Contributors

Besma Boubertakh

Doctoral student, molecular medicine, Université Laval

Doctoral student, molecular medicine, Université Laval Besma Boubertakh is a post-graduate student in the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval. Her research focuses on investigating the molecular pathways and mechanisms that are linked to obesity. She studies the endocannabinoid system, which is a lipid signaling pipeline in our bodies that regulates white fat development and whole-body homeostasis.

Ben Goulet-Scott

Higher Education & Laboratory Coordinator at Harvard Forest, Harvard University

Higher Education & Laboratory Coordinator at Harvard Forest, Harvard University I am a curious naturalist based in Boston, trained as a plant biologist and artist, and passionate about conservation and education. I completed my PhD in evolutionary biology at Harvard University, and I am now Higher Education & Laboratory Coordinator at Harvard Forest.

Bill Gammage

Emeritus Professor, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University

Emeritus Professor, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University Bill Gammage is an Emeritus Professor at the Humanities Research Centre, studying Aboriginal land management at the time of contact. He grew up in Wagga Wagga and went to Wagga High School, then to the Australian National University (ANU). He taught history at the University of Papua New Guinea (1966, 1972-6), the University of Adelaide (1977-96), and the ANU (1997-2003). He wrote The Broken Years. Australian Soldiers in the Great War (1974+), An Australian in the First World War (1976), Narrandera Shire (1986) which won the ABC/ABA Manning Clark Bicentennial History Award in 1988, and The Sky Travellers. Journeys in New Guinea 1938-39 (1998), which won the inaugural Queensland Premier's Prize for Non-Fiction in 1999, and that year was short-listed for the NSW Premier's History Prize. In 2011, he published The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia. He co-edited the Australians 1938 volume of the Bicentennial History of Australia (1988), and three books about Australian soldiers in World War One. He was historical adviser to Peter Weir's film Gallipoli and to about ten documentaries. He served the National Museum of Australia for three years as Council member, deputy chair, and acting chair. He was made a Freeman of the Shire of Narrandera in 1987. He and his wife Jan have many friends.

Bruce Tonge

Professor Child adolescent and developmental psychiatry, Monash University

Professor Child adolescent and developmental psychiatry, Monash University DPM London 1974 MRC Psych 1975 FRANZCP 1976 Cert Child Psych RANZCP 1977 MD ( Uni Melbourne) 1983

Blaine Greteman

Professor and Chair of English, University of Iowa

Professor and Chair of English, University of Iowa My teaching and research focus on early modern book history, poetry, and drama, including Milton and Shakespeare. After leaving Oxford, where I attended on a Rhodes Scholarship, I became a writer for Time magazine, and I also continue to write for popular publications such as Slate, The Week, and The London Review of Books, while teaching classes in creative nonfiction and the essay. My most recent book is "Networking Print in Shakespeare's England (Stanford, 2021).

Barbara Rossi

Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science (Structures & Mechanics), University of Oxford

Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science (Structures & Mechanics), University of Oxford Barbara Rossi joined the University of Oxford in March 2019 as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science (Structures & Mechanics). Prior to this, she was an associate professor in Engineering Technology at KU Leuven in Belgium, where she led a research group exploring the structural behaviour of metallic structures, with a special interest in stainless steel and harsh environments, where corrosion plays an important role. Over the last ten years she also branched into the research area of life-cycle analysis and sustainability appraisal of (metal) structures. Today, Barbara leads the Sustainable Metal Structures Research Group at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the role of metals in structures to improve the construction sector sustainability and resilience. Her team studies materials such as ultra-high strength steel, stainless steel, aluminium, or a combination of these, used in structures such as bridges, windmills, radioactive waste disposal facility, and wastewater treatment plants. Advanced analytical and computational analysis are combined with experimental methods to perform both fundamental and applied research. Full-scale experiments are conducted on structures or part thereof in her former laboratory at KU Leuven and in the new Sustainable Metal Structures Laboratory, at Begbroke Science Park.