Senior Research Fellow - Statistics, Queensland University of Technology Dr Nicole White is a statistician working in health and medical research. She has worked extensively with academics, clinicians and healthcare decision makers to improve our health and the healthcare we receive. Her independent research focusses on improving research quality by bridging the gap between statistical and clinical expertise. Nicole has a PhD in Statistics and Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours) from the Queensland University of Technology. She is a 2021-2022 Science and Technology Superstar of STEM and Program Lead (Infectious disease) at the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation.
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography, Newcastle University I am a social geographer based at Newcastle University. My work sits at the intersection of the disciplines of geography, history and sociology, with a focus on the geographies of class and race and tackling the conceptualisation, distribution and lived realities of inequalities between groups and individuals. Before coming to Newcastle in 2019 I was Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Durham University and between 2011 and 2015 I was Research Fellow in Quantitative Analyses of Social and Cultural Participation at CRESC: The ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change at the University of Manchester. My first academic role was as Research Associate in History at Lancaster University in 2008. I am a UK state qualified secondary school teacher and taught in schools in the north of England and in Japan. I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Lecturer, Victoria University Nima Izadyar is a Lecturer with the School of Built Environment, College of Sport, Health and Engineering (CoSHE)., Victoria University. His Field of Research is in Building Science and Techniques, focusing on energy-efficient buildings, ventilation, indoor environment quality, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Building Surveying, and renewable energy.
Research Fellow on the ARC Laureate Project on the data revolution (www.fintechrevn.org), UNSW Sydney Natalia Jevglevskaja is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Justice of the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney, Australia) and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. In her role as a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Laureate Project ‘The Financial Data Revolution: Seizing the Benefits, Controlling the Risks’, she looks at how data and technology are transforming financial services in Australia and abroad and what measures may be required in the area of data and technology governance to facilitate innovation in finance. Natalia’s broader research and teaching interests include general international law, comparative law, and the law of armed conflict.
Clinical Microbiologist , Nile University of Nigeria A clinical medical microbiologist with a passion for bench and field work. Eager to learn and practice new techniques that will improve patient outcome. I have a great interest in molecular biology and spend a lot of time reading topics related to infectious diseases in general and Group B Streptococcus molecular biology in particular.
Professor, Luleå University of Technology I have been working as a professor in the department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering at Lulea Technical University, Sweden since December, 2007. Prior to that, I worked as Professor at Al al-Bayt University, Jordan (1995-2007) and Baghdad University, Iraq (1976-1995). I obtained my PhD degree in hydrology from the University of Dundee, UK in 1976 and MSc and BSc in geology from the University of Baghdad, Iraq in 1968 and 1972 respectively. My publications include more than 800 articles in international/national journals, chapters in books and 22 books. I have executed more than 30 major research projects in Iraq, Jordan, Sweden and UK and supervised more than 70 PhD and MSc students. I have received several scientific awards. The British Council on its 70th anniversary in 2004 gave me one of its 10 Cultural Relations Awards. In 2013 I received a best engineering research award from the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education. I am a member of the editorial board of 32 international journals.
