Professor of Neurology, Radboud University Edo Richard is professor of neurology at Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, The Netherlands and the dept of Public Health at Amsterdam University Medical Centre. He combines patient care with research into the prevention of dementia. He leads several large (inter)national randomized controlled trials on risk factor modification to reduce dementia risk. He also addresses ethical issues in prevention and early diagnosis of cognitive impairment.
Professor of Oceanography, Old Dominion University Eileen Hofmann is a Professor and Eminent Scholar in the Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences and a member of the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography at Old Dominion University. Her primary research focuses on understanding physical-biological interactions in marine ecosystems. Her research has taken her to many parts of the ocean, including Antarctic coastal regions and the Southern Ocean. Her recent research focuses on understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in Chesapeake Bay and understanding controls on shellfish population dynamics. Eileen’s interest in modeling shellfish populations began with a study of the effects of deepening and widening the Houston Ship Channel on eastern oyster populations in Galveston Bay. From this initial study, Eileen and her colleagues expanded their models to other oyster species, several clam species, abalone, and ocean quahogs. Along the way, the models for shellfish population dynamics were extended to include disease and disease transmission processes and the effects of climate change. Her current shellfish modeling studies consider the competing effects of climate change and offshore wind energy development on commercial shellfish species on the Middle Atlantic Bight continental shelf along the U.S. east coast. These model applications represent a progression that links shellfish population dynamics with climate change, fishing economics, and management. Eileen has been involved in several international global environmental change programs and serves as Co-Chair of the Southern Ocean Observing System. She is also Chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee to evaluate the effects of offshore wind energy development on the hydrodynamics of the Nantucket Shoals region.
Assistant Professor of Earth, Ocean & Environment, University of South Carolina Erin is an Assistant Professor in the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment at the University of South Carolina. She earned a BS in Physics at the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. She is a quantitative marine ecologist that uses statistical, demographic and spatial models to understand how marine species respond to environmental processes. Many of Erin's research projects focus on human impacts to threatened or economically valuable species. Erin also serves on the Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) committee for The Oceanography Society and edits a quarterly JEDI column in Oceanography magazine.
PhD Candidate and Research Program Officer, University of Sydney Erin Madden is a PhD Candidate and Research Project Officer at The Matilda Centre, University of Sydney. Her work focuses on translating mental health and substance use research into practice.
Research Associate, University of Portsmouth Elhadj Bara Dème is an associate researcher at the University of Portsmouth, member of the Blue Governance Centre and coordinator of the GREPPAO project for management and resilience of small pelagic fisheries in West Africa, with financial support from the European Commission. Dème specialised in fisheries resource management, ecosystem services assessment, and blue governance, He has overseen multiple research initiatives in West Africa. These initiatives span a range of topics from fishery value chains to food security, and also address challenges associated with migratory fishing. He is the author of more than 40 journal articles and around 50 book chapters, research reports, consultancy reports, and so on. Dème has research collaborations with other researchers across West Africa, France and Canada.
Associate professor, UCL My research interests lie in the domain of emotion/affective science and nonverbal behaviour. Much of my work is concerned with the empirical investigation of the socio-cognitive and affective processes in human perception and behaviour. This includes research on facial expressions, especially morphological and dynamic features and their role in emotion interpretation. More recently, I started to explore commonalities and differences in human and machine classification of emotions, with a particular focus on how various elicitation methods (i.e., posed, spontaneous, naturalistic) influence recognition accuracy. Other research interests relate to the general area of social perception and attribution, particularly aspects of face perception and various factors (i.e., social context, face realism, ethnicity) that moderate people’s judgements.
