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Elisa Becker

Elisa Becker

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford I work on behaviour change interventions that help people reduce their meat intake, both online and in the real world. I am interested in emotional processing of meat and other underlying mechanisms of how and why certain interventions work. I completed an undergraduate degree in Biology at Humboldt University in Berlin, and a Master’s degree in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security at Newcastle University. During my PhD in Psychology (University of Exeter), I investigated the role of disgust in meat avoidance.

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Eileen Crimmins

Eileen Crimmins

Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California

Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California Eileen Crimmins, PhD, is a University Professor and the AARP Chair in Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health, one of the Demography of Aging Centers supported by the U.S. National Institute on Aging. She is also a Director of the Multidisciplinary Training in Gerontology Program and the NIA-sponsored Network on Biological Risk. Crimmins is a co-investigator of the Health and Retirement Study in the U.S. Much of Crimmins’ research has focused on changes over time in health and mortality. Crimmins has been instrumental in organizing and promoting the recent integration of the measurement of biological indicators in large population surveys. She has served co-chair of a Committee for the National Academy of Sciences to address why life expectancy in the U.S. is falling so far behind that of other countries. She has co-edited several books with a focus on international aging, mortality and health expectancy: Determining Health Expectancies; Longer Life and Healthy Aging; Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-old Population; International Handbook of Adult Mortality; Explaining Diverging Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries; and International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages: Dimensions and Sources. She has received the Kleemeier Award for Research from the Gerontological Society of America and the Taeuber award for research from the Population Association of America.

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Erika Darics

Erika Darics

University of Groningen

University oDr Darics is an applied linguist interested in the role of language in professional and business contexts, in particular online. In her work she explores how language constitutes social reality, and how to best educate the world about this important knowledge. She conducts empirical linguistic-discourse analytical research, theorises and educates about language awareness and discourse consciousness. She is an experienced and passionate researcher-educator with a sense of responsibility to nurture a future generation of critical text consumers who are also ethical, responsible and empowered communicators.

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