Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington Fabian Klenner is a planetary scientist and astrobiologist at the University of Washington (UW). His research focus lies on the exploration of icy moons in the Solar System, in particular Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa. He is interested in geochemical processes happening on these moons as well as the detection of potential life beyond Earth. Fabian is an affiliate of NASA's Europa Clipper mission and involved in the planning and design of a potential future Enceladus mission. He is Co-Investigator of BioSigN, an ESA-led experiment to be performed on the International Space Station. Fabian's work is also relevant to the past Cassini mission and he is involved in ESA's CALICO, a potential mission to dwarf planet Ceres. He is member of various learned societies, including his co-leadership of the Ocean Worlds and Icy Moons working group of the German Astrobiology Society. Before accepting his current position at UW in 2023, he was a Postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, the same university from where he received his Ph.D. in 2021. He studied Earth Sciences at Heidelberg University (M.Sc. and B.Sc.).
Research Fellow, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University My PhD examined the implementation and evaluation of place-based initiatives for disadvantaged children and their families. I am a Research Fellow at the La Trobe Rural Health School and the University of Melbourne. I conduct research in the areas of gender-based violence, domestic and family violence, and rural health inequalities. I have more than 25 years experience as a senior health administrator with expertise in strategy, policy, governance and strategic communications.
Professor of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York Prior to coming to the School of Criminal Justice in 1990, Frankie Bailey was acting assistant vice-president for academic affairs and associate professor of criminal justice at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. Her academic pursuits focus on crime history, crime and mass media/popular culture, and material culture. She has done research on topics related to images of victims, offenders, and criminal justice agents in American culture. She is interested in the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality. Her current research focuses on dress and appearance. Her books include Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters Crime and Detective Fiction (1991), nominated for the Mystery Writers of America 1992 Edgar Award for Criticism and Biography. With Steven Chermak, she co-edited Famous American Crimes and Trials (2004) With Donna C. Hale, she is the author of Blood on Her Hands: The Social Construction of Women, Sexuality, and Murder (2004). Other books include African American Mystery Writers (2008) and (with Alice P. Green) Wicked Albany: Lawlessness & Liquor in the Prohibition Era (2009). Bailey is the author of five books in a mystery series featuring crime historian Lizzie Stuart. Her new near-future police procedural series debuted with The Red Queen Dies (2013).
Professor, University of Sydney Fiona Blyth is a Professor at the Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney.
Associate Professor, University of the Free State Prof Fabio is an Associate Professor at the University of the Free State. He obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2012 at Universidade Federal de Lavras - Brazil. I'm a member of SACNASP and the South African Statistical Association (SASA). My current interests are structural equations, Bayesian models, machine learning, and genetic models.
Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Sydney Granular materials such as sand and snow have the ability to behave both as solids (in sand dunes and snowdrifts) and as fluids (in hourglasses and avalanches). Dr François Guillard studies the properties and behaviours of granular materials and of brittle porous media, which have implications for industries including construction, mining, agriculture and pharmaceuticals. "Granular materials are present everywhere in nature and in industry, but they exhibit extremely complex and rich behaviours that we don't yet fully understand. For example, no one knows quite how sandcastles hold together, how we can walk on sand or snow, or what happens inside a box of cereal. "My research focuses particularly on the behaviour of granular materials when they are flowing, and how they transition between this behaviour and their solid state. "I'm also studying how brittle porous media - such as rocks and sandstone, snow, volcanic ashes and even bones - behave under load and chemical degradation. I use puffed rice grains as a model material, for example, which can be brittle when dry but become soft and mushy when they stay too long in a liquid such as milk. These principles are of tremendous importance for both natural and artificial brittle porous materials that are compacted under load and soaked in water. "In addition, I am involved in advancing the technology used to study granular materials. Currently we cannot see the behaviour of the grains below the surface, so I am developing X-ray radiography methods to study in real time and in three dimensions how granular materials flow internally. "A better understanding of the properties and behaviours of such materials, combined with better experimental investigation techniques, can improve the safety and efficiency of numerous industrial processes, including the construction industry's use of sand, concrete and composite materials; the mining industry's methods of ore extraction and processing; the agricultural industry's storage, transport and processing of cereal grains; and the pharmaceutical industry's bulk handling and delivery of drugs in powdered form. "I've been working in this field since 2010, and I joined the University of Sydney in 2013. Working here has greatly broadened my research interests and afforded me more direct access to the practical implications of my research. It also provides access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and facilities, which is of tremendous help in developing and addressing my research questions."
