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Dr Giuliana Tiripelli appointed Research Associate for CascEff project

Dr Giuliana Tiripelli has joined the Information School as a Research Associate . She  will work with Work Package leader Dr Paul Reilly  on the EU FP7 project 'CascEff.' Giuliana will help develop educational resources for the project and will also be responsible for co-authoring peer-reviewed outputs. We would like to welcome her to the Information School and look forward to working with her over the next seven months.

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