Dr. Sori and his research group broadly study planetary geophysics of the solid worlds in the Solar System, including Mars, the Moon, Ceres, icy satellites, and more. Specific topics of interest include planetary interiors, volcanism and cryovolcanism, planetary surfaces, and icy processes. Dr. Sori and his group also study how best to conduct future geophysics-themed exploration of our Solar System with spacecraft missions.
Dr. Pachucki is a sociologist who investigates phenomena at the intersection of culture, social determinants of health, and social network dynamics. While it is commonly accepted that culture and social context reciprocally shape our health, an expanded understanding of how the structure and meanings of relationships can affect individuals' health behaviors is aided by perspectives from computational social science. If we can better understand how individuals are connected during and across different stages of their life, we gain insight into changes in health behaviors and social status, as well as disparities in these outcomes at the interpersonal and population level. He was trained under an interdisciplinary social science model that prioritizes a “right to health” and that sees many of the cumulative disadvantages that emerge from intersecting group-based differences as unjust and avoidable.
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha (Texas A&M, PhD) is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. His research focuses on American political institutions, specifically the presidency and mass media, and public policy. He is the author of nearly three dozen scholarly articles and three books: The President’s Speeches: Beyond “Going Public” (Lynne Rienner), Breaking through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media, coauthored with Jeffrey S. Peake (Stanford University Press), and The President and the Supreme Court: Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump, co-authored with Paul M. Collins, Jr (Cambridge University Press). His forthcoming book (Routledge) examines the causes and consequences of presidential rhetoric on immigration.
PhD Candidate, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte is a Bombardier Doctoral Scholar and PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication. Her research focuses on Canadian cultural policy and artist-run organizations. In 2019, she received the Canadian Communication Association’s Doctoral CRTC Prize for Excellence in Policy Research for the paper “Creative Canada: A Critical Look at a ‘New’ Cultural Policy Framework.” She is a member of the Cultural Policy, IP and Rights Ecosystems Working Group for Archive/Counter Archive, a multi-year research project based out of York University. Mariane obtained an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts in 2012 and has exhibited artistic and curatorial projects across Canada. Her research and art criticism has been published in various edited books, art journals including esse art + opinions, C Magazine, and Inter art actuel. Most recently, her chapter “Digital Cultural Industrialism and the Arts: A Critical Look at Creative Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Strategy Fund” was included in Canadian Cultural Policy in Transition (2021). Mariane has worked as the lead consultant on various sectoral and community research projects commissioned by national and provincial arts service organizations including ARCA, IMAA, and CARFAC. Mariane has served on the board of directors of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres (2016-2018), VIVO Media Arts Centre (2014-2019), and Aphotic Theatre (2017-present).
Full Professor of Organizational Behavior and Director of the Global MBA, Università di Bologna Marcello Russo (PhD) is the global MBA director at Bologna Business School in Italy and Full Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is an expert on work-life balance, with a focus on what individual strategies and organizational factors can help individuals accomplish their ideal model of work-life balance and it has published in leading scholarly journals, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Annals. In this last years, he has conducted many research trying to help individuals juggling their work and personal roles and supporting companies in outlining effective policies and a supportive organizational culture that could help people pursuit their ideal model for managing the work-life interface
Senior Lecturer in Astronomy, University of the Western Cape Born in South Africa with a PhD from the University of Cape Town, Dr. Michelle Lochner is a Senior Lecturer with a joint position between the University of the Western Cape and the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (formerly SKA South Africa). Her focus is on cosmology and trying to get the best out of combining optical and radio telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, in Chile, as well as the Square Kilometre Array and its precursor, MeerKAT, in South Africa. She works on developing new statistical techniques and machine learning techniques to tackle the masses of data we are dealing with in astronomy, currently focusing on the use of anomaly detection for scientific discovery. She is also the founder and director of an international mentoring programme for women and gender minorities in physics called the Supernova Foundation.
