Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, United States Naval Academy Christopher R. Anderson is an Associate Professor at the United States Naval Academy. He has over two decades of experience in radiowave propagation measurements and modeling, software-defined radios, and dynamic spectrum sharing. He is the Founder and Director of the Wireless Measurements Group (WMG), a focused research group that specializes in spectrum, propagation, and field strength measurements in diverse environments and at frequencies ranging from 300 MHz to 28 GHz. He is a former Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Signal Processing Special Issue on Non-Cooperative Localization Networks. He is currently the Chair of the Electromagnetic Metrology Commission in the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science.
Deputy Electromagnetic Spectrum Manager, National Radio Astronomy Observatory I served as Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of Bradley Observatory at Agnes Scott College from 1996-2021. My research interests are high mass star formation as studied with radio telescopes including ALMA and the Very Large Array. In 2021 I accepted a position with the NRAO in the Spectrum Management office. NRAO is working with a number of commercial satellite operators to come up with novel solutions to spectrum coexistence for active and passive users.
Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Reading Life on planet earth evolved over billions of years. Of all the species produced in that time, 99% are now extinct. A major challenge in biology is to understand how life works when 99% of our data is missing. I am part of a dynamic research group at the University of Reading who aim to meet this challenge by integrating paleontological and biological data using evolutionary models. I am broadly interested in the macroevolutionary patterns and processes of vertebrate genome biology, physiology, functional morphology, and ecology. Computational modeling allows my team to integrate data from fossils with extant species to understand how these systems evolve. With this approach, we can now, in the post-genome era, tackle new questions about genotypes and phenotypes in long-extinct species and their evolution across deep time. My research seizes this opportunity to study major evolutionary transformations across levels of biological organization, from genes and genomes to morphology and behavior.
PhD Candidate, Monash University I am a current PhD Candidate at the Monash Bioethics Centre. My research is at the intersection of procreation ethics, population ethics and environmental ethics, and is specifically investigating to what extent procreative practices need to change in light of overpopulation and climate change concerns. I have a Masters Research Degree from Monash University and an Honours degree from the University of Melbourne. I am also currently employed as a Researcher at Sydney Health Ethics (USyd) where I am part of a team investigating the commercial influences in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs).
Senior Research Assistant, University of Essex I achieved my PhD in Health Studies at the University of Essex. My research focusses on the psychological health benefits of green exercise, nature-based public health interventions, and green social prescribing. I have been involved in evaluating various nature-based initiatives at local and national level. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/WICKS38804/claire-wicks https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8330-5373
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Design; Coordinator, Play, Creativity and Wellbeing Project, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra Associate Professor Cathy Hope is Engagement and Impact Director in the Faculty of Arts and Design, and Coordinator of the Play, Creativity and Wellbeing Project in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. This applied research project critically examines the role and capability of play in cultural practice across the lifespan and is currently investigating the potential of play in enlivening cities, growing communities and enhancing wellbeing. Cathy has facilitated hundreds of local collaborative and innovative real world cross-sector projects and produced multiple government and industry reports that aim to improve people and place outcomes and wellbeing in the ACT. In 2019 Cathy led the national award-winning Haig Park Experiments with a cross-sector consortium, which piloted 26 creative ‘experiments’ to transform the once unsafe and unused Canberra green space into a loved community hub. Cathy also founded Play Activation Network ACT – an interdisciplinary and collaborative collective of over 80 local professionals dedicated to making Canberra a more playful and playable city. In 2021 Cathy won the UC Citizen of the Year Award for her significant contributions to Canberra. Cathy has written extensively on alternative cultures in their initial experimental phases – including film festivals, farmers’ markets and Australian youth radio station Triple J. Cathy programmed films for the early Canberra International Film Festivals, and co-directed the Canberra Short Film Festival. She has worked in a freelance capacity for the Australian media, including film and travel reviewer for The Canberra Review, chief editor of a Melbourne city guide and other publications including Rolling Stone magazine. Play - as a cultural mechanism, as a strategy for enhancing well being, and as an enabler of engagement, creative practice, and disruption – is at the core of Cathy's freelance writing, research, engagement and teaching pursuits and practice. Cathy thinks herself lucky.
