"Academic Bullying 101"

Abstract: 

Academic bullying is a violation of human rights in an academic setting. Academic bullying is a serious, yet unresolved, issue that not only affects targets (e.g. students, postdocs and faculties of various ranks) but also the people around them and even the scientific community and integrity as a whole. There is often staunch defence and protection of harassers, mainly because of the federal grant, industry and foundation funding that is usually drawn in by the harassers. This talk will cover the root causes of academic bullying, its side effects, and possible solutions to address this  long overdue academic issue. 

Bio:

“Morteza Mahmoudi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Radiology and Precision Health Program at Michigan State University. His research is focused on investigating i) overlooked factors in nanomedicine and ii) academic bullying and harassment. His scholarly work consists of >280 publications in various journals including Science, Nature, Nature Nanotech, Nature Commun, Nature Human Behav, Nature Rev Mater, Nature Biomed Eng, and the Lancet, with h-index of 94 on Google Scholar, >13 issued/pending US and International patents, and recognition as top 0.1% of highly cited researchers in Web of Science for 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022. He received several graduate and postgraduate training from Sharif University of Technology (Iran), University College Dublin (Ireland), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Harvard University, and Stanford School of Medicine. Prior to coming Michigan State University, he was an Assistant Professor at Harvard University.”