Woodruff Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Leamy's research interests are in emerging and multidisciplinary areas of engineering science, with an emphasis on simulating nonlinear dynamical behavior present in structures and materials. His research interests and activities center on developing analytical and computational models capable of capturing linear and nonlinear response in systems ranging in scale from the macro- to the nano-scale. Modeling techniques required in this research often cross traditional domains and include elements of nonlinear continuum mechanics and dynamics, electromagnetics, hydraulics, atomistic mechanics, and nonlinear dynamics. Systems of interest include dry-friction damped vehicle accessory drives, hybrid-electric and hydraulic hybrid vehicles, nanoscale materials, and periodic metamaterials. His research has been supported by the Ford Motor Corporation, General Motors, Ferrari S.p.A., the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, Électricité de France, and ThyssenKrupp Elevator America. Dr. Leamy joined Georgia Tech in 2007 as an Assistant Professor. Prior, he was a Research Scientist in the Emerging Technology Office at the MITRE Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, and an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Leamy has also been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, and a Research Associate at the NASA Langley Research Center.
Senior Lecturer in Digital Studies, The University of Melbourne I am a literary scholar by training, and a programmer by fascination. I connect these two sides of my work in two ways. The first way: I use computation to unweave literary texts, and discover beautiful patterns in their words. The second way: I use literature to unweave computation, drawing on the rich resources of literary tradition to understand the nature and role of software.
Senior Lecturer in English for Educational Development, University of the Western Cape Martina van Heerden (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the University of the Western Cape. She teaches academic literacies to undergraduate science students and Literacy Studies to Linguistics Honours students. Her research interests encompass a range of learning and teaching topics, such as feedback literacy, peer review, academic development, and supervision.
Visiting Scholar of Global Affairs, Northwestern University Mkhaimar Abusada is a U.S.-educated expert on Palestinian political attitudes. He received his PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1996 and is an associate professor at Al-Azhar University of Gaza and the former chair of the university's political science department. He has authored one book, and many academic articles in local and internationally recognized academic journals. He has also written for Project Syndicate, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Epidemiology PhD Student, University of Bristol I am a Wellcome-funded epidemiology PhD student at the University of Bristol. My PhD explores the effects of the daylight saving time clock changes on sleep duration (using UK Biobank accelerometer data), as well as the effects of the clock changes on cardiovascular disease, depression and road traffic injuries (using GP, hospital admissions and A&E data from England). During my PhD I have also compared UK Biobank participants' self-reported insomnia to insomnia symptoms in their linked primary care records in order to explore the use of electronic health records to study sleep disorders. I am passionate about the use of electronic health records in epidemiology, women’s health and cancer prevention.
Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Physics, UNSW Sydney My research interests are in radio, millimetre and sub-millimetre astronomy, molecular line astronomy, bioastronomy and computational astrophysics. After taking formal retirement during COVID, I am continuing to work on my pet projects, including Detecting new complex organic molecules in space, and hopefully finding some of the building blocks of life; Using very complex organic molecules to put an evolutionary sequence on the formation of stars; Determining how the structure of the Milky Galaxy affect the formation of stars, and Investigating the relationship between turbulence in gas in the Milky Way Galaxy and star formation. Using data intensive astronomy together with computational astrophysics to understand the relationship between star formation and the surrounding interstellar medium.
