Assistant Professor in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan I earned my Ph.D. in pathology at University of Washington in Seattle. My dissertation work focused on reversing age-related problems that lead to heart failure in mice using an anti-aging drug intervention. My work as a postdoc, and then as an assistant professor in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology department at the University of Michigan has been to develop the first multicellular model system for studying polyphosphate, an ancient molecule that plays many cellular roles, possibly including aging. I teach a course for senior undergraduates and graduate students about the basic biology of aging.
Professor of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University Emanuel Bylund is Professor of General Linguistics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research concerns age effects in language acquisition and language attrition, and the role of linguistic categories for the cognitive processing of reality. His work has covered languages such as Afrikaans, German, Spanish, Swedish, and isiXhosa, and has appeared in outlets such as Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Cognition, Developmental Science, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. He is the founding member of the African Psycholinguistics Association, and director of the Multilingualism and Cognition Laboratory at Stellenbosch University.
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management & Logistics, Curtin University Elizabeth (Liz) Jackson has national and international experience in industrial and academic agri-food supply chain systems. Her doctoral research focus was on wool commerce and she has since been engaged with research into farming systems and agri-food supply chains in the UK, Taiwan, Libya and Nigeria. Liz is a member-elected non-executive director of Sheep Producers Australia and is a member of WAFarmers' Livestock Council.
Legal Academic and Industry Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland Emma Garlett is a Nyungar-Nyiyaparli-Yamatji Traditional Owner from Geraldton. Emma has experience working in the mining industry, academia, media and as a lawyer. Emma is an Industry Fellow at the Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland. She conducts legal and policy research to guide the future of sustainable mining, application of ESG principles, and green investment in natural resource management. She has a special interest in Traditional Owner inclusion in mining as it relates to the application of ESG principles. She has presented her legal research to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and various international (UCLA, University of Arizona) and domestic conferences (ANU, NELA, EDO). Emma is an Adjunct Professor, Global and Engagement and Advisory Board Member of the National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth and Justice at Federation University. She also has a casual appointment at Curtin Law School. Emma is a regular First Nations legal and business social commentator, and writes weekly columns in print and online for The West Australian. She is the host of Paint it Blak on YouTube, a partnership project between Seven West Media and Google. Emma was appointed to and sits on both the Law Society of Western Australia’s Commercial Law Committee and Indigenous Legal Issues Committee. She is also a Tribunal Member of the West Australian Football Commission.
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Kontou is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on sustainable and electrified transportation systems planning and management. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida, her MSc from Virginia Tech, and a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the Transportation and Hydrogen Systems Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the City and Regional Planning Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member and the communications coordinator of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Alternative Fuels and Technologies (AMS40) and the Chair of TRB’s Young Members Coordinating Council. She is a 2023 NSF CAREER awardee, a 2022 Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Faculty Scholar, a 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Invited Participant, and an iSEE Levenick Sustainability Teaching Fellow at the University of Illinois. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research Part D journal and an Early Career Advisory Board member of Transportation Research Part C journal and serves on the Steering Committee of the Illinois Alliance for Clean Transportation.
