Research Officer, Centre for Environmental Research Innovation and Sustainability (CERIS), Atlantic Technological University My research interests revolve around the area of biomass and bioenergy. With a background in both chemistry and environmental chemistry, I am committed to contributing to the discovery of solutions that can help reduce carbon emissions and waste build-up in local communities. My expertise lies in hydrothermal processing of biomass, which I had the opportunity to explore during my master's thesis in Switzerland. Subsequently, I focused on producing bio-petroleum oil from microalgae using hydrothermal liquefaction. Additionally, I have worked on a project aimed at valorizing black liquor to produce hydrogen and agricultural waste to produce bio bitumen binder. My proficiency in this field makes me a valuable addition to any team focused on tackling the challenges of biomass and bioenergy.
Professor of Psychology, CQUniversity Australia Talitha is a clinical psychologist, researcher, educator, supervisor and founding head of the NeuroHealth Lab within Appleton Institute. Talitha’s research, clinical practice, teaching and supervision focus on the impact of diet and therapeutic approaches for promoting brain function and improved psychological and mental health outcomes. Broadly, Talitha uses applied research methods and clinical practice to understand the complex ways in which nutrition and our food systems influence brain function, well-being, behaviour, cognitive performance and mental health. She has expertise in developing and implementing interdisciplinary applied research that contributes to outcomes and knowledge across the areas of clinical psychology, behavioural neuroscience, nutritional psychiatry, compassion science, food systems and agricultural development aimed at improving lives through better brain and mind health.
Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English, Rice University Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and Director of the Cool America Foundation. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Susan Kucera, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, Pharrell Williams and Justin Guariglia. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton’s work has been translated 46 times into 19 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory at UC Irvine. Morton has published Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology (Columbia, 2024), The Stuff of Life (Bloomsbury, 2023), All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Hyposubjects: On Becoming Human (Open Humanities, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 300 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food.
Collection Manager, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Museums Victoria Research Institute I am a palaeontologist at Museums Victoria, Australia, and responsible for the care of the State Palaeontology Collection of Victoria. I investigate Victoria's fossil heritage in museum collections and field expeditions and have a strong interest in protecting and promoting palaeontological and geological heritage in Australia. My current focus is to expand the diversity and distribution of Pleistocene megafauna, by investigating fossil deposits in southeastern Australian caves and karst. I am experienced in the excavation, identification, preparation, and management of vertebrate fossils.
Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison I am currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received my BA in economics from Florida A&M University. As an economist and population health scientist, my goal is to understand the causes and consequences of racial/ethnic disparities in health, particularly among maternal, child, and immigrant populations. The biggest problem that keeps me up at night? The fact that black women, regardless of how much income or education they have, are the racial/ethnic group most likely to die from childbirth-related complications and give birth to babies who die before the age of 1 year. I apply methods from economics, demography, and health services research to document and unpack the sources of these disparities, and have published in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals such as Economics and Human Biology, the Journal of Women’s Health and the American Journal of Public Health. I believe strongly that these problems have to be tackled from an interdisciplinary perspective—even if leaving your disciplinary silo makes you a little uncomfortable along the way. I am also committed to training the next generation of researchers to become better critical thinkers, better scientists, and more informed, engaged citizens.
Assistant professor in Political Science, Lund University Tony Ingesson defended his dissertation, concerning the strategic and political implications of military decision-making at the lower levels (ship captains and leaders on the squad, platoon, company and battalion levels), on May 13th, 2016. Currently, his main research focus concerns intelligence analysis, counterintelligence, deception/manipulation and the development of methods in intelligence analysis. In addition, he has also studied the historical links between conscription and democratization from a historical perspective.
