Adjunct Associate Lecturer, School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University Peter Mee is a senior research scientist in virology at Agriculture Victoria and holds an Honorary position at the School of Applied Systems Biology at La Trobe University. Peter is a researcher who mainly focuses on veterinary diagnostics, arbovirology, Mycobacterium ulcerans, and future surveillance systems for public health and veterinary outcomes. Currently, his work revolves around coordinating large surveillance programs for mosquito-transmitted pathogens across Victoria and South Australia. He is also involved in developing new testing techniques for emergency animal diseases, which he conducts both in Australia and neighbouring countries.
Principal Lecturer, Cardiff Metropolitan University Dr Paul M. Smith is an exercise physiologist within the School of Sport and Health Sciences at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and the Higher Education Academy. His main research specialism focuses upon the development and applications of exercise tests associated with upper body exercise, with particular emphases on arm crank ergometry and handcycling. Paul has worked within the sphere of disability sport and physical activity for more than 20 years and has considerable knowledge of the Para sport of handcycling. He has published extensively within a broad area of disability sport and, as well as supporting disabled athletes in preparation for competition he has played an integral role during high-profile, ultra endurance sporting challenges, including two successful Races Across America and a World record solo ride by a double amputee handcyclist from John O'Groats to Land's End. Paul completed his PhD by published works, while he worked within the Chatham Maritime School of Sciences at the University of Greenwich. Within current projects he attempts to bring experts from different fields together to create multi- and interdisciplinary research proposals. More recently, Paul has turned his attention to issues of inclusion and accessibility of secondary and higher education opportunities for individuals with physical needs.
Research Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex I am a Research Fellow working on a three-year project on the Governance of Discontinuity in Technological Systems (DiscGo). Stemming from research on socio-technical transitions this project studies the under-examined ‘flip side’ to innovation – how technology governance can address the crucial task of disengaging from well-established socio-technical systems. The project is in collaboration with colleagues at the INRA in Paris, TSG in Dortmund and led by Stefan Kuhlmann in Twente. The Sussex case study is civilian nuclear energy, where the governance patterns of France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK will be examined. I am also the Tyndall Centre Coordinator for the University of Sussex, a leading research network on climate change and sustainability involving several Universities in the UK as well as one in China. Prior to joining SPRU I completed an MSc in Environmental Governance with Distinction at the University of Manchester, before completing a PhD on Public Engagement with Nuclear Power in the UK. Whilst writing up I worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher on the ESRC Biosecurity Borderlands project, and then the ESRC Visualising Climate Change project also at Exeter.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton Dr. Banerjee is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Holography and Metamaterials Laboratory at the University of Dayton. Dr. Banerjee's research interests include digital and dynamic holography, metamaterials, photorefractives and acousto-optics.
Former director of SAAO and honorary professor at UCT, South African Astronomical Observatory Whitelock is an astronomer at, and former director of, the South African Astronomical Observatory and an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town. She obtained her BSc and PhD at the University of London. Her primary research interests are the late stages of stellar evolution, mass-loss and variability. She also works on galactic structure, near-by galaxies and the cosmic distance scale. She is involved in astronomy education, astronomy for development, and international coordination and collaboration. She has served as president of the International Astronomical Union’s Division VII (Galactic Systems), is a member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa, an honorary fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (UK) and an honorary member and fellow—and former president—of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP). She is the recipient of the 2018 de Beers Gold Medal of the SAIP and a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from Rhodes University in 2020.
