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Dirk Steinke
Adjunct Professor, Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
My research program focuses on various themes at the intersection of evolution, ecology, conservation biology and genomic science.
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Divina Frau-Meigs
Professeur des sciences de l'information et de la communication, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
Divina Frau-Meigs est normalienne, agrégée et professeur à l’université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Boursière Fulbright et Lavoisier, elle est diplômée de l’université de la Sorbonne, de l’université de Stanford (Palo Alto) et de l’Annenberg School for Communications (université de Pennsylvanie à Philadelphie). Sociologue des médias, elle est spécialiste des contenus et comportements à risque (violence, pornographie, information, paniques médiatiques, radicalisation…). Elle travaille aussi aux questions de réception et d’usage des technologies de l’information et de la communication (acculturation, éducation, réglementation, identité, diversité culturelle…). Elle détient la chaire UNESCO « savoir-devenir à l’ère du développement numérique durable : articuler usages et apprentissages pour maîtriser les cultures de l’information ». Elle a dirigé l'ANR TRANSLIT (convergence entre éducation aux médias, à l'information et à l'informatique). Elle a été un des porteurs du consortium européen ECO qui a pour but de créer des MOOCs à des fins d’usages pédagogiques des médias et du numérique. Elle a piloté également le projet Erasmus+ ECFOLI qui vise à la résolution de conflit par l'éducation aux médias et à l'information (Chypre, Maroc, Palestine, Portugal). Elle a présidé le Défi 8 de l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche "Sociétés innovantes, intégrantes et adaptatives". Elle est à présent présidente de l'ONG Savoir*Devenir (www.savoirdevenir.net), qui porte des projets en Education aux Médias et à l'Information et à la citoyenneté numérique et s'adosse à la Chaire UNESCO "Savoir Devenir à l'ère du développement numérique durable". Savoir*Devenir propose des formations en Education aux Médias et à l'Information et littératie numérique pour les enseignants, les éducateurs, les bibliothécaires et les formateurs. Les projets internationaux remportés par S*D sont: Youcheck! (vérification de faits et littératie visuelle), YouVerify (MOOC et jeux sérieux pour lutter contre la désinformation), Play Your Role (jeux sérieux pour combattre le discours de haine), JAMIL (formation de formateurs et montage de centre EMI en Tunisie), Crossover (pour promouvoir l'algo-littératie). D'autres projets sont en cours: ENID-TEACH (MOOC pour former aux méthdologies numériques), ALGOWATCH (quizz et jeu pour former à l'algo- et IA-littératie), GENDER-ED (pour former aux représentations de genre) et AIDEMEDIA (pour créer un festival d'éducation aux médias et journalisme) A cela s'ajoutent des expertises pour le CoE, l'UE et l'UNESCO ainsi qu'un certain nombre de gouvernements et institutions dans le monde.
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Divya Venkatesh
Research Fellow, University of Oxford
I am a biologist with an interest in infectious diseases from evolutionary and immunological perspectives.
I study influenza viruses, which naturally circulate in wild waterfowl, but which also spills over into several mammalian species, sometimes causing devastating outbreaks or pandemics. In my previous work, I studied the transmission dynamics and evolution of this virus in wild birds and livestock. Now, as a BBSRC Discovery Fellow, I am studying its evolution and pathogenicity in marine mammals. I focus specifically on two closely-related species of pinnipeds: grey and harbour seals – which happen to exhibit dramatically distinct outcomes due to viral infections.
The idea is to use the avian-seal interface as a kind of “natural experiment” to study how avian influenza adapts to mammals, and the mechanisms underpinning the variation in host susceptibility to disease. This research can help us anticipate and respond to wildlife disease outbreaks and potentially, future pandemics.
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Diya Uberoi
Academic Associate, Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
Diya Uberoi, PhD, LLM, JD, MPhil, BA. is a human rights scholar and advocate, with significant experience working with international and national organizations in the field of health and human rights. Her research interests lie at the intersection of law and public health, with a focus on genetic discrimination, equity in matters of data sharing and access to medicines in low- and middle-income countries. She is the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Policy Anlayst at the CGP and the coordinator of the Genetic Discrimination Observatory.
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Djedjiga Kachenoura
Coordinatrice du projet de recherche sur la finance et le climat, Agence française de développement (AFD)
Diplômée d’un double cursus en finance et en statistiques (Paris IV et ENSAE), Djedjiga Kachenoura commence sa carrière dans l’univers de la gestion d’actifs « traditionnels » puis la gestion alternative (HSBC et Allianz) avant de rejoindre la Banque Africaine de Développement en tant que responsable de financement de projets d’infrastructure. Par la suite, Djedjiga rejoint l’Agence Française de Développement où elle est actuellement en charge de la finance climat/finance durable au sein du département « Diagnostics économiques et politiques publiques » : Elle est pilote du dialogue de politiques publiques autour de la transition bas-carbone.
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Dmitry Filippov
PhD candidate in Japanese studies, University of Sheffield
I received a BA in Asian and African Studies from Russia's Institute of Practical Oriental Studies in 2012 and a MA in Japanese Studies from the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield in 2015. In 2010-2011, I spent a year at Hosei University in Tokyo as an exchange student. I am currently conducting PhD research on the transformation of Japan's grand strategy towards China and contemporary US-China-Japan trilateral security relations. My articles on Japan's history and foreign policy have been published in Russian and English.
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Dmitry Yumashev
Principal Consultant, Small World Consulting, Lancaster University
Dmitry has a background in applied mathematics and started his career as an aerospace scientist before moving to sustainability and climate change. He has worked on a range of projects with partners from academia, the private sector, the UK Government and the United Nations. At Small World Consulting, Dmitry leads the portfolio of projects on assessing landscape-level carbon emissions and land use change options to aid carbon sequestration. Recent clients include all UK National Parks, all Welsh AONBs, Cotswolds and Cannock Chase National Landscapes, Cumberland and Westmorland & Furness Councils, and private estates.
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Dollie Davis
Associate Dean of Faculty, Minerva University
Dollie Davis specializes in International Political Economy and Economic Development. Prior to joining Minerva, she worked as an International Visiting Fellow at a think tank in Taipei, Taiwan where she executed a paper, discussing the impact of Taiwan’s Non-Governmental Organizations on their International Aid, Healthcare, and Political Systems. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Political Economy from the University of Southern California and her M.A. degree in Economics from the University of San Francisco.
Professor Davis taught courses on Economic Development in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. She believes in actively engaging with each student and providing a forum for in-depth discussion about old and new concepts and ideas in every class. Professor Davis teaches the Boom, Bust, and Bubbles: The Free Enterprise System Core Course and the Global Development and Applied Economics Concentration Course.
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Dolores Tirado Bennasar
Profesor titular de Economía Aplicada, Universitat de les Illes Balears
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Dom Wolff-Boenisch
Senior Lecturer, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University
Domenik is senior lecturer at the Curtin University in Perth, coordinating the undergrad and postgrad units of hydrogeology and engineering geology as well as environmental geoscience. He moved to Australia coming from the University of Iceland where from 2007 to 2011 he was the Project Director of the Icelandic partner of the international Carbfix consortium. The Carbfix project is about capture of CO2 from geothermal activities and subsequent sequestration into basaltic terrain (www.carbfix.com). Among his responsibilities there was the set-up and direction of a high P/T lab for the execution of experiments related to water-rock interactions in the presence of CO2. Prior to that position he was a Research Scientist at UC Riverside and UC Merced in the US studying the CO2 drawdown capacity of the Higher Himalayas and the biogeochemistry of uranium. Domenik started his career with a PhD in environmental geochemistry from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in 1997.
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Domenico Campa
Associate Professor of Accounting, International University of Monaco
I am an Associate professor of Accounting International University of Monaco (IUM). In particular, I joined IUM in 2015 to become the leading permanent faculty in Accounting and to reorganize and restructure all of the accounting-related courses delivered by IUM at both undergraduate and graduate levels. At the moment, he is responsible for the structure and the content of all accounting classes taught at IUM. With other colleagues, I am also the founder and one of the Chairpersons of the "Workshop on Preventing Accounting Scandals: Practices and Practitioners" which aims to explore practices and practitioners behind accounting scandals under different perspectives and to bring out new research questions on this area. The first edition of the workshop took place in IUM in March 2019 and it will now be organized every second year in several host institutions.
I am also very active in research in the areas of earnings manipulation, external auditing, IFRS adoption, corporate governance. My research has been published in recognized international refereed journals including (but not limited to) ABACUS; Accounting and Business Research; Accounting in Europe; Comptabilité Contrôle Audit; European Management Review; Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; International Journal of Corporate Governance; International Review of Financial Analysis; International Review of Law and Economics; Managerial Auditing Journal; Research in International Business and Finance.
Moreover, I am visiting professor at Bocconi University where he delivers a module in International Financial Reporting, in a Master of Accounting, Auditing, and Control.
Prior to joining IUM, I was an Assistant Professor in Accounting at Trinity College Dublin, where, for a certain period of time, I also covered the position of Director of the MSc in Finance.
I have also spent three years at University College Cork where he got his Ph.D. while working as a lecturer and delivering accounting classes at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
During the Irish experience, I have been an elected member of the European Accounting Association (EAA) Board as National Representative for Ireland, for the period 2013-2016.
Before moving to Ireland, I also worked as a research and teaching assistant at Bocconi University.
Prior to my academic orientation, I have started my career in the auditing industry in Milan working as an auditor for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
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Domenico Vicinanza
Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems and Data Science, Anglia Ruskin University
Having received his MSc and PhD degrees in physics, Domenico worked as a scientific associate at Cern for seven years. His research there mainly focused on the development of an innovative time-of-flight detector for one of the biggest High-Energy Physics experiments for the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. The detector design was based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC), reaching a sensitivity of 70 picoseconds (the highest ever reached) and its use in a large-scale experiment marked an important milestone for particle physics.
As a music composer and researcher in auditory display, Domenico worked with organisations like Cern and Nasa, creating music from scientific data. He has been involved in the application of grid technologies for science and the arts since the late 1990s, chairing the ASTRA (Ancient instrument Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application) project for the reconstruction of musical instruments by means of computer models using the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI.eu).
His research interests include data sonification and auditory display, analogue and digital electronics, audio recording and studio techniques, sound synthesis, acoustics and psychoacoustics and distributed computing and network monitoring.
Domenico's research has been featured on several international peer-reviewed magazines (Physics Letters B, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, European Physics Journal) and in interviews for (among the others): Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, BBC, CNN, Discovery Channel, Discover magazine, New Scientist and Scientific American.
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Dominic Kelly
Adjunct Research Fellow, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
Dominic Kelly is the author of Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia. His writing has appeared in The Age, The Monthly, The Guardian, Australian Book Review, The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Inside Story, Jacobin, The Market Herald and Arena Magazine.
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Dominic Zaal
Director, Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute (ASTRI), CSIRO
Dominic Zaal is the Director of the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute (ASTRI) within CSIRO. ASTRI is a Federal Government (ARENA) funded Program for the development and demonstration of Solar Thermal systems and technologies within Australia. As ASTRI Director, Dominic is actively involved in promoting the role that Solar Thermal can play in Australia's future energy mix. In undertaking this role, Dominic works closely with industry and governments on a range of Solar Thermal advocacy and commercial uptake opportunities.
Dominic is also actively involved in the working with companies on renewable heat options for industrial decarbonisation. The focus is on mid to high temperature (150C - 600C) renewable heat technologies (including thermal energy storage) to displace natural gas.
Prior to his work with CSIRO/ASTRI, Dominic worked in the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), where he was responsible for developing strategies for commercial uptake of renewable energy technologies. Dominic also managed an ARENA Program Team responsible for over 100 renewable projects across a diverse range of technologies. As Program Manager, he worked closely with industry and research institutions on the development, demonstration, and commercial deployment of renewable energy technologies.
Before joining ARENA, Dominic worked on Energy Programs within the Department of Industry. This included management of the Australian Government’s Energy Efficiency Opportunities (EEO) Program, which assisted large Australian companies to identify and implement energy efficiency savings.
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Dominic D. Wells
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Bowling Green State University
Dr. Dominic D. Wells is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Fire Administration (FIAD) Program. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Kent State University in 2018, a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Bowling Green State University in 2013, and a B.A. in Political Science from Bowling Green State University in 2010. His primary research focuses on labor union politics and policy. Dr. Wells is the author of From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging: How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain (Temple University Press). His work has been published in Questions in Politics, the Journal of Political Science Education, the Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, and Teaching Statistics. Dr. Wells teaches courses in political science, public administration, and fire administration.
For more information about his work, please visit his personal website at dominicdwells.com
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Dominick Spracklen
Professor of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, University of Leeds
Dominick is Professor of Biopshere-Atmosphere Intearctions at the University of Leeds.
He was awarded a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Advanced Fellow between 2009 and 2014, and in 2016, was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Award. Dominick currently holds a European Research Council Consolidator Fellowship (2018-2023) to study the impacts of tropical deforestation on regional climate.
Dominick is interested in understanding interactions between the biosphere, atmosphere and climate and the way that these interactions are being altered by human activity. In particular he wants to help understand how deforestation impacts air quality and climate.
Dominick’s research group combine models of the Earth’s atmosphere, land surface and climate with observations and satellite remote sensing.
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Dominika Vasilkova
Postdoctoral research associate, University of Liverpool
I'm a postdoctoral researcher working on muon physics on the muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab and muEDM at PSI. My research focusses on tracking detectors and measuring the intrinsic 'roundness' of muons by searching for an electric dipole moment.
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Dominique Condo
Senior Lecturer in Sports Nutrition, Deakin University
Dr Dominique Condo is an accredited sports dietitian, researcher and performance nutrition expert. She has extensive industry experience including her current role as performance science and nutrition manager at Richmond Football Club. She is a Senior lecturer in sports nutrition at Deakin University where she leads novel and emerging research that focuses on improving the performance and well-being of athletes.
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Dominique Kelly
Doctoral Candidate, Information and Media Studies, Western University
Dominique Kelly is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University. For over three years, her research has examined how manipulative interface design tactics known as "dark patterns" influence people’s online decision-making. She is currently working on a thesis tentatively entitled “Youth Perspectives on Privacy Dark Patterns.” Dominique is also a member of Dr. Victoria Rubin's Language and Information Technology Research Lab (LiT.RL) at Western University.
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Dominique Moritz
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of the Sunshine Coast
Dominique is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching) for the School of Law and Society. Her research expertise is the law related to children’s decision-making including consent and capacity. Her knowledge broadly encompasses criminal law, health law and regulatory concepts related to children with a particular interest in child sexual abuse material criminalization.
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Dominique Skye McDaniel
Assistant Professor of English Education, Kennesaw State University
Dr. Dominique McDaniel (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of English Education in the Department of English at Kennesaw State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Studies with a concentration in Teacher Education, and cognates in Literacy and English Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2022 and is a former middle grades English/Language arts teacher in North Carolina. Dominique taught for ten years, most recently in middle grades language arts, and holds licensure certifications in Elementary Education, Middle Grades Language Arts, High School English, and Reading. Dominique’s research interests span a number of phenomena, including Black and Latinx teen experiences in educational settings, BIPOC teens’ digital literacy practices, social media literacies and teen activism, and supporting BIPOC teacher candidates. Her dissertation, #OnlineLiteraciesMatter: A multi-case study approach of Black and Brown youths' literacy practices in social media spaces recently won the NCTE College Composition and Communication (CCC) 2023 James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award. Dominique’s newest research, Project Culture, seeks to provide support to BIPOC teacher candidates and prepare English Education preservice teachers to better teach culturally diverse students, fostering classrooms that are more just, affirming, and humanizing. Her recent scholarship can be found in Literacy Research and Instruction, Multicultural Perspectives, Journal of Language and Literacy Education, and has a forthcoming invited piece in Harvard Educational Review.
Research interests and background:
* Culturally digitized and culturally active pedagogies
* Black and Latinx teen experiences in educational settings
* Digital literacy practices of BIPOC teens
* Activism, Allyship, and Action-oriented literacy practices of BIPOC teens
* Social media literacies and teen activism
* Supporting BIPOC teacher candidates
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Don Maier
Associate Professor of Business, University of Tennessee
Don Maier is an associate professor of practice in supply chain management. His professional career included roles in the logistics and supply chain management teams at FedEx, Office Depot, Penske Logistics, Monsanto and Merisant (a division of Monsanto). He was instrumental in the strategic design and leadership of the international logistics operation for North and Central America and managed the design and development of the total productive manufacturing quality culture at Merisant, focusing on the principles of 5S and Lean.
During this time, Maier earned a doctorate in organization development and a master’s in organizational behavior from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois, and taught a variety of management-related courses. At this time, he decided his long-term goal was to teach and help students develop and earn a professional career.
Maier started his full-time academic career as an assistant professor at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, where he earned tenure, the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Alumni Board Presidential Award. He also was a member of the Will County Health Department’s Emergency Response Team, where he designed and managed the distribution of pharmaceuticals during the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak. He served on Will County Center for Economic Development’s logistics advisory board, helping transform Joliet into the inland empire of the Midwest.
He held the rank of professor at two universities and for the past nine years and served as dean for the Maine Maritime and Cal Maritime Academies. As the founding dean for the School of Maritime Transportation, Logistics, & Management at California State University – Maritime Academy, he oversaw programs in marine transportation, international logistics and naval science (Strategic Sealift Midshipmen Program).
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Don Weatherburn
Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; Adjunct Professor, School of Social Science, UNSW Australia
Don Weatherburn has been Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research since 1988. He was awarded a Public Service Medal in January 1998, an Alumni Award for Community Service by the University of Sydney in 2000 and made a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2006. He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Science at the University of New South Wales and is the author of three books and more than 200 articles, reports, and book chapters on crime and criminal justice.
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Donal O'Shea
Professor of Chemistry, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
The central theme of my research lies in the advancement of new strategies for the synthesis and functional assessment of structurally complex molecules. Specific goals include the development of NIR fluorophores for fluorescence guided surgery, new light activated anti-cancer agents, and the generation of chemical tools to assist in gaining a molecular level insight into biological processes. My research has its foundations in organic chemistry and chemical biology with strong collaborative links with medical imaging.
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Donal Smith
Postdoctoral Researcher in Conservation, Zoological Society of London
My background combines academic research of major issues in conservation with practical on-the-ground experience of the management of highly threatened species.
I spent many happy years working with the echo parakeet in Mauritius and the hihi in New Zealand. These projects showed me the power of careful conservation interventions led by passionate groups of people, resulting in beautiful bird species slowly reclaiming their native forests.
More recently, my research has focused on how we conduct this type of work globally. I have been particularly interested in the conservation of species that have disappeared entirely from the wild but somehow survived in places like zoos and botanic gardens. These "Extinct in the Wild" species need our urgent attention and support to avoid slipping away entirely and to return to their wild habitats.
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Donald Abelson
Professor, Political Science; Academic Director, Wilson College of Leadership and Civic Engagement, McMaster University
Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University
Professor, Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor Emeritus, Western University,
Academic Director, Wilson College of Leadership and Civic Engagement,
Director, Brian Mulroney Institute of Government, Steven K. Hudson Chair in Canada-US Relations, and Professor, Political Science, Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University
Adjunct Research Professor, Political Science, Western University
Professor, Western University,
Associate Professor, Political Science, Western University
Assistant Professor, Western University,
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Donald E. Heller
Donald E. Heller is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs and a professor of education at the University of San Francisco. He is responsible for the university’s five schools, libraries, academic affairs, student life, enrollment management, online programs, international relations, and diversity and community outreach for the university’s 10,800 students,1,200 faculty, and 1,000 staff.
His teaching and research is in the areas of educational economics, public policy, and finance, with a primary focus on issues of college access, choice, and success for low-income and minority students. He has consulted on higher education policy issues with university systems and policymaking organizations in California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Washington, Washington DC, and West Virginia, and has testified in front of Congressional committees, state legislatures, and in federal court cases as an expert witness.
Prior to his appointment in January 2016, he was Dean of the College of Education at Michigan State University. Earlier appointments included Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education and professor of education and senior scientist at The Pennsylvania State University, and assistant professor of Education at the University of Michigan. Before his academic career, he spent a decade as an information technology manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Donald Hirsch
Donald is a former journalist and international policy consultant, who was Poverty Adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for the ten years prior to joining CRSP in 2008. He played a central role in establishing A Minimum Income Standard for the United Kingdom, CRSP's ongoing research programme showing what incomes households need for an acceptable standard of living as agreed by members of the public.
Donald is the Director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy. He leads that programme and associated projects studying income, and plays a prominent national role in commenting on the adequacy of the public welfare system and on poverty trends.
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Donald McKnight
James Cook University
I am a PhD candidate in the College of Science and Engineering at James Cook University. I am currently studying how populations respond to and recover from outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases. However, I have very broad interests within ecology, and I have also done research on community ecology, population ecology, animal behavior, and natural history.
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Donald Nieman
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Donald G. Nieman, a historian whose specialty is law and race relations and civil rights in the United States, became dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences in 2008, after serving as dean of arts and sciences at Bowling Green State University in Ohio for eight years. An Iowa native, he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Drake University. He earned his PhD at Rice University, where he developed a passion for teaching and research and a deep commitment to balancing discovery and mentoring.
Nieman taught at Kansas State University, Hunter College, Brooklyn College and Clemson University before becoming professor and chair of the History Department at Bowling Green in 1994. He was promoted to dean there in 2000.
He has authored two books and edited four others. In 1991, Oxford University Press published his book Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present, which has been called the first Afrocentric history of the U.S. Constitution.
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Donald M. Lamkin
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
I received my Ph.D. in health psychology from the University of Iowa before completing post doctoral training in neuroimmunology and cancer biology at UCLA. My research focuses on biobehavioral mechanisms in cancer control, including associations among psychosocial factors, stress biology, and physical exercise. Using preclinical models of cancer and bioinformatic analysis of functional genomics, I test hypotheses on how stress physiology may affect progression of malignancy, particularly in regard to the sympathetic nervous system and during physical exercise. With an eye toward translation to clinical populations, I also collaborate with clinical investigators at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Donghao Lu
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
My research program is to study women’s mental health over the life course and to bridge the gap between Obstetrics/Gynecology and Psychiatry. Leveraging international large-scale population-based cohorts, I aim to understand the underlying biological mechanisms affecting women’s mental health and potential health consequences. My current main research topics are:
1) Risk factors and health consequences of reproductive mood disorders or sex-specific mental disorders, including:
° premenstrual disorders (premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder)
° perinatal depression (prenatal and postnatal depression)
° perimenopausal depression and menopausal symptoms
° other maternal mental disorders occurred during and after pregnancy
2) Sex disparity in mental health
Grants:
My research work is supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR), Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte), China Scholarship Council, and Karolinska Institutet Strategic Research Area in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (SFOepi), Faculty Board, Board of Doctoral Education, and Research Fund.
Contributions to Science:
1) Early life origins and risk factors of premenstrual disorders
Premenstrual disorders are typically diagnosed in women in their 20s/30s, but my research has shown that the symptoms often begin during adolescence. In fact, in a sample of young women in the US, I found that approximately 70% of premenstrual disorders had onset before the age of 20. However, little was known about the factors in early life that may predispose these women to the onset of premenstrual disorders during adolescence. Through my studies, I have identified several important risk factors for premenstrual disorders developed later in life, including early menarche or pubertal development, adverse childhood experiences, childhood overweight or obesity, and childhood asthma or food allergy. These findings have significantly contributed to the understanding of the early life origins of the pathophysiology of premenstrual disorders.
2) Health impact of premenstrual disorders
Although premenstrual symptoms are restricted to the days before menstruation, the chronic and cyclic condition may translate to a profound impact on the long-term quality of life. However, there is a lack of prospective data to understand the health consequences of premenstrual disorders. My research is the first to demonstrate that patients with premenstrual disorders are at increased risks of subsequent suicidal behavior, accidents, perinatal depression, early menopause and severe menopause symptoms, premature death, and eventually contribute to the sex gap in mental health. We also found that use of hormonal contraceptives, particularly combined products, may reduce the rates of suicidal behaviors among women with premenstrual disorders.
3) Health impact of perinatal depression
Maternity care typically prioritizes pregnancy outcomes, often sidelining women’s mental well-being. Perinatal depression affects as many as 10-20% of women giving birth worldwide. In contrast to the common belief that perinatal depression is self-resolving, many cases can last for months or even longer, particularly if left untreated. However, prospective data are lacking to illustrate whether women with perinatal depression may confront enduring health consequences. My research is among the first to demonstrate that patients with perinatal depression are at increased risks of subsequent suicidal behavior, autoimmune disease, cardiovascular disease, and mortality.
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Dongryeol Ryu
Professor, The University of Melbourne
Prof Ryu works on on developing methods to utilise remote sensing instrument (microwave, optical and thermal sensors) in monitoring soil moisture and vegetation over agricultural and natural landscapes. He also develops novel methods to integrate hydrological/crop models with in situ and remotely sensed observations to improve conventional model-based predictions. Lastly he uses coupled Earth System Model to investigate how agricultural actives and large in-land water bodies influence regional climate.
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Donna Curtis Maillet
Privacy Officer, New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training, Research associate, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick
I have been the Privacy Officer for the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT) since it originated in 2015. Since 2018, I have had the privilege to serve as the Privacy Team Lead for the Health Data Research Network, of which NB-IRDT is a member. In 2021, I began an appointment as a research associate with the UNB Faculty of Law and serve as part-time lecturer in sociology and public policy at St. Thomas University. My research work focuses on the intersection between law, policy, and privacy particularly in relation to research work involving large data sets of personal and personal health information.
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Donna L. Halper
Associate Professor of Communication, Lesley University
Donna L. Halper is a former deejay, music director, and radio consultant, who spent more than three decades in broadcasting before reinventing herself as a professor and a media historian. She came to Lesley University in 2008 to develop and teach courses related to the study of communication and media, including Media Analysis, Introduction to Communication, and Introduction to Journalism.
A devotee of a school of thought called Media Ecology (which focuses on the media as environments), Donna’s teaching is informed by her knowledge of popular culture, media history, and media effects. She is the author of six books and many articles, and she has been widely quoted by reporters seeking information about local and national media trends.
Her research interests include the study of representations of women and minorities in media; early baseball history; and unsung heroes and heroines in the history of broadcasting. Donna is often a guest on local radio talk shows, and she has also been heard on a number of podcasts and seen on numerous webcasts.
In addition to teaching, Donna is the editor of the Lesley Public Post (Lesley University's student newspaper). She is also a blogger, and a frequently-published freelance writer whose articles have appeared in print and online. She has given many guest lectures at libraries, civic organizations, and other universities, both in-person and on Zoom. And she is known for having discovered the classic rock band Rush, who dedicated two albums to her; she can be seen in the 2010 documentary “Beyond the Lighted Stage.” In 2023, Donna was chosen for induction into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, where she received the Pioneer Broadcaster Award. Donna’s hobbies include reading, stamp collecting, and collecting rare memorabilia about media history.
Donna Halper holds a BA in English from Northeastern University, an M.Ed in Counseling and an MA in English from Northeastern University, and a PhD in Communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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