Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Social Science, Northwestern University Hao Peng is a Postdoc at the Kellogg School of Management, affiliated with the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems at Northwestern University. His research is in computational social science, social networks, and innovation management. He studies the dissemination of innovation, AI for scientific advancement, and diversity in science & business. His research aims to generate novel insights that can help organizations leverage the full potential of human capital and machine intelligence to accelerate discoveries and breakthroughs. Dr. Peng holds a Ph.D. from University of Michigan School of Information. His work has been published in top venues such as PNAS and Science Advances, and reported by international media outlets including The Washington Post, Le Monde, and New Scientist.
PhD Candidate, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney Haley Stone is a PhD candidate at the Kirby Institute’s Biosecurity Program, led by Professor Raina MacIntyre. Her PhD focuses on Epidemic modelling techniques for respiratory diseases with pandemic potential, specifically avian influenza and COVID-19. In addition, she works as a Research officer for EPIWATCH, an open-source intelligence tool which harnesses the power of AI and open-source data to capture early epidemic signals globally and rapid epidemic detection, leading to the prevention of global spread.
Professor, Auckland University of Technology Helena Cooper-Thomas is Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Faculty of Business, with honorary positions also at University of Auckland and University of Waikato. She has authored over 70 peer-reviewed international publications in journals including Journal of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Journal, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior, and contributed to a number of scholarly books, either as author, co-author or co-editor.
Senior Teaching Fellow, Music Management, University of Southampton Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Southampton Founding partner, TheWRD Founding Member/Drummer, Billy Mahonie I work in Education, in the Music and Creative Entrepreneurship space. I write and speak about my experiences as a working class academic in the Creative Industries and as an independent musician/entrepreneur. I have a degree in French from Middlesex, an MBA from Westminster Business School and a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning from University of Sussex. Seeing my previous students flying high is a great source of pride. I am a proud father and husband. I support Rochdale AFC.
Associate Professor, Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto I currently work at the University of Toronto at Scarborough where I am a member of the Department for Physical and Environmental Sciences. My graduate appointments are at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Department of Physics. I'm very interested in numerical methods, in particular N-body codes and integration methods for planetary systems. Other research interests include planet formation, stochastic processes, planet migration, celestial mechanics, and Saturn's rings. I like to explore the posibility of using novel high performance computing platforms for astrophysics. Make sure to check out my REBOUND code. It is an open source N-body code which gives you access to the world's fastest and most accurate numerical integrators. You can do almost anything with it from long-term symplectic orbit integrations to collisional shearing-sheet simulations of Saturn's rings. The installation takes literally 30 seconds and it comes with an easy to use python interface. It's really cool and I'm very proud of it. You also don't want to miss the Exoplanet App. It is a free smartphone application for the iPhone/iPad that I wrote. It let's you explore almost the entire universe, including the cosmic microwave background, galaxy clusters, our Milky Way, the Solar System and all discovered extra-solar planets. Several million people have already downloaded it!
Food and Climate Policy Fellow, Harvard University Dr Helen Harwatt is an environmental social scientist, with a focus on food systems shifts and their contribution to climate change mitigation goals. Helen’s current projects focus on identifying pathways toward creating food systems that meet planetary health goals. Prior to joining HLS, Helen spent three years developing the environmental nutrition research program at the Loma Linda University in California, and seven years at the University of Leeds’s Sustainability Research Institute in the UK, conducting research on climate change mitigation focused on consumers, businesses, and governments, and as an affiliate of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the Centre for Low Carbon Futures. Helen won an international award from the International Transport Forum for her PhD research, which focused on the potential to meet climate change mitigation targets through a personal carbon trading scheme in the UK. Helen joined the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House as senior research fellow three years ago.
