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Nadia
Nadia is a female name. Variations include Nadja, Nadya, Nadine, Nadiya, and Nadiia. Most variations of the name are derived from Arabic, Slavic languages, or both. In many Slavic languages, names similar to ''Nadia'' mean "hope": Ukrainian ''Nadiya'' (Надія, accent on the ''i''), Czech ''Naďa'', Belarusian ''Nadzieja'' (Надзея, accent on the ''e''), and Old Polish ''Nadzieja'', all of which are derived from Proto-Slavic ''*naděja'', the first three from Old East Slavic. In Bulgarian and Russian, on the other hand, Nadia or Nadya (Надя, accent on first syllable) is the diminutive form of the full name Nadezhda (Надежда), meaning "hope" and derived from Old Church Slavonic, which it entered as a translation of the Greek word ''ἐλπίς'' ( Elpis), with the same meaning; in those languages, Nadia often is used as a full name in its own right. In Arabic, the name is ''Nadiyyah'', meaning "tender" and "delicate." People Notable people with the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is a computer graphics scientist and robotician and is the founder and head of MIRALab at the University of Geneva. She has chaired the Institute for Media Innovation at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore from 2009 to 2021. Biography Thalmann received an MS in psychology, an MS in biology and a Master in biochemistry at the University of Geneva. She obtained a PhD in Quantum Physics in 1977 from the same university. She started her career as an assistant professor at the University Laval in Canada, then became a professor at HEC, University of Montreal until 1988. In 1989, she moved to the University of Geneva where she founded the MIRALab laboratory. Thalmann has authored and co-authored more than 600 papers in the area of Virtual Humans, social robots, VR, and 3D simulation of human articulations. She has participated in more than 45 European research projects. She has served the Computer Graphics community by creating the Computer Ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Abu El Haj
Nadia Abu El-Haj (; born 1962) is an American anthropologist at Barnard College and Columbia University. The author of '' Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society'' (2001) and ''The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology'' (2012), Abu El-Haj was the subject of dueling online petitions arguing whether she should be tenured during the 2006–07 academic year when she was recommended for tenure. Abu El-Haj received tenure in November 2007. Biography Early life and education Abu El-Haj was born in the United States, the second daughter of a "Long Island Episcopalian" mother, and a Palestinian Muslim father. Her maternal grandfather was French and maternal grandmother, Norwegian-American, and she has characterized her religious upbringing as "church twice a year." Abu El-Haj spent a couple of years in private schools in Tehran, Iran and Beirut, Lebanon, while her father was deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Lapusta
Nadia Lapusta is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology. She designed the first computational model that could accurately and efficiently simulate sequence of earthquakes and interseismic slow deformation on a planar fault in a single consistent physical framework. Education and early career Lapusta was born in Ukraine. She completed her bachelor's degree at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where she graduated with the highest honours in 1994. She moved to America for her doctoral studies, earning a Master's degree in 1996 and a PhD in 2001. Her doctoral work considered the dynamics of frictional sliding on planar interfaces and was supervised by James R. Rice. During her doctoral studies she was awarded an outstanding student presentation award from the American Geophysical Union and Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Her thesis was awarded the Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Yala Kisukidi
Nadia Yala Kisukidi (born 1978) is a French philosopher, writer and academic, who has re-examined the notion of "blackness" with its colonial implications in France and the rest of Europe. Also interested in contemporary art, she has been selected as one of two curators for the 2020 Yango Biennale in Kinshasa. Kisukidi, who has written widely on French and Africana philosophy, published ''Bergson ou l'humanité créatrice'' (Bergson or Creative Humanity) in 2013. Biography Born in Brussels on 8 October 1978, Nadia Yala Kisukidi is the daughter of a Congolese father and a Franco-Italian mother. She began studying philosophy at the Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III, Charles de Gaulle University in Lille under Fréderic Worms in 1998, earning a Ph.D in 2010 with a thesis titled ''L’humanité créatrice. Essai sur la signification esthétique et politique de la métaphysique de Bergson''. Since 2011, she has held a number of workshops in various French universities, the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Maftouni
Nadia Maftouni (, born 14 January 1966) is an Iranian Academy, academic, philosophical author and artist. She is best known as a leading Researcher on Al-Farabi, Farabian, Avicenna, Avicennian and Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, Suhrawardian philosophy with her modern reading of their works. She is also an established researcher in Jurisprudence and History of Islam, Islamic History. She is a professor at the University of Tehran, where she is an alumna and a member of the department of Philosophy and Schools of Islamic theology, Islamic Theology. She is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, Yale Yale Law School, Law School and she is on the board of History of Philosophy Quarterly. She is also famous for proposing to Iranian artist Hossein Nuri when he was already in a wheelchair. Early life As a teenager, she became one of NODET's select students in the second year of its foundation. She was enrolled at Sharif University of Technology and started studying Appl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Zakamska
Nadia Zakamska is a Russian-American astronomer who is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Early life and education Zakamska graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a master's degree in theoretical physics in 2001. Zakamska then attended Princeton University for her PhD, which she received in 2005. Career and research Zakamska's research involves multi-wavelength work on Type II quasars. She also studies supermassive black holes and their role in galaxy formation. Her research group produced an important breakthrough in how cosmic gas falls into black holes and produces quasars. In addition, she studies extrasolar planets and extragalactic astronomy. Awards and honors Zakamska is a Sloan Fellow. In 2014, she received the American Astronomical Society's Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, which is awarded to recognize at least five years of outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research. Early in her career she was awarded a Spitzer Fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Rosenthal
Nadia A. Rosenthal FMedSci is a scientist who specializes in heart development related research. Rosenthal began her undergraduate degree at the University of Wales and then transferred to Harvard. She received her PhD from Harvard Medical School and was an associate professor of biochemistry at Boston University and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School before transferring to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory where she replaced Klaus Rajewsky who had just gone to work at Harvard Medical School. In 2006, she presented the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Holiday Lectures together with Douglas A. Melton. She is the editor-in-chief of '' Differentiation''. Since 2005 Rosenthal has been chair in Cardiovascular Science at Imperial College London. In 2008, Rosenthal was appointed as founding director of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, based at Monash University in Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Nurhussein
Nadia Nurhussein (born 1974) is an American academic and author specialized in African-American literature, culture, and poetics. She is an associate professor of English and Africana studies at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Education Nurhussein completed a Ph.D. in English at University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Beinecke Library, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Career Nurhussein taught English at Mount Holyoke College from 2004 to 2005. She was a member of the faculty at University of Massachusetts Boston where she taught English from 2005 to 2016. In 2017, Nurhussein joined the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences as an associate professor of English and Africana studies. She specializes in African-American literature, culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Hohn
Nadia L. Hohn is a Canadian educator and children's book author. She has earned critical acclaim for her books for young readers, including her debut picture book, ''Malaika's Costume''. Biography Born in Canada to Jamaican immigrant parents, Hohn grew up and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, where she is an elementary school teacher. At age 6, she began writing and illustrating her own books. As a high school student, she wrote for her school paper, and later began contributing to university and community newspapers. At age 20, she obtained an internship in New York City, writing articles for ''Psychology Today''. In 2001, Hohn founded and organized the first ICED IN BLACK: Canadian Black Experiences on Film, film festival. This festival focussed on films by and/or about Black Canadians. She turned this event into an annual nationally touring festival which went to 7 cities in 2002 and by 2003, its final year, 9 cities (Toronto, Waterloo, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Edmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Ghazzali
Nadia Ghazzali (born April 3, 1961) is a Canadian statistician, the former president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she continues to work as a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science. As a statistician, she is known for her work on NbClust, a package in the R statistical software system for determining the number of clusters in a data set. Education and career Ghazzali was born on April 3, 1961, in Casablanca. After studying at the University of Rennes 1 in France, she came to Canada as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, and joined the faculty at the Université Laval in 1993. She was president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from 2012 until 2015, when she resigned after facing criticism from the Auditor General of Québec over management practices in university construction. Ghazzali is current (2021-2023) Deputy President of INWES, the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists. Reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Abdalá
Nadia Abdala (born August 14, 1988) is a Mexican former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player and member of the Mexico Fed Cup team. On July 9, 2012, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 517 whilst her best doubles ranking was 525 on July 23, 2012. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups) References External links * * * 1988 births Living people Mexican female tennis players Mexican people of Lebanese descent Mexican expatriates in the United States Sportspeople of Lebanese descent 21st-century Mexican sportswomen {{Mexico-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
