Professor and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security, Simon Fraser University I am Professor and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. My research focuses broadly on military culture and gender and war. I am the author of Good Soldiers Don't Rape: the stories we tell about military sexual violence (Cambridge 2023) and Beyond the Band of Brothers: the US military and the myth that women can't fight (Cambridge 2015).
Professor of Physiotherapy, Macquarie University Mark Hancock is a Professor of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Macquarie University. He has over 20 years of clinical experience as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist working in a primary care setting. Mark now works primarily as an academic/researcher. His research focuses on the diagnosis and management of back pain. Mark completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2007. He has published over 200 peer reviewed papers and received over $11 million in funding to support his research. He has published in leading medical journals (e.g. NEJM, Lancet and BMJ and discipline specific journals (e.g. Spine and Journal of Physiotherapy). His work has been accompanied by editorials and received wide media attention. Professor Hancock is a member of the associate editorial board for the Cochrane Back Review Group and Journal of Physiotherapy board member.
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo Dr. Yu Joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo as an Empire Innovation Professor in January 2021. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from August 2017 to January 2021. He was an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) between 2012 and 2017. Before joining UofSC, he was an assistant research professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder) from 2010 to 2012. He obtained B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2002) degrees from Tianjin University, China. He earned his Ph.D. degree from CU-Boulder in 2007, and subsequently worked in the same department as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2010. Dr. Yu has published >60 peer-reviewed papers, with two in Science and others in Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, JACS, Nano Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Catalysis, Chemical Communications, etc. He is a recipient of 2015 NSF Career Award.
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Southampton Dr Mark Chapman is an Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and his research focuses on working out what genes do. He works with a range of plants (and some animals) and carries out detailed genetic and genomic investigations comparing populations or species. His research identifies the genes that are important for adaptation, speciation and domestication; therefore it is important for the fields of evolutionary biology, genomics and mitigating climate change.
Adjunct Professor of Marine Biology, Nelson Mandela University Matt Dicken is the head of research and monitoring at the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research (CMR), Ocean Sciences Campus, Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa. He has over 20 years of senior management and lecturing experience in the fields of marine conservation, ecology and fisheries management. His extensive experience of developing and implementing research projects focuses on better understanding the ecology of oceans with a specific focus on fisheries and the socioeconomics of marine tourism. He is a nationally rated C2 scientist with over 40 peer reviewed publications. At the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board research department, he is responsible for the strategic vision, management, policy formulation and cost-effective budget control. He is also a visiting researcher at the School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.
Associate Professor at the Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand Matthew is an epidemiologist and has done research in South Africa and East Africa as well as with international organisations in Switzerland and Belgium. As an alumnus of the Faculty of Health Sciences (MBBCh 1998; DTM&H 2002), Matthew has strong research links with the University of the Witwatersrand, including posts at the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, and Perinatal HIV Research Unit. He has about 110 publications, seven academic qualifications from leading institutions (including a doctorate in medical science) and international standing as a researcher and technical writer. Matthew also holds an appointment as visiting professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Ghent and frequently provides technical advice to the World Health Organization and other international organisations. Research interests include maternal health and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV; investigation of associations between alcohol, sexual behaviour and HIV; and the prevalence and meanings of vaginal practices in Africa, and their relation to HIV acquisition.
