Associate Professor of Physics, University of Sydney I am an experimental particle physicist with a background in accelarator-based neutrino experiments, and flavour physics at electron-positron colliders. My current research is focussed on hidden flavour, especially searches for exotic quarkonium-like mesons at the LHC. I hold a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and am one of the Chief Investigators of the Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP).
Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, The University of Queensland Dr Breanna Lepre is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Lecturer at the University of Queensland with professional and lived experience of neurodiversity and chronic health conditions. Breanna's research interests include workforce development, community and public health and AI. Her vision is to create a health care system that supports chronic wellness, not just chronic illness. Breanna has been invited to share her expertise at renowned institutions including Cambridge University and the World Health Organization and is a Tedx speaker.
Curator, Division of Political History, Smithsonian Institution I am an internationally known scholar and public historian specializing in the field of early America. I earned my PhD at Yale, working on the American Revolution under the amazing Edmund S. Morgan. My publications include scholarly works, as The Freedoms We Lost, published by the New Press in 2011) and essays in journals such as the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of the Early Republic, and other venues. I have produced museum exhibitions at the National Museum of American History and elsewhere, ranging from everyday life "After The Revolution" (1985) through more recent exhibits of "American Democracy" (2017) and "Upending 1620," which treated the Wampanoag engagement with English newcomers called Pilgrims in that year (2020). I have presented the findings of scholarship to a public readership in museum catalogs, a handbook for the National Park Service's Freedom Trail, and various op-eds and occasional publications.
Assistant Teaching Professor of History, Arizona State University Brock Ruggles earned his doctorate and master's degrees in history from Arizona State University after completing a bachelor's in sociology and teaching for AmeriCorps. He has extensive experience developing and instructing a range of traditional and online courses in U.S. and world history and writes about culture and politics.
Senior Lecturer, School of Law, The University of Queensland Barbora Jedlickova joined the University of Queensland in 2011. She specialises in competition law and is interested in comparative competition law, competition-law theories and competition law in the digital economy. Her research has focused primarily on vertical restraints; bargaining power; and economic and jurisprudential theories and arguments in competition law. Her research also includes analysis of specific markets with distinctive issues such the grocery retail market, the pharmaceutical market and the telecommunications market. Her recent publications include a research monograph Resale Price Maintenance and Vertical Territorial Restrictions: Theory and Practice in EU Competition Law and US Antitrust Law published by Edward Elgar Publishing and a joint article on legal theories in anti-cartel law published in the Federal Law Review. Dr Jedlickova’s engagement and research are both nationally and internationally orientated. She has visited several European and US institutions as a visiting scholar; including the University of Iowa, Boston University and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She is a member of a number of national and international associations. She is an active member of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) and has been involved in three international LIDC projects. Dr Jedlickova is a Fellow of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPILC) and a Fellow of the Australian Centre for Private Law at the TC Beirne School of Law. She manages one of the CPICL’s research programs and has severed as a General Editor of the LAWASIA Journal. Dr Jedlickova holds degrees from the University of Glasgow in the UK (PhD in Law, 2012; and LL.M. with Commendation in International Competition Law and Policy, 2007) and from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic (2004). Prior to her academic career, she worked as a Lawyer in the Czech Republic and as a Contracts Officer/Assistant Contracts Manager at both the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow in the UK. In 2009, she was a trainee (a blue-book 'stagiaire') of DG Competition at the European Commission in Brussels.
Professor of Environmental Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology Brian Stone Jr., Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the area of urban environmental planning and design. Stone's program of research is focused on urban scale drivers of climate change and is supported by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is Director of the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech and author of the forthcoming book, Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World (Cambridge University Press). Stone holds degrees in environmental management and planning from Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
