Senior Research Fellow, Viral Immunology Systems Program, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney A/Prof Lucette Cysique is a cross-disciplinary neuropsychologist with extensive neuroimaging training and long-term experience with neuro-, viral and immune biomarkers. She leads a research program into the neurocognitive complications in major infectious diseases (COVID-19, HIV) and their main comorbidities: brain pathological ageing, cardiovascular diseases, and depressive disorders. Her appointment in the Viral Immunology Systems Program at the Kirby Institute involves the overseeing the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies (APPRISE) Long COVID Initiative. Working in global epidemies, Dr. Cysique has extensive experience in cross-cultural neuropsychology. Dr. Cysique has held major international and national research responsibilities, with associated funding. She has led the research on more than 40 national and international cohort studies/trials.
Lecturer in EU law, University College Cork Luigi Lonardo is the Acting Director of the Centre for European Integration at University College Cork, and adjunct faculty at Sciences Po Paris. He is the author of books on the foreign policy of the EU, including Russia’s 2022 war against Ukraine and the Foreign Policy Reaction of the EU (Palgrave 2023); EU Common Foreign and Security Policy after Lisbon: Between Law and Geopolitics (Springer 2022). His areas of expertise relate to EU constitutional law. Previously, Luigi was a lecturer at King's College London, where he obtained his PhD in 2020.
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Loes Aaldering is an associate professor in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the VU Amsterdam. Her research mainly focuses on issues related to gender and politics, political leadership, political representation and electoral behavior. More specifically, she studies, among other things, how politicians are discussed in the media in terms of their leadership traits; gender differences in media coverage of politicians; (gendered) leadership effects on voters; gender stereotypes; sexism during election campaigns; dark politicians; gender and negative campaigning; fake news; news avoidance; immersive journalism and (affective) polarization.
Clinical Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Melbourne Dr Louie Ye is a Clinical Fellow at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Melbourne, at The Royal Women's Hospital.
Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University Dr. Voith has worked over the last decade to address violence against women and youth through counseling, agency- and community-based coordination efforts, and research. Her research focuses on the prevention and intervention of violence against women by working with boys and men to uncover the etiology of violence though the lens of trauma and health disparities. Her research shows that exposure to adversity and violence in family- and community-settings in childhood and adolescence are significant factors that, if gone unaddressed, can lead men to perpetrate violence in adulthood. Dr. Voith’s research aims to inform the development and evaluation of violence prevention programs with at-risk youth and improve batterer intervention programming with men.
Associate Professor and ARC Principal Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University Master of Arts (Justice Studies), Faculty of Law, QUT. PhD (Education), The University of Queensland
