator licensure (Rehabilitation Council of India, RCI). She has been actively involved internationally and nationally in multifarious ways for the inclusion of people with diversities primarily through various academic and research endeavors since 2000. She has been an international fellow and recipient of various prestigious competitive international awards; Shastri-Indo-Canadian Fellow (2022), Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow, USA (2020), Rockefeller Fellow, Italy (2019), Japan Society for Promotion of Science/ JSPS fellow, (2019), Endeavour Australia-India Education Council Research Fellow, Australia (2015-2016), Endeavour Awards Ambassador (2018) and Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellow, USA (2011–2012). She received the Governor’s Medal (West Bengal, India) in 2001 for her contribution to the community and people as a National Cadet Corps (N.C.C). She has completed 6 International and 4 national projects. Nine Ph.D.’s and eighteen M. Phil Dissertations have been successfully awarded under her supervision. She has published four international books on inclusion and one book on Educational Technology and is currently engaged with various international projects.

Fidel was a Fulbright Invited Scholar (2017-2018) at Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department (University of California Irvine, USA) doing research at the Dr. Anthony James laboratory. He earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and has a M.Sc. degree in Genetics at Center for Research and Advanced Studies at Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV), Mexico. He attended specialized courses in Molecular Parasitology at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MaA and the Biology of Disease Vectors (Arthropods that transmit diseases) at Colorado State University. Currently, he is Professor at Infectomics and Molecular Pathogenesis Department at CINVESTAV (México). He collaborates in research and academic projects with the National Institutes of Health of México and Simon Bolivar University, México. Currently, he is conducting a research group with under- and graduate- students with the aim to study “Neglected diseases,” discover mechanisms of immunology of mosquitoes and better understand their relationship with pathogens they transmit (such as malaria and Dengue). In addition, the group is investigating the basic biology of the prickly pear cochineal, the insect producer of carmine, pigment discovered by pre-Columbian cultures in America and that is used, even today for stain used in many products, including foods, fabrics, drugs, etc.

Iunio was a Fulbright Scholar to the United States (2014-2016) at Stanford University. He is a lifetime member of the Fulbright Alumni Association. His Fulbright work focusses on collaborative research on resilience of communities to natural disasters (i.e., modelling the recovery of civil infrastructure systems) and, in particular, due to major seismic sequences. Iunio is professor of earthquake engineering and structural dynamics at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) where he coordinates the Ph.D. program in Structural & Geotechnical Engineering and Seismic Risk. He also is fellow alumnus of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and has been visiting professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto. He has extensive publishing and editorial experience in the fields of earthquake engineering and civil infrastructure. He has received research grants from public and private institutions, such as, the European Commission, AXA Research Fund, Italian Ministry for Research, and others.

Kirti Kusum Joshi was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2014. His Fulbright research focused on the dynamics of urban sprawl. He has also been a postdoctoral research fellow at Tohoku University, Japan and a visiting scholar (ASIA Fellow) at University of Indonesia, Indonesia. He earned Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from Tohoku University, Japan in 2007. Kirti is actively engaged in professional practice, teaching, and research in field of urban and regional planning, public policy, infrastructure planning, urban economics, and urban resilience. He has over two decades of professional experience working with state and bilateral agencies as a consultant. He is a visiting faculty at Tribhuvan University Institute of Engineering and Kathmandu University School of Management. He has published papers in leading international journals and more recently co-authored Traffic Congestion and Land Use Regulations: Theory and Policy Analysis (Elsevier). Kirti was unanimously elected as the President of Fulbright Alumni Association of Nepal for two consecutive terms (2019-2021 and 2021-2023).

Aicha was a Fulbright Scholar to the United-States (2016-2018) at the University of Texas at Austin. She pursued a Masters of Science in Community and Regional Planning, where she focused mainly on topics related to affordable housing, community design, and transit-oriented development. Her final project analyses the historic framework of affordable housing in her hometown in Morocco and how its location as to services and employment plays an important role in determining the quality of life of citizens. Aicha works today as a project manager in urban planning and design and is interested in continuing work for the betterment of communities, particularly those built around transit, that have access to equitable opportunities and that prosper in well-designed urban environments. Through her projects, her ultimate goal is to participate in the mitigation of climate change through quality design that leads to behavioral changes, such as mode shift from cars, one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, to more sustainable transportation modes.

María López de Bayas Alcántara is from Spain and she was a Fulbright scholar during the academic year of 2022-2023 at Mott Community College (MCC), Flint, Michigan (USA). At MCC’s International Office,  , her Fulbright program was designed to achieve the following objectives: to promote the Erasmus plus program which is sponsored by the European Union (EU) to support education, training, youth and sport; to develop partnership exchange mobility programs with worldwide universities for students and faculty and; to share all kinds of international opportunities abroad, such as (summer programs, internships, jobs, scholarships, etc). María also worked as a teacher and college counselor at schools and universities in the United Kingdom, Germany, India, and Spain and was selected as an education ambassador at the program Ship World Youth, in Japan. While she was a teacher in Spain, she developed a teaching methodology called “Drawing concepts. How to avoid studying, puking and forgetting, the solution via visual thinking.” This methodology allowed her students to excel at the philosophy university entry exam and obtain some of the highest scores in Spain. Her teaching methodology can be applied to any field. Currently, she is the Head of International Partnerships at Erasmus in School. This organization acts as a remote International Office to give support to admission centers within universities with the target of multiplying their number of enrolled international students.

Aurelian Muntean was Fulbright Senior Scholar to Columbia University, NYC, in 2012-2013. He worked on varieties of capitalism in Eastern Europe and on electoral clientelism in elections from Romania. He is associate professor of political science and sociology at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest. He is director of the MA Program in Labour Studies, which is member in the European Master in Labour Studies Network. He is vice-president of the Romanian Sociologists Society, the largest Romanian professional association in sociology. He published a book on quantitative and qualitative methods (Cluj University Press, 2022). He also published chapters in many edited volumes, and articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Electoral Studies, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Government and Opposition, Europe-Asia Studies, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal for the Study of Religion and Ideologies, Social Change Review. He was coordinator or member in research projects on topics such as social dialogue, social inequalities, electoral clientelism, parties and democratic representation, civic participation, varieties of capitalism, or church-state relations.

Gabriela was a Fulbright Scholar (2018/2019) at John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS, Harvard University, USA). She earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry Sciences from the National University of Córdoba (UNC), and has a degree in Pharmacy and in Biochemistry. She has completed postdoctoral studies at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Currently, she is Senior Professor of Microbiology at the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences and is member of the Research Career of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina). She has an agreement for academic, scientific and cultural cooperation with Weitz Lab of SEAS. She is currently participating in two International Networks for Research. One of these is with the European Cooperation in Science and Technology in the consortium to project Protection, resilience, and rehabilitation of damaged environments. The other is with the UNESCO Chair on Sustainability at the UPC.

Originally from Thailand, Narun was a Fulbright graduate scholar in 2009-11, as part of his PhD in Brain Behavior and Cognition at Northwestern University. During his PhD, he studied mental health and motivation, using human cognitive neuroscience techniques, such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalogram (EEG). He then studied decision-making and the brain, in the field known as neuroeconomics, during his first post-doctoral position at the National University of Singapore. Later, he worked on big data in neuroimaging and psychiatry as a research fellow at the US National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda MD. Since 2019, he has been a principal investigator at the Department of Psychology, University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand. His laboratory focuses on the brain bases of individual differences in cognition, emotion and motivation. His group employs cognitive neuroscience methods (such as fMRI, EEG and polygenic scores) along with modern data science tools (such as big data, machine learning and computational modelling). His research has been supported by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, Oakley Mental Health Research Foundation, Otago Medical Research Foundation and the University of Otago.

Tansu was a Fulbright Researcher at Harvard University (2017-18). He received his Ph.D. degree from Bilkent University, US History Program, and currently serves as an assistant professor at Başkent University, Department of American Culture and Literature (Ankara, Turkey). Tansu’s Fulbright research focused on the transnational aspects of the US Civil War Era and the psychological/financial forces of the post-war reconciliation between the former foes. He also worked for the Turkish Fulbright Commission as an educational adviser and contributed to the widely acclaimed digital exhibition celebrating the Commission’s seventh decade. In this capacity, he collaborated with the representatives of the American institutions and supervised the Turkish grantees of various levels, which carried his Fulbright experience (and ideals) beyond the limits of his research. Having extensive experience in travel publishing, Yigit received grants from public and private institutions, such as the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. His areas of interest include US history, Turkish-American relations, travel writing, history of daily life, and memory studies.

Associate Professor Aiden Warren is a Fulbright Scholar in Australia-United States Alliance Studies, sponsored by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT). He completed his Fulbright at the Arms Control Association in Washington DC investigating the United States’ nuclear modernization plans and the impact this will have on global security. He is an Associate Professor in RMIT University’s School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. Aiden’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of International Security, US national security and foreign policy, US Politics (ideas, institutions, contemporary and historical), International Relations (especially great power politics), issues associated with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation, non-proliferation and arms control and emerging technologies. He is the sole author of The Obama Administration’s Nuclear Weapon Strategy: The Promises of Prague and Prevention; Pre-emption and the Nuclear Option: From Bush to Obama; and co-author of Governing the Use-Of-Force in International Relations, Presidential Doctrines, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Search for Global Security, and US Foreign Policy and China. Aiden is also Editor of Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press), Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century (Routledge), and is also the Series Editor of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) book series with Rowman and Littlefield, New York, NY.