Professor Jordi Surroca has been appointed Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Liverpool Management School and Head of the Subject Group of Strategy, IB, and Entrepreneurship. Before joining Liverpool, he was Professor of Strategy & Organization at the University of Groningen, where he also served as Director of the Innovation & Organization Research Program. Previously, he held positions at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Boston College.
Jordi's research interests primarily focus on the intersection of strategic management, corporate social responsibility, and corporate governance. His articles have appeared in leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal, among others.
Professor Nasrine Seraji has been appointed Professor of Architectural Design at University College Dublin. She joins the University from Hong Kong University, where she is currently Professor of Architecture and where she will retain a Distinguished Visiting Professorship.
Nasrine will take up her role at UCD Architecture in early 2021, bringing to bear a wealth of experience and expertise in practice, research, and education.
Professor Seraji studied at the Architectural Association, where she also taught. She has always divided her time between practice and academic roles. Her practice, based in Paris, has produced a number of significant buildings, projects and masterplans, beginning with the Temporary American Centre (1991) and including apartment and housing projects, an extension to the School of Architecture in Lille and most recently a transportation and apartment complex for RATP in Paris.
Nasrine held appointments at Princeton and Columbia before becoming Professor and Chair of Architecture at Cornell University. She subsequently moved back to Europe, serving as Professor and Head of the Institute of Art and Architecture in Vienna and as Dean of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Paris. She took up her appointment as Head of Architecture in Hong Kong in 2014.
She was elected Fellow of the RIBA in 2017, and has had numerous honours in France including the Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres (OAL), Officier de l’Ordre Nationale du Mérite (ONM) and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.
Professor Pengfei Liu has been appointed Professor of Hydrodynamics within the Marine, Offshore and Subsea Technology Group in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University. His research areas of expertise and interests include applied aero- and hydro-dynamics for rotary wings and oscillating foils for marine propulsion and renewable energy; research and development of innovative technologies for practical engineering problem solving and design; and numerical tool, high performance computing (Parallel and Cloud) and experimental apparatus development on performance evaluation, design and optimization of rotors, propulsors and thrusters.
Pengfei received his B.Eng. from Wuhan University of Technology and his M. Eng. and Ph.D. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He worked as a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council Canada from 1999 to 2016 and as an Associate Professor at the Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania from 2016 to 2019.
Pengfei has worked intensively for over two decades in the development of specialty engineering software, working on experimental hydrodynamics, at the same time as teaching undergraduates and supervising postgraduates. He is a professional engineer of APEG-BC, Canada and a member of a number of international academic committees, including the Board of Directors of Computational Fluid Dynamics Society of Canada (2001-2007) and ISSC Ocean Space Utilization Committee (2018-2021). He has co-authored over 120 refereed journal articles and conference papers in engineering software development for hydrodynamic/aerodynamic applications of rotary and oscillatory wings for propulsion and renewable energy.
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