Professor of Earth and Environment, Florida International University Dr. Jiang’s expertise is in satellite remote sensing techniques that can detect various characteristics of weather systems. She successfully applied these technologies to study hurricane rainfall, convection, winds, and warm-core structures. A coherent theme of her research is to advance our understanding of hurricane intensity and intensity change. She developed long-term satellite-based tropical cyclone databases and used these tools to study the climatology of hurricanes and to develop algorithms for estimating current intensity and predicting rapid intensification of tropical cyclones. Her research has been funded by NASA, NOAA, and NSF.
Associate professor, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health Heath Pardoe is an Associate Professor and Neuroimaging Theme Lead at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Stream Lead for Science Operations in the Australian Epilepsy Project and Director of the Florey Node of the National Imaging Facility. He holds honorary positions at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, Monash University and the University of Melbourne. Dr Pardoe completed his PhD in 2005 at the University of Western Australia. He underwent postdoctoral training at the Florey (2005-2012) and was an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at NYU Grossman School of Medicine (2012 – 2022). He returned to Australia in 2022.
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Stirling Dr Hazel Cameron is the director of Pearl International Insights, a leading academic consultancy and research institute based in Scotland, and honorary senior research fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling. She is a former director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and lecturer within the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. She was awarded her PhD at the University of Liverpool in December 2009; her thesis was titled External Institutional Bystanders to Genocide: Case Study Rwanda. She has written a monograph of her doctoral research titled Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide, which is a systematic and detailed socio-legal analysis of the policies of the British government towards civil unrest in Rwanda throughout the 1990s, culminating in genocide in 1994. It was shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Studies Association Hart Book Prize 2014. Her ongoing research interests are state crime including genocide and crimes against humanity, and bystander state responsibility for or complicity in such international crimes, with a particular geographical focus on sub-Saharan Africa. For the past twelve years, Dr Cameron has been engaged in extensive research into the mass state sponsored atrocities of Gukurahundi in the early post-colonial years of Zimbabwe.
PhD Candidate, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Hunter is a climate science PhD candidate with a background in environmental engineering. He holds master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and a bachelor degree from Duke University. His current research concerns the pathway dependence of climate change emergence to greenhouse gas forcing in global climate models. Born and raised in Wellington, New Zealand, Hunter has worked for science and engineering consultancies in the US and New Zealand. He is a Manager at PwC New Zealand, working in the Sustainability and Climate Change team on enabling the transition to a low-emissions economy.
Professor of Economics, Florida International University Focusing on areas such as COVID-19, international economics, regional economics, macroeconomics, together with growth and development, Dr. Yilmazkuday has published more than 85 articles in refereed journals, some of which focus on understanding the research productivity in the field of economics. He has been named as an FIU Top Scholar in 2016 in the category of Notable Academic Appointments. He has served as the Executive Secretary of the International Economics and Finance Society. He is affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute as a research associate. He has been a visiting scholar at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, a consultant to the World Bank, and a contributing partner of the Center for International Price Research at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Yilmazkuday's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara Hugh Lippincott has been a professor at the University of California Santa Barbara since 2019. His research focuses on the direct detection of dark matter, having worked on a variety of experiments and techniques at SNOLAB and elsewhere. Lippincott received his PhD from Yale University for work on liquid argon and neon detectors, including with the MiniCLEAN and DEAP collaborations. He was a Lederman Postdoctoral Fellow at Fermilab working on the COUPP bubble chamber experiments, before becoming a Wilson Fellow at Fermilab as a member of the PICO collaboration. Lippincott joined the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in 2014, for which he has served in many capacities, including as Spokesperson from 2021-2023.
