Lecturer at Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology Dr Angela Baeza Peña is Diaguita First Nation from the north of Chile. She is Lecturer at the Carumba Institute at Queensland University of Technology. Angela is a Math teacher and has a Master in Education from Monash University and a Master in Learning Disabilities from PUC. Her research theorises the understanding of teachers' experiences and Indigenous community members regarding providing Indigenous education in rural and remote areas. Angela’s research interests include Indigenous education, teacher professional development and higher education with Indigenous peoples. Her publications include several books and journal articles in English and Spanish.
Reader in Psychology, The University of Edinburgh Reader in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Specialises in mental health and neurodiversity from a developmental perspective.
Lecturer in East Asian Religions, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Alessandro Poletto (he/they) specializes in the social and religious history of premodern Japan, with an emphasis on Buddhism in the early medieval period (tenth to the thirteenth century). He earned his PhD from Columbia University in 2020 with a dissertation entitled “The Culture of Healing in Early Medieval Japan: A Study in Premodern Epistemology,” in which he examined discourses and practices concerning healing and disease, with particular attention to the relationship between Buddhist healers and other technicians involved in the treatment of illness, namely court physicians and onmyōji. His other research and teaching interests include the understanding and ritual resolution of natural disasters in premodern East Asia, the history of the cultural exchanges between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago, and Buddhist material culture and archeology in East Asia. His current research focuses on the material and textual dimensions of various types of deposits — within statues or under the ground — in order to get a grasp of Buddhism as practiced by lay Buddhists in early medieval Japan. Dedicatory or votive materials discovered inside Buddhist statues or in underground deposits (commonly known as kyōzuka) illustrate the motivations behind the undertaking of a certain burial of sutras, or the production of a copy of a specific sutra, allowing us to see the hopes, aspirations and anxieties of the people engaging in such practices, but also the ways in which they attempted to shape their destinies, and those of deceased dear ones, through their dedicatory good acts. Before joining Washington University, Alessandro was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University. He holds a B.A. from the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” and an M.A. from Osaka University.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University I am an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and am currently part of the team at ACME POCT (Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies), the Test Verification Center for RADx (Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics) Tech that is involved in validating tests that are used to detect and diagnose SARS-CoV-2 infections. I co-lead the Analytical Testing Lab of RADx at ACME POCT. Since December of 2020, we along with the Variant Task Force (comprising leaders in the diagnostics industry, NIH, FDA, and academia) have been involved in “testing the tests”. We ascertain that diagnostic tests are capable of accurately detecting all rapidly arising SARS-CoV-2 variants and to establish a biobank at Emory University that includes all the known variants of concern (VOC) that are circulating in the US. A major portion of this endeavor involves using clinical samples of specific variants to verify that diagnostic tests detect all the circulating variants as effectively as wild type SARS-CoV-2. In the past year, we are analyzing multiplex tests. These are home tests being developed for simultaneous detection of Influenza A, Influenza B and SARS-CoV-2 using a single sample. In addition to working to facilitate EUA for over-the-counter multiplex tests, our team also working on analytical studies for other point of care device for detection of viruses involved in common curable liver disease.
Professor of Global Environmental Governance, Wageningen University Aarti Gupta is Professor of Global Environmental Governance at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the contested politics of transparency and accountability in global environmental and climate governance, and the challenges of anticipatory governance of novel technologies, such as biotechnology and climate engineering. She has published widely on these topics, including Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: Critical Perspectives (2014, MIT Press). She is principal investigator of the TRANSGOV research project on the Transformative Potential of Transparency in Climate Governance (https://trans-gov.org/) and co-lead of the REIMAGINE consortium project on anticipatory climate governance in vulnerable regions of the global South. She is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Earth System Governance (ESG) research alliance, and series co-editor of the Cambridge Elements in Earth System Governance, published by Cambridge University Press. She holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from Yale University, with a background in political science, international relations, and science and technology studies.
Professeure-chercheure adjointe au Département de médecine, Université de Montréal 2013-2018: Doctorat en sciences biomédicales à l'Université de Montréal et au Centre d'études avancées en médecine du sommeil 2018-2021: Post-doctorat à la Boston University et à la Framingham Heart Study en neurologie et épidémiologie 2021-2023: Post-doctorat à l'Université McGill et à l'Institut universitaire de recherche en santé mentale Douglas 2023: Professeure-chercheure adjointe à l'Université de Montréal et au Centre d'études avancées en médecine du sommeil du Centre de recherche du CIUSSS-NIM (site Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal)
