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.

Viren is Professor of Social Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University and Director of the Centre for Psychological Medicine, a collaborative research centre between Anglia Ruskin University and Perdana University in Malaysia. He is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and an Associate Editor for the journal Body Image. Viren is the author of Attraction Explained, The Psychology of Physical Attraction, and The Missing Arms of Vénus de Milo, as well as over 250 peer-reviewed publications.

Viren’s work on human appearance and body image is focused on situating embodiment within different cultural and socio-political contexts. He is particularly interested in cross-cultural differences in beauty ideals and body image, and his research seeks to map changing rates of negative body image across different world regions. His other research on body image borrows concepts from first-wave feminist scholarship to examine the way in which beauty ideals and practices shift awareness away from real competencies to superficial aspects related to beauty and appearance. The aim of this research is to identify factors that might protect women and men from body image concerns and disordered eating. Separately, Viren also studies mental health literacy or the knowledge and beliefs that non-experts hold about mental health and illness. His work on mental health literacy is particularly focused on the ways in which masculinities impede adequate knowledge of mental health disorders and help-seeking for symptoms of mental illness.

Colin Davidson is a neuropharmacologist and neurochemist. His main research interest is in drug abuse, and he has studied many of the new psychoactive substances or ‘legal highs’. He is particularly interested in their pharmacology and their effects on transmitter release. Previously, while an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Duke University, he tested novel pharmacotherapies for stimulant abuse. He has also published in the field of Stroke where he has an interest in pre-ischaemic conditioning. His PhD was in the field of antidepressants and 5-HT efflux.

Colin was Head of School in the School of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire (2017-23). Previously Colin held faculty positions at St George’s University of London, University of Leicester and Duke University Medical Centre. Colin has a BSc in Biology & Psychology from the University of Edinburgh, a PhD from Queen Mary’s, University of London and was a postdoc at the University of St Andrews.

Lauren has over ten years’ experience in cancer care, managing all tumour types across all adult and paediatric age groups. She worked as a senior oncology dietitian at Peter Mac for close to 10 years, as well as working as a paediatric dietitian at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne before leading the team of dietitians at Epworth Freemasons. She is passionate about applying her knowledge food elements, nutrients and eating patterns to prevent, manage and recover from cancer and a range of other health conditions. She has a passion for nurturing you from the inside out and is committed to supporting you to tailor your lifestyle to feel the best version of yourself. She is passionate and experienced with the management of gastrointestinal disorders, including those related to surgical or anatomical changes, cancer treatment and other medical interventions, functional gut disorders and irritable bowel syndrome. She takes a holistic approach to managing your symptoms and gut health. Lauren is a member of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Nutrition Group Executive Committee and has been recognised for her expertise in nutritional management of adolescent and young adult cancer care and cancer care planning at a national level. She provides education, research and training to Deakin University, University of Melbourne and Swinburne University.

João has a degree in medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon (2007). He is currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Medical Sciences Abel Salazar, since 2015, researching autoinflation as alternative in the treatment of Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) He is a specialist in Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the Hospital de Santo António since 2014. Area of sub specialization: Ear pathology and auditory rehabilitation. Joao is also a coordinator of the Cochlear Implants Team at CHUPorto (National Reference Center), since 2018. And a visiting Professor in School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences – Porto since 2014 and ENT Coordinator since 2022.

Mark Maslin FRGS, FRSA is a Professor at University College London and the Natural History Museum of Denmark. He is a co-founder of the leading AI geospatial analytics company Rezatec Ltd and he was a Royal Society Industrial Fellow. He is science advisor to Transition Lab, Sopra-Steria, Net Zero Now, Lansons, and Sheep Inc. He is member of Cheltenham Science Festival Advisory Committee. Maslin is a leading scientist with particular expertise in past and future global and regional climatic change and has publish over 195 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Climate Change, The Lancet and Geology. He has been awarded research council, charity and Government research and postgraduate training grants of over £75 million.

Professor Maslin has presented over 50 public talks over the last three years for example: Twitter (EU/Asia), New Scientist Live, Guardian ‘Master Classes’, Google (UK), Global Leaders Forum (South Korea), RGS, Royal Society, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Hay literature festival, Harvard, Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge Universities etc. He has supervised 15 Research fellows, 20 PhD students and over 60 MSc students. He has also have written 10 popular books, over 80 popular articles (e.g., The Conversation, New Scientist, Geographical magazine, The Times, Independent and Guardian), appeared on radio and television (including Timeteam, Newsnight, Dispatches, Horizon, The Today Programme, Briefing Room, BBC News, Channel 5 News, and Sky News). He was also one of the key presenters of Sir David Attenborough’s BBC One ‘Climate Change: The Facts’. His books include the high successful ‘Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction’ (OUP, 2021), ‘The Cradle of Humanity’ (OUP, 2019), ‘The Human Planet: How we created the Anthropocene’ co-authored with Simon Lewis (Penguin, 2018) and ‘How to save our planet: the facts’ (Penguin, 2021). Maslin was also a co-author of the 2009 Lancet report ‘Managing the health effects of climate change’ and a contributor the annual Lancet Commission on climate change and global health.

Prof. Maslin was included in Who’s Who for the first time in 2009 and was granted a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for the study of early human evolution in East Africa in 2011. He is currently the Co-Director of the London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership.

Dr. Geil has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Ohio State University. He is currently Professor of Biomechanics and Associate Dean for Research in the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services at Kennesaw State University near Atlanta, Georgia. He also holds adjunct faculty appointments at Georgia State University and Georgia Tech.

Dr. Geil conducts research in pediatric biomechanics, studying ways to improve mobility in children with amputations and neurological movement disorders.