DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford I am a DPhil Student at the University of Oxford, working on improving seasonal forecasting. I'm supervised by Tim Woollings and Antje Weisheimer. I also hold an Energy Science Engagement Fellowship at the Royal Meteorological Society, where I help the society bridge the gap between weather/climate and the energy sector. I am interested in climate change, how we can model it and how we can mitigate it. My PhD is in partnership with AFRY Energy Consultancy, and I will be working for them for 3 months in September 2023.
Assistant Professor of History, California State University, San Bernardino Dr. Marc Arsell Robinson is Assistant Professor of African American history at California State University, San Bernardino. In 2022, he won the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader Award, and served as Visiting Fellow in Equity, Justice, and Inclusion at the University of Oregon’s Clark Honors College. Dr. Robinson’s research focuses on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the Pacific Northwest. His forthcoming monograph, Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest will be published in August 2023 as part of the Black Power Series of New York University Press. His previous publications include journal articles in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and in California History. He has also contributed numerous essays and book reviews in platforms such as Blackpast.org, The Western Journal of Black Studies, Reference Services Review, The Journal of Black Studies, The Journal of African American History, and Race in American Television: Voices and Visions That Shaped a Nation.
Professor of Law, Penn State Marie T. Reilly is a professor at Penn State Law and an expert in bankruptcy and commercial law. She served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2008 to 2015. Prior to joining the Penn State faculty, she was a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Before she became a law teacher, she practiced law with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., and Schiff Hardin in Chicago, Illinois. She teaches contracts, bankruptcy, and commercial law subjects and co-teaches a bootcamp-style course on business fundamentals for law students. Her scholarship considers legal responses to insolvency problems in light of economic, political, and social influences over time. She is a co-author of a law school casebook on secured transactions. Her articles address a wide variety of issues including Catholic organization bankruptcies, fraudulent transfer law, successor liability, marital agency, and tax lien foreclosures. Professor Reilly holds a B.A. (economics) and J.D. from the University of Illinois. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a member of the bars of Illinois, District of Columbia, and South Carolina.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology, The Ohio State University My research focuses on the safety and effectiveness of medications and medical devices. Specifically, I apply quantitative methods from epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, biostatistics and data analytics to analyze large healthcare databases such as health insurance claims and other linked databases which capture prescribed medication use and outcomes on their safety and effectiveness. Currently, I focus specifically on: 1. The role of the social determinants of health factors on the effectiveness of prescribed medications: He is interested in how the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age influence the safety and effectiveness of prescribed medication use in the community settings. 2. Medication outcomes among racial/ethnic minorities: Through population-based observational studies, he tries to measure differences in the utilization, safety and effectiveness of prescribed medications between racial groups, as racial/ethnic minority groups tend to be under-represented in clinical trials of drugs. 3. Drug-drug interactions: The simultaneous use of multiple medications is growing increasingly common. He investigates whether it is safe to simultaneously use certain medications or not.
Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies, Arizona State University A Fulbright scholar from Mexico City, Mario Orospe Hernandez is a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He collaborates as a research assistant in the multi-year research project "Beyond Secularization: Religion, Science, and Technology in Public Life." He is interested in understanding the relationship between religion, capitalism, and technology. Thus, his Ph.D. dissertation examines the impact of rituals and spirituality on the regimes of value, materiality, and labor of two poles of the tech-industry commodity chains: lithium mining in Bolivia and the development of technologies in Silicon Valley. His first book, "Biopolítica y Liberación: la noción de vida humana en Agamben y Dussel", was published by the Argentinean Publisher Prometeo in 2023.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology Department, Marine Research Institute (INMAR), Universidad de Cádiz Marga López Rivas is a researcher in marine ecology and conservation biology. Her research interests include the ecology of sea turtles and cetaceans, climate change, deep learning and marine pollution. She is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher in the biology department of the Marine Research Institute (INMAR) at the University of Cádiz, Spain.
