Associate professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires Sebastián Mauro is an Associate Researcher at the National Research Council (CONICET) and an Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He holds a PhD on Social Sciences from University of Buenos Aires. Sebastián Mauro works in the field of political sociology, and his research interests include subnational politics, multi-level party organization and social mobilization.
Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, University of California, Davis Samantha L. Vigil is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Davis. Samantha studies childhood and adolescent media usage as it relates to human development, with a specific interest in examining and informing public policy in this area.
Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences My research focuses on understanding the dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system at time scales relevant to the seismic cycle. My work revolves around modeling seismic and geodetic data with the long-term goal of improving resilience to seismic hazards.
Research Group Leader, Water-Energy-Carbon, The University of Queensland Steven is a water leader with senior experience in research, industry, and government, developed through roles with The University of Queensland, CSIRO, Brisbane Water, Sydney Water, and private consulting. He has worked with urban water, wastewater, stormwater, and related energy and greenhouse gas issues since 1990. His work addresses urban water security, water-energy nexus, and circular economy . He creates collaborations, tools, models and knowledge to address all flows of water – and related energy - into, out of, and within cities. This enables evaluation and management of key concepts such as: (i) net zero carbon water cycle, (ii) hybrid, decentralised and integrated systems performance, and (iii) sustainable urban design and planning. Steven’s work is enhancing performance benchmarking of cities, shaping development, guiding policy and infrastructure investment locally and internationally. He has secured and delivered over $8m funding for his research since 2005, most since 2013. This includes multiple international and national projects for the Asian Development Bank, Water Research Foundation (USA), and CRC Water Sensitive Cities. He has authored over 60 Scopus-listed articles in high-quality journals, 20 books or major CRC public reports, 10 book chapters and over 67 conference articles (over 200 total articles). Steven is a long-term and regular funded plenary and invited keynote presenter to peak international forums including: World Water Forum, World Water Congress, World Water Week and Singapore International Water Week. Steven’s strong multi-disciplinary work spans environmental, chemical and civil engineering, natural resources management, and urban planning and design. He has developed urban metabolism theory, including its links to integrated water management and industrial ecology.
Lecturer in Pharmacology, Lancaster University Steven (Steve) Hall is a Lecturer in Pharmacology at Lancaster University in the UK and a snakebite researcher with a focus on the discovery and development of synergistic small molecule drug combinations as novel treatments of snakebite-induced tissue necrosis.
Director, State of Local News Project, Northwestern University Sarah Stonbely, PhD is the director at the State of Local News Project at Northwestern University. Sarah received her doctorate in political communication, media sociology, and journalism studies from NYU in 2015. Recent prior positions include research director at the Center for Cooperative Media, research associate on the News Measures Research Project, as well as postdoc at George Washington University in the School of Media + Public Affairs. Sarah’s expertise is in journalism culture and practice, local news ecosystems, media policy, and research methodology.
