Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University Dr. Antonio Arenas serves as an assistant professor at Iowa State University (ISU) in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering. He has participated in a variety of research projects with an emphasis on the application and development of computational models and data analyses to understand and simulate surface-subsurface hydrologic interactions, the long-term effects of land-use changes on watershed hydrology and water quality, fish migratory behavior, spillway hydrodynamics, and total dissolved gas and temperature dynamics at hydropower reservoirs and tailraces. His current research focuses on developing and using fully coupled surface-subsurface watershed models to evaluate flood mitigation strategies and study the fate and transport of nutrients. Before joining ISU, Dr. Arenas worked as an associate research engineer at IIHR Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa (UI). He has a Ph.D. from UI, received a master’s degree from Universität Stuttgart (University of Stuttgart), and holds a bachelor’s degree from La Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria.
Senior Erre Traditional Owner, Indigenous Knowledge Alfred Nayingull is a senior Erre Traditional Owner from Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. He is committed to caring for his people's cultural heritage, and has been actively involved in Indigenous land management and conservation efforts in the region. Alfred has been instrumental in the creation of the Njanjma Aboriginal Rangers, who are responsible for managing Erre traditional lands in the Arnhem Land Aboriginal Land Trust and Kakadu National Park. He is currently a member of the Kakadu National Park Board of Management. He has also been involved in the development of cultural tourism initiatives, which showcase the unique traditions and customs of the local Aboriginal communities. Alfred's dedication to caring for country and his people's culture and the natural environment is widely respected and appreciated.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology I am studying the microbiome of ancient and modern metagenomic samples that are associated with humans.
Professor of English and Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities, Boston University Adriana Craciun specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, with current research in Arctic humanities, exploration studies, science studies, historical geography, history of collecting, Enlightenment, history of the book and of authorship. Her most recent book, Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration (Cambridge UP, 2016), was shortlisted for the 2016 Kendrick Book Prize by the Society for Literature, Science & the Arts, and uncovers a rich textual and material archive of Arctic exploration culture from the 17th century through to our own era of renewed interest in exploration’s contentious legacies. She is also the author of Fatal Women of Romanticism (Cambridge UP, 2003) and British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World (Palgrave, 2005), which focused on women writers’ significant contributions to Romantic-era thinking on the body, gender, revolutionary politics, and cosmopolitanism. She is the editor of several essay collections, most recently the volumes Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting and Making Knowledge in the Long 18th Century (2019), and The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences, co-edited with Simon Schaffer (2016), and the special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies on The Disorder of Things (2011). She has published numerous essays in journals such as PMLA, New Literary History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Romantic Review, Atlantic Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Before coming to BU, Craciun taught at the University of California-Riverside, the University of London, and the University of Nottingham, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), the Fulbright Program, and the National Maritime Museum (UK). She is the editor of Studies in Romanticism, the flagship journal of Romantic literary studies founded at BU in 1961. Current book-length projects include: Arctic Enlightenments, a study of botanical vitality, temporality, and collecting from the Enlightenment to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault; Arctic Mobilities (co-authored with Michael Bravo); The Star Gazers: Astronomy, Poetry and Sexuality in 19th-Century Ireland. She also runs the Cultures of Science interdisciplinary research seminar at BU, and serves on the Executive Board of the Center for the Study of Europe, and as Associated Faculty at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
Research in Epidemiology, Stockholm University I am a researcher in Epidemiology Unit at the Stress Research Institute. I have a PhD in environmental epidemiology from Karolinska Institutet. I was trained as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Stress Research Insitute, Stockholm University and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. My research investigates how changing weather patterns impact mental health of Swedish and Finnish working population. My research also includes the impact of environmental characteristics around home and workplace on behavior-related health of Swedish working population. I have substantial experience of working with register-based data and large longitudinal surveys.
Lecturer in German, Aberystwyth University M.A. in English Literature, German Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (English) from Augsburg University (Germany); MSc in Psychology (Chester, UK); PhD in Theatre Studies (Wales). I am currently Lecturer in German at Aberystwyth University. I am a Fellow of the HEA and a graduate member of the BPS. My research focuses on performance philosophy and contemporary politics (especially Zizek and performance), post-1956 European Drama, theatre translation and on Easy German Grammar.
