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Announcement 25 May 2026

UNU Global AI Network Insight Blog Series | Submission Guidelines

Contributions from all interested members of the UNU Global AI Network are welcome.

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Science Talk: From Space to Planetary Health

How Satellites and AI Reveal Earth’s Energy and Ecosystem Services

Expert Research Fellow, Social Network Science and Digital Disinformation

Wasim Ahmed

Dr. Wasim Ahmed is specializing in social network science, digital disinformation, social network analysis (SNA), and data visualization. 

Expert Research Fellow, Human-Environment Systems Modeling

Dr Mohammad Reza Alizadeh

Dr. Mohammad Reza Alizadeh’s research bridges the critical gap between fundamental hydro-climatology and applied engineering solutions in the human-environment systems analytics space.

Project 21 May 2026

Untangling the Spaghetti Bowl of Regional Integration

This is a joint PhD project between UNU-CRIS and Ghent University.