Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
Physical processes in the coastal ocean are highly variable in space and time and play a critical role in coupled biological and chemical processes. From events lasting several hours to days on through inter-annual and decadal scales, the variability in the fluid itself structures marine ecological systems. My approach is to apply ocean observing technologies that now sample across these important time and space scales to better understand the physical ocean that structures marine ecosystems. I am involved in many research and education programs that range in scope from storm intensity, offshore wind, and local water quality monitoring off the NJ coast; regional fisheries along the US east coast; and environmental studies of polar ecosystems in the coastal waters surrounding Antarctica. Consequently, this new knowledge has relevancy to broader stakeholder communities with interests in the coastal ocean. Working through partnerships across these stakeholder groups, my research is collaborative and supports both science and application. Through these partnerships I am able to frame relevant scientific hypotheses and efficiently translate the output to better management and monitoring.
Growing up in New Jersey, my interest in the physics of the ocean began along the shores of Barnegat Bay. After receiving my Bachelor’s degree in Physics at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, I returned to New Jersey and began my research career at Rutgers. Now I look forward to addressing new science and, working through partnerships, translating that science into applications that benefit the many stakeholders with interests in the coastal ocean.
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Full Professor of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland
I research the geographies of discards as well as those of maintenance and repair. Today's discards are synthetic, heterogeneous, and entail high degrees of indeterminacy around their mitigation or remediation. Maintenance and repair, although essential to the smooth functioning of socioeconomic life, have until quite recently, been relegated to the margins of social science research.
Questions that inform my research include where and how are contemporary discards made? Where do they travel and where do their effects accumulate? Who gets what discards, where, how, and under what conditions? I am also interested in how maintenance and repair, broadly conceived, might offer both literal and figurative lessons for figuring out how to live well together in permanently polluted and always breaking worlds.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah
Josh McCrain studies American political institutions, Congress, lobbying, money in politics, media and politics, public policy, and political economy generally. He is also working on manuscripts on computational social science and applied data science using R. His research combines computational social science, causal inference approaches for observational data, and field experiments. He has also published a guide to working with congressional data in R: https://congressdata.joshuamccrain.com/
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Lecturer in Economics and Politics, Leeds Beckett University
Josh Moos has been a Lecturer in the Business School for 6 years. He is currently the Module Lead for 'Introduction to Political Economy' and 'Government in the UK'. Josh read Sociology at the University of Sussex between 2005-8 and continued at the University of Sussex to read International Relations for his Masters.
Before joining Leeds Beckett, Josh worked in under-16 education in inner-London and subsequently as a youth worker. In 2015, Josh moved to Leeds to undertake a Post-Graduate Diploma in Youth and Community Work at Leeds Beckett. At the same time, Josh started working part-time in the Leeds Business School. Having completed his PGDip, Josh continued to work at Leeds Beckett while also working in money advice services. In 2019, Josh was made a permanent Lecturer in the Business School.
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Dr Josh Roose is an Associate Professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute Melbourne. He gained his PhD in Political Science from the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne in 2012.
Josh has served on a number of advisory panels to the State and Federal Governments on Violent Extremism. He has conducted fieldwork across the United States including New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan and been a visiting scholar at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York, New York University and Harvard Law School.
In 2019 Josh was awarded a BYU ICLRS-Oxford Young Scholars Fellowship in Religion and the Rule of Law and with colleagues currently holds two ARC Discovery Projects exploring the Australian Far Right and Anti-women online actors.
His recent books include The New Demagogues: Religion, Masculinity and the New Populism (2020) and Masculinity and Violent Extremism (2022).
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Policy Coordinator - Australia, Climateworks Centre
Josh works for Climateworks Centre, supporting the Australia Country Team in influencing Australian public policy climate action aligned with the Paris Agreement aligned 1.5C goal. He works across Climateworks’ systems to influence public policy by supporting stakeholder engagement, thought leadership, submissions to government consultations, and policy briefs.
He previously managed the stakeholder engagement strategy for Climateworks’ Cities system, across transport, infrastructure, and buildings portfolios. This included completing mapping to identify influential stakeholders in each sector, and developing tailored engagement strategies for different stakeholder groups.
Prior to joining Climateworks, Josh worked for Victoria’s Level Crossing Removal Project, overseeing the on-site environmental management and performance of rail construction projects. He has also worked in communications for various not-for-profits, and completed an internship at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, where he published peer-reviewed research on stakeholder mapping for ecosystem management of the Southern Ocean.
Josh holds a Bachelor of Arts (Politics & Literature) from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Environment and Sustainability from Monash University.
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Research Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
Josh A. Goldstein is a Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he works on the CyberAI Project. Prior to joining CSET, he was a pre- and postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory. His research has included investigating covert influence operations on social media platforms, studying the effects of foreign interference on democratic societies, and exploring how emerging technologies will impact the future of propaganda campaigns. He has given briefings to the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of State, and senior technology journalists based on this work. He has been published in outlets including Brookings, Lawfare, and Foreign Policy. He holds an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Clarendon Scholar, and an A.B. in Government from Harvard College.
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PhD Candidate, Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh
Josh Brew is an African and African diasporic music and sound scholar. His theoretical and practical approach to research focuses on how music and sound sustain humans and how humans, in turn, sustain music, the natural environment, and non-humans. Thus, his research is located within the discourses of music sustainability, sound studies, and economic ethnomusicology. His other areas of interest include music industries, Black studies, African indigenous knowledge systems, popular music fandom, and ecomusicology.
Josh is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. His project, “Gifts from Nature,” is at the nexus of palmwine music, indigenous knowledge, economies, and ecological sustainability in Ghana. His project is a response to the Anthropocene, the current geological epoch characterised by human dominance over the planet and resulting in climate change and other environmental crises. His project aims to critically localise this global problem by examining the intersection of musical and ecological sustainability.
As an applied ethnomusicologist, he is interested in extending his research to benefit the communities with whom he works. He has hosted workshops, worked with young musicians and bands in Ghana to explore music career strategies like contemporary music business models, and assisted in establishing their digital presence. He is currently collaborating with the Legon Palmwine Band In using music as a tool for ecological sustainability in Ghana. Josh is also a composer and performer of Afrobeats, highlife, jazz, and classical guitar.
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Postdoctoral Research Officer, Inhalation Toxicology, Swansea University
Josh completed his BSc in Biomedical Science at Cardiff University in 2016, before being awarded a MSc in Cancer Biology and Therapeutics at Cardiff University in 2018. During his masters, Josh focused his project on the development of a nanoparticle-mediated trastuzumab delivery system to treat HER2 overexpressing breast cancers. Following this, Josh worked within a manufacturer of medical devices, specialising in oxygen therapy and assisted ventilation equipment.
Josh then undertook a PhD supervised by Prof. Martin Clift within the In Vitro Toxicology Group at Swansea University. Here, he investigated the effects of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter air pollution within advanced in vitro models of the human airway. More recently, Josh has undertaken a postdoctoral research position where he is researching the inhalation hazard of inhaled micronanoplastics.
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PhD Candidate in the Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University, Rhodes University
Joshua Bell is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University. His research focuses on political economies and the analysis of systemic forms of power and oppression. Joshua's PhD thesis is titled 'Social upgrading or dependency? Investigating the implications of the inclusion of commercial wine farms within South African Fairtrade certification' and is in the process of being examined. This study asks if the inclusion of commercial wine farms within the South African Fairtrade model promotes or undermines the social upgrading of farmworker livelihoods.
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Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biology, York University, Canada
I received my PhD in hydrology from the University of Nevada, Reno and am currently a postdoctoral researcher at York University in Toronto, Ontario. My research focuses on limnology, or the study of inland, fresh waters. I am interested in how changing climate conditions impact winter processes in lake and how those changes carry over into the other seasons.
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Senior Lecturer in Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
Academic qualifications:
2015-2018: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, School of Anatomical Sciences.
2013-2015: Master of Science (Medicine) by dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand within the School of Anatomical Sciences.
2012: Bachelor of Health Science with Honours, Human Biology, University of the Witwatersrand.
2008- 2011: Bachelor of Science, medical cell biology and applied and experimental physiology, University of the Witwatersrand.
Work experience:
2021-Current: senior lecturer (School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand)
2019-2021: full time lecturer (University of the Witwatersrand)
2016-2017: part time lecturer (University of Johannesburg)
2015-2019: table doctor (Human Dissection, University of the Witwatersrand)
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PhD Candidate in 19th Century British Literature, University of Washington
Joshua Fagan is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington, specializing in British and American 19th century literature, with a particular focus on the intersection of literature with conceptions of science and history. He received a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.A. from the University of St. Andrews for a dissertation on the utilization of the medieval past in the writings of William Morris. His current project focuses on literary uses of Darwinian ideas of time and flux in response to the impermanence and overstimulation of the fin-de-siècle world. He has published on writers ranging from Christina Rossetti to H.G. Wells.
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy, University of Sheffield
Joshua Forstenzer is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.
He is the author of Deweyan Experimentalism and the Problem of Method in Political Philosophy (2019).
He has published widely on John Dewey, American Pragmatism, democratic theory, and the philosophy of education. His current research project focuses on pragmatist ethical responses to catastrophe.
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Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
I am an Assistant Professor at the Warwick Business School and a Research Associate at the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change. I received my PhD in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Research. I previously worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Essex , a Senior Researcher at The Education Policy Institute and held a visiting position at the ifo Institute.
My research agenda can broadly fit into three categories: Teachers and Teacher Labour Markets, Education Inequalities and Survey Methods.
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Associate Professor of Instruction of Sport & Recreation Management, University of Iowa
A former attorney and college athletics administrator, Lens’s teaching and scholarship focus on the intersections of sports, business, and the law.
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Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
Joshua Long received his PhD from the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice in 2020. He has published research on juvenile drug court evaluations, risk assessment validation, prison classification, and matching treatment to the needs of justice involved clients. He is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell where he teaches classes on the corrections system, victimology, and research methods.
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Researcher, The University of Queensland
I am a trained historian and anthropologist who carries out applied research on how indigenous communities are affected by developments such as conservation, infrastructure building, resource extraction and climate change. I have published on these topics in high impact factor journals (including edited books published by Springer and Routledge). My research has obtained funding from several organizations, individuals, government departments and universities.
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Joshua Newell is a professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is a broadly trained human-environment geographer, whose research focuses on questions related to urban sustainability, resource consumption, and environmental and social justice. Newell’s current research can be divided into two primary areas of interest. The first, Urban Infrastructure and Form, focuses on structural features of the urban form (e.g. built environment, transport, energy, and water infrastructure). The second research area, Urban Consumption and Commodities, focuses on the interrelationships between the consumption of consumer products, our responsibilities as global 'green' urban citizens, and the role of governance mechanisms and frameworks (including local institutions) in regulating product consumption. His research approach is often multi-scalar and integrative and, in addition to theory and method found in geography and urban planning, he draws upon principles and tools of industrial ecology, and spatial analysis. He teaches Sustainability and Society, a large undergraduate course, and Urban Sustainability, which is designed for MS and PhD students. He also leads a year-long interdisciplinary PhD student workshop that grapples with theories and concepts of urbanism, sustainability, and resilience.
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Team Leader, Research Fellow, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Dr Josh Osowicki is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases physician and Team Leader in the Tropical Diseases research group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, Australia. He is an early career clinician-scientist and emerging research leader whose work focusses on Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and human challenge research as an innovative platform for accelerating research and development of vaccines and other interventions targeting high-priority pathogens.
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Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
Joshua W. Pate, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy. His research focus is on a child’s concept of pain; Josh is fascinated by how re-conceptualizing pain according to contemporary science may change the way pain is treated. As part of his PhD he developed the Concept of Pain Inventory (COPI) and he is now working on developing and testing educational resources. Josh worked with TED-Ed to make two online animations with millions of views, he co-founded a pain science interview platform (‘One Thing’), and he authored the Zoe and Zak’s Pain Hacks series of children’s books each targeting a learning outcome for pain science education. Josh is on the Scientific Program Committee for the Australian Pain Society and he has been an invited speaker at several international scientific conferences. He dreams of generational conceptual and behaviour change regarding the complexity of pain.
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PhD Candidate - Nutrition and Genetic Epidemiology, University of South Australia
I am an allied health professional (Certified Practicing Nutritionist), and an NSA Associate Nutritionist. I am undertaking my PhD at the Australian Centre for Precision Health, at University of South Australia, under the supervision of Profession Elina Hypponen. My work focuses on vitamin D and genetic epidemiology.
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Dr Joshua Trigg is a public health researcher with training and experience in psychological and population health research. His work focuses on health and occupational health risk factors, risk attitudes and motivators of risk behaviours.
Dr Trigg came to the Flinders Public Health Team from Cancer Council South Australia, where he researched tobacco and alcohol use attitudes and behaviours, as well as community perceptions of culturally focused tobacco cessation messaging. His previous work has examined motivators and inhibitors of emergency risk taking behaviour, and wellbeing and quality of life domains, and has used various quantitative and qualitative methods.
He is a member of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs and Public Health Association of Australia, and has worked with government health bodies, non-profits and various community organisations across Australia. His current research interests include:
- Tobacco control and smoking cessation
- Vaping and e-cigarette use
- Alcohol consumption patterns
- Health risk behaviours
- Health promotion/risk messaging effectiveness
- Wellbeing and quality of life
Qualifications
- PhD (Psychology)
- BPsycSci(Hon) (First Class)
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Associate Professor of Pathology, Penn State
Joshua Warrick is a physician scientist who practices surgical pathology and studies the genomics of bladder cancer.
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Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Knowledges, Deakin University
Joshua Waters is a First Nations K/Gamilaroi man, PhD student and Senior Research Fellow with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. His work explores the critical role of Indigenous Knowledges in global higher education and institutional contexts.
Joshua is also a core member of Deakin University's Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Lab and a Director of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Collective (IKSC) where he supports a number of regional, national and international partnerships and research projects aimed at utilising Indigenous knowledges and complexity for global systems innovation and change.
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph
Joshua August (Gus) Skorburg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Academic Co-Director of the Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI), and Faculty Affiliate at the One Health Institute at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. His research spans topics in applied ethics and moral psychology.
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Associate Professor of Management and Dean Paul R. Gowens Excellence Professor in Business, Texas State University
Joshua J. Daspit, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Management and the Dean Paul R. Gowens Excellence Professor in Business at Texas State University. He specializes in entrepreneurship research, focusing on family firms and small businesses.
Dr. Daspit has over 40 scholarly publications. His work has appeared in numerous well-known outlets, such as California Management Review, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Family Business Review, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Business Research, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and others.
He serves as an Associate Editor for Family Business Review and previously held a similar role for the Journal of Family Business Strategy. Additionally, he is on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Journal of Family Business Management, and several other academic journals.
Dr. Daspit is focused on conducting relevant research and applying insights to help businesses. To this end, Dr. Daspit serves as the Director of SCALEUP (scaleup.txst.edu), a university-wide program at Texas State with the goal of helping small businesses grow. Additionally, as a Research Fellow, he worked with the university's Translational Health Research Center to launch an awards program recognizing small businesses across Texas.
Dr. Daspit is also passionate about helping students. In 2020, he received international recognition as "Best Advisor," along with co-advisor Dr. Corey Fox, for working with the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization. In 2021, he was honored with a Presidential Award for Excellence at Texas State University. That same year, he was recognized as a "Top 40 Under 40" LGBTQ leader in North America, an honor given to those demonstrating excellent leadership and making noteworthy contributions.
Before entering academia, Dr. Daspit worked as a senior consultant for an international consulting firm and served as Director of Community Affairs for a member of the United States Congress. He founded a business in 2017 and currently works with various organizations through his consulting work and community engagement.
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
I am the Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence and a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. I am director of the Amazon Science Hub at UW and the Sensor Systems Lab. I am a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford
Originally from Perth, Western Australia, I grew up in a household full of birds, fish, reptiles, two dogs, and my biologist parents. My first job was as a chorus singer with the West Australian Opera company, but I've always been fascinated by the social effects of music. This interest led me to complete a doctorate at the University of Oxford where I studied the cognitive processes underlying the synchrony-bonding effect. In my research, I like to combine multidisciplinary perspectives from psychology, biology and anthropology, to understand why people make music together.
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and also a research affiliate with the Social Body Lab at the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (University of Oxford, UK).
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Chancellor's Professor in Engineering, Climate Change and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
Joshua S. Fu is Chancellor's Professor, John D. Tickle Professor of Engineering, James G. Gibson Professor in Climate Change, and Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Inaugural Professor of the UT-ORNL Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, Joint Appointment Professor in Computational Earth Sciences Group in Computational Sciences and Engineering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The focus of Fu’s research work includes climate change impacts on energy infrastructure, air pollution, water availability, and extreme events like heatwaves, floods and droughts, wildfires, and human health. The additional focus is to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques on climate change, human health, and mapping global total atmospheric deposition. Currently, my research team is utilizing a petascale supercomputer to simulate Arctic ice melting and improve the model on coupling chemistry and climate modules in a global (1 degree) scale and downscaling to a regional scale (4 km) and participating in developing the new chemistry solver for the US DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM).
Fu has served Vice-Chair of the Measurement-Model Fusion for the Global Total Atmospheric Deposition (MMF-GTAD) of the new initiative in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), contributed as a co-author of the Final Report of the Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN Task Force Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution) and reviewing committee member for air quality status in East Asia for the EANET, a governmental consortium in East Asia and located in Japan. He also was a co-author of the Technical Report, Climate Change, and Infrastructure, Urban System, and Vulnerability, to the Department of Energy in support of the National Climate Assessment in 2012. He served as an international adviser/expert on East Asia/China air quality modeling assessments such as the Beijing and Shanghai air quality modeling assessment for the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, a modeling lead of the Model Intercomparison Study (MICS-Asia), and a modeling member for HTAP on air quality and climate change. He contributed climate modeling results for IPCC AR5 based on RCP 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios.
He develops and provides scientifically sound, cost-effective analysis tools to design and develop complex climate and environmental model applications. There is an example, he is one of the initiators for the Air Benefit and Attainment Assessment Cost System (ABaCAS) that has been used internationally.
Fu has published more than 160 referred journal articles and 110 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He has been an invited speaker including keynote and lecture for more than 100 times in Asia, Europe, and the US. Also, and has been interviewed or reported on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Science Daily, @EurekAlert!, Red Orbit, and more than 30 media to discuss issues of international and national importance on climate change/extreme events and air quality.
Fu obtained his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, MS from UCLA, and BS from Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University.
His areas of research include:
Wildfires and human health
AI/Machines learning in air quality, climate, forest/crops, health, socioeconomic data
Global and regional climate, energy, and air quality
Peta-scale computing on coupled climate and air quality modeling
Climate downscaling toward impacts of air quality, water resources, human health
Assessment of hemispheric transport and climatic effects of air pollutants:
Global and Regional Modeling of Ozone and Particular Matter
Agricultural Air Quality (ammonia, methane)
Transportation conformity and air quality
Air Toxics Modeling – link to the homeland and international security
Develop environmental modeling and decision support tools for complex multi-discipline ecosystem
Genetic algorithm and stochastic-based optimization applications in a high-performance computing
Data management/data mining and information technology applications in environmental management systems
Reliability, uncertainty, and risk analysis in environmental systems
The human dimension in environmental systems
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Director of Programs, Congo Research Group, Center on International Cooperation, New York University
Joshua Z. Walker is the director, Congo Research Group at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation. He has been working in and researching the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2004. Before joining CIC, he was a research associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has also worked for The Carter Center and the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC.
His research on politics, economy, and culture in the DRC sits at the intersection of academic knowledge and policymaking. It has included work on extractive economies and their social effects, public culture, and conflict and politics in the DRC.
Walker holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago, a Master’s degree in anthropology and development from the London School of Economics, and a BA in political science from McGill University.
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Lecturer in Social Sciences, Cardiff University
I am a lecturer and qualitative researcher in Social Sciences, with a PhD in Psychology. I have worked in Healthcare Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Medical School. I have also worked in the third sector in mental health services and in research and policy roles.
My areas of interest are:
Neurodiversity, particularly autism and ADHD
Identities, especially minoritised and stigmatised identity management
I have a longstanding interest in mental health and wellbeing. I work mainly in qualitative methods. I conduct qualitative interviews and am developing ways to work with creative methods.
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Assistant Prof. Ecology, University of Leeds
I am a researcher at the University of Leeds, UK in aquatic ecology. I hold a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in "Upscaling invasion impact prediction" - which focuses on freshwater invasions across time and space. Broadly I am a fisheries and conservation scientist.
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