Contributors

Afshin Jafari

Research fellow, RMIT University

Research fellow, RMIT University

Ascelin Gordon

Senior research fellow, RMIT University

Senior research fellow, RMIT University I originally studied physics completing a PhD in particle physics at the University of Melbourne. My research focuses on developing quantitative and qualitative approaches for understanding the impacts of environmental policies and programs on biodiversity values in the landscape. I have has undertaken extensive research on biodiversity offsetting, conservation planning, spatial prioritization and conservation on private land as well the application of machine learning approaches to support conservation and land-use policy.

Aviva Tugendhaft

Senior Researcher, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand

Senior Researcher, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand Aviva is Senior Researcher at SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA. sHE is a Health Sociologist with a background in Law and Political Science. Her interests lie in priority setting for health focused on NCDs and maternal and child health. She is a PhD candidate and her work explores the adaptation, implementation and evaluation of tools and methods to engage the public in priority setting for health. She has previous experience in programme and policy analysis and development, specifically with regard to community health initiatives.

Andrea Bruder

Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy and Post-doctoral Research Fellow, La Trobe University

Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy and Post-doctoral Research Fellow, La Trobe University Dr Andrea Bruder is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre (LASEM). Her research focuses on primary and secondary prevention of knee osteoarthritis, with a special interest in reducing gender disparity in musculoskeletal injury risk and long-term burden. Andrea was the clinical coordinator of a collaborative study with the Australian Football League to co-design, implement and evaluate an injury prevention program (Prep-to-Play PRO) in elite women's Australian Rules Football (AFLW). She is currently a trial coordinator on an NHMRC-funded clinical trial (SUPER knee) investigating the effect of a supervised exercise and education program on symptoms, function and quality of life in young adults after an anterior cruciate ligament injury. Andrea is a physiotherapist, and her PhD thesis investigating the role of exercise in upper limb fracture rehabilitation was awarded the Nancy Millis Medal for completing a PhD thesis of exceptionally high quality in September 2018. Andrea has more than 30 peer-review publications. She currently supervises 3 PhD students, and one Honours student.

Amadou Ghouenzen Mfondi

Chargé de cours et chercheur en études des conflits, Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University

Chargé de cours et chercheur en études des conflits, Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University Amadou Ghouenzen Mfondi a un doctorat en études de conflits à l'Université Saint-Paul, à Ottawa au Canada. Il est chargé de cours. Ses recherches portent sur les conflits identitaires, les politiques d'identité et le processus de paix et de résolution de conflits dans les sociétés nationales soumises à des dynamiques de fragmentation.

Alexander Skeels

Postdoctoral Researcher, Macroevolution and Macroecology Group, Australian National University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Macroevolution and Macroecology Group, Australian National University I am a evolutionary biologist and biogeographer currently working as a postdoc in the Macroevolution and Macroecology Group at the Australian National University (ANU). Before this, I did a postdoc in the Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution Group at ETH Zürich and the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape (WSL), and a PhD at the ANU. I’m interested in finding links between biogeographic diversity patterns and the macroevolutionary histories of the plant and animal clades that contribute to them. One of my main interests is the origins of biodiversity hotspots, such as those found in tropical rainforests, mountain ranges, or Mediterranean-type ecosystems. I am also interested in understanding how these regions, and the taxa found within them, are vulnerable to global change. To explore these topics, I analyse spatial, phylogenetic, and ecological trait data with simulation modelling and phylogenetic comparative approaches.