Associate Professor of Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences David Albertson is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California, where he has taught since 2007 after studies at Stanford, Oxford, Chicago, and Cologne. He is the author of "Cusanus Today: Thinking with Nicholas of Cusa between Philosophy and Theology" (The Catholic University of America Press, 2024); "Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres" (Oxford University Press, 2014); "Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology" (Fordham University Press, 2009); and over 30 articles on medieval philosophy and mysticism. His research has been supported by the Fulbright Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, The Huntington Library, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is the founding Executive Director of the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought and writes for Commonweal and American Magazine. His current projects are a monograph on the role of geometry in the emergence of Christian mysticism and a translation of controversial monastic letters from medieval Germany.
Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Swinburne University of Technology Dr Daniel Eldridge is a senior lecturer in chemistry at Swinburne University. He teaches in a variety of subjects covering surfaces and colloids, water science and the chemistry of everyday products.
Senior Lecturer in AI ethics, Queen's University Belfast I did all my three degrees - B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD - in Computer Science. Over the last several years, I have been specializing in AI ethics, with a particular interest in the political economy of AI.
Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Nebraska Omaha Dr. Circo has procured more than $3 million in grant funding from federal, state, and local agencies and organizations. She developed the online MSW program for Northcentral University and served as the inaugural Director for the MSW program. At the Grace Abbott School of Social Work, she developed the online MSW program and successfully took the program through accreditation with the Council on Social Work Education. Her research interests include bullying, and developing services and programs for individuals with developmental disabilities and intellectual impairments.
Honorary Research Associate at the Cyber Threats Research Centre, Swansea University David Wells is an independent global security consultant worked with national, regional and international governments on a range of emerging terrorism and counter-terrorism challenges, including terrorist exploitation of technology, far-right violent extremism and the intersection between climate change and terrorism. He is also an Honorary Research Associate at Swansea University’s Cyber Threat’s Research Centre (CYTREC), and a non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute. Previously, he spent five years as Head of Research and Analysis at the UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate in New York, managing the team responsible for monitoring terrorism and geopolitical trends for the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Security Council. David began his career coordinating investigations into international terrorist networks for GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, has worked for multiple agencies in the Australian intelligence community, and has written for and collaborated with the leading research and academic institutions focused on counter-terrorism and CVE.
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto Dr. Derek Tsang is a radiation oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, Canada. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto. He completed his medical training at Queen’s University, followed by residency at the University of Toronto. He obtained fellowship training in paediatric radiation oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and has a Masters’ degree in clinical epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Tsang joined the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in 2017, where he is a member of the paediatric and adult central nervous system (CNS) tumour site groups.
