CNRS Postdoctoral Researcher, laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (DDL-Lyon) / Investigadora Posdoctoral-Fundación Séneca, Lingüística Cognitiva, Universidad de Murcia Rosa Illán es doctora en Lingüistica por la Universidad de Murcia (2024, cum laude, mención internacional). Actualmente es investigadora postdoctoral con un contrato del CNRS en el Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL) en Lyon, Francia. Sus líneas de investigación se centran en la metáfora conceptual, la integración conceptual, el tiempo, el movimiento y la creatividad en el lenguaje. Es miembro principal del Daedalus Lab (The Murcia Center for Cognition Communication and Creativity). En 2021 realizó una estancia de investigación en FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Alemania). Este mismo año recibió una beca Fulbright de investigación para llevar a cabo una estancia de un año en el Departamento de Ciencia Cognitiva de la Universidad de California, San Diego (UCSD), durante la que trabajó en el Embodied Cognition Lab. Es miembro colaborador del Red Hen Lab, consorcio especializado en el estudio de la comunicación multimodal, dirigido por Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve) y Francis Steen (UCLA), y junto al que participa como mentora en el programa Google Summer of Code. Sus investigaciones se han publicado en revistas y capítulos de libro de carácter nacional e internacional. Ha colaborado como ponente en el International Multimodal Communication Centre (IMCC) de la Universidad de Oxford. Actualmente, desarrolla su investigación en el marco del proyecto I+D+i EMOTIME: “Time and emotion: linguistic mechanisms for the emergence of emotional meanings in temporal expressions” (Universidad de Murcia) y del proyecto financiado por el CNRS COVALI: “Perceptive and motor constraints and linguistic variation” (DDL).
Professor of Marine Biology, University of Plymouth Richard Thompson is a Professor of Marine Biology and Director of the Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth. He has published over 200 scientific papers and is one of the world’s foremost experts on plastic pollution. In 2004, he published the first paper describing the long-term accumulation of microscopic fragments of plastic in the environment, naming them ‘microplastics’. He and his team have been at the forefront of microplastics research and have shown their global distribution, the potential for transfer from the gut to the circulatory system, and their role in the transport of chemical contaminants. This pioneering early work was pivotal in recognition of microplastic contamination in policy, such as Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Richard has an extensive track record of collaboration across the disciplines, with an emphasis on identifying ways to use plastics more sustainably. His recent work has guided policy on the release of microplastics from cosmetic products and textiles. His wider research focuses on the ecology of shallow water habitats, including artificial structures. He received the Marsh Award for Marine and Freshwater Conservation in 2017, an OBE for services to marine science in 2018 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020. His team at the Marine Litter Research Unit won the NERC Impact Award (2018) and based on their work the University of Plymouth received the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2020.
Professor of Cybersecurity and International Relations, Georgia Institute of Technology Ryan Shandler is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity & Privacy. Prior to joining SCP he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford with Nuffield College and the Blavatnik School of Government. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the human dimension of cybersecurity. Prof. Shandler is an expert in public opinion on cyber threats. Using experimental methods, he examines how ubiquitous cyber threats influence political behaviors and attitudes. This research has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Peace Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Global Security Studies, Contemporary Security Policy, Journal of Cybersecurity, and elsewhere.
Senior Lecturer in Political Thought, Manchester Metropolitan University I am an Edward W. Said Fellow 2024 at the Heyman Center for the Humanities (Columbia University, NY). I am currently developing a book project on Said’s conception of ‘critical consciousness’ and its relationship with the thought of Antonio Gramsci. My areas of specialism are political theory and the history of modern political thought. My research addresses issues at the intersection of critical and postcolonial thought, in particular re-examining the role of intellectuals in modern society. I have forthcoming articles in Interventions and Notebooks, and I am co-editor of Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks (Brill, 2020), a rich collection of innovative scholarship on Gramsci (also in paperback). I have published work in TOPOI, Theory and Event, Thesis Eleven, Gramsciana, Hegel Bulletin, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Science and Society, and the International Gramsci Journal. Before joining Manchester Metropolitan in 2014, I lectured in European and International Studies at King’s College London, where I completed my PhD in 2013. I co-created the Critical Theory in Hard Times network, which organised workshops on Decolonising Critical Thought (2021) and Racial Capitalism and Anti-Racist Futures (2023).
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Oklahoma State University Dr. Ryan M. Armstrong teaches Religious Studies and Biblical Hebrew at Oklahoma State University. His research focuses on biblical literature and language, its Ancient Near Eastern context, and the history of its interpretation. He is the author of The Book of Job in Wonderland: Making (Non)sense of Job's Mediators (Oxford University Press, 2024), which explores mediation in the book of Job and the history of its interpretation by rabbis, theologians, philosophers, and artists. Along the way, it draws from a comparative-literary analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He has written on Hebrew Poetry and Narrative, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament Canonization, and Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Bible. He is proficient in numerous dead languages and speaks five modern ones.
Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Rachel is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University. Her research is focused on understanding the far-reaching impacts of natural disasters and extreme climate events on factors such as mental and physical wellbeing, coping and resilience, labour force responses, childhood education outcomes, and attitudes towards climate policy action.
