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PhD candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland Fellow, International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), Social & Human Sciences WG.
Research interests:

• Arctic Council and Arctic governance
• Non-Arctic actors in regional governance
• Science-policy interface
• Collaboration among natural, social and human sciences
• Assessments in policy-making
• International environmental regimes

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Mario Alberto Reyes Cardenas graduated  from  the University of Guanajuato in Mexico as a digital artist. In his work, he promotes traditional Mexican folklore and culture – he is working, for example, on mixing traditional Mexican music with contemporary  music.

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Stephen Coates, the author of the X-Ray Audio project, is a London based composer and music producer. He has released six albums and tours internationally under the name The Real Tuesday Weld. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, he is particularly interested in the interaction between music and culture and has worked with many UK Arts organisations. He has written music for several documentaries, films and commercials. In 2010, he wrote and presented a radio documentary series for Resonance Fm on "Sounds of propaganda and the Cold War" investigating the way music was used for political purposes in the West and the Soviet countries. He came across the subject of the Soviet cold war era bootleg recordings on X-Rays when travelling to Russia to perform.  Many older Russians remember seeing and hearing strange vinyl type discs when they were young. The discs had partial images of skeletons on them and were called 'Bones' or 'Ribs'.  In an era when the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the State, an alternative source of raw materials was found to make illegal recordings - used X Ray plates obtained from local hospitals. With the photographer Paul Heartfield, Stephen has been researching and telling the story of the recordings with a travelling exhibition, live events and a book to be published by Strange Attractor press in October 2015
For more information on Stephen see: www.tuesdayweld.com
and on the X-Ray audio project: www.x-ray audio.squarespace.com

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Matt Clarke is Founder and President of Switched On Global and a Partner at Leaders’ Quest, and he specialises in bringing together disparate parties and enabling collaboration in complex business situations. Over his career, he has worked with the boards of some of the world's largest companies as well as facilitiating collaborations between businesses, governments, academics and social enterprises to address some of the greatest challenges facing the world today; including energy, finance, food, wellbeing, urbanisation and resilience.
 
After recovering from severe asthma as a child, Matt learned first-hand that collective approaches yield transformational results. So with co-creation at the core of his work, he spent over a decade as a Group Director with Nowhere Group where they together, catapulted intentional co-creative practices to new levels.
 
He also is a co-founding trustee of The Friends of Baale Mane, a social enterprise that provides a loving home near Bangalore, India to nurture and resource girls who do not have parents who can care for them. Matt lives in central London with his wife Eileen and their two Parkour-loving sons, enjoying their passion for music, healthy living and supporting their local community.

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Dorota is a fifth year student of medicine at the Medical University of Warsaw. In the future she would like to become a cardiologist or cardiac surgeon. She tries to spend her free time actively. Running and travelling are her passions.

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Anna is a fifth year student at the Faculty of Medicine, the Medical University of Warsaw. In the future she would like to be a surgeon or neonatologist. She is an extremely lively and energetic person, infecting those around her with her optimism. She conscientiously and precisely executes every task that has been set. Her passion is sport, and she spends her free time in the gym or running in the park. Her big dream is to hitchhike around the most interesting parts of the world.

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Tal Golesworthy is a Chartered Engineer, member of the Energy Institute and member of the Royal Society of Chemistry with 37 years Research & Development experience, 14 years at British Coal’s Coal Research Establishment, 3 years training as a patent agent and 20 years a director of Environmental Development Technology Ltd running R&D projects in combustion and flue gas cleaning/Air Pollution Control. He runs the Personalised External Aortic Root Support Project. As a Marfan Syndrome patient with aortic dilation, Tal was unimpressed with the options of a Total Root Replacement (TRR or Bentall) or Valve Sparing Root Replacement (VSRR) so set about engineering an alternative. 11 years after receiving the first personalised external aortic root support himself, he is now working to extend this surgical option to a wider group of patients with aortic dilation.
December 2011 saw the Personalised External Aortic Root Support project win The Engineer’s Medical & Healthcare innovation award at the Royal Society.  With NICE IPAC approval, 4 surgical centres up and running, 44 patients successfully treated, and a collective 194 post operative patient years, PEARS continues to progress.November 2013 saw the BBC website piece on the PEARS project make 1 000 000+ hits in a single day. March 2014 saw the TED talk on the PEARS project break 1 000 000 viewings.
Tal Golesworthy is also an ex council member of the Institution of  Chemical Engineers, the Filtration Society, the Institute of Energy, and a founding council member of the Energy Institute. Married for 35 years to Teresa, Tal has some time for clay pigeon shooting, deer stalking, music, and 20 century European history. To find more, check the websites:
www.edtltd.co.uk
www.exstent.com
www.marfanaorticrootsupport.org

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Madi Sharma is a public speaker internationally, particularly in the field of entrepreneurship, female entrepreneurship, diversity, gender balance and corporate social responsibility CSR. Her sense of purpose is not financial gain but sustainable change that brings greater equity to the people of the planet. Sharma teaches in schools, universities and to forward thinking businesses and organisations. Her words are from personal experience gained from being a victim of domestic violence, a single parent and from establishing her first company from her kitchen at home, which grew to 2 factories and 35 staff, for which she received the honours of Asian Woman of Achievement and UK’s Best Boss, along with the fastest company to pass Investors in People. Madi Sharma funded and runs the MADI Group - Make A Difference Ideas Group of International Private and Social Enterprises and NGOs. The philosophy is to create innovative ideas tailored to local action which can achieve global impacts beneficial to a sustainable society. http://madisharma.org/about-me/.

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Prior to joining Stanford University's Electrical Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor in 2014, Gordon Wetzstein was a Research Scientist in the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on computational imaging and display systems as well as computational light transport. At the intersection of computer graphics, machine vision, optics, scientific computing, and perception, this research has a wide range of applications in next-generation consumer electronics, scientific imaging, human-computer interaction, remote sensing, and many other areas. Gordon's cross-disciplinary approach to research has been funded by DARPA, NSF, Samsung, Intel, and other grants from industry sponsors and research councils. In 2006, Gordon graduated with Honors from the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, and he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia in 2011. His doctoral dissertation focuses on computational light modulation for image acquisition and display and won the Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation Annual Award. He organized the IEEE 2012 and 2013 International Workshops on Computational Cameras and Displays, founded displayblocks.org as a forum for sharing computational display design instructions with the DIY community, and presented a number of courses on Computational Displays and Computational Photography at ACM SIGGRAPH. Gordon won best paper awards at the International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) in 2011 and 2014 as well as a Laval Virtual Award in 2005.

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Graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science of the University of Warsaw (1978). Iwona has worked at the Institute of International Relations since 1981. Member of the Faculty Council, Manager of Extramural International Relations Master’s Studies, Programme Manager of Kampus Academic Radio.

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Kamila Czajka has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostructure of the Academy of Physical Education in Wrocław since 2004. She was awarded a PhD in physical education in 2006. She teaches the following subjects on full-time and part-time courses at bachelor’s and master’s levels and at postgraduate level: Anatomy, Anatomy on a living person, Biomedical foundations of child development, Kinesiology, Morphofunctional analysis of biokinematic chains.
She is the author of scientific articles concerning issues linked with the biological condition of children and young people, and also with health behaviors linked with body weight and physical activity.

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Paweł trained as an architect, and is a comic book creator, illustrator, and animator by profession. His comics have appeared widely in the press, including in “Deus Ex Machina,” “Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Film,” where he had his own comic strip titled “Wenecja” (Venice), which is currently being turned into a computer game. Together with Maciej Pałka he illustrated the comic album “Degrengoland” (with a script by Dominik Szcześniak). On an everyday basis, he works as an animator and 2d graphic artist, creating objects for video games. Paweł Wojciechowicz is also an occasional host and organiser of workshops aimed at disseminating comic culture. Moreover, he is a teacher in a Wrocław drawing school – Soda studio, catering to young people who wish to study architecture.

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A graduate of Warsaw’s Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Katarzyna Kamer studied ’cello performance and, in the Early Music Department at the Academy of Music in Krakow, tenor fide. She has completed postgraduate Management Studies for Creators, Artists and Organizers of Culture at the University of Warsaw. She finds great fulfilment as a ’cello teacher at the Grażyna Bacewicz State Music School Complex and teaches even the youngest children – from 3 years old – to play the ’cello, using the Suzuki Method. The artist has performed all over the world. She is currently performing in eminent multi-instrumentalist Maria Pomianowska’s LutoSłowianie ensemble and the Chamber Harmony duo, playing ethnic, classical and film music.

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A biologist by training, she has a doctorate in neuroanatomy from the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology UWM in Olsztyn. She is actively involved in the promotion and dissemination of science (Olsztyn Science Days, Night of the Biologists). She loves: classes with students, work in the laboratory, cycling trips, windsurfing. In her private life, she is a happy mum.

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On an everyday basis he works in a laboratory at the Department of Biology, University of Warsaw, where he processes bacteria for use in vaccinations. This process involves long and intensive work on the genetic material of organisms. In addition to his scientific work, he is involved in a variety of popularizing activities. He writes articles, conducts classes for children and young people, takes part in various popular science projects and this year was a finalist in the Famelab competition. His main aim in undertaking these activities is to find a way to show that biological processes are an incredible adventure story. Other interests: photography, literature, travel and strategy games.

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Graduate of the University of Education and a registered tour guide in the city of Cracow. She fell in love with this magnificent city and decided to make showing people around her profession. Grażyna gives tours to groups of all ages, from children to senior citizens, but enjoys working with the youngest audiences best. As a summer camp instructor and a girl scout group leader she helped them to discover the beauty of the outdoors, and currently she runs art and culture workshops for children at the National Museum in Cracow.

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Emilia is a PhD student at The Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Machine Building (The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology). Her academic interests focus on inland navigation, especially combined transport and displacement tonnage on inland waterways. She runs classes on fluid mechanics, vessel traffic and transport management in waterways. Emilia is also a member of the Society for the Economic Development of the Wateshed of the Lower Odra River “Odra Now”.

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Mark Z. Jacobson is Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment and of the Precourt Institute for Energy.  He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering, an A.B. in Economics, and an M.S.  in Environmental Engineering from Stanford in 1988.  He received an M.S. and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences in 1991 and 1994, respectively, from UCLA and started on the faculty at Stanford in 1994. He develops and applies computer models to understand air pollution, global warming, and renewable energy resources.  He has published two textbooks of two editions each and 140 peer-reviewed journal articles.  He received the 2005 American Meteorological Society Henry G. Houghton Award and the 2013 American Geophysical Union Ascent Award for his work on black carbon climate impacts and the 2013 Global Green Policy Design Award for developing state and country energy plans. He served on an advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, and appeared on the David Letterman Show in 2013 to discuss converting the world and U.S. to clean energy.

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He is the Theodore J. Kreps Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Professor, by courtesy, at the Department of Economics.
His research is in the field of microeconomic theory, specializing in market design, economic dynamics and collusion.  His current research projects include analysis of auctions, timing of market transactions and dynamic incentives.
He has served as a co-editor of the American Economic Review and as an associate editor at the Rand Journal of Economics. He received a Stanford GSB PhD Distinguished Service Award in 2005 and has advised students on over a dozen Ph.D. dissertations.
Skrzypacz has earned undergraduate and M.A. degrees in economics from Warsaw School of Economics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester. In 2012 he was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society.

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Food scientist specializing in human nutrition. Courses she runs include Technology and Gastronomy, The Legal Aspects of the Food Industry and Nutrition. Her academic interests and research focus on bioactive food ingredients, sports nutrition and current technological innovations in gastronomy.

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GradDipEd, environmental educator. She graduated Deakin University and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. With qualifications in ecology and teaching, she views the world as one fascinating playground. Originally from Australia, she has lived and worked in many countries. One of her professional highlights was working as a forest educator in a protected Australian rainforest. So the next time you walk through a forest, look behind some trees and you may just find her there!

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Raquel Ramati is the owner and president of Raquel Ramati Associates Inc. in New York City. She has earned an international reputation as an urban designer and planner—first in New York City’s government, and later in private practice, working with developers, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations and community groups.

Before forming her own consulting firm, Ms. Ramati was the Director of the trend-setting Urban Design Group at the New York City Department of City Planning and the chief architect of Manhattan. In that capacity, she managed a team of professionals, reviewing major real estate projects, creating incentive zoning laws, establishing design guidelines and preparing master plans. During her tenure as Director of the Urban Design Group, she was the key person in implementing major urban design initiatives including Zoning Legislation of Urban Open Space in high rise buildings, design guidelines for streetscapes, waterfronts, plazas, artwork as well as density, bulk and set back controls. She led the work on neighborhood revitalization such as the Little Italy Special District and created zoning for sidewalk cafes, retail use groups, and the use of Air Rights to preserve landmarks and historic districts.
As director of the Urban Design team, Raquel was in charge of major planning studies. Among them, the first 42nd Street Corridor Study and the Second Avenue Subway Study, which integrated pedestrian amenities within easements around subway stations. As the leading urban designer at City Planning, she worked with major developers of Trump Tower, Philip Morris and the Sony Building to create public spaces with retail space through the tool of incentive zoning.

In her private practice, Raquel has developed feasibility studies for over 200 of New York City’s major sites. Her clients include developers, corporations, and Local, State and Federal government agencies. She has designed master plans for various parts of the city and has acted as a development consultant in site selection, zoning, feasibility, design guidelines, retail design and open space planning.

In New York City, Raquel Ramati has developed several RFPs for public-private partnerships such as the South Ferry downtown, and the Flushing center mixed use project. One of the firm's projects was the design of a master plan for Southtown in Roosevelt Island. The plan included mixed income housing, a town square, retail space, an esplanade and a pedestrian walkway and pier. The firm also developed the master plan for a 500,000 GLA shopping mall and entertainment center in Bay Plaza, Bronx.

Internationally, the firm is working in Poland, the Ukraine, Japan, Romania, Italy and Israel. A master plan in Israel included a million square foot Biotechnology Center for the Teva Pharmaceutical Company. Another master-plan was approved for a joint venture between the municipality and private developers in Hadera, Israel. This comprehensive project included a City Center, 750 housing units, a new Municipality building, public square, court house, offices and retail space. Ms. Ramati led a team of planning professionals (traffic, parking and environment). The firm also designed landscape for the thirty-acre downtown site.

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A graduate of the Department of Mathematics and IT at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. At Google Poland, Piotr is responsible for developing internal systems and solutions for programmers. He is interested in science and music and spends his free time regretting he didn’t choose a career as an astronaut. ;)

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Programming engineer at Google. Ania graduated from The Department of Computer Science (The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering) at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. In her free time she enjoys reading, baking and planning trips to the farthest corners of the world.

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PhD student at the Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology, a chemist by training, a trainer and teacher by passion. Full of positive energy and new ideas. For the last four years she has worked in the field of synthesis of new hybrid materials as well as studying their properties.
Furthermore, she is interested in work with people, travel, financial intelligence and dance.

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Canadian composer Mark Nerenberg completed both a Bachelor of Music and Master
of Music in Composition at the University of Alberta and a Doctor of Musical Arts at the
University of Toronto. His compositions encompass a wide range of styles, genres, and
techniques, including instrumental, orchestral, and choral music; electronic music
focusing on an interaction between computers and performers; and collaborative
multimedia works.

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Nathaniel O’Farril comes from Orlando, Florida. He studied Educational Leadership at Johnson University, which helped him understand and coach children during auditions. He has worked with talented actors from various Networks, such as Nickelodeon, Country Music Television (CMT) and National Geographic. He has been a member of creative teams for reality television shows and live entertainment. Furthermore, he has worked on locations as a production assistant, casting director and co-director. Now he continues to pursue his dreams as a script writer.

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For 7 years, he has shared his enthusiasm for positive changes – on a personal, team and organizational level – with others. The goal of his work is to inspire participants of training and coaching sessions to search for their most important values, and to build projects, which they care about on the basis of these values.
Karol Konkel works as a consultant in Organizational Effectiveness/ Development Projects. He conducts coaching (life coaching, executive coaching, and career coaching) in accordance with the standards of the International Coach Federation, and teaches managerial skills, soft skills, creativity, discovering one’s own potential and intercultural competence, as well as coaching trainers. Moreover, Karol has a lot of experience as an assessor in Assessment/Development Centre projects. He also facilitates teamwork in medium and large organizations. He works in English and Polish.
Traveler – he enjoys journeying through countries of the world and the labyrinth of human consciousness (and sub-consciousness).

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A historian, archivist and teacher, currently working for the State Archive in Olsztyn (Poland). He graduated from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and his PhD dissertation was focused on archival studies. His interests are: current history, travelling, sailing and spending time with his family (he has 3 children: Julia, Ignaś and Jurek).

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Richard Lucas is a graduate of Cambridge University and has lived in Cracow, Poland since 1991. He is involved in and has started many businesses, in diverse areas including internet hardware, web development, on line education, warehouse automation, automatic identification, green automotive, translation, publications, consulting, co working, 3D printing and Beacon's employing about 500 people in total. He is also active in initiating and supporting projects to encourage enterprise among children and students. Business angel. He was on the Polish Honorary Committee of Global Entrepreneurship Week and leads an international project “Wojtek – the Soldier Bear – Niedźwiedź Żołnierz” to use Poland’s most famous animal soldier to encourage young people to learn about Polish wartime history. He is a TED and TEDx addict and has attended, spoken at and supported a number of different TEDx events and initiatives. He wrote a book about Economics, has been a guest lecturer at MBA courses, and speaker and mentor at many events concerning doing business. He blogs
at http://richardhlucas.wordpress.com

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Born in Poland, Sławomir Kulesza has a doctorate in physical science. He conducts research on the production of various crystals, including diamond crystals. He is also interested in applying physics to sports problems, e.g., how to successfully shoot a penalty kick. In his private life, he is a big volleyball fan.

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Born in Poland, Katarzyna Fąk is a student of mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology. She is interested in applications of mathematics in everyday life and nature. She likes abstract objects, absurd literature, alternative music and avant-garde art.

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Born in Poland, received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in biology from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Rafał Garlacz is the curator of the Zoological Museum of the Jagiellonian University. In addition to research, he spends his time popularizing science, especially natural science, and teaches classes for preschoolers, grade school students, graduates, college students and adults. He has a special interest in all the mountains in the world, along with their culture and nature. Every year he goes on expeditions to various parts of the globe: Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Morocco.

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Born in Poland, Mateusz Kwaśnicki is an assistant professor at the Wrocław University of Technology, where he currently works as a lecturer at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science. He has always wanted to be a physicist, but actually became a mathematician, graduated from the Wrocław University of Technology. He received his M.Sc. (Eng) in mathematics in 2006 and Ph.D. in mathematics in 2008. His research interests revolve around the harmonic analysis, probability and stochastic processes. Privately, he loves making pictures of his wife, daughter and cats.

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Polish painter and eco artist, Anna Drońska earned her Ph.D. in textile and fashion at the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland. Currently, she works as a lecturer at the Institute of Fine Art at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. She runs classes in visual structures, which means that she tries to teach future artists what can be done to translate thoughts and words into pictures. Despite the multitude of solutions that contemporary art offers us, new ways are constantly being found. She considers, however, that the most exciting thing is the search itself.

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Born in Poland, Eliza Kostyra earned her Ph.D. in food technology and nutrition at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, where she works as a Head of Sensory Analysis Laboratory. She specializes in sensory analysis, consumer study, food product development, and food science.

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Born in Poland, raised in Canada, Karolina Poplawska is a doctor specializing in pediatrics at the University Children's Hospital of Krakow in Poland. Fluent in English, Polish and French, she graduated from the Jagiellonian University Medical College, one of the oldest universities in Europe, as well as spent part of her studies in France at the University of Strasbourg. One of her passions is teaching, from bedside teachings with medical students from all over the world, to educating her smallest and most valuable pupils - her patients. She believes that communication based on respect and understanding is a very important part of the treatment process and not only improves the cooperation of the child but also helps shape a positive attitude towards the health care system and build good health habits which can last a lifetime. She is a volunteer of the Children's University since 2014.

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Born in Poland, Grażyna Wasiak-Zys graduated from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, where she earned her M.Sc. and Eng. in gardening. Currently, she works there as a senior specialist at the Faculty of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences. She is also a Technical Manager at the Food Analysis and Health Diagnostic Laboratory, operating within the same university.

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Born in the United Kingdom, Cory Young is a doctor specialized in ophthalmology. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University Medical College, the oldest medical school in Poland. He currently works as a Director of Expatriate and Foreign Healthcare at the MEDICINA Diagnostic and Interventional Center in Krakow.