Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Adjunct Associate Professor Joy Lee leads the Asthma and Allergy Unit at the Austin Hospital and consults for Melbourne Allergy Asthma & Immunology Consultants, as well as in the public sector at the Alfred Hospital and Monash Medical Centre. She has a special interest in the management and treatment of allergic diseases, including allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma. She has experience in the use of immunotherapy for grass pollen and dust mite allergy as well as monoclonal antibody treatments for severe asthma and urticaria. Dr Lee has a PhD with the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Her thesis focus was on improving asthma inhaler usage and difficult to control asthma. She has also undertaken research on epidemic thunderstorm asthma. Dr Lee is an investigator in clinical trials for therapies in asthma and allergic nasal disease. Her research has been recognised with awards from both the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the National Asthma Council. She is a sought-after speaker, media expert and medical educator.
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology Julienne's PhD in political studies was a public policy-public sector management mix, looking at reforms of New Zealand's official archives. Central to the analysis of the role and structure of the Archives was an understanding of its democratic function in helping to hold the government and its agencies to account. Julienne's other research interests (media ownership, online voting) have a strong theme of promoting and protecting liberal democratic values. Since 2020 she has been an associate editor of the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations.
PhD Candidate of Applied Psychology, University College Cork John Twomey is a human-computer interaction research in the UCC school of Applied Psychology. His current work focuses on the use of deepfakes and their impact on individuals and society. This work is funded by LERO/SFI Ireland.
Associate Professor in Climate Change Policy, University of Exeter Dr. Jean-Francois Mercure is Senior Economist at the World bank and Associate Professor in Climate Policy at the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK. His research focuses on developing theory, models and methods for public policy appraisal in low-carbon innovation, and for assessing the effectiveness and socio-economic impacts of diverse types of low-carbon, energy and climate policies. He also develops methods to understand and assess climate-related financial risks. He co-leads two major programs at the World Bank on analytical tool development and coalition for capacity on climate action (C3A) for finance ministries. Prior to this he was recently project director for a £5M program of research and consortium of researchers commissioned by the UK government, project called 'Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition', working with stakeholders in India, China, Brazil, the UK and EU (www.eeist.co.uk). He has worked at several universities including the University of Cambridge, where he continues as fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Energy, Environment and Natural Resource Governance (C-EERNG). He regularly engages with policy-makers internationally.
Principal Lecturer in History, University of South Wales I'm a historian of witchcraft and gender in early modern Europe, principally in Germany and England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I completed my PhD thesis, titled 'Witchcraft, Gender and Society in the Early Modern Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt' in 2002, under the supervision of Prof Lyndal Roper; it was published by Brill as 'Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany' (2007). As well as writing articles on Germand and English witchcraft, I co-edited the second edition of 'The Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft' (Scarecrow Press, 2012) with Michael Bailey and am currently writing 'Witchcraft in World History' for Routledge's Themes in World History. As a lecturer and course leader for BA History at the University of South Wales, I have introduced work-based learning and a range of digital assessments into the programme. These range from wikis to podcasts to digital mapping.
Doctora en Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos. Científico Titular en el ICTAN-CSIC. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Alimentos y Nutrición (ICTAN - CSIC) Jara Pérez Jiménez es Licenciada (2003) y Doctora (2007) en Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Ha desarrollado su carrera investigadora en diversos centros de investigación en España y Francia y en la actualidad es Científico Titular en el Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos y Nutrición (ICTAN-CSIC), donde dirige el grupo de investigación “Polifenoles no extraíbles, antioxidantes y fibra dieté tica en salud”. Además, es miembro del Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas. Las investigaciones en las que ha participado la Dra. Pérez, centradas en el estudio de compuestos bioactivos de la dieta, han dado lugar a 85 artículos publicados en revistas científicas internacionales con una alta repercusión (> 7.000 citas, índice h: 37). Además, la Dra. Pérez es coinventora de una patente licenciada a una empresa nacional, ha sido coeditora de un libro editado por la Royal Society of Chemistry (Reino Unido) y fue miembro del Comité de Expertos en Nutrición Humana de la Agencia Francesa de Seguridad Alimentaria (2015-18). La Dra. Pérez fue incluida en 2012 en una selección de cien jóvenes investigadores españoles para un encuentro con Premios Nobel, en 2014 en una selección de diez investigadores europeos para participar en el Programa Avanzado para el Liderazgo en Nutrición y en 2019 en un Ciclo de Conferencias de Jóvenes Investigadores en la Real Academia Española de Medicina. Así mismo, su actividad regular como divulgadora científica ha sido reconocida, entre otros, por la Real Sociedad Española de Química.
