Contributors

Aisha Lofters

Associate professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Associate professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto Aisha Lofters is a family physician and Chair in Implementation Science at the Peter Gilgan Centre for Women's Cancers at Women's College Hospital in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society.

Aaron Schokman

PhD Candidate, University of Sydney

PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Aaron Schokman is a lived experience researcher who has recently submitted his PhD thesis at The University of Sydney. Aaron was diagnosed with narcolepsy, a rare and debilitating sleep disorder in his late teens that sparked his interest in research. These include patient-physician collaboration, how we measure treatment success and looking at ways to improve end-user participation (e.g persons living with a condition, family/carers) in health policy development. His current research triangulates the experiences of families, carers, physicians, and those living with narcolepsy to identify what is and isn’t working when living and managing narcolepsy in Australia.

Andrew Lenton

Director Permanent Carbon Locking Future Science Platform (CarbonLock), CSIRO Environment, CSIRO

Director Permanent Carbon Locking Future Science Platform (CarbonLock), CSIRO Environment, CSIRO Andrew Lenton is the Director of CSIRO's Permanent Carbon Locking Future Science Platform (CarbonLock). CarbonLock focuses on novel Carbon Dioxide Removal that is scalable, fast-acting, permanent and responsible. His research interests focus on Carbon Dioxide Removal and its role in reaching net zero and transitioning to a net-negative world. Dr Lenton is engaged in national and international Carbon Dioxide Removal research efforts, co-leading the recent Climate Change Authority Reports on Australia’s Carbon Sequestration Potential. Amongst other roles, Andrew continues to lead the Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project (CDRMIP), is a principal investigator in several national and international projects, and serves on several national and international advisory groups. He brings over 20 years of experience modelling the global carbon cycle and climate, focusing on understanding past, present and future changes in the earth's system and exploring solutions beyond mitigation to address climate change. He has been involved in negative emissions and geoengineering research for over a decade. Andrew has held a number of positions, from Research Director to leading CSIRO's Earth System Science Portfolio. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and reports, including the 5th and 6th IPCC Assessment Reports.

Amy Tapsell

Research Officer, University of Sydney

Research Officer, University of Sydney Amy Tapsell is a Research Officer at the University of Sydney for the Gender Equality in Working Life Research Initiative (GEWL). Her current research (funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Project) investigates how gendered dynamics and inequalities play out in two distinct workplace contexts (the retail industry and legal profession). Amy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Public Health (Health Promotion) from the University of Wollongong. She has worked in research (with her research work spanning across the disciplines of social sciences, health, and psychology), as well as in the government sector.

Andreas Lechner

Associate Professor, Graz University of Technology

Associate Professor, Graz University of Technology Andreas Lechner is Associate Professor of Design and Building Typology at TU Graz and a practicing architect. His teaching, writing, and research activities form an integral part of his engagement with architecture. He was a visiting researcher at the Università Iuav di Venezia and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and held various lectures and visiting professorships internationally. His habilitation thesis was published as awards winning ‘Design Thinking - Blueprint for an Architecture of Typology’ (Park Books 2021) and presents a contemporary typological position that is open and undogmatic. Andreas Lechner studied architecture at Graz University of Technology and after formative study stays in Los Angeles, trained as an architect living and working in Berlin, Tokyo and Vienna. After obtaining a doctorate in 2009, he was assistant professor and is since 2017 an associate professor for design and typology at the TU Graz faculty of architecture. From 2022 to 2023 Andreas is a visiting scholar at the Politecnico di Milano.

Alessandra Casarico

Associate Professor of Public Economics, Bocconi University

Associate Professor of Public Economics, Bocconi University I am Associate Professor of Public Economics and Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality. I am the Academic Director of the World Bachelor in Business, a joint undergraduate program of Bocconi, HKUST and USC. I am the scientific coordinator of the Social Inclusion Lab at the Dondena Research Center on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi. I am CESifo Research Fellow and member of the Scientific Advisory Council of Ifo, Munich. I hold a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University. My research interests are in public and gender economics. I have published research in international refereed journals, and I have contributed to books published by national and international editors. I am active in the policy debate on gender inequality and I am managing editor of the information site lavoce.info.