Senior Research Scientist, Center for Weather Forecast and Climatic Studies (CPTEC), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe) I am a Senior Research Scientist at Brazil's Centre for Weather Prediction and Climate Studies (CPTEC), part of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). I'm a climate scientist with a specific interest in: Statistical Analysis of climate variations The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) South American seasonal forecast Probabilistic Forecasts and Bayesian Statistics
Professor of Psychology, Durham University Charles Fernyhough is Director and Founder of InnerScape, harnessing the science of inner experience to enhance user experience across the creative and tech industries. He is a Professor of Psychology at Durham University and Director of the Centre for Research into Inner Experience. His fiction and non-fiction books have been translated into thirteen languages.
Lecturer in Management and Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology Dr Carleigh Yeomans is a Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology in the School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD in marketing, with her main research areas focusing on customer behaviour, engagement and retention in sport and leisure subscription contexts. Additional research interests lie in the areas of analytics and innovation applied to sport and leisure, particularly concerning community wellbeing, participation and marketing.
Professor of Ethics and Business Law, University of St. Thomas Christopher Wong Michaelson is a philosopher with 25 years of experience advising business leaders pursuing meaning and providing work with a purpose, and he is the coauthor (with Jennifer Tosti-Kharas) of "Is Your Work Worth It? How to Think About Meaningful Work". He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and then joined the New York office of Price Waterhouse (now PwC) as one of the first five consultants in a business ethics practice. When he accepted a full-time faculty position teaching corporate ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he kept a foot for several more years at PwC working on its Global CEO Survey and as its first Strategy Officer to the World Economic Forum. Christopher went from Wharton to NYU's Stern School of Business, where he still teaches, and later joined one of the largest business ethics faculties in the world at the University of St. Thomas, where he is the Opus Distinguished Professor and Academic Director of the Melrose and The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, three kids, and two dogs.
Professor of Entomology and Director, Center for Pollinator Research, Penn State Bees are critical pollinators in natural and agricultural landscapes, and key model systems for the study of social behavior. Grozinger's research group examines the mechanisms underlying social behavior and health in honey bees and related species. Her studies on social behavior seek to elucidate the proximate and ultimate mechanisms mediating cooperation and conflict in insect societies. Her studies on pollinator health evaluate the impacts of biotic and abiotic stressors at the molecular, physiological and behavioral level, and examine how bees’ resilience to these stressors can be bolstered by management practices and environmental contexts, particularly by improved nutrition. To help beekeepers, growers, land managers and members of the public better assess and mitigate the stressors that their managed and wild bee populations experience, Grozinger works with the Beescape team to develop models and decision support tools to evaluate landscape conditions and predict bee health at local scales (see beescape.org). The Grozinger Lab group is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary, with individuals from multiple programs and perspectives.
