Contributors

Jon Richardson

Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Australian National University

Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Australian National University I am a former Australian diplomat who covered Eastern Europe from Moscow (twice, in the USSR and later Russia), Belgrade, London and Canberra. I also served as High Commissioner in Nigeria and Ghana. Prior to joining DFAT I was a postgraduate researcher and tutor in Soviet history and politics at the ANU.

Jaganmoy Jodder

Post-doctoral researcher, University of the Witwatersrand

Post-doctoral researcher, University of the Witwatersrand For his postdoctoral fellowship, Jaganmoy is working on the group-level behaviour of ancient microfossils. Jaganmoy completed his PhD on the palaeoarchaean rock record of the Singhbhum Craton, India. Prior to academia, Jaganmoy served the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) for four years as a well-site geologist and micropaleontologist in India.

Jeremy Bird

Research Associate, Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Tasmania

Research Associate, Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Tasmania I was awarded a PhD for me research into the conservation ecology of a threatened guild of seabirds, the petrels, on subantarctic Macquarie Island, tracking their recovery in response to invasive species management. I currently research seabirds around Tasmania including in the Southern Ocean.

Jason Dutton

Professor of Chemistry, La Trobe University

Professor of Chemistry, La Trobe University Dr Dutton obtained his PhD in 2010 under Prof. Paul J. Ragogna at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. His research focused on the Lewis acidic coordination chemistry of selenium and tellurium. He then moved onto a postdoctoral fellowship under Prof. Warren E. Piers at The University of Calgary supported by an NSERC PDF, researching mechanistic aspects of dihydrogen activation by boron containing species. In July 2011 Dr. Dutton took up a position as a Lecturer at La Trobe University. He was awarded a 3-year ARC DECRA in 2013 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in November 2014. In 2017 he was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and promoted to Associate Professor, and Professor in 2021. His research program is diverse, encompassing inorganic, organic and theoretical chemistry with a focus on the discovery of new reactivity and bonding.

Jack Smylie

Research Analyst, Hate & Extremism Insights Aotearoa, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Research Analyst, Hate & Extremism Insights Aotearoa, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Jack Creeggan

Master's Student in Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University

Master's Student in Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University Dual minored in zoology and philosophy during my Bachelor's. Currently working on a Master's in primatology/ecology.