Professor of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion, Mississippi State University Juan is a professor and extensionist in the Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion at Mississippi State University. He has a B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in food science and technology. He is a member and former director of the Board of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and was the leader of many divisions. He is now a member of the FSPCA Executive Advisory Board and leader of the international network of instructors. He is a recognized trainer of trainers and expert in food processing and safety, including traditional HACCP systems and newer Preventive Control systems that include supply chain programs, as well as in thermally processed and refrigerated/frozen food systems. An industry consultant for over 35 years, has conducted nearly 300 trainings on all continents of the world.
Research Fellow, Political Ecology, Queen's University Belfast Jonny is an academic and award-winning social entrepreneur who set up and managed Northern Ireland’s first community-owned farm. Raised between Malawi, Africa, and Monaghan, Ireland, he has a PhD in snow leopard conservation from the University of Cambridge and is an Associate of the Snow Leopard Conservancy. Jonny is currently a research fellow in the ARK social policy hub at Queen's University Belfast, where he studies the social aspects of conservation and agriculture, and how these relate to other social processes, including tourism and enterprise. His first book, 'Coexistence: learning to live with lynx, wolves and bears', is out with Pelagic in early 2025. www.jonnyhanson.com @jonnyhhanson
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young University Dr. Jane Lilly López is an expert in US immigration policy and its effects on non-citizens and their family members. Her book, Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State (2022, Stanford University Press) details the consequences of US immigration laws on mixed-citizenship American families living within and outside the US.
PhD Candidate at Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne Jesse is a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences.
Teaching Assistant Professor, West Virginia University Jason E. Ybarra is a Teaching Assistant Professor and serves as the Director of the WVU Planetarium and Observatory. Dr. Ybarra’s research interests include galactic star formation, protostellar outflows, physics education, and the history of astronomy. They earned a Ph.D. from the University of Florida where, as a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) fellow and a NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium fellow, they studied how star formation progresses through the Rosette Molecular Cloud by analyzing the stellar and gas content of embedded clusters. They also earned a M.S. in Physics from San Francisco State University, where as a graduate student, they co-discovered the first observational evidence of a precessing jet carving out a protostellar envelope. Dr. Ybarra's postdoctoral work at the Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM-Ensenada) involved characterizing mid-infrared emission from star-forming regions, studying protostellar outflow interactions, and developing astro-statistical methods. They also served as the editor of the "This Month in Astronomical History" column (2019-2020) for the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society (HAD-AAS), as well as being a frequent contributing author. They are a member of the American Astronomical Society and the Society of Indigenous Astronomers.
Research Fellow, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham I am a Research Fellow, based in the Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education (InHANSE), within the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. InHANSE aims to improve the lives of people with head and neck cancer through research. My own research focuses on the tumour microenvironment, anti-tumour immune responses and biomarkers for treatment selection and response.
