Associate Professor, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney Riccardo by training is a building engineer and he received a Ph.D. in Building Systems Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2011. He joined UNSW Built Environment in February 2017. He is an Associate Professor in the High Performance Architecture research cluster, where he is also the manager of the HPA Lab. Riccardo is also an affiliate of the Heat Island Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. Previously, he had an appointment as post-doc at Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2011-2017). He had been teaching heat and moisture transport in building envelope applications at Politecnico di Milano at postgraduate level for six years. He now teaches in the Architecture Program at the School of Built Environment.
Principal research fellow, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Professor Rachel Neale completed a Bachelor of Veterinary Science at the University of Queensland and spent a short time in clinical practice, before deciding that her heart lay in science and research. She completed a PhD in skin cancer prevention at the QIMR Berghofer. Professor Neale then obtained an NHMRC Sidney Sax Fellowship which enabled her to spend two years at the University of Oxford. This enabled her to play a vital role in an international consortium studying the effects of human papilloma virus on the development of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Upon returning to Australia, Professor Neale established a program of research into pancreatic cancer, and later into vitamin D. In light of her knowledge of both skin cancer and vitamin D she is able to contribute to policy discussions about balancing the risks and benefits of sun exposure; she leads the health working group for the United Nations Environmental Effects Assessment Panel which reports to the parties to the Montreal Protocol. Professor Neale is the deputy coordinator of the population health department and holds adjunct appointments at the Queensland University of Technology and University of Queensland.
Heritage Partnerships Coordinator, University of Oxford Rachel is a historian of late medieval Britain with specialist expertise in women’s and gender history, material culture and the built environment. She has wide-ranging experience of bringing women's histories to specialist and wider audiences through academic publications, media appearances and collaborative projects with community groups and the Heritage sector. Following research fellowships at the universities of Edinburgh and York, including a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, since 2022 Rachel has been the Heritage Partnerships Coordinator at the University of Oxford, where she is responsible for developing and nurturing research partnerships between the University's world-leading researchers and external Heritage organisations. Rachel's first monograph on elite women’s residences in late medieval and early Tudor England is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and sits on the Advisory Board for the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research.
Research Project Manager, NYU Metro Center, New York University Rhea is a policy researcher and youth development expert, currently focused on equitable summer learning at NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. She believes in bottom-up approaches to social justice, equity-centered policy design, and coalition-building and strategic advocacy. Formerly a news journalist and freelance writer, she has covered a wide range of issues, from elections to women’s rights, education, the climate crisis, and labor policy, working across mediums of TV, digital, and podcasts. She spent two years doing field work with a women's labor union. She has a Masters in Public Administration – Policy & Development from NYU Wagner.
Assistant Professor, Utrecht University Dr Rose Camille Vincent is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Public Economics of ETH Zürich. Her research focuses primarily on the political-economic and behavioural implications of institutional arrangements regarding taxation and tax policies. She is also invested in collecting and compiling unique datasets using administrative records and archives that define the structure of public sector institutions, especially in developing and emerging economies (see for example TRA dataset). Aside from her research, Dr Vincent has been involved in various teaching activities, including in public economics, econometrics, impact evaluation methods, and economics and society in contemporary Latin America. She has also been the primary supervisor and co-evaluator of bachelor and master theses at UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University. Dr Vincent has a proven track record of successful collaboration with research and policy institutions on projects related to public finance and development. She has worked for or consulted to the OECD, the World Bank Group, the GIZ, the Inter-American Development Bank, the WHO, the UNU-WIDER, the International Centre for Tax and Development (IDS/ICTD), and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW-Berlin), among others. Since 2017, she has been an academic contributor to the World Observatory on Subnational Finance and Investment and has collaborated on the creation of novel databases on sub-national finance (see for example the database on Regional Government Finance and Investment - REGOFI). Dr Vincent graduated with a dual PhD from Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and Université Clermont-Auvergne (CERDI-CNRS, France). She also holds a MSc in econometrics and statistics from the University of Toulouse (France), a master's in public policy specialising in economic policy from the Hertie School of Governance (Germany), and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the National Taiwan University (Taiwan). She is a native speaker of French and Haitian Creole and is professionally proficient in English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
Assistant Professor of Management, Syracuse University Rachael Dailey Goodwin is an Assistant Professor of Management at Syracuse University in the Whitman School of Management. She pursed a PhD in Management at the University of Utah and a research fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to pursuing a PhD, Rachael was a visiting adjunct professor in the Romney Institute of Public Management at Brigham Young University. She investigates gender issues related to expected power, managerial social cognition (i.e., construal), and women’s desire to lead. She has specific interest in increasing women’s personal sense of power in majority-male leadership groups, and in understanding gendered perceptions of women leaders. She also explores unethical behaviors (e.g., sexual harassment) that create obstacles for women. Her other research examines whistleblowing, and attitudes towards perpetrators and victims. Rachael’s work utilizes diverse methodologies including survey-based field research, experiments, qualitative research, and field data analyses. Her research has been published in top management publications including Organization Science. She has also published in the Psychology of Women’s Quarterly, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
