Contributors

Ludovic Pascal

Postdoctorant en biogéochimie marine, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)

Postdoctorant en biogéochimie marine, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) Je suis spécialisé en écologie et biogéochimie benthique. Plus précisément, je m'intéresse à l'influence du comportement des organismes vivant dans le sédiment sur les cycles biogéochimiques du carbone et de l'azote.

Luke Melchiorre

Associate Professor, Political Science and Global Studies, Universidad de los Andes

Associate Professor, Political Science and Global Studies, Universidad de los Andes I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Studies at Universidad de los Andes. My research engages debates that straddle Africanist political science, critical development studies and history. My broader research and teaching interests include African politics (with a focus on East Africa), the political economy of development and state-building, youth politics and a critical and comparative assessment of democracy and its discontents in the Global South, with a focus on the political phenomenon of populism.

Lucy Furfaro

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, The University of Western Australia

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, The University of Western Australia Dr Furfaro is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow within the Medical School, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. As a microbiologist, she is interested in microbes in the context of pregnancy and early life. Her research explores targeted antibiotic alternatives such as bacteriophage therapy to treat leading neonatal pathogens such as Group B Streptococcus. Lucy has a strong discovery to translation focus to her research and is an active science communicator.

Louis M. Kyriakoudes

Director, Albert Gore Research Center and Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University

Director, Albert Gore Research Center and Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University Louis M. Kyriakoudes is director of the Albert Gore Research Center and Professor of History at MTSU. He is an acclaimed historian who served as the Oral History Association's co-executive director from 2018 to 2022. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University and received additional training in demography and public health as a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development postdoctoral fellow. He has won grants from the Economic History Association, U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Parks Service to support research and public programs. He is the author of The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), co-editor (with Susanna Delfino and Michelle Gillespie) of Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 (Missouri, 2011), and the author of many articles and book chapters.

Louise Thornton

Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney

Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney Dr Thornton is a Senior Research Fellow and Program Lead for Digital Interventions and Engagement at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use at the University of Sydney. She leads a program of research to identify and understand the most effective ways digital technologies can be leveraged to reduce chronic disease risk and improve people’s mental health. Her research primarily focusses on adolescents and young people, and people experiencing mental health problems and she has extensive experience co-designing and evaluating digital health solultions to help people improve their mental and physical health.

Leigh Riby

Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience , Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience , Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle Prof. Riby began his academic life studying for a PhD at Bristol University in experimental psychology on the topic of attentional control and multi-tasking in ageing. He then moved on to Stirling University to obtain his post-doctoral training in the use of multimodal brain imaging in the investigation of human memory. This early work was influential in driving his interest in the use of mixed methodology (behavioural, neuropsychological and imaging) to explore some of the critical research challenges in the field of gerontology. For instance, a programme of work is using brain imaging techniques (EEG and fMRI) to examine self-generated thought and mind-wandering patterns across the lifespan. The research examines how differences in brain network connectivity in ageing between temporal and prefrontal brain regions predicts positive impacts on behaviour (e.g. creativity; problem-solving; positive aspects of self-reflection). Beyond fundamental science, his intervention work aims to use what we have learnt in the lab to build novel and engaging programmes to encourage the use of untapped brain resources, promoting enhanced mental performance and wellbeing as we grow older. Prof. Riby’s work overall aims to lead theoretical and methodological development of successful and less successful ageing (e.g. diabetes; dementia) with the emphasis that decline is not inevitable. Further interests include the nutritional neurosciences, cognitive neuroscience of mindfulness/meditation and the link between mindful running and psychological wellbeing. More recently, Prof. Riby is conducting a series of behavioural and neuroscience investigations on music's potential to heal the mind.