Master's Student, Political Science, McMaster University
Matthew Cerilli's time at York University involved serving as a research assistant with a focus on government ethics in Ontario. He took one of the few public sector ethics courses available at Canadian universities, where he explored conflicts of interest among elected officials, examined ethics laws and structures at both federal and provincial levels, and conducted a detailed research project on conflict of interest violations by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Now pursuing a master's degree in Political Science at McMaster University, Matthew continues to concentrate on ethical governance and public accountability.
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Associate Professor at the Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
Matthew is an epidemiologist and has done research in South Africa and East Africa as well as with international organisations in Switzerland and Belgium. As an alumnus of the Faculty of Health Sciences (MBBCh 1998; DTM&H 2002), Matthew has strong research links with the University of the Witwatersrand, including posts at the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, and Perinatal HIV Research Unit.
He has about 110 publications, seven academic qualifications from leading institutions (including a doctorate in medical science) and international standing as a researcher and technical writer. Matthew also holds an appointment as visiting professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Ghent and frequently provides technical advice to the World Health Organization and other international organisations.
Research interests include maternal health and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV; investigation of associations between alcohol, sexual behaviour and HIV; and the prevalence and meanings of vaginal practices in Africa, and their relation to HIV acquisition.
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
Matthew Colloff Is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. His research is on adaptation to climate change, ecosystem ecology and water policy. He is a founding member of TARA, the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance, a global research network dedicated to changing approaches for adaptation to global change.
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PhD candidate, University of Tasmania
Matthew Corkill is a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania studying Antarctic sea ice. He is looking at the structure of features like ice crystals and brine channels inside sea ice and how these interact with trace amounts of metals, especially iron which is needed by the microscopic plants in the ocean.
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PhD Student in Economics, Deakin University
I am a PhD student exploring the history of Australia's monetary system.
I have a strong research interest in better understanding the reality of fiat monetary systems and how sovereign governments can use their position as a currency issuer to pursue policies to benefit the public.
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Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society, The University of Edinburgh
My research mainly focuses on the nature of the social world, and how it might be changed for the better.
I’m working on a variety of issues at the moment:
- Contemporary transgender politics in the UK, with an eye to the role that dispossession from healthcare plays in such conflicts.
- A book for Bloomsbury, What Gender Should Be, which argues for a distinctive transfeminist position on the semantics and metaphysics of gender.
- Political and applied philosophy of language.
- (Bio)ethical and metaphysical questions about pregnancy, the family and family abolition.
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Postdoctoral research fellow, lecturer, University of Sydney
I am a cognitive neuroscientist with over 15 years of experience. I research the neural basis of consciousness using virtual reality and electroencephalography.
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Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
Chemosensation underlies many insect behaviors including host detection and oviposition site selection. I developed genome editing tools in Aedes aegypti for the comprehensive genetic analysis of mosquito behavior. Using this approach, I have provided key insights into DEET repellency, oviposition behavior, hygrosensation, hormonal physiology, reproduction, and how mosquitoes find their human and plant hosts. My work has highlighted the role of acid volatiles associated with human odor in mosquito host detection. Microbiome-based vector control is my current focus. Understanding the composition and odor profiles of the microbial communities associated with human skin and mosquito oviposition sites offers the promise to disrupt vector behavior to reduce disease risk.
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Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha (Texas A&M, PhD) is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. His research focuses on American political institutions, specifically the presidency and mass media, and public policy. He is the author of nearly three dozen scholarly articles and three books: The President’s Speeches: Beyond “Going Public” (Lynne Rienner), Breaking through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media, coauthored with Jeffrey S. Peake (Stanford University Press), and The President and the Supreme Court: Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump, co-authored with Paul M. Collins, Jr (Cambridge University Press). His forthcoming book (Routledge) examines the causes and consequences of presidential rhetoric on immigration.
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Professor of Neurology, University of Florida
My career objective is to provide molecular targets, tools and research insights in neurologic and age-related neurodegenerative disorders to encourage major pharmaceutical investment. For the past 25 years my research has been largely focused on neurogenetics and molecular neuroscience modeling of Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonism. My mission it to help molecularly diagnoses and develop disease-modifying therapeutics aimed at neuroprotection (precision medicine). Ongoing projects include the genetic analysis of patient DNA samples from pedigrees and population isolates by high-throughput and Sanger sequencing. In parallel, my team seeks to characterize novel genes and mutations we discover in model systems. I primarily focus on subtle changes to the mouse genome through cre-loxP conditional recombineering (floxed mice). I prefer to keep experiments as physiologic as possible, as true to the human condition. Core experimental techniques include electrophysiology (mostly voltammetry), microdialysis, protein biochemistry, confocal imaging, behavioral assays and neuropharmacology. Ongoing studies involve mature primary cell cultures, brain slice and whole animal work.
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Research Associate / Teaching Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Tasmania
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Associate lecturer, Flinders University
Matthew Firth is an Associate Lecturer at Flinders University. His research focuses on historiography, cultural memory, and the transmission of historical narrative across time and place. He has particular specialisations in the history and literature of early medieval England and Scandinavia.
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Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Matthew Fisher-Post is a Research Fellow working with Anders Jensen on progressivity and development in the long-run.
Matthew has worked at the United Nations in Rome and Mexico City, the Inter-American Development Bank in Panama, Médecins du Monde in Buenos Aires, and NORC at the University of Chicago.
He earned a BA from Dartmouth College, an MPA from Cornell University, and is a Fulbright laureate and PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics.
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PhD Candidate, Marine Ecology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
I am a marine ecologist with a background in functional and community ecology, species range shifts, and tropical/ subtropical coral reefs. My PhD research explores the ecology and value of Maldivian seagrass habitats using remote sensing and field-based methods.
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, Bath Spa University
Dr Matthew Freeman is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Bath Spa University, where he is also Director of the Media Convergence Research Centre. He completed his PhD in Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham and holds an MA and a BA (Hons) in Film and Television Studies, both from the University of Warwick. Before taking up his post at Bath Spa University in 2015, he taught at the University of Nottingham and in the School of Media at Birmingham City University.
His research concentrates on cultures of production across the borders of media and history, writing extensively on the industrial history of transmedia storytelling. He has also published on such topics as media branding, convergence cultures, and methodological approaches to media industry studies.
Matthew is the author of Historicizing Transmedia Storytelling: Early Twentieth-Century Transmedia Story Worlds (Routledge, 2017), Industrial Approaches to Media: A Methodological Gateway to Industry Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and the co-author (with Carlos A. Scolari and Paolo Bertetti) of Transmedia Archaeology: Storytelling in the Borderlines of Science Fiction, Comics and Pulp Magazines (Palgrave Pivot, 2014). His research can also be found in journals such as The International Journal of Cultural Studies, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and International Journal of Communication.
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Instructor, Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
I am an Associate Wildlife Biologist and lecturer in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph. I conducted all my PhD field work in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario.
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Seismologist, GNS Science
Matthew is a seismologist who focuses on earthquake forecasting and seismic hazard modelling.
Matthew leads the New Zealand National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) - a scientific model that uses geodetic modelling and historical earthquake data to estimate the likelihood and strength of earthquake shaking in different parts of New Zealand. The NSHM is widely used by government and industry to estimate the likely impact of earthquakes on the country’s land, buildings and infrastructure.
In 2022 a significant revision of the model was released. This was a three-year project which helps to improve our understanding of risks to safety, security, and the economy from seismic events. Working in partnership with central and local government, engineers, universities and other Crown Research Institutes, and with input from international scientists and expert end users, the revision will lead to better management of, and responses to, natural hazard events, as well as influencing and improving infrastructure and building code legislation and requirements. This work will have ultimate benefits to the people of New Zealand.
During seismic events, he works alongside GNS Science’s earthquake forecasting team to provide forecasting data and probabilistic modelling to assist in the event response and recovery phases.
Before joining GNS, Matt worked on a range of seismology projects around the world, creating better understanding and quantification of uncertainties, developing testable models, methods for propagating uncertainties and forecasting and hazard models. He developed an aftershock hazard forecasting tool, which has been extensively used by the US Geological Survey and featured prominently in New Zealand’s response to the Canterbury earthquakes.
Matthew is a member of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering and an Associate Editor for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
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Research Scientist; Director, Food Safety Research Network, Quadram Institute
Dr Matthew Gilmour leads the ‘Listeria and other Invasive Pathogens’ research group and directs the Food Safety Research Network at the Quadram Institute in Norwich, England. Matthew is also co-lead of Quadram’s ‘Microbes and Food Safety’ strategic programme which has a focus on translating the Institute’s key microbiology findings and genomic technologies with partners in food industry and government.
Matthew was previously based in Canada where his group was a pioneer in using bacterial genomics to study outbreaks, including the large Canadian listeriosis outbreak in 2008 and then the Haitian cholera outbreak of 2010. With this experience in public health, from 2015 to 2020 Matthew was the Scientific Director of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory. At the NML, Matthew had significant leadership roles for pandemic preparedness and response, as he was also co-chair of the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network and the Global Health Security Action Group Laboratory Network.
Matthew has also clinical laboratory expertise, as he previously served as a Clinical Microbiologist at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, where he was the laboratory lead for Infection Prevention & Control, and he remains interested in the evolution and transmissibility of antibiotic resistant organisms.
As a culmination of these experiences, Matthew is also now Director of the Food Safety Research Network, based at the Quadram Institute. This network has the goal of brokering collaborative research projects between food businesses and academic research groups that will make UK foods safer from microbial risks.
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow and Director, UniSA Microscopy and Microanalysis Facilities, University of South Australia
A/Prof Matthew Griffith is an ARC Future Fellow and Research Leader within UniSA’s Future Industries Institute, where he focuses on developing innovative light-activated materials that solve some of the biggest challenges in the areas of Health and Energy. He is also the host of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's official podcast, Chemically Speaking, and the Director for the Microscopy Australia facilities at UniSA.
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Historian, Charles Sturt University
Dr. Matthew Grubits is an Adjunct Research Associate with the School of Theology, Charles Sturt University. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies, specialising in the history of Christianity in Australia and Britain in the nineteenth century. Matthew is the current Australian Religious History Fellow with the State Library of New South Wales.
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Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Centre for Research on Ageing and Generations, Department of Sociology., University of Surrey
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Deputy Business & Economy Editor
Matthew is passionate about making business and finance news more meaningful, relevant and approachable for a greater number of Australians. He holds both a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance, Management) and Master of Journalism from the University of Melbourne. Before joining The Conversation, Matthew produced financial journalism covering a range of sectors for market intelligence firm Field Research.
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Professor of Ecology, Head of Environmental Research and Data, The National Trust
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Senior Research Fellow, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication, Stockholm School of Economics
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Associate Professor in Planning, Massey University
I have a PhD in human geography from the University of Auckland, as well as an undergraduate qualification in Resource and Environmental Planning, and MPhil in geography, both from Massey University.
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University of Portsmouth
I’m a lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, teaching video game design and development. I specialise in narrative and cognitive psychology and bringing those to storytelling and game design.
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Lecturer in Sport Business Management, Keele University
Matthew joined Keele University as a lecturer in Sport Business Management in 2023.
Previously to working at Keele University, Matthew worked at Manchester Metropolitan University as a lecturer in Sport Marketing and Policy.
He has also worked in several roles outside of academia, including at a sports insights marketing agency, football club charities and women’s football clubs.
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Professor of English, University of Maryland
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the College of Information Studies at Maryland, and a member of the teaching faculty at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School. He served previously as an Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) for over a decade. He is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.
His most recent book, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, was published by Harvard University Press’s Belknap Press in 2016; with Pat Harrigan, he also co-edited the collection Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming from the MIT Press (2016). His public-facing writing has appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, LA Review of Books, Paris Review Daily, War on the Rocks, and The Conversation. His research has been covered by the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Guardian, National Public Radio, Boing Boing, and WIRED, among many other outlets. In 2016 he delivered the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, a written version of which are under contract to the University of Pennsylvania Press as Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage.
Kirschenbaum’s current interests include the history of writing and authorship, textual and bibliographical studies, serious games, and military media and technologies. His first book, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT Press, 2008) won multiple prizes, including the 16th annual Prize for a First Book from the Modern Language Association. He was also the lead author on the Council on Library and Information Resources report Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content for Cultural Heritage Collections (2010), recognized with a commendation from the Society of American Archivists. See mkirschenbaum.net or follow him on Twitter as @mkirschenbaum for more.
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Appointed as an associate professor of economics in 2012, and a professor of economics in 2014. Joined UWC in April 2015 from NMMU. NRF Rated as an established researcher in 2012 for the 6-year cycle, 2012-2018.
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Director of Strategy, Partnerships and Intelligence at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
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Honorary Research Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland., The University of Queensland
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