Research professor of geospatial technology, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Marcia Moreno-Baez is a Research Professor in Geospatial Technology at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She also serves as an associate advisor to Andanza LLC, a consultancy supporting individuals, groups, collectives, and institutions in increasing environmental and human well-being. She is a collaborating professor at the NIPPON Foundation Ocean Nexus and the board secretary of Maine Big Night, a non-profit organization committed to protecting and studying amphibians. Marcia is the co-founder and advisor of dataMares, an initiative to facilitate access to scientific knowledge and data, and the co-founder of Watershed Management Group, a non-governmental organization focused on developing community-based solutions for environmental prosperity. With over 25 years of experience in geospatial technology, she has worked in government, the private sector, NGOs, and academia. Her expertise includes facilitating the practical use of science and technology to create a spatially literate workforce and supporting scientific research and policy in the US, Mexico, and Latin America. She is a member of the Center for the International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), the Climate Policy Lab, and the Henry J. Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Marcia earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She teaches classes on geospatial technology, focusing on developing methods for applications such as human security, economic development, humanitarian assistance, climate change, and natural resource management worldwide.
Associate Professor and Deputy Scientific Director Research at Monash IVF, The University of Melbourne Associate Professor Mark Green is a reproductive biologist and group leader at the University of Melbourne, the Deputy Scientific Director Research at Monash IVF and a Fellow of the Society for Reproductive Biology. Mark obtained his PhD studying factors that affect early embryo development at the University of Nottingham UK, before undertaking a Life Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Missouri USA. In 2004 he became the inaugural Maurice Paykel Fellow and relocated to The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland NZ. He subsequently held a joint appointment as the first Fertility Associates Research Fellow at The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland and as a Senior Scientist at AgResearch Ltd NZ. In 2011, he took up his current position, as the Merck Serono Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, and now Associate Professor in the School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne. His research centres on improving outcomes of human and animal ART by identifying how endocrine and environmental factors impact gametes and early embryo development, as well as subsequent offspring health. He undertakes this research in a variety of species, including humans, ruminants, rodents and invertebrates.
Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute I am a medical anthropologist and historian of medicine in the U.S., focusing on psychiatry and neuroscience in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. My work focuses on disabilities as they are social produced and offers ways to reconceptualize the role of institutions in the experiences of disability, health, and well-being. I hold a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology, an M.A. in American Cultural Studies, an M.A. in English Literature (with a focus on Science Fiction Studies), and a B.A. in English Literature and Language. I've published four books: The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and American Life (2012), Theory for the World to Come (2019), Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (2020), and American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within (2024), all published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Dean of Social Sciences, Professor of Religion and Science and Technology Studies, Wesleyan University Rubenstein is the author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race (Chicago, 2022); Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia, 2019); Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (Columbia, 2014); and Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Columbia, 2009). She is also co-author with Thomas Carlson and Mark C. Taylor of Image: Three Essays in Technology and Imagination; and co-editor with Catherine Keller of Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms (Fordham, 2014). Her work has been featured on BBC radio and television, National Public Radio, and the Institute for Arts and Ideas; and she has published articles in The New Scientist, Nautilus, Gizmodo, and The Revealer. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards; recipient of the Iris Book Award in Science, Religion, and Technology; and co-PI of the "Sacred Space" project through Arizona State University's Interplanetary Initiative.
Professor of Geography and Senior Global Futures Scientist, Arizona State University Dr. Martin J. Pasqualetti is a Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, both at Arizona State University. He concentrates on matters of energy and society, and has written extensively on the subject of energy landscapes. In acknowledgemen of his lifelong contributions to energy studies, he was honored with the Alexander and Ilse Melamid Gold Medal from the American Geographical Society (2015); Distinguished Alumnus of the Year by the University of California (Riverside) (2018); and Elected Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (2019). He has advised several agencies and NGOs, including the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the U.S. Office of Technical Assessment, the National Academy of Sciences, the Arizona Office of Energy Policy, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. His latest books include The Renewable Energy Landscape (Routledge) and The Thread of Energy (Oxford).
Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, Monash University Michael Zanardo is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University. Previously he was the inaugural Rothwell Resident in Architecture (2022-2023) in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. His PhD, 'Shaping Affordable Housing' investigated the history and architectural design of pre-World War II State workers' housing in Sydney. Michael is a practicing, registered architect and urban designer specialising in the design of housing, particularly public and affordable housing.
