Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Clarkson University Danielle is a current graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Clarkson University working towards a Ph.D in Chemistry. She received a bachelors of science in Chemistry in 2020 from Clarkson University as well. Her research is centered around identification of a protein biomarker for breast cancer detection using proteomics and mass spectrometry. She works with breast milk and blood serum as the main bodily fluids to identify proteins dysregulated between women with breast cancer and women without. Her goal is to identify proteins which are implicated in breast cancer and can be used as a biomarker so women of all ages can be screened for breast cancer development.
Director of Sleep Science and associate professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town Dale Rae is the director of Sleep Science and an associate professor at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on sleep and circadian rhythms (the body’s 24h clock). She is particularly interested in how sleep is associated with health, disease and obesity, and the relationship between sleep, the body clock, and athletic and work-place performance. She is affiliated to the South African Society for Sleep and Health, World Sleep Society and European Society for Sleep Research
Senior Lecturer in Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Brunel University London Dr Daniel Bailey is a Senior Lecturer in Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences in the Division of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Department of Life Sciences. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Physical Activity in Health and Disease after previously establishing and leading the Sedentary Behaviour, Health and Disease Research Group. Dr Bailey's research investigates the relationship between sedentary behaviour and chronic health conditions, with a particular focus on non-communicable disease. This research includes the epidemiology of sedentary behaviour and associations with non-communicable disease risks, controlled laboratory studies examining the acute effects of breaking up prolonged sitting on cardiometabolic biomarkers, and the development and evaluation of interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity in a range of population groups at risk of adverse health such as people with Type 2 diabetes, office workers, individuals with a spinal cord injury, and older adults with frailty.
Professor of History, Iowa State University I study the economic history of late Republican and early Imperial Rome. I am the author of Money in the Late Roman Republic (Brill, 2007) and Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy (Routledge, 2018). Along with Thomas R. Blanton IV and John T. Fitzgerald, I edited The Extramercantile Economies of Greek and Roman Cities: New Perspectives on the Economic History of Classical Antiquity (Routledge, 2019) and, with Timothy Howe, I edited A Companion to Ancient Agriculture (Wiley, 2020). I am also one of the general editors of Wiley's The Encyclopedia of Ancient History for which I’ve written entries on such topics as Roman Republican Coinage, bullion, glue, and insects. In addition to my appointment in the Department of History, I also serve as Director of the Classical Studies Program.
Lecturer in Climate Risk, Cardiff University My research focus is climate risk: understanding weather and climate variability and its impacts. I work on forecast horizons from days to decades ahead. A key part of my work is evaluation and experimentation with initialised climate models. This supports understanding of the drivers of extreme meteorological events, and the degree to which they can be predicted. This scientific work forms a cornerstone of my work supporting international humanitarian organisations to use forecasts for anticipatory action. To communicate key ideas to non-scientific partners (and in my teaching) I also use and design "serious games". These are play-orientated activities designed to interactively explore concepts and build core understanding in an engaging way.
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sussex Diana is a social anthropologist with a wide range of regional and linguistic expertise, and an inter-disciplinary approach. She obtained a PhD and an MA in social anthropology from SOAS, University of London, a BA in International Relations (UNAM), and an MA in Middle East Studies with Arabic Language (El Colegio de Mexico), and diplomas in Russian Language and Culture from UNAM and the Pushkin State Russian Institute in Moscow. Diana’s early research documented how people in southern Tajikistan experience time, and then she worked on theorising different forms of transnational mobility and migration in Asia. Based on fieldwork conducted in China, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Tajikistan, her work with Russian and Persian speaking traders has been published in the journals Ethnography; Current Sociology; Central Asian Survey, History and Anthropology, and the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. From her research on temporality, and then mobility and trade, Diana developed an interest in the journeys people embark upon when searching for healing, medical treatments, and management of ill health. Since 2023, she has been investigating the journeys that Britons follow to seek dental services in Turkey, a phenomenon related to the "crisis" of NHS dentistry in the UK.
