Emrah Atasoy

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), working in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to starting at Warwick, I spent an academic year at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of English Language and Literature as a visiting postdoctoral researcher. I completed a BA and PhD (Joint) in English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University, Türkiye, and taught at Hacettepe and Cappadocia Universities.

My Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship project is entitled Futuristic Narratives in Turkish Literature: 1950-2021: Speculation in the Anthropocene. This project aims to present a detailed discussion of Turkish futuristic narratives and speculation in the Anthropocene, covering the period between 1950 and 2021."

Research Interests

Speculative fiction, utopia, dystopia, critical dystopia, Turkish utopian & dystopian fiction, science fiction, twentieth-century literature, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, Anthropocene studies, cli-fi, posthumanism, comparative literature, world literature, pandemic fiction, apocalyptic fiction

Supervision

I am happy to supervise postgraduate work on speculative fiction, utopia, dystopia, critical dystopia, apocalyptic literature, science fiction, pandemic fiction, cli-fi, posthumanism, Anthropocene fiction, world literature, and comparative literature.

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Evelina Liarou

Evelina Liarou received her B.Sc. degree from the University of Patras in 2014, working on Analytical Chemistry and Nanotechnology. In 2016, she received her M.Sc. Degree (1st Class Honours) in Polymer Chemistry from the National University of Athens, where she worked on the synthesis of multifunctional polypeptides and drug delivery systems. In 2020 she received her Ph.D. from the University of Warwick, working in the group of Prof. David Haddleton on controlled radical polymerization. For the impact of her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Oxygen Tolerant Copper-mediated Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization”, she was awarded the “Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Medicine PhD Thesis Prize 2021” from the University of Warwick. In 2020 she received a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) to work on reversible polymer transformations until 2022 at Ghent University. Since 2022 she is a Eutopia-SIF MSCA fellow at the University of Warwick, investigating polymerization mechanisms through advanced electron microscopy.

Sébastien Lapointe

Dr. Sébastien Lapointe is a Maria Skłodowska Curie EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow working in the Department of Chemistry with Pr. Adrian B. Chaplin. His research aims to repurpose anthropogenic N2O emissions by establish the science underpinning the activation of N2O by homogenous transition-metal complexes and translate these findings into impactful catalytic applications.

Dr. Lapointe did his undergraduate studies at the University of Montréal (Montréal, QC, Canada). He then moved across the globe to do his Ph.D with Professor Julia R. Khusnutdinova at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Okinawa, Japan), where he received his degree in 2020. He did his first postdoc with Professor Viktoria H. Gessner at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Bochum, NRW, Germany).

Sarah Werner Boada

Sarah Werner Boada (PhD) is a Marie Skłodowska–Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) at the IAS and Department of Sociology. Her current research project examines decisions to remove children from Romani and Traveller families in England and Spain from an intersectional perspective. Previously, she was a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies of the Central European University (Vienna, Austria), where she taught at the postgraduate level.

A mother-scholar, qualitative researcher and supporter of feminist pedagogy, her teaching and research interests include Gender Violence, Motherhood studies, Antigypsyism, and other forms of inequality under neoliberal governance. She has also worked in policy advocacy, in collaboration with various intergovernmental and umbrella organisations, in the fields of gender violence and children’s rights.

Sarah's mother tongue is French, but she is also fluent in English, Spanish and German, and has notions of Romanian and Bulgarian.

Aditya Singh

Dr. Aditya Singh is a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Physics and Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick (UoW), UK. His work is broadly investigating/studying optical and electrical properties of 2D materials and ferroelectrics-based heterostructure devices. Successful realization of these heterostructure-based devices will open up new opportunities to design novel architectures to encode and process information/data crucial for next-generation quantum technology.

Before joining Warwick, Dr. Singh was a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, from 2022-2023. Dr. Singh obtained his PhD in 2022 from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. During his PhD, he received many prestigious fellowship grants for his research. In 2021, he was a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and a Raman-Charpak Fellow at IPCMS-CNRS, France, in 2020. Also, he was awarded the University Grants Commission’s Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and the INSPIRE Fellowship for his doctoral research. Dr. Singh is an associate editor of Colloid and Surface Science and an active reviewer of Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Surface and Interfaces, ACS Omega, Materials Today Communications, Chemistry Select, etc. Apart from studies/research, he has been actively involved in volunteering and social services. During his bachelor's, he worked in the National Cadet Corps (NCC) of the Indian Air Force and the National Service Scheme (NSS).

Andreana Pastena

Andreana Pastena is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. Her current research project explores how undergraduate and master’s students navigate universities’ increasing linguistic and cultural diversity. Specifically, she investigates students' language biographies and practices and intercultural interactions in internationalised Higher Education, and the impact these experiences have on the development of plurilingual and pluricultural competences. The aim is to put on focus the role of languages and self-reflection in intercultural learning.

Andreana completed her undergraduate and master studies in Italy, between Naples and Pisa. Then, she moved to Spain where, in 2022, she received a Ph.D. degree in Humanities (research line: Intercultural spaces, languages, and identities) from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona. In 2020, she was a visiting predoctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Solidarity, Societies, Territories Laboratory at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, in France. She has also worked as a foreign languages teacher and an intercultural trainer, and she holds a Postgraduate diploma in active learning pedagogies.

Andreana’s research arises from her own plurilingual and cross-cultural practices, and has the long-term goal of understanding how to “live together as equals in multilingual and multicultural societies”.

Belayneh Taye Gedifew

Belayneh Taye is a EUTOPIA-SIF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. Belayneh studied his PhD in philosophy at the University of Szeged, Hungary. After his studies, he worked as an assistant professor of philosophy at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. His professional field of interest includes bioethics, politics, and pragmatism, especially healthcare allocations and health equity. His current research project is titled "Healthcare allocation, healthcare rationing, and healthcare equity: evidence from a comprehensive approach using the case of Ethiopia." In the project, he wants to approach the issues of allocation and equity in healthcare using normative, ethical-philosophical, and empirical approaches, using Ethiopia as a case. Specifically, he wants to approach the issue using a multidisciplinary approach based on mixed research design, soliciting collaborations with researchers in the EUTOPIA-SIF research environment and outside.

Carla Guerra Tomazini

Carla Guerra Tomazini is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher (EUTOPIA-SIF) at the University of Warwick, affiliated with the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of Politics and International Studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between anti-gender mobilizations and education reforms in Latin America, with a broader interest in comparative politics, political institutions, and the Welfare State. She has co-edited three books on Brazil and Latin American policies, collaborated on various academic journals, and held academic positions at institutions like Université Paris-Saclay-University of Versailles and Sciences Po.

Derya Kaya Ozdemir

Dr. Derya KAYA OZDEMIR is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and affiliated with Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick.

She completed her PhD in Civil Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Türkiye, where her research focused on the correlation between processing parameters and the aging of polymer-modified bitumen. During her doctoral studies, she conducted experiments at Warwick University (Warwick Manufacturing Group) as a visiting academic. This opportunity enabled her to collaborate with international academics and work in a multidisciplinary environment, combining road and pavement engineering with fundamental polymer science.

Dr. KAYA OZDEMIR has taken on various teaching responsibilities, including overall module supervision for several courses in the Department of Civil Engineering. Additionally, she has served as the Transportation Laboratory Manager, taking on training and mentoring responsibilities.

She is a dedicated civil engineer and a nature enthusiast with a passion for finding sustainable solutions in the construction industry. Her academic motivation revolves around making a tangible impact by addressing waste material recycling and the impacts of climate change, particularly in the context of asphalt road construction, which poses numerous challenges. Her project, ExtendRoadCycle, aims to extend the in-service lifetime of roads by reutilizing aged bitumen with food and plastic waste. This initiative strives to be more cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and ultimately, a more sustainable approach for future road infrastructure.

Thomas Bilterys

Thomas Bilterys is a postdoctoral researcher at Warwick University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also a member of the international Pain in Motion research group. He has a specific interest and expertise in the relationship between pain and sleep. His research mainly aims to increase insight in the interaction between sleep and pain, and improve the treatment of insomnia and chronic pain.