Contributors

Brian Hill

Research Director CNRS, Professor, HEC Paris and Academic Director, Inclusive Economy Center, S&O Institute, HEC Paris, HEC Paris Business School

Research Director CNRS, Professor, HEC Paris and Academic Director, Inclusive Economy Center, S&O Institute, HEC Paris, HEC Paris Business School

Brendan Clifford

Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs, UNSW Sydney

Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs, UNSW Sydney Dr Brendan Clifford is a Senior Research Fellow with the National Centre for Clinical Research in Emerging Drugs, where he leads the Policy & Implementation program. Brendan is a clinician researcher who uses interdisciplinary methods to further health equity and enhance access to evidence-based healthcare. He has worked in a variety of clinical settings ranging from community controlled health to emergency department settings both in Australia and overseas. His work focuses on developing clinical interventions and public health responses for people who use methamphetamine and other emerging drugs of concern, including pharmacological clinical trials, health service research and knowledge translation. He has also held roles in inclusive health innovation, and health professional education.

Brandon Robert Munn

Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Sydney

Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Sydney I am a first-generation academic and neurophysicist passionate about using physics to understand complex systems, especially the brain! Growing up in Adelaide, I moved to Sydney to complete my BSc in Physics and Applied Maths in 2014 and my PhD in 2020, bridging physics with Computational Cellular Neuroscience at the University of Sydney. Now, I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the Shine Lab, where I’m diving into Systems Neuroscience.

Benjamin Roulston

Assistant Professor of Physics, Clarkson University

Assistant Professor of Physics, Clarkson University Dr. Benjamin Roulston is an Assistant Professor of Physics and the Director of the Observatory at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY. Since joining Clarkson University in 2023, Dr. Roulston has been dedicated to teaching and research, focusing his research on binary stars, specifically post-mass transfer binaries. His research investigates how binary stars can exchange mass and interact together, contributing to the understanding of various astrophysical processes such as common-envelope-evolution. Dr. Roulston completed his PhD at Boston University while serving as a predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. His doctoral research concentrated on binary stars, particularly dwarf carbon stars, utilizing models and observations from Chandra, Hubble, and various optical telescopes to study their formation and properties. Before joining Clarkson University, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech working on the Zwicky Transient Facility project. At Clarkson University, Dr. Roulston teaches a range of courses, including introductory physics (Physics 1 and 2), an introductory astronomy course, an advanced astrophysics course, and an aerospace engineering course on the space environment. His teaching philosophy emphasizes engaging students through problem-solving and hands-on experience with real data, bridging the gap between theoretical concepts and practical application.

Beer Prakken

PhD student, University of Groningen

PhD student, University of Groningen

Bonita Meyersfeld

Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand

Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand Bonita Meyersfeld is a human rights lawyer, academic and advocate. She is an associate professor at Wits School of Law School and an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar and the Pan African Bar Association of Southern Africa. From 2012 to 2017, she was the director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies. She is the founder of Lawyers against Abuse, an NGO which provides legal and psycho-social services and representations to clients experiencing gender-based violence. She has appeared before the International Criminal Court, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeals and the High Court of South Africa. She has worked in various international NGOs and was a parliamentary legal advisor in the House of Lords in the United Kingdom. She was an editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights. Bonita obtained her LLB (cum laude) from Wits and her masters and doctorate in law from Yale Law School. Bonita teaches and publishes in the areas of gender-based violence, business and human rights, and international law. She is the author of the book, Domestic Violence and International Law. Bonita has consulted for, and presented expert statements to, various United Nations fora. In 2018, Bonita was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite (Knight of the National Order of Merit) by the President of France in honour of her academic and practical work in human rights and gender-based violence.