University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has over 180 refereed publications on observational cosmology, galaxies, and quasars, and his research has been supported by $20 million in NASA and NSF grants. He has won eleven teaching awards, and has taught three massive open online classes with over 180,000 enrolled. Impey is a past Vice President of the American Astronomical Society and he has been an NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Carnegie Council’s Arizona Professor of the Year, and most recently, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He’s written over 70 popular articles on cosmology and astrobiology, two introductory textbooks, a novel called Shadow World, and eight popular science books: The Living Cosmos, How It Ends, Talking About Life, How It Began, Dreams of Other Worlds, Humble Before the Void, Beyond: The Future of Space Travel, and Einstein’s Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes.
Lecturer in Criminology, Royal Holloway University of London My research sits broadly within 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, sociology of time, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, trans theory, body theory, humanism, posthumanism, antihumanism, materialisms, narratives of disobedience and deviance. Generally interested in relations between normativity and various forms of individual, social, legal, corporeal disobedience. A lot of my work focuses on trans embodiment and gender recognition and I have published widely on these topics.
Research Fellow, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University Christopher Phelps is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Curtin University. Christopher has published research on a range of housing policy issues relevant to Australia, including housing affordability, housing supply, and within-city house price dynamics. Christopher recently completed his Economics PhD at Curtin University, for which he was awarded the 2021 Peter Barrington Gold Medal Award for research excellence in the study of land economy. His thesis presented three independent research essays related by a theme of residential segregation and its implications within Australian cities, specifically those relating to dwelling price movements and housing consumer wellbeing.
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Casey is the Chair of and a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the founding Director of the Center for Health AI. His lab develops machine learning methods that integrate distinct large-scale datasets to extract the rich and intrinsic information embedded in such integrated data. This approach reveals underlying principles of an organism’s genetics, its environment, and its response to that environment. Extracting this key contextual information reveals where the data’s context doesn’t fit existing models and raises the questions that a complete collection of publicly available data indicates researchers should be asking. In addition to developing deep learning methods for extracting context, a core mission of his lab is bringing these capabilities into every molecular biology lab through open, transparent science conducted by a diverse team of researchers. Before starting the Integrative Genomics Lab in 2012, Casey earned his Ph.D. for his study of gene-gene interactions in the field of computational genetics from Dartmouth College in 2009 and moved to the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow from 2009-2012. The overarching theme of his work has been the development and evaluation of methods that acknowledge the emergent complexity of biological systems.
Associate Professor of Sustainability Science, University of Nottingham Dr. Chris Ives is an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in urban social-ecological systems and the human dimensions of environmental management. He joined the School of Geography in 2016 after holding research positions at universities in Australia and Germany. Chris' research interests are broad and typically bring together different disciplinary approaches and types of knowledge to tackle real-world sustainability challenges, especially in urban settings. In particular, he is interested in understanding how people relate to and interact with the natural environments, and the dynamics of sustainability transformations. Increasingly his work is focussed on the 'deeper' dimensions of sustainability such as values, beliefs, worldviews, and the potential for religion to offer new perspectives on sustainability challenges.
