Contributors

Christiane Zarfl

Professor for Environmental Systems Analysis, Faculty of Science, University of Tübingen

Professor for Environmental Systems Analysis, Faculty of Science, University of Tübingen

Craig Merrett

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Clarkson University

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Clarkson University Dr. Craig Merrett is the Principal Investigator for the Aero-Servo-Thermo-Visco-Elasticity Laboratory (ASTVEL) which leverages analytical and experimental techniques to explore the impact of time dependent materials on aerospace applications. Dr. Merrett has a diverse research portfolio within the field of aero-servo-viscoelasticity that includes research on aircraft instability, flight data recorders, optimization, fracture of composites, and vehicle tracking. The core of the research portfolio is the effects of a viscoelastic material on structural dynamics, in particular the critical time necessary for an instability to occur. Dr. Merrett’s current research program investigates polymer composite materials and metals exposed to elevated temperatures that appear in aerospace and nuclear engineering applications. Dr. Merrett also conducts research in unsteady aerodynamics for subsonic and supersonic panel flutter, and for off-shore wind farm wakes.

Christoffer Vinther Sørensen

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Center for Antibody Technologies, Technical University of Denmark

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Center for Antibody Technologies, Technical University of Denmark Associate Professor Andreas Hougaard Laustsen heads the Tropical Pharmacology Lab at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark. He is specialized in antibody discovery, toxinology, antivenom, and neglected tropical diseases. Andreas is an advisor to the WHO’s Working Group on Snakebite Envenoming, and he is a co-founder of the biotech companies Biosyntia (synthetic biology and metabolic engineering), VenomAb (recombinant antivenoms), Antag Therapeutics (metabolic diseases), Chromologics (fermented food colors), Bactolife (infectious diseases), and VenomAid Diagnostics (snakebite diagnostics). Andreas is recognized as Denmark’s Coolest Engineer, a Top 6 Academic Entrepreneur under 35 in Europe 2017, and he was on Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2017 and MIT Technology Review’s list of the 35 Top Innovators under 35 in Europe 2017.

Charlene Harrington

Professor Emeritus of Social Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

Professor Emeritus of Social Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, (Co-Principal Investigator) has been a professor of sociology and nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) since 1980, specializing in long-term services and supports (LTSS) policy and research. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1996 and has served on various IOM committees. In 2002, she and a team of researchers designed a model California LTSS consumer information website, funded by the California HealthCare Foundation, which she continues to maintain and expand. Since 1994, she has been collecting and analyzing trend data on Medicaid home and community-based services programs and policies, funded by the Kaiser Family Foundation. In 2003, Dr. Harrington became Principal Investigator of the UCSF Center for Personal Assistance Services, a position held until 2012.

Christian Ginski

Lecturer of astronomy, University of Galway

Lecturer of astronomy, University of Galway The main focus of my work is high contrast imaging of extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks. I use all kinds of instruments around the globe, but chiefly the extreme adaptive optics instrument SPHERE at the ESO Paranal observatory located in the Atacama desert in northern Chile.

Carmel Hannan

Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Limerick

Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Limerick Carmel Hannan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland and an expert in Irish family dynamics and child development. Her research has focused on stratification issues within the family particularly as they relate to class dynamics. Her latest publications is on the impact of the pandemic on children's outdoor play. She has led a number of funded research projects focusing on the effects of family structure on child development and family well-being. She is currently on a Health Research Board funded study of the effects of the pandemic on children and young adults psychological wellbeing. Carmel received her DPhil from the University of Oxford, as a Nuffield funded scholar and held a Junior Dean position at Brasenose College, Oxford as well as a research fellow position at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. Prior to Oxford, she worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, at the University of Essex and at the Economic and Social Research Institute, in Dublin.