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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Research Scientist in Atmospheric Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York
Arshad Arjunan Nair is a Research Scientist at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) of the University at Albany. Inherently an interdisciplinarian, Dr. Nair identifies concepts across disciplines and integrates them to address pressing research questions with societal implications. He received his Dual-Degree BS-MS in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India and his PhD in the Atmospheric Sciences from the University at Albany, for which he won the 2021/22 SUNY Chancellor Distinguished PhD Graduate Dissertation Award (First Place).
Dr. Nair’s research intersects multiple disciplines, broadly aimed at contributing to our understanding of various impacts of atmospheric trace gases (particularly ammonia) and aerosols on climate and public health using synergistic approaches that have cross-disciplinary implications. His development of explainable machine learning models for the quantification of aerosol properties have contributed to mitigating the largest climate model uncertainties due to aerosol–cloud interactions. This work has further implications for the development and application of explainable (xAI), interpretable, and trustworthy artificial intelligence. Dr. Nair’s postdoctoral work was aimed at understanding unforeseen impacts of air-quality and health associations under a changing paradigm of atmospheric chemistry, particularly with emergent pollutants and their disparate impacts on underserved populations. His research is widely published, and he actively engages in interdisciplinary efforts to address pressing environmental challenges, aiming to inform public policy and bolster our community’s climate and health resilience.
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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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Research Associate, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
Art Cotterell is a researcher, policy adviser and lawyer.
Art joined the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University (ANU) in late 2023 as a Research Associate, and is a Research Affiliate with the Australian Centre for Space Governance.
Prior to joining academia, Art was an executive level advisor on regulatory reform within Australian Government central agencies, and previously worked in international policy and cooperation on intellectual property (IP).
Art’s research is on regulating emerging technologies, with a focus on balancing public and private interests and using technology as a basis for international cooperation. Art is completing their PhD on international outer space and IP law at The University of Adelaide.
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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 Practice in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
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Distinguished Professor, Centre for Conservation and Ecology Genetics, University of Canberra
Professor Arthur Georges is an ecologist and herpetologist whose research interests lie in the evolution, ecology and systematics of Australian reptiles. A fundamental interest in these fascinating animals takes him into the field and the laboratory to learn more of their biology and to apply what he has learned in solving contemporary challenges for their conservation.
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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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Catedrático de Ecología, investigador del Instituto de Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (BIOMA) y responsable de investigación del Museo de Ciencias, Universidad de Navarra
Profesor de Ecología y Ciencia de Datos en la Universidad de Navarra y tutor en Ciencias Ambientales en la UNED. Responsable de investigación del Museo de Ciencias en la Universidad de Navarra e investigador en el Instituto de Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (BIOMA) en el área de medio ambiente y ecología. Sus proyectos recientes incluyen el análisis de las pautas globales de biodiversidad, análisis de la calidad del aire en alta resolución, y movilización y distribución de datos de historia natural. Miembro de varios comités y consorcios internacionales de investigación.
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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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Acting Instructor, University of Washington; Research Associate, Fred Hutch Cancer Center); Honorary Senior Lecturer (University of Cape Town), University of Washington
Dr Tapley is an infectious disease sub-specialist physician and researcher at the University of Washington and Fred Hutch Cancer Center. He has an extensive background in clinical and lab-based tuberculosis (TB) research. More recently Dr Tapley has also been involved in vaccine clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa related to TB, HIV, and COVID-19 in affiliation with the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) and the COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN). Dr. Tapley splits his time between Cape Town and Seattle. In addition to research work, he continues to teach and see patients.
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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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