Ph.D. Student in Social Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences I study how beliefs, decisions, and behaviors are influenced by social media and technology, primarily through the lens of habits. I am currently attending USC to acquire my PhD in Social Psychology, with a focus on media habits. I research the impact of social media on human behavior, while also seeking to understand how technology shapes the spread and adoption of behaviors and ideas across individuals and/or groups. My research background includes a research masters degree from INSEAD in marketing science with a focus on consumer behavior. My expertise in Social Media comes from nearly 5 years of dedicated research and work on digital strategy with Temin and Company in New York City (some while part-time as a student at Swarthmore College) as well as advertising experience at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Research Associate work at Columbia University's business school. I graduated from Swarthmore College in 2013, where I completed an Honors Major in Political Science and Major/Honors Minor in Economics. This included extensive coursework in mathematics, philosophy, psychology, political and economic theory, and english literature.
Adjunct professor, Murdoch University Professor Ian Dadour completed his Bachelor of Science at the University of Western Australia and went on to complete a PhD in Zoology specialising in acoustics and population genetics of bushcrickets. Since gaining his PhD, he has researched in several disciplines including insect behaviour and evolutionary biology, insect ecology, applied entomology and forensic entomology. Following a series of postdoctoral fellowships in Germany on insect mating systems and then a University of Adelaide Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Waite Institute on habitat selection by butterflies, he began work in 1989 at the Western Australian Department of Agriculture. As well as being the Officer-in-Charge of the Dung Beetle/ Bush Fly Programme, this was the beginning of his forensic entomology career. In 1999 Ian secured an Australian Research Council grant at the University of Western Australia to investigate oviposition of insects on decomposing corpses. In 2008 Ian was promoted to Professor, a culmination of establishing the Centre for Forensic Science in 2000 and substantive and outstanding contributions nationally and internationally in each of the areas of research, teaching and service. During this period Ian sustained a high level of research and scholarship for over a decade and has established himself as a leading scholar in the field of forensic entomology. This is documented through a portfolio of peer-reviewed journal and industry publications, a succession of ARC and other research and consultancy project grants, attracting and successfully supervising many postgraduate thesis candidates and invitations to teach law enforcement agencies globally. As a consequence of research conducted at the University of Tennessee’s (UT) Anthropological Facility in Knoxville, Ian was part of the teaching faculty with the FBI, and each year since 2003 until 2014 he has been an instructor for the FBI Evidence Response Team in the Human Remains Recovery School. Ian is also affiliated with the new Anthropological Facility at Oakridge (TN) operated by the Forensic Academy (UT). As well he has collaboration with the largest and more recently established Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at Texas State University at San Marcos. Ian became a Professor with The Boston University Medical School in 2015 and taught a unit of forensic entomology into their Master of Forensic Anthropology Course as well as supervising Master degree students. Ian is a Visiting Professor at Lincoln University, UK and prior to Brexit he was teaching annually into the Erasmus Mundus (EM) Master of Forensic Science Course. He continues to supervise Master students in AUS, UK and USA. While Director of the Centre of Forensic Science at UWA in 2015 over 450 students gained Graduate Certificates/Diplomas, 67 students were awarded Master degrees and 38 students received either a PhD or combined Master/PhD degrees. Ian continues to be the Western Australian Honorary Forensic Entomologist and has appeared as an expert witness in this discipline in courts in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. Currently, Ian is Head of Research and Education with Source Certain (a forensic/provenance company concerned with supply chain integrity of food and minerals).
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Macau Ph.D in Economics from Boston College (USA) (2008-2014) , was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (Germany) (2014-2019), Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York (U.K.) (2019-2021), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (2021-2023) and is since May 2023 an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Macau. His main fields of research are market design, matching, behavioral and experimental economics. He has published in journals such as The Economic Journal, American Economic Journal:Microeconomics, Games and Economic Behavior, among others.
Associate Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute. My research areas are labor economics, the economics of science and innovation, and international development. I am a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), an Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics, and a Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) at Harvard University. In 2018, I received the Russian National Prize in Applied Economics, awarded biennially to recognize published research on the Russian economy, and previously received honorable mention for the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Dissertation Award. I was a Fulbright scholar in Ukraine in 2004 and have served as a U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist Fellow in Russia, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan.
PhD candidate, La Trobe University Isabella Currie is a PhD student and sessional academic at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on the Wagner Group and its role in international relations. Her research interests include foreign interference, authoritarian regimes, security, private and semi-state actors, and geopolitics.
