Scientific Committee

Frank Owen Bastian Bastian Enterprises, United States

Dr. Bastian (Neuropathologist, Duke School of Medicine) while on faculty at Baylor College of Medicine examined a brain biopsy from a patient with CJD. At that time (1976) the transmissible agent was stopped by a 100 nm filter, which is huge for an electron microscopist. He examined the sections in a grid-like pattern by TEM and found a coiled structure consistent with a Spiroplasma sp. S. mirum had produced spongiform encephalopathy experimentally in suckling rats. He then examined CJD autopsy by TEM and found a pristine coiled structure easily differentiated from surrounding autolyzed membranes. THIS CONVINCED DR. BASTIAN HE WAS ON THE RIGHT TRACT. He is developing a LIVE diagnostic test for CJD and other TSEs based upon the novel bacterium.

Luiz Moutinho University of Suffolk, United Kingdom

In 2020 he was elected as the member of The Academia Europaea. In 2017 he received a degree of Prof. Honoris Causa from the Univ. of Tourism and Management Skopje, North Macedonia. In 2024 was rated among the 100 best scientists in Business and Management by Research. com. During 2015 - 2017 he was professor of BioMarketing and Futures Research at the DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland. This was the first Chair in the world on both domains - BioMarketing and Futures Research. Previously, and for 20 years, he had been appointed as the Foundation Chair of Marketing at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland. He completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1982. He has been a Full Professor for 35 years and held posts at Cardiff Business School, University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA, Northern Arizona University, USA and California State University, USA. He has held Visiting Professorship positions at numerous universities in China, Lithuania, Austria, New Zealand, Denmark, Slovenia, Portugal, Hungary, Taiwan, Brazil, Colombia, Fiji and Cyprus.
Between 1987 and 1989 he was the director of the Doctoral Programmes at the Confederation of Scottish Business Schools and at the Cardiff Business School between 1993 and 1996. He was director of the Doctoral Programme in Management at the University of Glasgow between 1996 and 2004. Professor Moutinho is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modelling in Management (JM2) and Co-editor-in-Chief of the Innovative Marketing Journal. He has another 4 associate editorships as well as being in the editorial boards of another 47 international academic journals. His areas of research interest encompass marketing and management futurecast, artificial intelligence, biometrics and neuroscience in marketing, futures research algorithmic self, EmoWear - a wearable tech device that detects human emotions, evolutionary algorithms, human-computer interaction, the use of artificial neural networks in marketing, modelling processes of consumer behaviour and tourism futurecast.
He has developed a number of conceptual models over the years in areas such as tourism destination decision processes, automated banking, supermarket patronage, among other areas. The testing of these research models has been based on the application of many different statistical, computer and mathematical modelling techniques ranging from multidimensional scaling, multinomial logit generalised linear models (GLMs) and linear structural relations to neural networks, ordered probit, simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms and fuzzy logic. Prof. Moutinho has given keynote speeches, lectures, seminars, talks, etc. in 49 countries worldwide. Prof. Moutinho has 39 books published, over 161 articles published in refereed academic journals. He has 171419 academic citations, the h-index of 59 and the i10-index of 166 (Google Scholar, April,27th, 2024).

Frank Owen Bastian

Yong Xiao Wang

Zhenhuan Liu

Stephen E Nadeau

Luiz Moutinho

Edie Raether

Peter S. Spencer

Maryana Kravtsenyuk

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