Dr. Francesco Asnicar | Leadership in Education | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Francesco Asnicar | Leadership in Education Best Researcher Award

Department CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

🔗 Professional Profiles

🔬 Summary: 

Francesco Asnicar, Ph.D., is a tenure-track researcher at the University of Trento, Italy, specializing in computational metagenomics and the human gut microbiome. He leads research at the Department of Cellular, Computational, and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), with a focus on microbiome-diet relationships using advanced computational methods.

📚 Education:

  • Ph.D. in Information Technology, University of Trento, Italy, 2019 (cum laude)
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy, 2014
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy, 2012

👨‍🔬 Professional Experience:

Francesco previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics, where he led the local unit for the Human Microbiome Action H2020 project. He has also supervised multiple students at various academic levels.

🔍 Research Interests:

His research focuses on developing computational tools for phylogenetics analysis and exploring the connections between the human gut microbiome, diet, and health using machine learning and statistical approaches.

Notable Publications 

Paper Tittle: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
Paper Tittle: Extensive unexplored human microbiome diversity revealed by over 150,000 genomes from metagenomes spanning age, geography, and lifestyle
Paper Tittle: Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3
Paper Tittle: Mother-to-infant microbial transmission from different body sites shapes the developing infant gut microbiome
Paper Tittle: Compact graphical representation of phylogenetic data and metadata with GraPhlAn

Prof. Ira Bogotch | Educational Leadership | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Ira Bogotch | Educational Leadership | Best Researcher Award

Florida Atlantic University, United States

🔗 Professional Profiles

📚 Summary

Dr. Ira E. Bogotch is a distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at Florida Atlantic University, where he has been serving since 2000. He is known for his extensive contributions to educational leadership and social justice, evident in his scholarly publications and international collaborations.

🎓 Education

  • Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, Florida International University, 1989
  • M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1975
  • M.A. in Philosophy, New School for Social Research, 1972
  • B.A. cum laude in Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1968

👨‍💼 Professional Experience

  • Professor of Educational Leadership, Florida Atlantic University (2000-present)
  • Affiliate/Courtesy Faculty, Department of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry (2015-2023)
  • Sabbatical Study: School integration of Syrian newcomers in Canada and Germany (Fall 2017)
  • School Leaders Coordinator, Florida Atlantic University (2014-Spring 2016)
  • Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Australia (2014-2017)

💼 Research Interests

  • Educational leadership, social justice, integration of newcomers in education systems, leadership for equity and inclusion.
 

Publication Top Noted

 Paper Tittle: Educational leadership and social justice: Practice into theory

  • Authors: Ira E Bogotch
  • Journal: Journal of school leadership
  • Year: 2002
  • Citations : 738

 Paper Tittle: School-level effects of teachers’ participation in decision making

  • Authors: Dianne L Taylor, Ira E Bogotch
  • Journal: Educational evaluation and policy analysis
  • Year: 1994
  • Citations :297

 Paper Tittle: Educational leadership and social justice: Theory into practice.

  • Authors: Ira E Bogotch
  • Year: 2000
  • Citations : 159

 Paper Tittle:  International handbook of educational leadership and social (in) justice

  • Authors: Ira Bogotch, Carolyn M Shields
  • Year: 2014
  • Citations : 152

Paper Tittle:  Rethinking the politics of fit and educational leadership

  • Authors: Autumn K Tooms, Catherine A Lugg, Ira Bogotch
  • Journal: Educational Administration Quarterly
  • Year: 2010
  • Citations : 131