Contributors

Christina Maags

Lecturer in Chinese Studies , University of Sheffield

My research focuses on issues around Chinese governance, state-society relations and political economy, particularly in thr policy fields of cultural heritage and demographic change.

Daniel Hending

Postdoctoral Research Assistant Animal Vibration Lab, University of Oxford

My current research focuses on how and why African Elephants use seismic communication. My other ongoing research interests include the ecology and conservation of tropical forest habitat and its resident vertebrate fauna, particularly cheirogaleid lemurs in Madagascar. Additionally, I am interested in the use of bioacoustics for non-invasive biodiversity assessment at the ecosystem level and to disentangle the cryptic species complex.

Jeffrey Chen

Medical Student, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences

Jeffrey Chen is a medical student at The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine interested in pursuing a career in academic dermatology. Prior to medical school, Jeffrey worked as a technology consultant for several years and was a member of several information technology advisory councils. Jeffrey's research interests include skin cancer, skin equity, and AI in dermatology.

Sonal Choudhary

Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Dermatopathology, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences

Sonal Choudhary, MD is a dermatology trained Dermatopathologist, who joined the Department of Dermatology in 2015 upon completion of her Dermatopathology Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Choudhary received her undergraduate degree and medical degree from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College in New Delhi India. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Miami, where she remained to complete her Preliminary Internship in Internal Medicine, as well as her Residency Program in Dermatology.

Scott Peeples

Professor of English, College of Charleston

In 26 years at the College of Charleston, Scott Peeples has taught a wide array of courses, with topics ranging from Gothicism to 19th-century American poetry to Bob Dylan. He has published extensively on Edgar Allan Poe and other 19th-century writers, most recently as author of The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City and as co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. His essays have appeared in a wide range of academic and popular publications, including J19, Southern Cultures, Arizona Quarterly, Salon, and The Millions. Dr. Peeples previously served as Chair of the English Department from 2012 to 2017. He is a past president of the Poe Studies Association and the Southeastern American Studies Association.

Catalina Goanta

Associate Professor Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University

I am Associate Professor in Private Law and Technology and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads, focused on understanding the impact of content monetization on social media and on reinterpreting private law fairness in the context of platform governance. Between 2016-2021 I was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, and during February 2018 - February 2019, I was a Niels Stensen fellow and visited the University of St. Gallen (The Institute of Work and Employment) and Harvard University (The Berkman Center for Internet and Society). I'm also a non-residential fellow of the Stanford Transatlantic Technology Law Forum. My research follows three main themes: Content/web monetization and social media governance - the Internet is helping regular users make money in ways that did not exist 10 years ago, such as influencer marketing or ad revenue. In this context, I use doctrinal legal methods to critically reflect on existing and desirable regulatory frameworks surrounding online harms (e.g. content moderation; platform discretion; misleading advertising). To bring together complementing disciplines contributing to this field, I also established and coordinate, with Jerry Spanakis, the Computational Social Media research group. Privacy, cryptography and decentralization - it is expected that the new age of the Internet will be rooted in technologies meant to enhace privacy, or decentralize decision-making. In this context I use legal and social science approaches to the study of cryptocommunities (e.g. dark web market places). Digital monitoring tools for consumer protection - the enforcement of law through public interest technology is one of the most essential legal topics of the coming decade. By collaborating with experts in Natural Language Processing and Privacy and Security, I am contributing to the development of tools which can be used by public institutions (e.g. detecting influencer marketing business models on Instagram). I have the priviledge of supervising four very talented researchers in their PhD research: Thales Bertaglia (computer scientist working on computational social media studies), Maastricht University Constanta Rosca (legal scholar working on dark patterns and EU consumer law), Maastricht University Alex Sotropa (legal scholar working on computational antitrust and consumer protection), VU Amsterdam Jacob van de Kerkhof (legal scholar working on freedom of expression in US/EU), Utrecht University