IBM Chair of International Studies and Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University Rafaela Dancygier holds the IBM Chair of International Studies at Princeton University, where she is Professor of Politics(Link is external) and Public and International Affairs(Link is external) (Link opens in new window). Dancygier is Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) and Director of the Initiatives on Contemporary European Affairs (ICEA)(Link is external) (Link opens in new window). Her research examines how social and economic divides structure political conflict in Europe and the United States. Dancygier covers topics such as immigration, radical right populism, political extremism, gender equality, and housing crises and gentrification. Her first book Immigration and Conflict in Europe(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) explains when and why immigration destinations witness conflict between immigrants and natives, between immigrants and the state, or no conflict at all. Her second book, Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) examines how minority groups are incorporated into politics and studies the consequences of this inclusion for the nature of party politics, electoral realignments and gender equality. Her articles have appeared in outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, World Politics, and elsewhere. Immigration and Conflict was awarded the Best Book Award by the European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and it was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Dilemmas of Inclusion won the 2018 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research and the 2019 Luebbert Prize, awarded by APSA to the best book published in comparative politics in the previous two years. Her articles have been awarded Best Paper Prizes by APSA’s Sections on Comparative Politics; Migration and Citizenship; European Politics and Society; and Representation and Electoral Systems. In 2023 Dancygier was elected to be a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A/Prof, James Cook University A/Prof Roslyn Hickson is a Science Leader for Emerging Infectious Diseases, a joint appointment between CSIRO and James Cook University. Her research is broadly on informing policy and practice through the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, through the lenses of biosecurity and One Health.
PhD Candidate in Polar Marine Ecology and Climate Change, University of Technology Sydney I am a final year PhD candidate with University Technology Sydney and UNIS Svalbard (Arctic Norway) and my research interest is the biological implications of sea ice decline and climate change in the polar regions, in both terrestrial and marine environments. I have spent 7 years working in the high Arctic, undertaking remote fieldwork on the frozen ocean. I have produced six first author publications in high quality scientific journals, and co-authored two books on polar fieldwork. I am a passionate advocate for women and diversity in science and have presented at many international conferences and seminars, including on the topic of barriers to participation for women in polar science. I have a Masters of Environmental Science, a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts. In addition to conducting my research, I am employed as a guest lecturer and academic teaching staff.
PhD Student in Clinical Forensic Psychology, Simon Fraser University Raymond Ho is a Clinical Psychology PhD Student at Simon Fraser University in the Douglas Research Lab. He is also a scholar at the CIHR-funded Alliance Against Violence and Adversity Triadic Mentorship Program, and a Research & Evaluation Associate at Homefront Calgary. Passionate about using interdisciplinary connections in solving complex problems, his current research on psychopathy, violence risk assessments, and implementation is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Raymond was also the director of Access Abroad Hong Kong (formerly Project Access Hong Kong), a registered charity that strives to bridge the opportunity gap in education by empowering underprivileged mentees from low-income backgrounds and non-fee-paying schools. He is currently a mentor at Psych'in Out, a program that supports diverse students in accessing graduate school. He has been teaching and mentoring students for 6+ years, and has also guest lectured on topics such as "Is Santa Claus a psychopath?".
Professor of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham Ritu Aneja, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the School of Health Professions. She is a basic and translational scientist who conducts a broad spectrum of research in the areas of breast cancer health disparities, diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive biomarkers, and novel chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic strategies, using integrative multi-omic and machine-learning based approaches. Her lab is investigating the socio-biological mechanisms of breast cancer disparities and has been continuously funded since 2007 through K99/R00, U01, R01, R03, and STTR grants from the NIH, as well as other agencies such as the DoD and non-profit foundations, for cancer and racial disparities research. The breadth of her research experiences is well suited for the diverse nature of the CPCTP. The goal of her research is to understand why survival and treatment outcomes differ between White and Black women, with a focus on triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive subtype that disproportionately affects Black women. Her convergence research has led her to assemble teams of researchers and clinicians from multiple life science, clinical science, and social science disciplines to collaboratively address complex medical challenges that are deeply entwined with social structures and existing health inequalities. In this context, Dr. Aneja recognized the imperative need for a global approach to address cancer disparities and founded the International Consortium for Advancing Research on Triple Negative Breast Cancer (ICART) in 2016. ICART is a global platform of research groups from 10 countries across four continents, with the mission of aggregating complementary expertise and resources globally, to advance knowledge on TNBC and reduce breast cancer-related disparities. Today, ICART includes more than 30 hospitals and institutions, including a network of 15 teaching hospitals across Nigeria and Ghana and has so far enabled 9 multi-institutional studies and trained 15 graduate students and 8 junior investigators across the globe, resulting in more than 30 publications.
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Otago My academic interests include mood disorders, personality disorders, genetics, neurobiology, suicide and early psychosis.
