Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Professor of Sociology at UNC Greensboro, Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, and author of over 20 peer reviewed articles on topics related to families, relationships, and young adulthood with student loans.
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Associate Professor Digital Strategy and Data Science, Monash University
Arif Perdana, Ph.D memperoleh doktor di Bidang Sistem Informasi dari UQ Business School, the University of Queensland, Australia. Arif memiliki pengalaman sebagai akademisi dan konsultan di bidang teknologi digital, sistem informasi dan analitika data. Arif pernah mengajar di the University of Queensland, Australia; Aarhus University, Denmark; dan Singapore Institute of Technology. Saat ini ia adalah Associate Professor di Monash University. Ia pernah terlibat dalam berbagai aktifitas pelatihan professional, penelitian, dan konsultansi dengan beberapa perusahaan dan institusi publik di antaranya Kementerian Pertahanan Singapura, Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, RSM Singapore, PKF CAP LLP Singapore. Intellectual Property Office Singapore; PSA International Pte Ltd; Hewlett Packard, Inc; Deloitte & Touche; BNI; OCBC-NISP; Traveloka Indonesia, tiket.com; and Julo Teknologi Finansial. Fokus risetnya berkaitan dengan ilmu data, analitika data, dan pemanfaatan teknologi digital di akuntansi, bisnis dan keuangan.
Arif dapat dikontak di:[email protected]
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Associate Vice-President, Equity & Inclusion and Honorary Associate Professor Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
I am a scholar practitioner. I have been working in higher education for over 20 years in various administrative role while also holding faculty appointments. Currently, I am the Associate Vice President, Equity & Inclusion at the University of British Columbia. My areas of academic and professional interest and experience relate to student success, EDI, intergroup relations, race and racism, leadership and organizational theory for equity in higher education.
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Arin Keeble's research focuses on the way contemporary literature and culture represents and responds to terrorism, crisis and disaster. Under this umbrella he is working in three distinct areas: the '9/11 novel', narratives of Hurricane Katrina and contemporary American television (particularly David Simon and TV audiences in the UK). He currently has significant projects underway in each of these areas.
The '9/11 Novel' – Dr Keeble's work in this area has sought to move beyond a polarised critical paradigm that has pitted domestic narratives of trauma in opposition to more outwardly facing political narratives. This was the subject of Dr Keeble's doctoral research, and he has published three peer reviewed articles in Modern Language Review, Reconstruction and European Journal of American Culture in this area. Additionally, his monograph, The 9/11 Novel: Trauma, Politics and Identity was published by McFarland in 2014. His most current work in this area is an article on Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge (2013) entitled 'Before and After in Bleeding Edge', which is under review.
Narratives of Hurricane Katrina – Dr Keeble's work on Katrina focusses on the ways in which literary, cinematic and televisual narratives of Katrina respond not just to the Katrina crisis, but also to the politics of the War on Terror, and to the perceived apolitical nature of many early narratives of 9/11. Dr Keeble's first publication in this area was 'The Aggregation of Politics in Dave Eggers Zeitoun' which appeared in the peer reviewed Journal of Comparative American Studies (13.3). Dr Keeble has also guest edited a special issue of European Journal of American Cultures which comes out later this year, and includes his article on David Simon's television series Treme (2009-2013) 'Won't Bow, Don't Know How: Treme, and New Orleans Exceptionalism'. Additionally Dr Keeble is working on a new monograph on Katrina narratives which will appear in 2017.
American Television – Dr Keeble's first published work in this area was a co-edited collection of essays with Dr Ivan Stacy (Hong Kong Baptist University) on David Simon's The Wire (2002-2008) which appeared in 2015, The Wire and America's Dark Corners: Critical Essays. Dr Stacy and Dr Keeble have continued to collaborate on the subject of David Simon's television; their co-guest edited special issue of European Journal of American Cultures features eight new essays on Simon. Dr Keeble's interest in US television extends to the way it is received by UK audiences and he is developing an audience studies partnership project with a colleague at Durham University and two major UK cultural cinemas.
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Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College
Arjun Guneratne is Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. He was born in Sri Lanka and studied law for a year at the University of Colombo, before enrolling at Dartmouth College to study anthropology. He developed a keen interest in development problems while a student at Dartmouth, and spent his senior year in Dartmouth’s Senior Fellows program where, excused from completing his anthropology major, he could devote his time and energy to studying development problems in Sri Lanka’s peasant resettlement projects. This work resulted in a thesis, Water, Rice and People: Problems and Constraints of Peasant Colonization in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka.
After Dartmouth, he entered the PhD program in anthropology at the University of Chicago, intending to continue his interest in development. However, ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka between the Sinhala-dominated state and Tamil separatist rebels kindled an interest in how ethnic identities emerge. He pursued this interest in Nepal, a country where the literature about ethnicity suggested it was a fluid process rather than a fixed identity derived from the past. He focused on the Tarai, the narrow strip of once malarial land abutting the mountains; not many foreign scholars had worked there and the main ethnic group inhabiting the region, the Tharu, had been little described. His dissertation was a study of the development of ethnic consciousness among the Tharu of Nepal and its relation to class stratification, processes of state building and the cultural and socio-economic transformation of the Tarai that followed on the success of the Malaria Eradication Program in Nepal. The dissertation became the basis of his first book, Many Tongues, One People: The Making of Tharu identity in Nepal (Cornell 2002).
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Sydney
Dr Arlie Loughnan joined the Faculty in 2007. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney (BA Hons 1 LLB Hons 1), New York University Law School (LLM) and London School of Economics (PhD).
Arlie's research concerns criminal law and the criminal justice system, with a focus on the relationship between legal doctrines, practices, institutions and knowledge. Her particular interests are constructions of criminal responsibility and non-responsibility, the interaction of legal and expert medical knowledges and the historical development of the criminal law.
Current projects include a co-authored text (with Mark Findlay and Thalia Anthony), Criminal Law and Process: Contexts and Problems (OUP, forthcoming).
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Lecturer, University of Wollongong
Armin is a Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Wollongong (UOW). His interdisciplinary research sits at the intersection of law, technology, science and philosophy. His publications and talks focus on the social, ethical and legal impact of emerging technologies such as machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), neuroscience and genetics.
Armin’s current projects include studying the way technology is shaping the future of the legal profession (collaborating with Deakin University), and the potential use of AI in sentencing (collaborating with the University of Brawijaya). Armin has a great sense of innovation in teaching and learning and currently collaborating with colleagues at UNSW Sydney to build and prototype research and educational tools with artificial intelligence (https://safetofailai.streamlit.app).
Armin has a great sense of innovation in teaching and learning and currently investigating the potential benefits and perils of the use of AI in education. Armin’s new research-led course, Law and Emerging Technologies, is offered to UOW students for the first time in 2023.
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Associate Professor (Lektor Kepala) of Computer Science, Universitas Hasanuddin
Armin Lawi is an Associate Professor (Lektor Kepala) of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia. Concurrently, he also serves as a Vice-Chancellor (Wakil Rektor) for Academic and Student Affairs at the B.J. Habibie Institute of Technology, a new national university was established in Parepare City, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, in 2022. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Hasanuddin University; a master's degree and Ph.D. courses in computer science and communication engineering from Kyushu University, and a Doctor of Engineering degree in creative informatics from the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. Armin can be contacted via email at both [email protected] and [email protected].
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Chercheur en agronomie, University of Zimbabwe
I am a Research Officer and Crop nutritionist and one of my career objectives if to leave a mark in the agricultural research, extension and advisory sectors through the pursuit of excellence and integrity.
Zimbabwe's economy is agro-based and agriculture and its related businesses are the highest employers. Ironically Zimbabwe has the highest rate of unemployment in Southern Africa and most of them are youths who have attained some form of tertiary education. I strongly believe that youth engagement through such forums and conferences can help developing countries like Zimbabwe to reduce unemployment to 'acceptable' levels and in the long-run reduce extreme poverty and hunger.
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Professeur en Information-Communication à l’Institut Français de presse (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas), Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
Lauréat de l'IEP de Paris et docteur en science politique, il est professeur des universités, spécialiste des réseaux socionumériques, de la sociologie du journalisme et du webjournalisme, des fake news et de la communication politique. Arnaud Mercier enseigne à l'Institut Français de Presse (IFP) et appartient au Centre d'analyse et de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les médias (CARISM).
Responsable depuis janvier 2022, au sein du CARISM de l'Observatoire du podcast d'information (programme de recherche Obcast), il est chercheur associé au CREM (université de Lorraine). Il fut le premier président de The Conversation France à sa création en 2015.
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I have taught in the departments of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University (1988-91), UBC (1992-4) and the University of Toronto (2003 to present). From 1995 to 2003 I taught in the faculty of applied science and engineering at U of T as well as in the interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program at McMaster University.
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Arne Hintz is a Senior Lecturer at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and is Director of MA Digital Media and Society.
His research connects communication policy, media activism, citizen media and technological change. From 2014 to 2016 he was Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project 'Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society'.
His publications include the book ‘Civil Society Media and Global Governance’ (Lit, 2009) and the co-edited volume ‘Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism & Society’ (Palgrave, 2013), as well as chapters in volumes such as ‘The Handbook on Global Media and Communication Policy’ (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (Sage, 2010).
He is Chair of the Community Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and he has worked as a community and citizen media expert with advocacy initiatives such as the Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) and UN processes such as the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Research Interests:
Alternative/Citizen/Community/Social media
Communication policy, media governance, communication rights and restrictions
Civil society and social movements, media and policy activism
Digital media, information society, internet studies and digital citizenship
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Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University
I have been publishing reports of my research on learning and memory since 1971.I am a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, where I have been on the faculty since 1975. I am the author of Cognition: A Neuroscience Approach published by Cambridge University Press. At the beginning of this century I as an early investigator of the effects of new technologies on education and I performed some of seminal classroom studies.using an experimental design Therefore, I was well positioned to discover the insidious effects of cell phones on memory when they emerged.
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Professor in Demography, Bocconi University
Arnstein Aassve, PhD in Economics, is a Professor at Bocconi University, boasting an extensive background in academic and institutional leadership. With a history of receiving two ERC projects, he currently spearheads the Horizon Europe project, FutuRes: Towards a Resilient Future of Europe. This initiative focuses on three key domains: education, employment, and health, aiming to craft policies that enhance the resilience of both citizens and institutions. The project has established a policy lab, acting as a crucial link between scientific research and policymakers. Aassve has collaborated with Eurofound, the EU Cabinet of the Vice President of Demography and Democracy, Dubravka Suica, and the Joint Research Centre (JRC). His publications span political science, sociology, economics, demography, econometrics, global and public health, and include several reports targeting policymakers and the public. Topics covered in these reports range from institutional trust and the Covid pandemic to youth issues. His latest project is scheduled to run until 2026.
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Carleton University
I am an associate professor of at Carleton University. My research focuses on consumer experiences and how they are mediated, impacted, and shaped through digital media. I also conduct research on marketers and how they behave and enact their roles within organizations.
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Arctic Archaeologist, Smithsonian Institution
Dr. Aron L. Crowell is an Arctic archaeologist and Alaska Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center in Anchorage. His research in collaboration with Alaska Native communities has examined cultural adaptations to coastal ecosystems, historical ecology, cultural landscapes, tectonic and glacial impacts, and Indigenous ecological knowledge. His books and edited volumes include Laaxaayík: Near the Glacier: Indigenous History and Ecology at Yakutat Fiord, Alaska (Smithsonian Scholarly Press 2024), Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North (Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2020), and Archaeology and the Capitalist World System: A Study from Russian America (Plenum Press, 1998). Crowell has led or co-curated Smithsonian exhibitions including Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People (2001); Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait (2009), and Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska (2010). Crowell has served on the Advisory Committee for the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation and represents the Smithsonian for the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. His Ph.D. in Anthropology is from the University of California, Berkeley (1994).
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AMR Team Leader, CGIAR System Organization
Arshnee is a microbiologist who has been working on antimicrobial resistance for 20 years. She is the leader of the CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub and is the AMR team lead at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. She is jointly appointed as an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focuses on drivers of antimicrobial use, selection and spread of AMR, understanding AMR policies and identifying context relevant AMU reducing interventions in smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa and south-east Asia.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland
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Psychologue clinicien, doctorant en psychologie clinique, Université de Lorraine
Doctorant à l'Université de Lorraine
Psychologue clinicien, psychothérapeute au Centre Médico Psychologique pour adolescents d’Epinal
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Professor of Music, Rice University
A man whose music is described as “infectious, loud, and fun,” (Gramophone Magazine) and “fascinatingly strange,” (BBC Music Magazine) award-winning composer Arthur Gottschalk is Professor of Music Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he founded and directed the school’s electronic music laboratories until 2002 and chaired the composition and theory department for 15 years. He was given the Meritorious Service Award by the Association of Rice Alumni in 2016, and in 2023 he was given the Presidential Award for Mentoring.
Gottschalk’s early work as a studio musician led to his co-founding of Modern Music Ventures, Inc., a company which held a recording studio complex, a record production division, four publishing firms, and an artist management division, and for whom he produced records for the PolyGram and Capitol labels, among others. Still conducting occasional work as an expert witness and forensic musicologist in music business trials, Gottschalk serves as a judge for many prominent competitions, including the Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award, the Cintas Foundations Awards, the McKnight Fellowships, the Grawemeyer Award, and the Piazzola International Music Competition, among others.
Gottschalk is a recipient of the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, annual ASCAP Awards since 1980, and has been a Composer-in-Residence at the famed Columbia/Princeton Electronic Music Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. He received the Gold Medal and Record of the Year in Music Composition from the Global Music Awards, for his Requiem: For the Living, and was honored with a prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship, as well as the First Prize of the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale of Corciano, Italy for his Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Winds. The Association of Rice Alumni honored him with their Meritorious Service Award, the highest honor given to a non-graduate of Rice University.
In 2018, Gottschalk’s music was presented at Carnegie Hall by a group of Italian virtuosi; he was featured composer at the Thailand International Festival and was a Fellow at The MacDowell Colony. He was a featured composer at the 2019 China-ASEAN Festival in Nanning, China and guest clinician and composer for the 2019 International Trombone Festival. His work for baritone soloist, choir, and orchestra, Tebe Boga, was premiered in 2020 in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. With his catalog now containing over two hundred compositions, his music is regularly performed domestically and overseas, with over 45 recordings on such labels as Navona, Crystal, Naxos, Amirani (Italy), and RMN Classics (United Kingdom).
His orchestral works have been performed by the symphony orchestras of Charleston, New Jersey, Vienna, Bratislava, Galicia (Spain), Fargo-Moorehead, Indianapolis, Houston, Pacific, Atlanta, Thailand, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Guangxi (China), and more. His music is published by Subito Music, Shawnee Press, European American Music Distributors, the International Horn Society, Potenza Music, SMP Press, Alea Publishing, TrevCo Music, The Spectrum Press, and Delage Music (France).
Now entering its second edition, Gottschalk’s book, Functional Hearing, is published by Routledge Press, a division of Taylor & Francis. He was a student of renowned American composers William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett, and studied with Mario Davidovsky and Aaron Copland. Gottschalk explores the interstices between popular and art music, between the sacred and profane.
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Honorary fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Arthur Wyns is a biologist and climate change researcher, and an Honorary fellow at Melbourne Climate Futures. He is the climate change and health advisor to the COP28 presidency. Since 2019, Arthur has been a climate change advisor to the World Health Organization.
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PhD candidate, Flinders University
From 2020, I have been enrolled as a PhD candidate at Flinders University, South Australia.
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Huddersfield
Artur joined Huddersfield Business School in December 2020 as a Lecturer in Economics. He obtained his MSc and PhD in Economics from the University of Huddersfield and had worked as a Lecturer in Economics at Coventry Business School before returning to the University of Huddersfield.
Artur's research interests are multidisciplinary and currently span high-frequency financial data, identification of systematic and market specific risks and their impact on investor’s decisions as well as interconnectedness of financial markets.
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Associate Professor in Economics, University of Warwick
I am an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Warwick. I am also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute, Research Associate of the CAGE Research Centre, CESifo Research Affiliate, and Inequalities theme leader at the Warwick Brain Behaviour and Society GRP. From 2020-22 (creation to abolition) I was a member of the Department for Education Skills and Productivity Board.
I study issues of inequality, tax compliance, and tax design, with a focus on those with high incomes or wealth. I am a Commissioner at the Wealth Tax Commission. I also work on issues of environmental taxation, economic development, migration, and tax in low- and middle-income countries.
I am co-chair of the Discover Economics campaign, aiming to increase the diversity of people who study and work in economics. I'm also an Associate Editor at Fiscal Studies, and on the Editorial Board of the Economics Observatory.
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I am a historian of modern South Asia with expertise in the social-economic and colonial history of modern India. I write about working-class experiences, desires, and dreams, history of the night, letter-writing, education, and labour market.
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Dr. Vishwanath studies the “people problem” of cyber security.
His research focuses on improving individual, organizational, and national resilience to cyber attacks by focusing on the weakest links in cyber security—all of us Internet users.
His particular interest is in understanding why organizational insiders willingly exfiltrate sensitive organizational data; why people become unintentional insiders by falling prey to social engineering attacks that come-in through email and social media; and on ways we can harness this understanding to secure cyber space. He also examines how various groups–-criminal syndicates, terrorist networks, hacktivists–-utilize cyber space to commit crime, spread mis-information, recruit operatives, and radicalize others.
Dr. Vishwanath’s research on improving cyber resilience against online social engineering has been funded by the National Science Foundation. He has written and published over two-dozen articles on technology users and cyber security issues and my research has been presented to principals at national security and law enforcement agencies around the world. His research has also been featured on CNN, USA Today, Bloomberg Business Week, Consumer Reports and hundreds of other national and international news outlets.
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Chief Executive, Grattan Institute, Grattan Institute
Dr Aruna Sathanapally joined Grattan Institute as CEO in February 2024. She heads a team of leading policy thinkers, researching and advocating policy to improve the lives of Australians. A former NSW barrister and senior public servant, Aruna has worked on the design of public institutions, economic policy, and evidence-based public policy and regulation for close to twenty years.
Before joining Grattan, Aruna worked for the NSW Treasury for over five years, where she headed up analysis and advice across the macroeconomy division, state-owned corporations, state and commonwealth revenue, and health and justice reform. She led the 2021 NSW Intergenerational Report and led the economic analysis for the 2022 Women’s Economic Opportunities Review.
Aruna previously practised as a senior lawyer in the Civil Regulation group at the Australian Government Solicitor and then as a barrister at 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers, specialising in cases involving complex economic evidence. Prior to returning to Australia 11 years ago, Aruna worked at McKinsey & Company’s London office with a range of private and public sector clients.
She holds arts (economics and politics) and law degrees from UNSW, where she graduated with the University Medal in Law, and two masters degrees in law and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Menzies Scholar and John Monash Scholar. She has published internationally in the field of constitutional design and human rights and was appointed in 2015 as external legal adviser to the Parliamentary Joint Committee of Human Rights.
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PhD Candidate at the Research Department Fundamental Physics in Radio Astronomy, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
I am a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, passionate about pulsars and neutron stars.
As a part of the Fundamental Physics in Radio Astronomy group, my work focuses on the study of pulsars in globular clusters with the MeerKAT radio telescope. This includes the long-term monitoring of pulsars in relativistic systems to study their properties and evolutionary scenarios.
I am also a part of the Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT (TRAPUM) collaboration.
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Reader in Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Aberystwyth University
I'm a microbiologist exploring the life of microbes in Earth's coldest regions. As a Reader in Biosciences at Aberystwyth University in Wales and a Professor II in Arctic Microbiology at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) I've had the privilege of visiting the Arctic for nearly 20 years and have seen how the Arctic and its ecosystems are already changing quickly as the climate warms.
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Graduate Researcher, The University of Melbourne
Ary is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne's Asia Institute and a contributing editor for the English edition of Project Multatuli. He is also a former managing editor of The Jakarta Post daily and former deputy director of Amnesty International Indonesia.
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Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Gustafsson is interested in understanding the molecular pathways that regulate the life and death of cardiac myocytes. The occurrence of cardiovascular disease increases with advancing age and intrinsic alterations in aging cardiac myocytes are a major contributor to the underlying pathogenesis. In particular, a decline in mitochondrial function is considered to play a key role in the increased susceptibility to disease. In the heart, the primary function of mitochondria is to meet the high energy demand of the beating myocytes by providing ATP through oxidative phosphorylation. Mitochondrial dysfunction and activation of cell death pathways are common occurrences in cardiovascular disease and contributes to the development of heart failure. Dr. Gustafsson uses genetic, cell and molecular biology approaches, mouse models, and cutting-edge 2D/3D imaging techniques to study the signaling pathways involved in regulating mitochondrial structure, function, and turnover in cells and heart. Specifically, Dr. Gustafsson's research is examining how the E3 ubiquitin ligase Parkin regulates removal of dysfunctional mitochondria in cells; and b) determining the molecular mechanisms by which BCL-2 family proteins regulate mitochondrial function, morphology and turnover in cells.
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Professor, Sydney School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
Professor Patanwala is Chair of Clinical Pharmacy and is jointly based at the University of Sydney School of Pharmacy and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH). He is a registered pharmacist in both the United States and Australia and is a Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist (BCCCP). His research interests include comparative effectiveness of medication use in critical care and emergency medicine. He has been involved in international clinical trials and clinical practice guidelines. He serves on the Clinical Trials Sub-Committee for the Sydney Local Health District and Drug Committee for RPAH. He has published 200+ journal articles and book chapters including those in NEJM, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, and Crit Care Med.
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
Asanda Mtintsilana earned her PhD in Paediatrics and Child Health in 2021 from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She also holds an MSc (medicine) from the University of Cape Town. She is currently undertaking a postdoctoral training in Public Health and Epidemiology at the South African Medical Research Council/Wits University Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU). As part of her training, she is conducting research on diverse topics that affect human health and development, including HIV, food insecurity, social vulnerability, and mental health. She also investigates risk factors and putative biological mechanisms implicated in the development of non-communicable diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes in vulnerable groups, especially Black South African women.
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Senior research fellow, RMIT University
I originally studied physics completing a PhD in particle physics at the University of Melbourne. My research focuses on developing quantitative and qualitative approaches for understanding the impacts of environmental policies and programs on biodiversity values in the landscape. I have has undertaken extensive research on biodiversity offsetting, conservation planning, spatial prioritization and conservation on private land as well the application of machine learning approaches to support conservation and land-use policy.
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