Senior Lecturer, University of the Western Cape Dr Liana Maree (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medical Bioscience at the University of the Western Cape (UWC, South Africa). After obtaining a BSc Agric (Animal Physiology, Zoology, Nature Conservation) and MSc Agric (Animal Science), she pursued her PhD in Reproductive Physiology, focusing on the variations in structural and functional aspects of sperm mitochondria. Currently her research focus is comparative sperm biology, with emphasis on: sperm morphometry and sperm motility; relationship between sperm structure and sperm selection; applications of computer-aided sperm analysis in fertility studies; and cryopreservation of sperm of human and various animal species.
PhD student, University of East Anglia I am currently a PhD student at University of East Anglia, in the school of Global Developement. My research and work cuts across various issues in development including, climate change, gender and social inclusio, education and food systems sustainability.
Research Fellow, Sciences Po Laurent Fourchard, historian and political scientist, is a research professor at the National Foundation for Political Science (CERI). Research Fields: Violence and security, governance of metropolises, vigilantism, history and political sociology of Nigeria and South Africa, history and historiography of contemporary Africa, History of Nigerian migration to Italy.
Associate Professor of Communication and Social Behavior, Cornell University Dr. Neil Lewis, Jr. is a behavioral scientist who studies the motivational, behavioral, and equity implications of social interventions and policies. Lewis’s research examines how people’s social contexts and identities influence how they make sense of the world around them, and the implications of those meaning-making processes for their motivation to pursue a variety of goals in life. He is interested in the consequences of these processes not only for individuals, but also for the communities, organizations, and societies those individuals are embedded in; he is particularly interested in using insights from research findings to improve educational, health, and environmental outcomes for individuals and societies.
Reader in Latin Language & Literature, Royal Holloway University of London My research focuses on the intersections between Latin literature, ancient philosophy and gender studies. I also have a strong specialism in classical reception. My core research is on Seneca the younger and his approach to Stoicism and the family. As a result, I'm interested in his works in general and the social history that provides the context for understanding them, as well as the way that he reshapes Stoicism for Roman culture. In the broader field of Latin literature, I'm interested in innovative approaches to familiar texts, particularly from a feminist perspective or from an angle that incorporates social history and the family. One half of my classical reception interests focused on classics in popular culture, with a particular interest in film and children's literature. My book on the reception of classical monsters in popular culture was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. The other half is interested in the history of women and classics, in particular how women became professional academic classicists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As well as academic journal articles and books, I have written for publications with a wider public audience including Times Higher Education, History Today and Strange Horizons. I have media experience working with television, documentary film, radio and newspapers.
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee Han is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Collaborating Scientist at the University of Tennessee (UT). His fields of expertise and research interests include traffic engineering, application of advanced technologies to transportation, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), system modeling and simulations, traffic flow theory, traffic operations, transportation data and information systems, emergency evacuation and management, crash records and analysis, transportation logistics, operations research, and 3D visualizations. Since 1985, Han has been actively involved in research activities in the area of transportation and traffic engineering. In terms of externally sponsored projects, he was instrumental towards securing, managing, and conducting research studies. The total expenditure of all the projects he is involved in tops $10 million during the past decade.
