Associate Professor - Animal Ecophysiology, Deakin University I have a background in comparative physiology, specialising in metabolic and cardiovascular physiology. I have applied this background to address important fundamental and applied questions regarding the capacity of animals (primarily fishes) to withstand environmental challenges including climate change. My work has spanned temperate and tropical systems, using approaches in eco-physiology and chemical/behavioural ecology to forecast the responses of fishes to challenges like global warming, ocean acidification (elevated carbon dioxide), hypoxia (low oxygen), and fishing-related stressors. I have played a lead role in designing, developing and testing novel electronic tagging technologies for measuring physiological and behavioural parameters in free-living animals. I have been vocal about the importance of scientific integrity, and I advocate strongly for robust, transparent and replicable research practices.
Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Anglia Ruskin University Dr Hearn runs the Comparative Chronomics research group. We discover how circadian clocks work in different species by taking a comparative biology approach. The Comparative Chronomics group is based at Anglia Ruskin University and in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Cambridge. Chronobiology is the study of biological time. We are interested in daily and seasonal time keeping mechanisms – circadian and photoperiodic oscillators. We utilise genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics to make comparisons between systems. We are especially interested in the usage of chronobiology in genomic medicine; for which we have coined the term “Chronomic Medicine”. Our goal is to investigate how chronobiology impacts human health and disease. We are using the tools of genomic medicine to cement the idea of Chronomic Medicine – delivering mechanistic basis for the role of the circadian clock in the inheritance and phenotypes of rare disease and answering the community wide call to explore all potential aspects of circadian medicine. Dr Hearn is a College Lecturer and Director of Studies at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Professor Emerita, Australian National University I am a historian of East Asia, with the focus mainly on Japan, and was a Distinguished Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and Pacific, ANU, until 2018, since when I have been a Professor Emerita. I have published 16 sole authored books and 10 co-authored books on East Asian history and culture ( a number of them also translated into Japanese, Chinese and Korean), and have served as president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. I am also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, and a recipient of the Fukuoka Prize (Academic Award) for contributions to Asian Studies.
Researcher in School of Economics and Finance, Tshwane University of Technology Thomas Habanabakize is a Postdoctoral research fellow in the school of Economics and Finance at Tshwane University of Technology. He holds a PhD in Economics from North-West University. Before joining The Tshwane University of technology, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the North-West University where he published several articles within accredited international Journal. His research interests include the effects of macroeconomic variables in developing personal and societal well-being, financial economic and country risk impact on national economic growth, econometric modelling and forecasting, industrialization and job creation. He has published several papers on the aforementioned topics and he is currently buy with book chapters.
Teaching Associate, Monash University Trang Dang is a teaching associate at Monash University, Australia, where she obtained her PhD in TESOL and an EAL teacher at Chisholm Institute in Australia. She is also a lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Vietnam. She has published in the areas of TESOL, ELT, and researcher development in higher education studies.
