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His EcoAtlas research uses design and visualization to map ecological systems and climate pressures.", "media_contact_name": "Emily Martinez", "media_contact_phone": "305-348-1555", "media_contact_email": "emilmart@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "Understanding Cuba's uncertain future with FIU experts", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2026/understanding-cubas-uncertain-future-with-fiu-experts", "primary_source_date": "2026-04-10", "all_sources": [ { "title": "Understanding Cuba's uncertain future with FIU experts", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2026/understanding-cubas-uncertain-future-with-fiu-experts", "date": "2026-04-10" } ] }, { "name": "Oscar Saenz", "title": "Associate Chair, Enterprise and Logistics Engineering, CEC", "office_phone": null, "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": null, "email": "ossaenz@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "engineering project management", "production planning", "quality management" ], "bio": "Saenz held management positions in industry for 15 years before joining FIU, where he serves as interim program director for Enterprise and Logistics Engineering.", "media_contact_name": "Elizabeth Calzadilla", "media_contact_phone": "786-338-3346", "media_contact_email": "ecalzadi@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "FIU experts ready to discuss Black Friday and Cyber Monday trends, supply chain challenges, and holiday shopping insights", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-black-friday-cyber-monday-shopping", "primary_source_date": "2025-11-21", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts ready to discuss Black Friday and Cyber Monday trends, supply chain challenges, and holiday shopping insights", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-black-friday-cyber-monday-shopping", "date": "2025-11-21" } ] }, { "name": "Jorge Salazar-Carrillo", "title": "Professor of Economics, Director Center of Economic Research, Steven J. Green School", "office_phone": "305-348-3283", "cell_phone": "305-915-0063", "other_phone": null, "email": "Jorge.Salazar-Carrillo@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "economic integration", "int'l trade/finance", "Venezuela oil sector", "Cuba (English/Spanish)" ], "bio": "Salazar-Carrillo is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and consultant for USAID and the Inter-American Development Bank, and has published two books on Cuba with a third forthcoming from Transaction Press.", "media_contact_name": null, "media_contact_phone": null, "media_contact_email": null, "primary_source_article": "FIU experts available to discuss 2022 elections", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2022/2022-election-experts", "primary_source_date": "2022-10-10", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts available to discuss 2022 elections", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2022/2022-election-experts", "date": "2022-10-10" } ] }, { "name": "Erik Salna", "title": "Meteorologist, Assoc Director for Education and Outreach, Extreme Events Institute & IHRC", "office_phone": "305-348-1146", "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": null, "email": "Erik.Salna@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "Wall of Wind outreach", "broadcast meteorology", "hurricane preparedness education" ], "bio": "Salna works with the Wall of Wind research team and has experience as a broadcast meteorologist and in emergency operations, including prior roles at America's Emergency Network and as hazard mitigation manager for the City of Deerfield Beach. He has testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on storm preparedness and the forecasting workforce.", "media_contact_name": "Dianne Fernandez", "media_contact_phone": "305-608-4870", "media_contact_email": "dfernand37@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "FIU experts are available to discuss the 2026 hurricane season", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2026/fiu-experts-are-available-to-discuss-the-2026-hurricane-season", "primary_source_date": "2026-05-11", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts are available to discuss the 2026 hurricane season", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2026/fiu-experts-are-available-to-discuss-the-2026-hurricane-season", "date": "2026-05-11" } ] }, { "name": "Sebastian Schuetz", "title": "Assistant Professor, Dept of Information Systems and Business Analytics, College of Business", "office_phone": null, "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": null, "email": "sschuetz@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "security controls", "security education/awareness/training", "data breaches" ], "bio": "Schuetz can discuss security controls, security education, awareness and training, and data breaches, as an assistant professor in FIU's Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics.", "media_contact_name": "Cynthia Corzo", "media_contact_phone": "305-965-4709", "media_contact_email": "ccorzo@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "FIU Experts Ready to Discuss Cyber Monday Trends, Supply Chain Challenges, and Holiday Shopping Insights", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2024/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-holiday-shopping-supply-chain-challenges-and-economic-trends", "primary_source_date": "2024-11-25", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU Experts Ready to Discuss Cyber Monday Trends, Supply Chain Challenges, and Holiday Shopping Insights", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2024/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-holiday-shopping-supply-chain-challenges-and-economic-trends", "date": "2024-11-25" } ] }, { "name": "Oleksii Shandra", "title": "Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Dept, CEC", "office_phone": null, "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": "305-348-0240", "email": "oshandra@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "seizure mechanisms", "sleep neurophysiology", "brain injury/sleep/epilepsy", "concussions and contact sports" ], "bio": "Shandra explores the structural, functional and metabolic processes involved in seizure generation and termination, including the effects of concussions combined with sleep deprivation.", "media_contact_name": "Elizabeth Calzadilla", "media_contact_phone": "786-338-3346", "media_contact_email": "ecalzadi@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "FIU experts are available to discuss athletic performance, brain health, and major global sporting events", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-athletics", "primary_source_date": "2026-05-19", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts are available to discuss athletic performance, brain health, and major global sporting events", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-athletics", "date": "2026-05-19" } ] }, { "name": "Nicholas P. Smith", "title": "Associate Teaching Professor, Counseling, Recreation and School Psychology, CASE", "office_phone": "305-348-2767", "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": null, "email": "nicholas.smith@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "sports event planning/staffing", "legal frameworks protecting athletes", "volunteer management for major championships" ], "bio": "Smith can speak to how legal frameworks protect athletes and organizations and how effective volunteer management drives the success of major sporting championships.", "media_contact_name": "Michelle Arean", "media_contact_phone": "305-348-4492", "media_contact_email": "marean@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "FIU experts are available to discuss athletic performance, brain health, and major global sporting events", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-athletics", "primary_source_date": "2026-05-19", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts are available to discuss athletic performance, brain health, and major global sporting events", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-athletics", "date": "2026-05-19" } ] }, { "name": "Dionne P. Stephens", "title": "Associate Professor of Psychology, CASE", "office_phone": null, "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": "305-790-0387", "email": "stephens@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "cultural factors in health inequities", "reproductive justice", "women of color health disparities" ], "bio": "Stephens' research uses a non-deficit lens to examine cultural influences on perceptions of sexually transmitted infections, gender-based violence, and sexual health across popular culture contexts including Hip Hop and social media.", "media_contact_name": null, "media_contact_phone": null, "media_contact_email": null, "primary_source_article": "FIU experts available to discuss the Supreme Court's possible Roe v. Wade decision and similar topics", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2022/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-the-supreme-courts-possible-roe-v.-wade-decision-and-similar-topics", "primary_source_date": "2022-06-24", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts available to discuss the Supreme Court's possible Roe v. Wade decision and similar topics", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2022/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-the-supreme-courts-possible-roe-v.-wade-decision-and-similar-topics", "date": "2022-06-24" } ] }, { "name": "John Stuart", "title": "Professor, 3D Printing Lab Director, Associate Dean of Architecture, CARTA", "office_phone": null, "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": "305-535-1460", "email": "stuartj@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "community-driven design", "technology and the built environment", "public space" ], "bio": "Stuart previously served as executive director of the Miami Beach Urban Studios and director of the CARTA Innovation Lab for 3D printing. His work bridges architecture, historic preservation, environmental resilience and emerging technologies, including recent work guiding the creation of a 3D-printed prosthetic hand featured in an FIU therapy program.", "media_contact_name": "Emily Martinez", "media_contact_phone": "305-348-7500", "media_contact_email": "emilmart@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "FIU experts are available to discuss athletic performance, brain health, and major global sporting events", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-athletics", "primary_source_date": "2026-05-19", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts are available to discuss athletic performance, brain health, and major global sporting events", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-athletics", "date": "2026-05-19" }, { "title": "Understanding Cuba's uncertain future with FIU experts", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2026/understanding-cubas-uncertain-future-with-fiu-experts", "date": "2026-04-10" } ] }, { "name": "Dulce M. Suarez", "title": "Assistant Director, Academy for International Disaster Preparedness, Stempel College", "office_phone": "305-348-0451", "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": null, "email": "dboza@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "crisis/disaster management", "hurricane mitigation research" ], "bio": "Suarez has coordinated disaster response efforts for Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Ivan, Hurricane Matthew and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and from 2011 to 2016 supported humanitarian response efforts in Cuba related to cholera, food insecurity and hurricanes.", "media_contact_name": "Jonathan Ruadez", "media_contact_phone": "305-348-7500", "media_contact_email": "jruadezn@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "FIU experts are available to discuss the 2026 hurricane season", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2026/fiu-experts-are-available-to-discuss-the-2026-hurricane-season", "primary_source_date": "2026-05-11", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts are available to discuss the 2026 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and Cyber Monday trends, supply chain challenges, and holiday shopping insights", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-black-friday-cyber-monday-shopping", "primary_source_date": "2025-11-21", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts ready to discuss Black Friday and Cyber Monday trends, supply chain challenges, and holiday shopping insights", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-black-friday-cyber-monday-shopping", "date": "2025-11-21" } ] }, { "name": "Navid Tahvildari", "title": "Associate Professor, Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, CEC", "office_phone": null, "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": "305-348-4879", "email": "ntahvild@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "storm surge", "coastal flooding", "climate resilience", "compound flooding" ], "bio": "Tahvildari's research, supported by NSF, NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Department of Transportation, examines how hurricane-driven waves and storm surge interact 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of Science in Marketing program with expertise in branding, retail marketing and consumer behavior.", "media_contact_name": "Michelle Lopez", "media_contact_phone": "305-348-7422", "media_contact_email": "mplopez@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "FIU experts ready to discuss Black Friday and Cyber Monday trends, supply chain challenges, and holiday shopping insights", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-black-friday-cyber-monday-shopping", "primary_source_date": "2025-11-21", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts ready to discuss Black Friday and Cyber Monday trends, supply chain challenges, and holiday shopping insights", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2025/fiu-experts-available-to-discuss-black-friday-cyber-monday-shopping", "date": "2025-11-21" } ] }, { "name": "Markus Thiel", "title": "Director, EU/Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, Associate Professor, Steven J. Green School", "office_phone": "305-348-4493", "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": null, "email": "thielm@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "EU politics", "Western Europe political sociology", "immigration crisis in Europe" ], "bio": "Thiel directs FIU's EU/Jean Monnet Center of Excellence and is a research associate at the Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence.", "media_contact_name": null, "media_contact_phone": null, "media_contact_email": null, "primary_source_article": "FIU experts available to discuss 2022 elections", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2022/2022-election-experts", "primary_source_date": "2022-10-10", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts available to discuss 2022 elections", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2022/2022-election-experts", "date": "2022-10-10" } ] }, { "name": "Hannibal Travis", "title": "Professor, College of Law", "office_phone": "305-348-8371", "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": null, "email": "travish@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "generative AI and copyright law", "algorithmic censorship", "social media curation" ], "bio": "Travis earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School after extensive study of intellectual property and internet law. He has published several books and articles on generative AI and copyright law, algorithmic censorship of social media, and human rights law as it relates to online discourse.", "media_contact_name": "Gregory Miller", "media_contact_phone": "305-348-0577", "media_contact_email": "grmiller@fiu.edu", "primary_source_article": "FIU experts are available to speak on artificial intelligence and emerging technology", "primary_source_url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2026/fiu-experts-are-available-to-speak-on-artificial-intelligence-and-emerging-technology", "primary_source_date": "2026-06-22", "all_sources": [ { "title": "FIU experts are available to speak on artificial intelligence and emerging technology", "url": "https://news.fiu.edu/2026/fiu-experts-are-available-to-speak-on-artificial-intelligence-and-emerging-technology", "date": "2026-06-22" } ] }, { "name": "Andres Tremante", "title": "Senior Director CDSSEC/ENGINE, Teaching Professor Mechanical and Materials Engineering, CEC", "office_phone": "305-348-0149", "cell_phone": null, "other_phone": null, "email": "tremante@fiu.edu", "expertise_tags": [ "energy/petroleum engineering (English/Spanish)" ], "bio": "A Venezuelan native, Tremante began his career as a research scientist in the oil and gas sector before moving into academia. 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