Senior Expert on Energy, Materials supply chains, and strategic autonomy, Joint Research Centre Michalis Christou is a Senior Expert in energy, materials and strategic autonomy at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). He has leading roles in the JRC activities on “Materials and Strategic Supply Chains for the Energy Transition” and "Resilience and Strategic Autonomy in the Energy industry" at the Directorate for Energy, Mobility and Climate. A Mechanical Engineer by training with a PhD in risk analysis, Michalis has more than 25 years’ experience in energy topics, specifically in energy analysis, protection of energy critical infrastructures, security of energy supply, and materials value chains. With his team, he’s performing research on foresight of the demand of materials and components necessary for the energy transition, supply chain analysis, materials and technology innovation, resilience of supply chains and mitigation of supply risk.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University Dr. Michael Hankinson studies how institutional spatial scale affects political behavior to undermine democratic representation. He uses original data to show that collective outcomes in housing, health policy, and voting behavior are all shaped by the spatial scale of institutions. Previous research has suggested that when institutions are designed to shift power to smaller spatial scales, they may result in normatively positive outcomes. His research indicates that the smaller spatial scale of institutions may change political behavior in ways that prevent the development of needed public goods, such as housing and public health infrastructure. In short, the design of political institutions can subvert representation and collective action around the siting of things society needs, but nobody wants nearby.
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University I am an artist, researcher and lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. I have researched various aspects of late 20th Century British Art, notably the origins of Conceptual Art.
PhD Candidate, School of Media, Film & Journalism, Monash University Melanie Ashe is a film, media and environment researcher completing her PhD at Monash University. Her research interests span Australian screen culture and industries, media infrastructures, media and environment, gender, and culture. She has written widely for academic journals such as Media Industries. Her current PhD work focuses on the environmental histories of regional screen industries in Australia. This work is supported by an Australian Research Council grant under the project funded project "Remaking the Australian Environment through Documentary Film and Television."
Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society, The University of Edinburgh My research mainly focuses on the nature of the social world, and how it might be changed for the better. I’m working on a variety of issues at the moment: - Contemporary transgender politics in the UK, with an eye to the role that dispossession from healthcare plays in such conflicts. - A book for Bloomsbury, What Gender Should Be, which argues for a distinctive transfeminist position on the semantics and metaphysics of gender. - Political and applied philosophy of language. - (Bio)ethical and metaphysical questions about pregnancy, the family and family abolition.
