Assistant Professor of Spanish, Michigan State University Alejandra Márquez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018. She also has an M.A. in Spanish from Texas A&M International University. Her research interests span a wide range of topics, including contemporary Latin American literature, queer/cuir studies in Latin America, contemporary Mexican chronicle, gendered narratives of northern Mexico, gender identity and transgressions, depictions of state-sponsored violence, and Latinx literature and culture. She has published articles in academic journals such as Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Chasqui, iMex, and the Latin American Literary Review. She has also published a book chapter on gender violence in northern Mexico in the edited collection Senderos de violencia. Latinoamérica y sus literaturas armadas. Her current book project focuses on representations of lesbian desire in contemporary Mexican literature.
Senior Research Associate, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder Alton C. Byers is a mountain geographer, conservationist, and mountaineer specializing in applied research, high altitude ecosystems, glacier hazards, and implementation of integrated conservation and development programs in the Himalayas, Andes, and East African Highlands. He has published widely on a range of scientific and popular topics, and is an author and co-editor of Mountain Geography: Human and Physical Dimensions (University of California Press at Berkeley, 2013). Following receipt of his PhD from the Department of Geography at CU Boulder in 1987, he accepted a two-year position as Co-Manager of the Ruhengeri Resource Analysis and Management (RRAM) project in Ruhengeri Prefecture, Rwanda, volunteering as Scientific Advisor to the late Dian Fossey’s Karasoke Research Center. Following this he was hired by the then-Woodlands Mountain Institute to assist in the design, fundraising, and co-management of the new Makalu-Barun National Park and Conservation Area in eastern Nepal, where he lived for two years (1993-95) in a Nepali village with his young family. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1995, he established, funded, and worked as Director of the Andean Program with a base of operations in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru, turning the program over to a Peruvian national in 1997 who has managed the project ever since. This period of his career corresponded with a growing interest in alpine conservation and restoration, particularly in tourist-impacted regions of the Himalayas and Andes, where he combined applied research with community awareness building to form several local Alpine Conservation Councils in Nepal and Peru that remain effective to this day. He became Director of Appalachian Programs in 1998, developing a range of local conservation, mountain education, and teacher training programs, including the School for Mountain Studies that regularly took undergraduates on field courses to the Mt. Everest region of Nepal and Cordilleras Blanca and Huayhuash in Peru. In the 2000s, Byers added climate change impacts on high mountain environments to his ongoing portfolio of alpine research and conservation, landscape change, and glacial lake management and risk reduction interests, funding and hosting three international, field-based climate change workshops in Nepal and Peru between 2009 and 2013. The High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP), that he has co-managed since 2012 with the University of Texas at Austin, has been a particular highlight in his career, where he developed approaches to integrating results from HiMAP glacial lake rapid reconnaissance research into the local adaptation plan of action (LAPA) process. After 25 years at TMI of project implementation, applied research, cross-programmatic and institutional fundraising, he left TMI in April 2015 to pursue a range of writing, research, and high mountain projects and initiatives, and currently serves as Senior Research Associate at INSTAAR.
Associate Professor of Journalism and Digital Media, Mount Royal University Archie McLean is an associate professor of journalism and digital media at Mount Royal University. Before coming to Calgary, he served as the managing editor for CBC North, based in Yellowknife. He also worked as a reporter and editor at the Edmonton Journal, and served as the chair of journalism at MacEwan University.
Professor of Post-harvest Biotechnology & Nutrition and Director, Centre of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology (CEPB), University of Nottingham Currently a professor in post-harvest physiology and technology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Prof Asgar is the founding director of the Centre of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology. With a range of students under his guidance and supervision, Prof Asgar has laid the groundwork for pioneering and innovative research in the field of edible coatings and films for post-harvest biology. Additionally, he is involved in the progress of science within post-harvest biology as an associate editor of the Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences. His experience spans from the physiology and biochemistry of fruits and vegetables to the field of post-harvest technology. Primarily the isolation and characterisation of bioactive compounds extracted from fruits and vegetables as well as their effect on human health and well-being. Additionally, the analysis of physico-chemical and sensory characteristics of fruits, vegetables and flowers. Expertise in post-harvest quality and shelf-life of fruits and vegetables.
Lecturer in the Department of French, Francophone and Luxembourg Studies, University of Sheffield I graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1997 with an MA (Hons) in French Studies, after which I went to teach English in Dakar, Senegal. My time in West Africa sharpened my interest in all things extra-hexagonal, and I returned to Aberdeen to study for a PhD on the links between publishing and literary discourses of identity in francophone African literature. I taught at Aberdeen for four years before coming to Sheffield in 2002.
Postdoctoral Fellow of Physics, Stockholm University I am a researcher in astroparticle physics at Stockholm University. I did a PhD in the field of neutrinos in supernova explosions. Since then, I have moved my scientific interest to axions. I am currently contributing to the ALPHA experiment.
