Immunology Research Scientist, ME/CFS Research, Quadram Institute I am a postdoctoral research scientist with a background in immunology and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) research. I obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from Newcastle University in 2016. During my undergraduate degree I was awarded a vacation scholarship from the Wellcome Trust which was used to study the heritability of ME/CFS over 8 weeks. After obtaining my BSc I moved to Norwich to undertake a PhD based at the Quadram Institute, which was funded by the UK charity Invest in ME Research. My PhD investigated the immune response to gut microbes in ME/CFS patients. I am now at the Quadram Institute as an immunology research scientist in the Gut Microbes and Health programme where my principle role is to determine whether ME/CFS patients have premature ageing of the immune system because of chronic exposure to gut microbes. I will be working on the phase IIb clinical trial of faecal microbiota transplantation in ME/CFS patients (RESTORE-ME study).
Professor of Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast Professor Kathryn McNeilly is a legal academic with expertise in the areas of international human rights law and international legal theory. Her work undertakes engagements with the theory and operation of human rights. Kathryn's recent research has explored how ideas of time and temporality can be used as tools to better understand the operation of human rights law internationally. Kathryn is the author of a monograph titled Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation: Futurity, Alterity, Power which was shortlisted for the 2018 Hart-SLSA Early Career Prize. In 2019-20 Kathryn was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to investigate issues of time and materiality in international human rights law monitoring. In 2018 Kathryn was awarded the QUB Vice Chancellor's Early Career Research Prize. This University-wide Prize recognises a scholar whose research demonstrates outstanding significance and excellence in the first 5 years of their career.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University Since August 2022, Keith A. Preble has been a visiting assistant professor of political science at Miami University (Oxford, OH). He received his PhD in Political Science from the Department of Political Science at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York with a focus on international relations and comparative politics in December 2021. His dissertation, entitled “Economic sanctions and opportunism,” explores the ways in which third-party states and their firms take advantage of opportunities that emerge when economic sanctions and arms embargoes are implemented. His dissertation was also awarded the Rockefeller College Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2022.
Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences & Complex Intervention Methodology, University of Leeds Dr Kara Gray-Burrows I am a Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences & Complex Intervention Methodology in the School of Dentistry at the University of Leeds, UK. I am a Chartered psychologist working in both research and teaching. The key focus of my research is in improving population health, particularly the health of children and young people. My main interests are in behaviour change, the development and evaluation of complex interventions, with further interests in implementation science, systems approaches, and patient and public involvement in research. I work with a range of stakeholders, including health professionals, early-years workers, charities, government bodies, and commercial companies to develop and evaluate preventive interventions to improve the oral health of young children. I have a passion for involving patients and the public in research, including using creative methods to actively engage children in research with the aim of producing high-quality needs-led research that can inform policy and practice.
Researcher, Paléaoanthropologie, CIRB, Collège de France Karen Ruebens received her PhD from the University of Southampton (UK) in 2013 and has since been working as a postdoctoral researcher, first at the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre for Human Behavioural Evolution (Neuwied) and then at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA, Leipzig). Her research interests are focused on unravelling Neanderthal behaviour through wider-scale comparative lithic and faunal analyses, most recently including Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS). At the Collège de France Karen will be conducting ZooMS analysis of faunal assemblages from key late Middle and early Upper Palaeolithic sites. Her ongoing ZooMS projects include Salzgitter-Lebenstedt (Mousterian), Ranis (Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician), Cassenade and Saint-Césaire (Châtelperronian). Karen Ruebens a obtenu son doctorat à l'Université de Southampton (Royaume-Uni) en 2013 et travaille depuis en tant que chercheuse postdoctorale, d'abord au MONREPOS Archaeological Research Center for Human Behavioral Evolution (Neuwied) puis au Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ( MPI-EVA, Leipzig). Ses intérêts de recherche se concentrent sur l'élucidation du comportement des Néandertaliens grâce à des analyses lithiques et fauniques comparatives à plus grande échelle, dont plus récemment la zooarchéologie par spectrométrie de masse (ZooMS). Au Collège de France, Karen effectuera une analyse ZooMS des assemblages fauniques des principaux sites du Paléolithique moyen et supérieur. Ses projets ZooMS en cours incluent Salzgitter-Lebenstedt (Moustérien), Ranis (Lincombien-Ranisien-Jerzmanowicien), Cassenade et Saint-Césaire (Châtelperronien).
UKSA Mars Science Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Oxford I am working on data analysis for the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Atmospheric Chemistry Suite. My objective is to measure high quality vertical profiles of gases present in the atmosphere of Mars, to search for undetected species, such methane and other organics, and chlorine- or sulphur-bearing molecules. I use these results to help understand the photochemistry, dynamics, and climatology of Mars.
