Contributors

El hadji Sow

enseigant-chercheur, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

enseigant-chercheur, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar El hadji Sow est professeur titulaire à la Faculté des sciences et techniques de l'université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar au Sénégal. Ses publications portent sur la sédimentologie et la géologie, entre autres.

Erica Jansen

Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan

Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan Dr. Jansen is a nutritional epidemiologist who focuses on diet and sleep in relation to health along the lifespan, but particularly during adolescence. She has several lines of research, including the examination of: 1) how early nutritional environments affect childhood obesity and timing of puberty; 2) how various aspects of sleep- including duration, timing, and quality- affect development of cardiometabolic risk; 3) the bidirectional associations between sleep and diet; 4) role of toxicants in sleep and cardiometabolic outcomes; and 5) epigenetic markers or mediators that underlie relationships between sleep and cardiometabolic health. Dr. Jansen conducts her research mostly within the ELEMENT cohort, a Mexican birth cohort that has been followed for over 25 years.

Elizabeth Stanway

Reader in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Warwick

Reader in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Warwick I am a Reader in the Astronomy and Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick with a specific interest in the study of stellar populations and their role in observational cosmology, both at optical and radio wavelengths. The question of how the universe evolved, from the birth of the first stars to the highly structured and massive galaxies we see around us today, is one of the most fundamental that astrophysicists seek to address. It underpins our understanding of nearby galaxies, and is a key driver for the development of the next generation of telescopes. By modelling the stars that combine to produce the light we see from unresolved galaxies I work to improve our understanding of distant systems. I also publish on the role of science fiction in popular understanding of science, and on the history of astronomy. I post articles on the mutual influence between science and science fiction twice monthly on my Cosmic Stories blog, which can be found at www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories.

Evan Stark

Professeur émérite, sociologue, Rutgers University

Professeur émérite, sociologue, Rutgers University Evan Stark est un sociologue, un travailleur social médico-légal et un chercheur primé qui jouit d'une réputation internationale pour ses travaux novateurs sur les dimensions juridiques, politiques et sanitaires de la violence interpersonnelle, y compris ses effets sur les enfants. Il est professeur émérite à l'université Rutgers, où il a enseigné les affaires publiques, la santé publique et les études sur les femmes et le genre.

Eric Carmona Martinez

Scientist, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ

Scientist, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ Eric Carmona Martinez is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He joined Gothenburg in 2023 from the the Department of Effect-Directed Analysis where he had worked since 2019 as a postdoc on the Kleingewässermonitoring (KgM) project analysing data on water pollution using different software. Eric has a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences and a master’s degree in environmental toxicology from the Faculty of Biology, University of Valencia. He did several internships at the Research Centre for Desertification and the Public Health Research Centre. Eric got a PhD in chemistry, also from the University of Valencia. His thesis entitled “Pollutants of emerging concern in the environment. Turia River as study case” was carried out at the food and environmental research group of the University of Valencia and the Spanish National Research Council. During his PhD Eric was working at the TrAMS group of the University of Athens and the Aquatic Ecotox group at the University of Eastern Finland. He published several papers (ResearchGate) with high impact and participated in different projects such as Mefturia, SCARCE-Consolider and Eco2Tools.

Erich S. Volschenk

Senior Research Associate, Murdoch University

Senior Research Associate, Murdoch University Professionally I wear two hats: primarily as an Environmental Consultant (Short-range endemic invertebrates), and secondarily as research associate at WA Museum and Murdoch University. I am an invertebrate biologist specialising in arachnids and myriapods. I have been studying the scorpions of Australia for over 20 years and am Australia's leading scorpion taxonomist. I also work on pdeudoscorpions when time permits. For the last 10 years, I've also been researching the diversity of soil centipedes (geophilomorpha) and cryptic centipedes (Cryptopidae). In addition to systematic research, I do adhoc research on terrestrial salt lake invertebrates. Most of my research is oriented around systematics and I use both molecular and morphological data to infer phylogenies.