Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Loughborough University Thom Wilcockson completed his BSc, MSc, and PhD at Swansea University. During his PhD, he conducted research into factors affecting eye movements. Thom then performed post-doctoral research for two years at London South Bank University, where he was able to continue eye tracking research. In May 2015, Thom moved to Lancaster University to work on a large eye tracking project, investigating whether eye tracking techniques could be utilised to aid in patient diagnosis. Thom joined the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University as a Psychology Lecturer in January 2019, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in February 2023.
Visiting Professor of Practice at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL Tim O’Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, the company that has been providing the picks and shovels of learning to the Silicon Valley gold rush for the past thirty-five years. The company delivers online learning, publishes books, and runs online events about cutting-edge technology, and has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. If you’ve heard the term “open source software”, “web 2.0”, “the Maker movement”, “government as a platform”, or “algorithmic rents”, he’s had a hand in framing each of those big ideas. He is a visiting professor of practice at University College London's Institute For Innovation and Public Purpose, where he has been doing research on how big tech firms use their algorithms to extract economic rents. Tim is also a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and on the board of Code for America. He is the author of many technical books published by O’Reilly Media, and most recently WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Harper Business, 2017).
Lecturer in Asian Studies, University College Cork I lecture in Japanese Studies with a specialisation in film and comedy. I have also been an active stand-up comedian in Japan and perform rakugo storytelling in Japanese, English and German. Most recently, my research on Japanese cinema has been funded by the Japan Foundation, while I was based at Tokyo University.
PhD student, Monash University I am a PhD student in atmospheric science at Monash university. I am part of Australian Research Council Centre of Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future (SAEF) and Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX). I am working on the boundary layer clouds, their characteristics and precipitation from them to address the observed biases in precipitation and radiation in climate simulations.
Research Scientist in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University Tyler Felgenhauer is Research Director at the Duke Center on Risk and a Senior Research Scientist with the Modeling Environmental Risks and Decisions Group (MERDG) at Duke University. His research focuses on the climate-society system and options for responding to climate change risk in an integrated way, drawing on approaches from systems analysis, modeling, decision analysis, and other analytical methods of public policy and economics. Current work is investigating how to compare the risks and possible benefits of solar geoengineering with the risks of climate change in future scenarios. This includes specific interests in building plausible policy scenarios for geoengineering, the potential international security and termination shock risks posed, and the need for global monitoring of any solar geoengineering deployment. Previous research has explored emerging risk governance for geoengineering as well as optimal portfolios of climate change mitigation and adaptation, international climate governance, policy options in the face of limited adaptation capacity, water-energy system dynamics under climate policy, and clean energy policy. Before Duke, Tyler was a Social Scientist with the Office of Research and Development at the U.S. EPA, and a Director with the clean energy finance firm IronOak Energy. He has additional experience with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), RTI International, and the NC Institute for Climate Studies. Dr. Felgenhauer holds a PhD in Public Policy from UNC-Chapel Hill, a Masters in Public and International Affairs from the (Woodrow Wilson) School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a B.A. in Government from Cornell University.
Assistant Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Travis Nemkov received his PhD in Biochemistry and Structural Biology from the University of Colorado Denver. He has proven to be an innovator and is quickly garnering recognition as a promising young scientist in the field of metabolomics with over 150 published papers and patents. Travis specializes in the development and implementation of high-throughput strategies for metabolomics and proteomics, which have contributed to the analysis of thousands of RBC, plasma, and platelet samples over the last few years.
