Associate Professor of Architecture, Director of the Hamer Center for Community Design, Penn State Lisa D. Iulo is an associate professor of architecture at The Pennsylvania State University and a Registered Architect, Professional Planner, and LEED-Accredited Professional who has focused her work and research on building and planning for a more sustainable future. Specifically, Iulo’s work has been recognized in research and practice related to residential green building practices and affordable housing, energy efficiency, and strategies for the implementation of renewable energy at the building and community scale.
Lecturer in Law, University of South Australia Lisa Cooper is a lecturer in law, specialising in criminal law and procedure. She is admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
Curator of Archaeobotany and Archaeogenomics, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution I use archaeology, ancient DNA, and genomics to study the domestication of plants and humans' relationships with the environment.
Senior researcher of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University Line is a Danish researcher with the Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, and the Dept. of Clinical Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Denmark. Line completed postdoctoral training with the Moffitt-Caspi Lab at Duke University, supported by an international postdoctoral fellowship from the Lundbeck Foundation. With an M.Sc. in Molecular Biomedicine and a Ph.D. in Immunology and Infectious Diseases, both from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Line is an immunologist and epidemiologist by training. Line has brought together the field of life-course epidemiology with a strong background in laboratory methods and biomedicine to address fundamental questions about health and illness from childhood to old age. Her research integrates theory and methods from immunology, clinical research, and population-based studies to identify the risk factors, measures, and outcomes of systemic chronic inflammation with emphasis on its role in biological aging and disease development. Her work is centered on biomarkers of inflammation and biological aging, with focus on the emerging systemic chronic inflammation marker “suPAR”. This work includes clinical prognostication using suPAR, as well as research into early life risk factors for systemic chronic inflammation, immunosenescence (aging of the immune system), and accelerated biological aging.
Program Manager, Community Research Platform, McMaster University Leora Sas van der Linden is the Program Manager for the Community Research Platform (CRP) at McMaster University. Leora holds a BA in Anthropology from Western and a MA in Social Anthropology from York University. Leora has fifteen years of strategic leadership, program management, and community development experience. As CRP Manager Leora helps to build and sustain relationships of trust and reciprocity between and among academic scholars, students, and community partners to foster community-engaged research that advances community wellbeing.
Professor of Design and Innovation, Nottingham Trent University Lars Erik Holmquist is Professor of Design and Innovation in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). He is an internationally leading researcher in human computer interaction, interaction design and ubiquitous computing. He has published over 100 articles in fields such as HCI, design methods, mobile applications and ubiquitous computing, which have been cited more than 4500 times. Before joining NTU, he was Professor of Innovation at Northumbria University's Department of Design.
