PhD Candidate in Economics and Business Administration, University of Vaasa MacDonald is a Doctoral Degree (PhD) Candidate in Economics and Business Administration at the University of Vaasa, Finland. His qualifications include an M.A. in Education Management and a Bachelor of Arts in English Language. He also holds certificates in Business Analysis and Project Management. He is currently the Director of Corporate Training and Workforce Development at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Calgary.
Associate Professor of Water Systems Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University Maryam is a Charted Civil Engineer and attained her BEng (Hons) degree in Civil Engineering in 2001 and worked as a structure engineer in industry for three years. She left practice to academia to complete her MEng degree in Water Systems Engineering in 2005 and simultaneously worked as a part-time researcher in the water industry. Maryam achieved her PhD in Water Systems Engineering from University of Exeter in 2012. Her PhD project (funded by Exeter University Research Scholarship (ERS) award), titled Modelling the Performance of an Integrated Urban Wastewater System (IUWS) under Future Conditions (climate change and urbanisation, focused on development of novel risk-based and non-risk-based optimisation models to improve the operational control and design of IUWS under climate change and urbanisation. In her PhD, Maryam also developed the novel meta-model 'MOGA-ANNβ' by combining Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Neural Network to tackle complexity and time-demanding nature of integrated modelling of urban wastewater system Additionally, Maryam worked as an Associate Lecturer at INTO University of Exeter when she was a PhD student in Exeter University. Upon her PhD completion, she was appointed as Associate Research Fellow in the EPSRC-funded project Safe&SuRe Water Management at the Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter. Maryam worked with the team to develop a new paradigm for safe, sustainable and resilient water management in response to emerging challenges and global uncertainties. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow in the University of Utah in the US as part of ‘Clean Water for All, UK-US Collaboration’ project, funded jointly by EPSRC & NSF. Maryam joined ARU in 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (Water Systems Engineering) in the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. Maryam currently leads several modules and have been involved in research projects as PI, CO-PI and Co-I since joining ARU.
Medical Student, University of North Dakota Madeline Comeau received a Bachelor of Science in Community Nutrition and Master of Science in Nutrition Science both from the University of North Dakota. Previously, she served as a research technician in Dr. Julie Hess’s lab at the USDA’s Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center from 2021-24. This work largely examined Americans' adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and strategies to increase adherence. Madeline is currently a first year medical student pursuing her Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh Woolhouse is professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the Usher Institute in the University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. And he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to the control of infectious diseases.
Research Fellow in Earth Sciences, Australian National University I am a Research Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. My main research focus is on the deep geological processes that lead to the formation of critical metal deposits. I also have broad interests in science policy and science communication.
Social Psychologist , Indigenous Knowledge Micheal Heimlick is a fourth-generation settler born in Treaty 6 Territory and homeland of the Métis (North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada). During his master’s degree program in Applied Social Psychology, he found a passion for working in the program evaluation field – so much so that he turned it into a full-time career after finishing his degree. Starting in 2017, Micheal has helped lead over 75 short and multi-year program evaluations and has designed evaluation frameworks in both community and academic settings. These evaluations have helped organisations to understand the impact their work is having in communities and has assisted in applying for additional funding to continue the work that they do.
