Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University
Jonathan J. B. Mijs is a PhD candidate in sociology at Harvard University. He is interested in stratification, morality, and the balance of structure/agency in shaping life outcomes. His dissertation is an investigation into how (young) citizens learn about social inequality, and how they come to explain setbacks and success in their own life and that of others. http://www.jonathanmijs.com
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Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University
Dr Jonathan Jones is a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School and lead author of the Creative Policy and Evidence Centre’s latest State of the Nations report, Foreign Direct Investment in the UK’s Creative Industries. The Creative PEC is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Research Fellow, Indonesian Institute of Advanced International Studies (INADIS)
Bachelor in International Relations, Universitas Indonesia (2021) thesis 'Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation 1991-2021'
Cooperation Trainee, EU Delegation to indonesia and Brunei Darussalam (2022-23)
Research Fellow on Area Studies, INADIS (2023-)
Enthusiast on Russian, East European and Eurasian affairs
Presented papers in ASEAN-Russia Academic Conference by MGIMO University, Moscow (2021-22)
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PhD Candidate, Karolinska Institutet
I am a PhD student at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. My research focuses on biological aging and frailty, with an overall aim to enhance our understanding of the biological mechanisms of aging and improve management of frail patients in clinical settings.
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Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Jonathan Kaplan is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching focus on the study of the Hebrew Bible and the history of its interpretation in the Second Temple and early Rabbinic periods. He is the author of My Perfect One: Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs (Oxford University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book on the interpretations of the Levitical Jubilee in ancient Judaism and Christianity. He conducted research remotely for this volume in summer 2021 while supported by a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and hosted by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is also writing a commentary on the Book of Daniel for the Oxford Biblical Commentary series. Previously, he was a Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in the Judaic Studies Program at Yale University.
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Professor of Plant-Soil Interactions, University of Sheffield
Jonathan has interests in sustainable agriculture, especially focused on sustainable management of soils and soil resources, regenerative agriculture and collaborative research between farmers and academic researchers. He has interests in sustainable urban food production. He teaches sustainable agriculture at the University of Sheffield, and has been conducting long-term trials of effects of reintroducing leys into arable rotations to regenerate soil health via the recovery of key functional groups of soil organisms. He has a PhD in Plant-Soil Interactions and has published over 130 papers, and supervised / co-supervised more than 20 PhD students.
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Doctorant en paléoécologie, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
Professeur-chercheur en écologie forestière, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Professor of Law, Temple University
Jonathan Lipson holds the Harold E. Kohn Chair and is a Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. He teaches Contracts, Bankruptcy, Corporations, Commercial Law, Lawyering for Entrepreneurship, International Business Transactions, and a variety of other business law courses. In addition to Temple, he has taught at the law schools of the University of Wisconsin (where he held the Foley & Lardner Chair), the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Baltimore.
His research focuses on corporate governance, restructuring, and contracting practices. He has published in many of the nation’s top law reviews, including those of the UCLA, Boston University, Notre Dame, and Southern California law schools. His work is frequently cited, including by the United States Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals, as well as leading business courts such as the Delaware Supreme Court, the Delaware Chancery Court and the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. He is also a coauthor (with Macaulay et al.) of Contracts Law in Action, the nation’s leading casebook that takes a “law in action” approach to contract law.
An occasional empiricist, Professor Lipson has published two articles on the use of “examiners” in chapter 11 bankruptcies, the second of which won the Editors’ Prize as the best paper published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal in 2016. His study of employment at the Trump Casinos in connection with their bankruptcies received widespread attention, and was noted in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Professor Lipson is a member of the American Law Institute, a Regent of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, and is active with the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association where, from 2011 to 2017, he was Section Content Officer. He is now a member of the Section Council and the Corporate Laws Committee. He has also served as an expert in complex corporate reorganizations, including that of Enron Corp. His shorter works have appeared on, among others, The Huffington Post, Concurring Opinions, and Credit Slips. He also writes op-eds for the National Law Journal and USAToday. He is the founding editor of The Temple 10-Q, an electronic business law newsletter published by the Beasley School of Law.
Prior to teaching, Professor Lipson was a lawyer. From 1995-1999, he practiced corporate and commercial law in Boston, with the firm of Hill & Barlow. From 1992 to 1995, he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis. From 1990-1992, he practiced with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. While in practice, he was involved in several large and complex chapter 11 cases, including those of Healthco, Thinking Machines Corporation, and CIS Corporation.
He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, B.A., with honors (1986) & J.D. (1990), where he was a note editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
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William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan Losos is an evolutionary biologist known for his research on how lizards rapidly evolve to adapt to changing environments.
Jonathan was born and raised in Saint Louis. He graduated from Harvard University in 1984 and received his PhD from the University of California in 1989. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at U.C., Davis, Jonathan came to Washington University for his first faculty position. While there, he served as the Director of the Tyson Research Center and the Environmental Studies program, before leaving in 2006 to become a professor of biology at Harvard and Curator in Herpetology at the university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. He returned to Washington University in 2018 and was appointed as the inaugural holder of the William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professorship and Director of the Living Earth Collaborative, a partnership between Wash U., the Saint Louis Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Garden. This new biodiversity center, nearly unique in partnering a leading university, zoo, and garden, has as its mission to advance knowledge of biodiversity and to ensure the future of earth’s species in their many forms.
Jonathan has written three books, most recently "The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savannah to Your Sofa," and is the author of "Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution" (Penguin Random House, 2017) and one of the leading college biology textbooks (Raven et al., Biology). Jonathan has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and is the recipient of many awards, including the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award and the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists, and the David Starr Jordan Prize.
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
Jon has a broad interest in natural history and grew up in Brisbane keeping and breeding native fish and collecting butterflies. Professionally, he has over 35 years of experience as an aquatic ecologist working on Queensland’s streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands. He completed his PhD in 2002 at Griffith University with research on the environmental and biotic factors influencing the composition of the fauna inhabiting pools in rainforest streams. He commenced working for the Queensland Government in 1996 researching the ecology of aquatic fauna, particularly macroinvertebrates and fish. He has a particular interest in the development and application of methods and tools to link environmental stressors to ecological responses, including ecosystem responses to flow regime modifications and environmental variability over both short- and long- time scales. Areas of focus include intermittent, dryland rivers and wallum wetlands such as those on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). He currently holds a leadership role in the Queensland Department of Environment and Science in a team which provides innovative scientific research, monitoring and assessment to underpin the sustainable management of Queensland’s water resources. He is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University.
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Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Jonathan May is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Insitute, where he directs the Center for Useful Techniques Enhancing Language Applications Based on Natural And Meaningful Evidence. His research areas include natural language processing, specifically machine translation, dialogue, semantic parsing, and formal language theory. Jonathan May received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from USC in 2010. Prior to re-joining USC and the Information Sciences institute in 2014, he was a research scientist at SDL Language Weaver.
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Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, York University, Canada
Jonathan Obar, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies at York University. His research focuses on information policy and the relationship between digital technologies, civil liberties and the inclusiveness of public cultures. Academic publications address big data and privacy, online consent processes, data privacy transparency, internet routing and NSA surveillance, network neutrality, and digital activism. With funding from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, he recently launched www.biggestlieonline.com, a knowledge mobilization site to engage stakeholders in meaningful online consent research.
Dr. Obar previously worked as a Research Fellow with the media reform group Free Press, the public policy think tank the New America Foundation, and as a Senior Advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Education Program.
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Associate Professor at the Advanced Materials Testing Centre (AMTeC), University of South Wales
Jonathan Oti is Associate Professor and Lead Consultant at AMTeC on testing of soils and concrete.
He researches into the development of sustainable construction materials, technologies, and practices. His research interests revolve around the use of natural, industrial and agricultural waste and by-product materials for partial or whole replacement of the traditional binders to produce a new generation of concrete, mortar and bricks, suppression of sulphate-induced swelling in lime-stabilised soils, development of geo-polymer binders for civil infrastructural applications.
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Principal research fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Associate Professor Jonathan Payne is co-lead of the Brain & Mind Research Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, where he leads the Genetics and Neurodevelopment Team and sits on the steering committee of the Neurodevelopment Flagship. He is a practicing senior clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Children's Hospital and an Honorary Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne.
Associate Professor Payne's research draws on a range of cognitive, behavioural, neuroimaging, and laboratory protocols to understand how genetic variants can affect brain development and increase the risk for neurodevelopmental disorders. He is also an experienced trialist and leads several pharmacological and non-pharmacological clinical trials.
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John's main areas of research focus on macroeconomics, political economy and methodology, with a specific interest in the processes of economic globalisation and their policy consequences. He obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham in 1993 and has been a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield since 2006.
Jonathan graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham in 1993. He was then an Economics Research Officer at the Open University on the Globalisation and the Advanced Industrial State project from 1993 to 1995. He was appointed as Baring Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Sheffield in 1995 and then as a Lecturer in Economics since 1999. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006.
Jonathan is convenor of the Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group, a member of the College of Reviewers for the Canada Research Chairs Program and a member of the Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology. Previously he was also Deputy Director of the Political Economy Research Centre at the University of Sheffield.
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I am a Reader in Genetics at the University of Aberdeen. I graduated in Biochemistry from Imperial College London, and received my PhD from the University of Cambridge, after which I carried postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado and the Netherlands Institute of Cancer Research, Amsterdam.
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Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Jonathan Pugh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Applied Moral Philosophy on Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in Medical Humanities 'Neurointerventions in Crime Prevention: An Ethical Analysis'. He recently completed a DPhil project at Oxford University entitled, "Autonomy, Rationality and Contemporary Bioethics". His research interests lie primarily in issues concerning personal autonomy in practical ethics, particularly topics pertaining to informed consent. He has also written on the ethics of human embryonic stem cell research, and the use of genetic enhancement technologies.
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Professor, Institut national de la recherche Scientifique (INRS)
Jonathan Roberge is Full Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Montreal, Canada. He funded the Nenic Lab as part of the Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture he has held since 2012. His most recent edited volumes include Algorithmic Culture (Routledge, 2016) and The Cultural Life of Machine Learning (Palgrave, 2020).
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Jonathan is Professor in Robotics at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His main research interest is in the area of Field Robotics and in particular making machines operate autonomously in unstructured environments. He graduated from the University of Southampton, UK, in 1991 with an Honours degree in Aerospace Systems Engineering. Jonathan furthered his interest in computer vision while completing a PhD (1991-1994) at the University of Southampton where he also developed skills in parallel computing.
In 1995 Jonathan joined CSIRO (Australia’s largest government research agency) to develop the area of mining robotics where he worked on numerous large robot machines including 3,500 tonne draglines, 30 tonne underground haul trucks and autonomous underground explosive loading vehicles. His work with his colleagues on the navigation system of semi-autonomous Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) vehicles was commercialised by Caterpillar. He was appointed a Science Leader at CSIRO in the area of Robotics and then went on to lead the Autonomous Systems Laboratory also at CSIRO where he was Research Director.
Jonathan is the co-inventor, and current head judge of the UAV Challenge Outback Rescue, an international flying robot competition in which teams search for a lost bushwalker using autonomous robotic aircraft. In 2013 he and his research team won the Australia and New Zealand Internet Award for Innovation for their Museum Robot project. This project deployed two mobile robots in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra and continues to be used by remote school students to visit the museum with an educator guide, on a weekly basis.
In 2013 Jonathan made international news by being the first person to 3D map the interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa using his team’s Zebedee 3D laser scanning mobile mapping system. He continues to have an interest in the use of robotics technology for the use in documenting and protecting important cultural heritage sites. His team’s mapping of Fort Lytton in Brisbane in conjunction with Queensland Parks and The University of Queensland was the first Australian heritage site to be archived on CyArk, the international digital cultural heritage database.
At QUT, Jonathan is now developing technology for medical and healthcare robotics and in particular has an interest in the use of robot vision to help with robotic surgery.
Jonathan was President of the Australian Robotics & Automation Association Inc. from 2007-2008, and between 2008 and 2013 was Deputy Research Director of the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (ARCAA).
Jonathan is also an expert on Star Wars, which he first saw after queueing around the block for tickets with his brother and parents to see the original film in 1977. He has maintained an active interest in all things Star Wars, especially droids, since that time.
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Research Associate in Peace and Conflict Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science
I am an LSE-based researcher specializing in development interventions in communities affected by violent conflict, with a focus on livelihood security, trust-building, reconciliation, and the societal reintegration of individuals formerly involved with armed groups. I have done work on various such settings around the world, including FARC ex-combatants in Colombia, former cartel members and incarcerated individuals in Mexico, and military veterans and their families in Ukraine.
In 2021, I graduated with a BA in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin with a focus on International Relations and Political Theory, spending the 2019/2020 academic year at University College London through an Erasmus+ mobility. In 2022, I completed an MSc in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics with the dissertation: “Empowering Indigenous Classrooms: A Grounded Theory of Intercultural Bilingual Education in Chiapas, Mexico”.
I grew up in Germany and got interested in armed conflict dynamics and ex-combatant reintegration while spending a year abroad in Colombia in 2017/2018. Before joining my current role, I worked in a Volkswagen Foundation-sponsored research project on German Federalism during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Chair of German Politics of the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Jonathan Tapson is the Director of the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development.
His research area is in electronic sensors and systems, and particularly bio-inspired sensors. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and holds 11 patents.
His research has led to the founding of three spin-out companies, and he remains very interested in start-up entrepreneurship.
His current research activity focuses on networks which can learn to make decisions in the same way that the human brain preforms this task.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Part-Time Instructor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Weinkle is a general internist and general pediatrician and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a product of the Medicine-Pediatrics residency at UPMC Shadyside and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He practices primary care medicine at the Squirrel Hill Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center and certified Patient Centered Medical Home, providing comprehensive care to patients of all ages with and without insurance and representing a broad diversity of languages, faiths, cultures, native lands, and socioeconomic backgrounds. In addition, Dr. Weinkle serves as a medical advisor to the Closure project of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, a project intended to improve the quality of care and change the individual experience at end-of-life, and is engaged in other Foundation initiatives related to patient-provider communication, genetic screening, and vaccination. Driving both of these endeavors is a strong commitment to infusing his interactions with patients with the core values of his faith, beginning with the idea that both patient and provider are created in the Divine image and must act and be treated accordingly. Dr. Weinkle serves as the Medical director of the Physician Assistant Program at Chatham University.
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Jonathan Wynn works at the intersection of urban and cultural sociology. His two major publications are The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York (2011, University of Chicago Press, Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Series) and Music/City (2015, University of Chicago Press). His work has also been published in City & Community, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Forum, Cultural Sociology, and Contexts Magazine, and an article in Ethnography called “Hobo to Doormen: The Characters of Qualitative Analysis, Past and Present.”
His forthcoming book, Music/City: Festivals and Culture in Great American Cities, is a comparative, multi-method analysis of three music festivals (the Country Music Association Festival in Nashville, the “Dunkin Donuts” Newport Folk Festival, and the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas). The book details the interrelationship between festivals and their cities, marking how they support and exploit each other through these internationally recognized events with rich description and interviews from a wide array of key urban and cultural placemakers. The book culminates with an argument for temporary events as critical to the culture of cities and their communities.
He also working on an Urban Culture primer (co-authored with Andrew Deener) that is under contract with the Oxford University Press.
Jonathan Wynn was recently the co-editor of the ASA Culture Section Newsletter (with Claudio Benzecry and Andrew Deener) between 2011 -2014 and was a regular contributor to Everyday Sociology in 2011-2014. On campus, he serves on the Common Read Book Committee.
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Assistant Professor of Physics, Clemson University
My group at Clemson works on topics in high energy and multi-messenger astrophysics, using high-performance, state-of-the-art computing. My interests include binary neutron star mergers, gamma-ray bursts, pulsar wind nebulae, AGN jets, binary black hole accretion, turbulence, and magnetic reconnection.
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Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Jonathan Chu is a Presidential Young Professor in International Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is also the chair of the Master in International Affairs (MIA) program.
Professor Chu research how global norms and opinion impact the politics of war, democracy, and great power rivalry. His work appears in peer-reviewed publications such as International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and World Politics. In addition to his research, Professor Chu teaches, consults, and gives talks on issues of international affairs, democracy, public opinion, and survey methodology.
Professor Chu received a B.A. in political science from UC San Diego, and a Ph.D. also in political science from Stanford University, where he was a U.S. National Science Foundation Fellow. He completed postdoctoral work at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. You can follow him on Twitter at @whoisjonchu and read more about his research at https://www.jonathanchu.org/.
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Research fellow at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School
Jonathan Taylor is a research fellow at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, and a senior policy scholar at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona.
Mr. Taylor has provided expertise to tribes and bands in the United States and Canada in the areas of strategic management and economic development. Mr. Taylor has worked in a wide variety of institutional and cultural contexts and on a wide variety of projects. These projects have included assessing changes in quality of life due to major enterprise success (including casino gaming), designing tax regimes, assisting in constitutional evaluation and reform, providing public policy analysis and negotiation support in the context of resource development, valuing non-market attributes of natural resources, and educating tribal executives. At present, he is studying the national evidence on the socioeconomic effects of Indian gaming on Indians and non-Indians. He has authored or supported testimony in litigation and in public hearings for a number of Native American groups needing economic analysis to support treaty rights or tribal policies.
Mr. Taylor holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University (1986) and an M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1992).
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Research Associate with the Centre for the Changing Character of War, University of Oxford
Jonathan D T Ward is the author of two books on Chinese grand strategy and US-China global competition: China's Vision of Victory and The Decisive Decade. He has been studying China, Russia, and India for nearly twenty years, from travels with truck caravans in Tibet and across the South China Sea by cargo ship in his early twenties, to accessing Chinese Communist Party archives that have now been closed to the world while a PhD candidate at Oxford, to consulting for the U.S. Department of Defense and Fortune 500 companies on China risk and global markets strategy.
Dr. Ward is a research associate with the University of Oxford's Centre for the Changing Character of War. He earned his PhD at the University of Oxford, specializing in the history of modern China at Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies, and his M.St. in Global and Imperial History at Oxford's Faculty of History. He studied philosophy, Russian, and Chinese language at Columbia University as an undergraduate, and completed further language study in Russian and Chinese at St. Petersburg State University and Beijing University. Dr. Ward's think tanks affiliations include the Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leaders Program at the Center for a New American Security, and the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC.
Dr. Ward has brought the experience of a traveller, the discipline of a scholar, and the insight of a strategy consultant to one of the toughest, biggest challenges of our time: what does China want, how will it try to get it, and what should America do? Dr. Ward is the Founder of Atlas Organization, a Washington DC based consultancy focused on US-China global competition. He speaks Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic.
A path-breaking work on Chinese global strategy, China’s Vision of Victory brings the reader to a new understanding of China’s grand-scale planning and ambitions. From seabed to space, from Africa to the Antarctic, from subsurface warfare to the rise of China’s global corporations, this book illuminates the greatest challenge of our lifetimes – the Chinese Communist Party’s ambition to end the American-led world and to bring about a century defined by Chinese power. Following on this work, Dr. Ward's second book, The Decisive Decade lays out a US and Allied grand strategy to win the long-term contest with the People's Republic of China presenting strategies that span the economic, diplomatic, military, and ideological arenas.
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Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University
Jonathan ("Jono") D. Quick, MD, MPH is adjunct Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute and Affiliated Faculty at the Global Health Equity program, Harvard Medical School. His 2020 book, "The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It" foreshadowed the Covid-19 pandemic (available in U.S., Australian, Italian, Korean, South Asia, U.K. U.S. editions). His current research focuses on market-driven epidemics, from tobacco to prescription opioids to ultra-processed foods, to social media. Dr. Quick has held senior positions in the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, global health non-profit Management Sciences for Health, and the U.S. Public Health Service. Through these positions he has carried out assignments to improve public health in more than 70 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He has written more than 120 books, chapters, journal articles, and opinion pieces in TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Sojourners, and other media outlets. He served on numerous non-profit boards, and was the founding board chair of Clapham Servants.Trinity Forum Readings on the lives and faith of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nelson Mandela, Albert Schweitzer and human rights pioneer Bartolomé Las Casas.
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Tutor in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
Jonathan Graffam-O’Meara is a Tutor in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne. He is an actor, writer and dramaturg with over 20 years of professional experience in the industry. Jonathan is completing a PhD in Theatre at Monash University with a project titled “Fat Dramaturgies: Queer strategies and methodologies in staging fat performance”, where he looks at examples of radical body size politics (embodied fatness) onstage. He specialises in the field of contemporary dramaturgy and popular performance.
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Professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jonathan Kasparek is professor of history at the Waukesha campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he has taught since 2004. He earned a Ph.D. in U. S. History with a minor in Folklore from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and specializes in Wisconsin and Midwestern history and public history. Prior to joining the faculty, he worked in the public history division of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and was part of the interdisciplinary team working on the restoration of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dr. Kasparek is the author of Fighting Son: A Biography of Philip F. La Follette (2006) and Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate (2019) both published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Since 2021 he has been the book review editor for Middle West Review.
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Assistant Professor of Psychology/Neuroscience/Behavior, McMaster University
Wrote dissertation on mathematical models of brain oscillations, did postdoctoral work in both models of neuronal homeostasis and cognitive neuroscience of autism, currently researching rhythmic timing in the brain and mind. Moonlights as a semi-professional violinist and guitarist in various folk traditions.
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Professor of Nanoengineering, University of California, San Diego
Jonathan K. Pokorski received his doctoral degree in organic chemistry from Northwestern University in 2007, where he designed, synthesized, and tested diverse peptidomimetic systems for use in medical diagnostics and therapeutics. Following his Ph.D. studies, Pokorski moved to The Scripps Research Institute, where he used both chemical and genetic engineering of viral nanoparticles to synthesize novel drug delivery systems. During his postdoctoral training, Pokorski first earned an NIH Ruth Kirschstein fellowship and later secured an NIH Pathway to Independence Award.
Prior to his appointment at UC San Diego in 2018, Pokorski began his independent career as an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University in the department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering. Pokorski was a finalist for the prestigious John Diekhoff graduate mentoring award at CWRU from 2013 to 2017, was named an ACS PRF new investigator, and is a Kavli fellow. Research in the Pokorski lab is funded through grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and the American Chemical Society.
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Academic, University of Leeds
My research interests focus on earth surface processes and landforms in polar, arctic and alpine environments. I focus especially on the processes and products of glacial outburst floods or ‘jökulhlaups’.
My areas of expertise include geomorphology, specifically cold climate earth surface processes and landforms and high-magnitude fluvial processes (glacial outburst floods and bedrock channels).
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
Jonathan M. King is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, which he joined shortly after receiving his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2023. His teaching interests focus on American judicial institutions, including courses on constitutional law and judicial politics and process.
Professor King's research broadly examines how judges are nominated and confirmed to the U.S. federal judiciary, how their personal attributes influence what they do when they are on the bench, and how the public then views their decisions.
PhD, Michigan State University, 2023
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Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
I am an honorary Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Sydney. I specialise in early religious history of the Celtic nations. I also have a special interest in seafaring; its history and literary representation.
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