Genomics and society advisor, Genome BC, University of Toronto George Poulakidas is a Genomics and Society advisor at Genome British Columbia. His work focuses on the ethical, environmental, economic, legal and social aspects of life sciences. His previous roles include Senior Advisor at the Advanced Technologies Unit at the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, researcher at the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and intern at the United Nations in New York. George is also a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto, focusing on strategies and policies for the development of cutting-edge innovation. His research has been supported by various awards, including the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral.
Energy Systems Program Impact Manager, Climateworks, Monash University, Monash University Glen is responsible for managing and expanding the impacts of the Energy System program, focusing on delivering system scale change to support the Australian Energy Transition. His research and teaching experience range from energy consumer and demand side research, solar PV business, pumped hydro, hydrogen, distribution, transmission, climate change and system engineering. A Fellow of Engineers Australia and the Australian Institute of Energy, Glen brings over 20 years of experience in strategic planning, complex problem solving and leading the transformation of companies, including CSIRO Energy. At Caterpillar, Glen was a Senior Consultant in the service department technology program for dealers in 44 countries around Europe, Asia and Australia. He has also run his own business developing large-scale solar. Glen holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a Degree in Agricultural Engineering, both from the University of Melbourne and an MBA from the University of New England. He currently supervises a PhD student.
Associate Professor, Dental Science, Trinity College Dublin I run the Oral Microbiome research group in the School of Dental Science. My research focuses on the pathogenicity of oral microorganisms, specifically the fungal pathogen Candida albicans and the oral bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum. Our research involves a combination of molecular genetics, genomics and transcriptomics. We also carry out 16S profiling of the oral microbiome to better understand oral disease. Our research is carried out in the Microbiology laboratory at the Dublin Dental University Hospital, which is on the campus of Trinity College Dublin.
Associate Research Fellow, Deakin University Gabriella is an Associate Research Fellow and PhD candidate at Deakin University. Her research has focused on parenting, child emotion regulation and mental health, psychometrics of assessments, and intervention science. Gabriella has contributed to projects that have developed online parenting interventions that aim to improve children's emotion regulation and prevent child mental health issues.
Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell University Gautam Hans is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Associate Director of the First Amendment Clinic. An expert on First Amendment law and technology policy, Professor Hans analyzes, through research and advocacy, the legal and policy issues implicating technology and civil liberties. Professor Hans also researches and works on issues relating to clinical legal education, with a particular focus on social justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion. A frequent media commenter on privacy, free speech, and surveillance, Professor Hans regularly speaks at conferences and symposia on topics relating to civil liberties, clinical legal education, and technology law and policy. A leader in the national clinical community, he currently serves as a board member of the Clinical Legal Education Association and the Center for Study of Applied Legal Education and on the advisory board of the Initiative for a Representative First Amendment. Prior to his academic career, Professor Hans worked at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, CA, for four years, focusing on privacy, free speech, and surveillance law and policy. Before joining Cornell Law, Professor Hans served as Associate Clinical Professor of Law and founding director of Vanderbilt Law School’s Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic. He completed his clinical teaching fellowship at the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Hans earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School; his M.S. in information policy from the University of Michigan School of Information; and his B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. While in graduate school, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review and served as a student-attorney in the Entrepreneurship Clinic and the Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic. Before entering graduate school, Professor Hans was an editorial assistant in the Knopf Group of Random House.
Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow, University of South Australia Guanglun Michael Mu is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow of Education Futures at the University of South Australia. He is also the Portfolio Lead Research of UniSA's Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion. As a sociologist of education, Michael is interested in building resilience for and with: (1) children and young people in migration contexts (e.g., floating children and left-behind children in China, children with an immigrant background and international students in Australia), and (2) educational professionals (e.g., school teachers). His work has attracted a total research income of over 1.2 million dollars and has been published into over 90 books and articles. Most of his publications are framed through a Bourdieusian lens. In addition to scholarly publications, Michael has translated his resilience research into a picture book series Journey to Resilience. Michael has deep methodological expertise in quantitative analyses that align with relational sociology. These include but are not limited to multiple correspondence analysis, social network analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and structural equation modelling. Michael also has rich experience in conducting mixed methods research in educational contexts. Before Michael joined UniSA, he was a DECRA fellow funded by the Australian Research Council; an Associate Professor, a Principal Research Fellow, and a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology; an Eyes High Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Calgary; a Lecturer and international program coordinator at Beijing Normal University; and a schoolteacher in China. Michael takes a number of leadership roles internally and externally. He is Portfolio Lead Research of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion (CRESI) at the University of South Australia. He is the chief editor of the Routledge book series Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific. He chairs the Bourdieu in Educational Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He also leads and convenes two international academic communities for research students and junior academics - one on Bourdieu in Educational Research and the other on Quantitative Methodology in Education Research. Both communities operate through monthly online meetings. Michael is an Associate Editor of Frontier in Psychology and International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education; an editorial board member of Journal of Beijing Normal University (in Chinese); and a member of the Rapid Review Panel of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Beyond academia, Michael is a classical pianist.
