Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa
I am a planetary geologist, and my primary research interest is understanding the evolution of planetary bodies, with an emphasis on Mars, to better constrain the geological history of our own planet. My work crosses several disciplines including igneous petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, and sedimentology to assess planetary surface and interior evolution and constrain magmatic processes on Mars and other planets.
I use various methods including measurements from the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers (ChemCam, SuperCam, APXS, PIXL, and CheMin) and orbital data (CRISM visible/near infrared spectroscopy and TES and THEMIS thermal infrared spectroscopy), modeling, experimental petrology, and laboratory measurements.
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Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto
Valerie Tarasuk is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and leads PROOF, a research program funded by CIHR to investigate policy interventions to reduce food insecurity in Canada.
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Professor of Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Valerie Thomas, Ph.D., is the Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems and Professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy.
Dr. Thomas's research interests are energy and materials efficiency, sustainability, industrial ecology, technology assessment, international security, and science and technology policy. Current research projects include low carbon transportation fuels, carbon capture, building construction, and electricity system development. Dr. Thomas is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Physical Society. She has been an American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow, a Member of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, and a Member of the USDA/DOE Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee.
She has worked at Princeton University in the Princeton Environmental Institute and in the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, and at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.
Dr. Thomas received a B. A. in physics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University.
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Indigenous Research Midwife, Stillbirth Centre of Research Excellence, The University of Queensland
Valerie is a proud Bindjareb woman from the Nyoongar Nation in the South West of Western Australia with family connections to the Palkyu people of the Pilbara, a mother of six and grandmother of five beautiful grandchildren with another soon. Through her husband, Valerie's children also identify as Nyikina and Yawaru from the Kimberley.
Valerie graduated as a Registered Midwife in 2015 and has worked clinically in Perth at the Armadale Health Service, in Midland at St John of God Public Hospital and in Adelaide at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Her dive into research started as an Indigenous Project Officer at Ngangk Yira Institute for Change on Baby Coming You Ready? Project: a comprehensive and culturally safe way to assess the social and emotional health and wellbeing of Aboriginal women in the perinatal period, with a focus on strength and resilience. As an Aboriginal woman and midwife, Valerie's own experiences birthing in the system generated her interest to improve outcomes in Aboriginal maternal and infant health, more specifically, embedding cultural safety in the pregnancy and birth space and improving the health of Aboriginal women from a strength-based, cultural perspective. Valerie is now an Indigenous Research Midwife at the Stillbirth CRE, working on the cultural adaptation of the Safer Baby Bundle and developing a Healthy Yarning Guide for non-Indigenous health care professionals to talk about stillbirth and stillbirth prevention.
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Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and Professor of Sociology, Shaw University
Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson is the Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and Professor of Sociology at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Previously, she was the Mott Distinguished Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of Africana Women’s Studies at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.
She holds a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco; M.A. in Sociology from Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University); and B.A. in Sociology from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Johnson has also completed doula training focused especially on women of color.
Her research conducted in Costa Rica, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, the Seychelles Islands and the US, center on gender, bioethics, disability, the health of women and girls, and environmental justice. In addition, she has published and given lectures in these research areas. In North Carolina, Dr. Johnson conducts research on both African American foodways, and African Americans attitudes toward and experiences with “nature spaces” with special emphasis on Black women’s garden clubs. Her speaking engagements include this work as well as public commentary on the issue of confederate monuments on public lands.
Other scholarly projects include work with Dr. Karima Jeffrey (Hampton University), on a joint collection of essays on the speculative and science fiction work of Black women and girls and with Dr. Crystal Moten (Macalester College), on compiling and editing an interactive, intersectional database on women, gender, and slavery.
Dr. Johnson chairs the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, serves on the North Carolina Historical Commission, National Register Advisory Committee and is member of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN), North Carolina League of Conservation Voters (NCLCV) Board of Directors, Scarritt Bennett Center Board of Directors (Nashville, Tennessee), the Ms. Committee of Scholars and an advisor on the Humanities Action Lab’s initiative on climate change, immigration/migration and environmental justice. Dr. Johnson is also active on the board of directors for both NARAL Pro-Choice NC and Preservation North Carolina and serves as an advisory member for Scarritt Bennett Center’s Racial Justice Initiative.
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Professor of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University
I work on media-government relationship in the United States, and I teach classes in Comparative Politics and American Politics.
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology , University of Milano-Bicocca
I'm an associate professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca. I studied mathematics but later turned into a social scientist. I use behavioral experiments, mathematical modeling, and numerical simulations to study cooperation, honesty, and other moral behaviors.
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Professor of Hydrosystems Engineering, University of Michigan
My research interests aim to uncover interactions, mechanisms and feedbacks among various components of natural and human-impacted systems. My group strives to promote both the development of process-oriented models of water, energy and element cycles at various scales and the integration of data and models. The specific foci are land surface hydrology, ecohydrology, floods and climate impact assessments, with a growing emphasis on uncertainty quantification in all these research domains. In the years to come, we will apply both rigorous computational models and field data collection to better understand: water, energy and carbon dynamics in tropical and polar ecosystems; coupled processes of surface-subsurface hydrology and flooding hydrodynamics in natural and managed environments; and impacts and feedbacks associated with the propagation of climate and weather dynamics through hydrologic systems.
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Programme Director for New Archival Visions, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
Valmont Layne is the programme director for New Archival Visions and co-convenor of the graduate Sound Study Group at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. He has written about museums, archives, heritage studies, sound and media studies, as well as jazz and black music history. He is working on a monograph based on his doctoral thesis titled ‘Goema’s refrain: Sonic anticipation and the musicking Cape’.
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Associate Lecturer, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Work, The University of Melbourne
Van Callaly is an Associate Lecturer and PhD candidate in the Department of Social Work at the University of Melbourne. Van is completing her thesis on improving cross-sector collaboration between family violence and substance use services on a systems level. Her research areas include collaborative practices and frameworks that inform coordinated responses to gender-based violence and social policy issues, particularly at the intersection of family violence and substance use. Van is a qualified social worker and has previously worked in health settings to support clients experiencing problematic substance use.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Czech Academy of Sciences
Vanda Černohorská, Ph.D., focuses on gender inequalities from an intersectional perspective concerning issues of digitalization, social resilience and the creation of expert knowledge. Currently, she is researching the issue of the production of gender expertise in times of crisis and post-crisis recovery in the CoRe: Beyond Security - Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building (OPJAK) project at the National Contact Centre for Gender & Science. She also works at the Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she researches the impact of digital technologies on the perception of time and wellbeing (Time experience in Europe's digital age - TIMED). In the past years, she explored the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and related policies on existing gender inequalities as part of the RESISTIRÉ research team or the effect of the European Structural Funds on gender equality in the Czech labour market. Her doctoral research investigated the relationship between digital technologies and the contemporary feminist movement in the Czecho-Slovak region. Her other research interests include the issue of qualitative methods and multi-disciplinary approaches within social research and co-creation practices related to gender-sensitive policy design. She was awarded a Fulbright grant and spent 2015/2016 as a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology.
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Professor of Information Science, University of Tennessee
Dr. Vandana Singh is a Professor in the iSchool, the School of Information Sciences (SIS) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville . Currently, Dr. Singh is serving as the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the College of Communication and Information.
Dr. Singh joined the SIS faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. In her time at SIS, Dr. Singh has worked as Information Science and Technology Minor Coordinator (2008 – 2011), Acting Associate Director of SIS (2013) and the inaugurating Director of Undergraduate Studies (May 2017 – April 2019).
Dr. Singh graduated with a PhD in Information Science from the iSchool at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , USA, in 2008. Her dissertation research was on Online Communities to Support the Users of Open Source Software. For more details about her research please click here. She holds two masters degrees, one in Computer Science from University of Chicago , Illinois, USA and the other one in Knowledge Management Systems from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her undergraduate degree is from G.B. Pant University, in the foothills of Himalayas in India.
Her current research interests are in Gender and IT, Open Source Software, Technology for Library Professionals, Women in STEM, Rural Libraries, Social Justice, Online Learning/Communities and, Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
Dr. Singh teaches the core course in Information Technology, Usability Testing and Methods, Web Design, Information Networking Applications and a wide range of topics as Independent Studies.
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Fellow, Practicing Democracy Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Vandinika Shukla has over a decade of experience in gender and human rights policy, movement building and emerging technology. She has designed national gender policies at the United Nations, built civic engagement AI products and partnerships at MIT Media Lab, launched a community organizing portfolio at Harvard, and founded organizations to amplify unheard stories for stronger democracies. For her work she has been recognized as a young leader by the G20 and the European Commission.
Vandinika is a Reporting Fellow at Tech Policy Press. She writes on technology and democracy, movement building, gender justice, women’s political participation, and international relations. Her work has been featured in Slate Magazine, Huffington Post, Tech Policy Press, All Tech Is Human, Indian Express, and other Indian national dailies. As a Belfer Fellow, she has published her research on platform policy to mitigate online harm against journalists and served as the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Kennedy Review.
Vandinika holds a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in History from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. She currently teaches movement building for marginalized communities and democratic leadership and works at the intersection of democracy and technology.
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Research Associate, Deakin University
Vanessa Barolsky is a Research Associate at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She works across several disciplinary areas including sociology, anthropology and criminology to tackle questions related to social conflict and its transformation. This includes critical engagements with social cohesion, truth, reconciliation and questions of justice and decolonisation. Her work is informed by her research in South Africa on political conflict where she worked at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and participated in writing the Commission’s final report. She subsequently completed a PHD on the Truth Commission’s conceptualisation of political conflict. She is currently working on several studies on community truth-telling in Australia with partners, including Reconciliation Australia.
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Professor in Employment Studies, University of Bristol
Vanessa works at the University of Bristol Business School. She gained her degrees from Brunel (BSc), Keele (MPhil) and Birmingham (PhD) and worked at the University of Leicester before joining Bristol.
Vanessa has published on issues relating to older workers; the extension of working lives following the abolishment of the default retirement age; unemployment and underemployment.
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Dr. Vanessa Cobham is a Clinical Psychologist and a Professor, with continuing appointments in both Children’s Health Queensland’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service and the School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. Dr. Cobham has continuously maintained both clinical and academic appointments, making her a true clinician-researcher. Dr. Cobham is regarded as an international expert in child and adolescent emotional disorders. Her research is characterized by a family-centric, consumer-focused approach to the treatment of youth experiencing mental illness. Dr. Cobham’s research has focused on improving our understanding of the ways in which anxiety and depressive mental health conditions develop; the development and evaluation of models of care and interventions for the treatment of these conditions; understanding the intersection between physical and mental health conditions; and bridging the evidence-practice divide that exists in child and youth mental health. She is also the lead author of internationally disseminated clinical programs. Dr. Cobham has led numerous child and adolescent mental health responses following natural disasters in Australia; and is regularly invited to consult to government agencies in other countries following community-wide traumatic events (e.g., 2020 Nova Scotia shootings, Canada; 2019 Christchurch Mosque Attack, NZ). Often this consultation involves providing training and supervision to clinicians working with children and families.
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Lecturer in Criminology and Senior Policy Officer (Office for the Commissioner for Victims of Crime), Victoria University
Dr Vanessa Letico is a Lecturer in Criminology (Level B) at Victoria University. Dr Letico completed her Doctor of Philosophy (Criminology) in 2024 which focused on sexual violence and how offenders excuse and justify their actions.
Beyond her accolades, Dr Letico has extensive work experience with the Commissioner for Victims of Crime (Western Australia) and the youth justice system in Victoria.
Her research interests are in voiceless victimology; focusing on the victimisation experiences of those who do not have a voice including infants/children, animals, people with disabilities and deceased victims. Dr Letico's research focuses on sexual violence victimisation experiences of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing women and their unique barriers to reporting and justice.
Dr Letico has been invited to present her research findings and expertise at the University of Genova, Italy, as well as multiple domestic criminology conferences.
Beyond her research, Dr Letico is passionate about childhood literacy and is a children's book author. Vanessa is also passionate about teaching the next generation of criminal justice workers and is the Unit Convenor of LCR2003 Criminological Theory and LCR3004 Victims, Justice and the Law at Victoria University.
Email: [email protected]
Accessibility Information: Proficient in Australian Sign Language (Auslan)
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Senior Lecturer, School of English and Drama, Anglia Ruskin University
Vanessa is an artist scholar, researcher and lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice. Vanessa's research specialises in Black feminist performance practices in the UK and US from the 1980s to the current day. Her research uses both practice-based and written approaches to challenge the imbalances of intersectional identities, speaking to contemporary struggles and anxieties about the performing Black body.
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PhD Candidate and educator in sustainable fashion, Concordia University
I hold a Fashion Design Bachelor from Paris (1992-1996) and a Master of Arts in Textile Design from London (1996-1998). With over two decades of experience in the European and Canadian fashion industry, I bring a wealth of practical knowledge to my current role as a PhD Candidate in the School of Graduate Studies at Concordia University (INDI program, 2017-2024). My research, centered around Textile Ecoliteracy, bridges the realms of Design, Environmental Health, and Ecology, with a specific focus on sustainable dyes. I am committed to developing a macro vision for the fashion industry that aligns with ecological principles. In addition to my research, I contribute to the next generation of designers as a Textile Design Instructor at Ecole Supérieure de Mode ESG UQAM.
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Astronomer, International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development
Dr McBride is an astronomer at the International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development. She works towards bridging the gap between the community of professional astronomers and the development world with a view to helping astronomers apply their skills to problems related to socioeconomic development. She is also an honorary research associate at the University of Cape Town where she works on observations of massive stars in binaries.
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Senior Research Associate, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL
Vanessa is a researcher at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), focusing on mental health, cognition and social inequalities throughout the life course. Her work mainly uses secondary data analysis of large-scale longitudinal data sets, with a particular focus on the British birth cohort studies. She has published on areas including cognitive ability and skills, children’s aspirations, mental health in childhood and across the life-course, wealth, social mobility and mental health inequalities.
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Researcher, Tangentyere Research Hub, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University
Vanessa Newby is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University and President of the Netherlands chapter of Women in International Security (WIIS) based in The Hague. Her research interests include gender and security, non-traditional security threats, peacekeeping, humanitarian aid and disaster response and the international relations of the Middle East. Vanessa has conducted research on the Middle East for over twelve years and is an Arabic speaker. She is the author of Peacekeeping in South Lebanon: Credibility and Local Cooperation with Syracuse University Press (2018) and has published in international peer-reviewed journals such as International Peacekeeping, Contemporary Politics, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, and Third World Quarterly. Vanessa blogs regularly and has contributed over the years to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the Lowy Institute, and the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
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Research Fellow, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh
Vanessa is a cross-disciplinary post-doctoral fellow supported funded by the Medical Research Council and the University of Edinburgh; she graduated in 2017 from the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in Astronomy. Vanessa's research interests include cellular senescence, senolytics discovery for anticancer therapy, and genotype-phenotype interactions using machine/deep learning methods. She works in collaboration with JC Acosta's and Neil Carragher's labs at the Institute of Genetic and Molecular Medicine. In her spare time she likes to dance, skate, and read.
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Assistant Professor of Politics, Scripps College
Tyson’s first book manuscript Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the U.S. House (under contract with Oxford University Press) explores structural inequality in the United States and how members of Congress have formed multiracial coalitions as a strategy to provide for their diverse constituencies. Having worked on political campaigns since she was 12 years old, she carefully considers how political dynamics affect policy formulation and consequent outcomes. Tyson also spent years working as an advocate for sexual violence awareness and prevention.
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PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia
Vania is originally from Italy, where she completed her Master's in Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Turin. She became fascinated with the ocean since moving to Australia in 2013. Vania’s interests lie in the interrelations between the ocean and human health, in particular the global issues of food and nutrient security. She is exploring the challenges that compromise the role of wild capture fisheries in providing a secure source of food and nutrients, such as fisheries subsidies, overfishing and international trade. Vania wants to impact policy by providing information on how to make the ocean a more equitable place for all.
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Honorary Associate Professor, Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland
Professor Vânia Rodrigues Leite e Silva has 33 years of combined experience in industry and academia, within the cosmetics field. She has played a significant role as the former president of Associação Brasileira de Cosmetologia - the Brazilian Society of Cosmetology in strengthened connections between academia and industry while advocating for robust scientific and regulatory standards within the cosmetic industry. Furthermore, Professor Vânia currently holds an Honorary Associate Professor position at UQ.
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Senior Research Fellow, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Dr Vanita Yadav is a Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University. She specialises in innovation management, entrepreneurship, sustainable business, strategy and governance. She has more than 12 years of diverse experience in research and academia spanning multiple countries like Australia, the USA and India. Dr Vanita is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Postdoctoral Research fellowship award for research in entrepreneurship and sustainable development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. She was also a research affiliate at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University for her work on Innovation Management. She has led and worked on interdisciplinary international and national research projects and grants. Dr Vanita has also held many leadership positions, like Discipline Leader of Management and Innovation discipline at the School of Business & Law, Central Queensland University Australia, and founding leader of a Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Strategy & Policy area chairperson at IRMA India.
At Western Sydney University, Dr Vanita is currently working on research projects examining issues of sustainability and regeneration for businesses, multi-stakeholder governance for climate challenges (like heat and housing), sustainable strategies for enhancing urban green spaces, and examining gender issues, equity and diversity in businesses. She has 50+ research publication outputs including Best Paper Awards, supervises PhDs, serves on editorial boards, and speaks at international events as a keynote speaker and expert panelist.
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Professor of Epigenetics, Queen Mary University of London
For my PhD (1999-2002) I investigated epigenetic inheritance under the supervision of Prof. Emma Whitelaw, University of Sydney, Australia. From 2003-2007, I was a CJ Martin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK; where, under the guidance of Dr Stephan Beck, I developed functional genomics tools for genome-wide DNA methylation analyses.
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Vasilis is the Director of MBA Programmes at Sheffield University Management School and member of the Investment Committee of the PJ Tech Venture Capital fund. He has spent several years in Silicon Valley holding executive positions and has cofounded successful high tech companies.
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Professor of Finance, City, University of London
Vasso Ioannidou is a Professor of Finance, Associate Dean Research at Bayes Business School, and a Research Fellow at CEPR (Financial Economics). Vasso’s research interests and expertise are in the areas of financial intermediation, corporate finance, and monetary economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from Boston College, Massachusetts. Vasso’s work has been published in leading Finance and Management journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Finance and it is regularly presented in leading international conferences. Vasso currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance and is regular visitor and advisor at several policy institutions and central banks around the world.
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Assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, UCL
Vaughn Tan is a strategy consultant and assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at University College London (on leave). His first book, The Uncertainty Mindset (Columbia Univ. Press, 2020), is a multi-year ethnography of globally renowned high-end cutting-edge culinary innovation teams including those at the Fat Duck, The Cooking Lab, and ThinkFoodGroup. It explains the history, dynamics, and organization of innovation in high-end cuisine, and why that industry is in a state of continual change. He is currently working on a project about not-knowing.
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Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
Veera Sundararaghavan is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and the director of Multiscale Structural Simulations Laboratory. His research is on multi-length scale computational techniques for modelling and design of aerospace materials with a focus on microstructural mechanics and molecular simulation. He is particularly interested in new computational techniques that can revolutionize the way we compute in materials science: machine learning and quantum computing algorithms. He has published over 75 journal articles and made over 100 national and international presentations. He was awarded the 2010 NSF CAREER award, the 2012 DTRA Young Investigator Award and 2019 AFRL Faculty Fellowship. He is a lifetime member of AIAA, TMS and ASME.
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Professor in Philosophy and Director of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg
Veli is professor in philosophy and director of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. She is the principal investigator of Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South (funded by the NIHSS) and a collaborator on Epistemic Reparations (funded by the Northwestern Buffett Institute). Veli works at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and social epistemology. At the moment, her focus is on epistemic injustice, decolonising knowledge, and the ways in which phenomena such as white ignorance should make us rethink central normative-epistemology concepts like epistemic risk, blame, responsibility, and expertise. She is the author of Believable Evidence (CUP 2017), and the editor of Epistemic Decolonisation (2020) and of The Factive Turn in Epistemology (CUP 2018). Before joining the University of Johannesburg in 2015, Veli taught and researched at Universität Wien, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Rhodes University (her alma mater), and Cambridge (where she obtained her PhD).
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