Neena Bhandari is a Sydney-based journalist and foreign correspondent, who has previously lived and worked in India and the United Kingdom. She writes for various international and national media outlets on a wide range of subjects, including health and science, from the Asia-Pacific region.

I have spent years studying the composition and expression of human scent from its use as a forensic identifier to the underlying indications it yields about human health. I completed my doctoral studies at Florida International University where I established an instrumental method (using gas chromatography- mass spectrometry) that allows human scent samples to be associated to one another. Further development of tools like these will eventually allow us to quantify the similarity between two samples of human scent evidence and say how similar or dissimilar they are to one another.

Kenneth G. Furton, Ph.D, is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Florida International University where he also serves as Provost, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He has made important contributions to inventions and innovation in detection technologies including human scent identification. He holds 24 U.S. patents and has numerous additional patents pending and is a founder of an FIU startup company Innovative Detection Concepts, Inc. he is the author or co-author of more than 800 peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters and conference presentations. Furton is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, an ACS member, and chairs the Dogs and Sensors subcommittee of OSAC (Organization of Scientific Area Committees). His research projects have been continuously funded for more than two decades, totaling more than $14 million in external funding. He has shared his expertise in forensic science through hundreds of invited talks nationally and internationally and has testified as an expert witness in dozens of state and federal trials.

Dr. Frazier is the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in Biochemistry from Florida International University. Her research has focused on the application of human scent forensics in subject identification.

Emma is a medical writer with a decade of experience in medical communications across the UK, Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand. She is a past president of the Australasian Medical Writers’ Association and is currently raising her young family in Auckland, NZ.

Becky Ireland is an independent medical writer based in Auckland, New Zealand. She has a background in Psychology and Education in Health Science, but her passion is in writing and medical research. She loves taking an evidence-based approach to illness and healthcare, and she enjoys the contribution that her work makes towards improving clinical practice and patient outcomes.

Huda Syyed has worked in academia and the non-profit sector and hopes to actively contribute to research and development efforts in the future. Her current topic of research focuses on the practice of ‘Female Genital Cutting’ and explores the lack of data, political activism and understanding regarding it in Pakistan. Her main academic interests include gender, culture, and politicised religion. She is currently a PhD candidate and casual tutor at Charles Darwin University. She completed her undergraduate degree from University of Karachi and pursued a Master’s degree in International Relations at QueenMary University of London. In between, she completed a certificate course at The Graduate Institute Geneva. In the past, she has worked as a Research Assistant for academic projects and on issues of Gender-Based-Violence. She was visiting faculty lecturer at Bahria University and taught the course of “International Organisations”. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol24/iss1/18/ Twitter Handle: @hsyyed88 https://twitter.com/hsyyed88 Research Portal: https://researchers.cdu.edu.au/en/persons/huda-syyed

Dr Michael Nagel is an Associate Professor, Teacher and Academic at a leading Queensland university in the areas of cognition and learning, human development and early learning, neurological development in children & adolescent psychology and is regarded as one of Australia’s foremost experts in child development.

Dr Sasha Taylor is a medical doctor and Research Fellow with the Women’s Health Research Program (WHRP) at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She is in her final year of specialist training in Public Health Medicine, through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. During her training she has undertaken a number of diverse work placements within the School, including with the Hazelwood Health Study and the Clinical Outcomes Data Reporting and Research Program. She has gained further public health experience at Department of Health supporting the Victorian public health response to COVID-19 and working in the Prevention and Population Health Branch. Sasha is currently working with the MenoPROMPT project to develop a co-designed, comprehensive, evidenced-based program for primary care clinicians to improve the care of women at and after menopause. She also assists with the WHRP’s clinical trials evaluating the use of testosterone in postmenopausal women for outcomes such as bone health and sexual function.

Dr Michelle Boyle is a Snow Medical Fellow & CSL Centenary Fellow at the Burnet Institute, Melbourne. Her research aims to understand how the immune response protects from malaria, and to use this knowledge to develop better vaccines for malaria. She is particularly interested in how chronic infections, like malaria, disrupts the immune response. The overall goal of her research is to develop her drugs to improve protection from malaria in children.

I am a Research Faculty member at Georgia Institute of Technology. I work in the Structured Information for Precision Neuroengineering Lab (SIPLab) within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I work at the intersection of neurotechnology and psychiatry with the aim of developing brain stimulation therapies for psychiatric disorders.
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I received my PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Florida. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, I was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working in the Carolina Center for Neurostimulation (spun off from Frohlich Lab). I enjoy photography, travel (to a certain extent) and (re)learning history.

Christopher Rozell attended the University of Michigan, receiving a B.S.E. in Computer Engineering and a B.F.A. in Performing Arts Technology (Music Technology) in 2000. He attended graduate school at Rice University, receiving the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2002 and 2007, respectively. Following graduate school, he joined the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2007. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in July 2008, where he is affiliated with the Center for Signal and Information Processing.

Dr. Rozell’s research interests focus on the intersection of computational neuroscience and signal processing. One branch of this work aims to understand how neural systems organize and process sensory information, drawing on modern engineering ideas to develop improved data analysis tools and theoretical models. The other branch of this work uses recent insight into neural information processing to develop new and efficient approaches to difficult data analysis tasks.