Senior Lecturer in Film, Queen Mary University of London Kiki Tianqi Yu is Senior Lecturer in Film at Queen Mary University of London. As a theorist, filmmaker and curator, she is committed to advancing dewesternised film theories and research-led practice. Her current works include theorising cinema through Daoism; documentary, essayistic nonfiction and artist moving images from the Global south and east; women’s cinema and localised feminism in East Asia. Her books include ‘My’ Self on Camera (EUP 2019), China’s iGeneration (Bloomsbury, 2014). Kiki’s award-winning feature documentaries include China’s van Goghs (2016), and The Two Lives of Li Ermao (2019), shown at over 50 international film festivals and institutions. She curated ‘Polyphonic China’ (London 2009) and ‘Memory Talks” (Shanghai 2017).
Manager, Developmental Psychobiology Research Centre, Mount Saint Vincent University Dr. Kiera O'Neil holds a Ph.D. in Psychology & Neuroscience from Dalhousie University. She has expertise in cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on how experience shapes the neural systems underlying language and memory. Her recent work has focused on how early blindness impacts the language and working memory networks in the brain, the psychosocial factors that affect remote-work productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the behavioural and brain correlates of mind-wandering during technology use. She currently works in the Developmental Psychobiology Research Centre at Mount Saint Vincent University, which investigates how early life experiences influence biological, psychological, and social development, particularly the impact of early experiences on the brain and behaviour in both parents and children, beginning during the prenatal period and spanning to later childhood.
Assistant Professor in Geography, Mountain Hydrology, and Climate Change, University of Colorado Boulder Keith Musselman studies hydrology, climate change, hydrometeorology, remote sensing, modeling and data analytics. His research goals are to assess climate change impacts on water availability, to measure and model ecohydrologic cold region processes across scales, and to develop approaches in collaboration with diverse stakeholder groups to inform sustainable adaptation and decision strategies. He has a Ph.D. in civil engineering from UCLA and a master's degree in hydrology from the University of Arizona.
University of Virginia Humanitarian Collaborative Practitioner Fellow; Assistant Research Professor of International Relations, Tufts University Kimberly Howe directs the Feinstein International Center's Research Program on Conflict and Governance. The majority of her work is focused on the Syria crisis, and the effects of humanitarian and political interventions on civilians, armed groups, and political structures. Kimberly has designed and conducted mixed methods research projects in several war-affected countries around the world including Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Uganda, Northern Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. Since the late 1990s, Kimberly has been working in a variety of ways to improve the lives of people affected by conflict and war. Kimberly regularly conducts research for the U.S. government on their programs targeting refugees, internally displaced persons, and war-affected populations. Prior to joining the center, she was a Randolph Jennings Peace Scholar at the US Institute of Peace, an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at SIPA Columbia University, and a Fellow at Harvard University Medical School. From 1999 to 2007, she practiced as a psychotherapist treating survivors of torture and interpersonal violence. Kimberly holds a B.A. in psychology and an M.S.W. from Simmons College, Boston. She has an M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. in international relations from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. When she is not in the field, she is based in southern France, where the weather is always nice.
PhD Candidate, School of Psychoeducation, Université de Montréal PhD Candidate in Psychoeducation studying the importance of positive daily activities such as physical activity, family meal sharing and reduced screen use.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, San José State University Ken Wharton is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at San Jose State University. Initially an experimentalist, since 2007 his research focus has been in Quantum Foundations, devising models of what might really be happening down at the quantum scale, even when we're not looking. He has also written a number of popular science pieces, appearing in venues such as New Scientist, Aeon, and Nautilus.
