Dr Elena Sitnikova is an academic and researcher, and Program Coordinator for the Master of Cyber Security program at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra, at the Australian Defence Academy. This Master program is the fastest growing postgraduate program at UNSW Canberra with student numbers increasing from 60 to 350 between 2015 and 2018. In 2018, two courses that Elena coordinates, Cyber Governance and Information Assurance became the first PLuS Alliance offerings from UNSW Canberra to Arizona State University. Elena leads a Critical Infrastructure Protection research group and publishes widely in the area of intrusion detection (IDS) for SCADA control systems cyber security and industrial IoT. Elena is also involved in education research and publishes in the area of engineering and ICT education. Elena is an award winning academic, holding a national Australian Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Team Citation award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Dr Ang Liu is a senior lecturer at the UNSW Faculty of Engineering and the inaugural Director of the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program. His research focuses on engineering design and engineering education, where he has published over 50 journal and conference papers. Dr Liu teaches design thinking to students and design practitioners and was the first Program Manager of the Viterbi iPodia Education program at the University of Southern California. At UNSW he also serves on the Engineering Faculty Board, Engineering Education Innovation Committee, Education Quality Assurance Committee and Humanitarial Engineering Committee. He is closely involved with many professional organisations such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineeers (ASME), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and after being a Research Affiliate of CIRP (International Academy of Production Engineering) he is currently a nominee for one of the 150 Associate Memberships. Dr Liu is also the General Chair of the 13th Internaitonal Conference on Axiomatic Design in October 2019.

Associate Professor Kearnes is an ARC Future Fellow in Environmental Humanities, UNSW. He is a CI in the ARC CoE in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, leading research focused on the societal dimensions of nanomedicine. Situated between the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), human geography and environmental humanities, his research focuses on the social and political dimensions of technological and environmental change. His co-edited volume Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics (Routledge, 2016) was awarded the 2018 Amsterdamska Prize by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). He serves on the editorial board of Science, Technology and Society (Sage) and is an associate editor of Science as Culture (Taylor & Francis). He is co-convenor of the 2018 conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and has held visiting positions at School of Geography, Oxford University (2015) and the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University (2011).

A/Prof Vinayak Dixit is the Director of the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), Director Travel Choice Simulation Laboratory (TRACSLab) at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW Sydney, as well as an Academic Director at Insurance Australia Group (IAG). His research focuses on studying risk in the transportation infrastructure system as it relates to automated vehicles, highway safety, travel time uncertainty, as well as natural and man-made disasters and he is well-published in these areas. His work with individual level data has led him to deeply explore questions around data ethics, integrity and ownership. His education activities involve the development of the Master of Engineering Science – Transport, as well as education opportunities and micro-credentials for industry and overseas partners. His projects have been funded by the Australian Research Council, United States National Science Foundation, as well as transportation agencies across the world including Australia, U.S., Indonesia, India and U.A.E.

Dr Simone Z Leao is a Research Fellow in Urban Modelling and Simulation at the City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales. Interested in the interdependencies between built environment, society and technology, she works on developing knowledge and methodologies to assist urban planning to generate/regenerate urban areas with awareness of contemporary challenges. Her research explores forms of using data and applying analytics in the domain of smart cities to promote sustainable and equitable development and improve quality of urban life. In education at UNSW, she assisted in the design of the new and innovative Master Degree in City Analytics and is responsible for the new courses ‘Programmable Cities’ and ‘Geocomputation’. Previously, she has developed research and academic teaching in South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. She has authored and co-authored more than 50 publications in high impact journals, books and conference proceedings.

Associate Professor Ekins-Daukes joined UNSW through the Strategic Hires & Retention Pathways (SHARP) scheme and is based at the School of Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Engineering where he conducts research into high efficiency schemes for solar power conversion. From 2008-17, Ned worked in the Physics department at Imperial College London and prior to that at the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. From 2003-06 he was a JSPS research fellow at the Toyota Technological Institute, Japan. Ned holds a PhD and MSc from Imperial College and MSci in Physics & Electronics from the University of St Andrews.

I am a Chilean-Australian historian of art based in Sydney. I am currently Lecturer, Art Theory, at UNSW Art & Design, and Research Associate at Rhodes University (Arts of Global Souths Research Group). From 2015-18 I was Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UNSW, and Visiting Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Centre, working with MFA students. I am the author of over 85 publications, including the book Counter-Memorial Aesthetics: Refugee Histories and the Politics of Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury, 2016). I am currently developing a second monograph, focused on transnational collaborations between Chilean artists living in exile and under the Pinochet regime during the 1970s & 80s. In 2017 I initiated a parallel project, Future Souths, collaborating with leading diasporic and indigenous thinkers on the aesthetics and politics of the former third world or 'global souths', the results of which are currently being developed into an edited book for the highly respected Sternberg Press (Berlin, futuresouths.org).

Dr Laura Crommelin a lecturer in the Faculty of Built Environment and a research fellow in the City Futures Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Her research expertise covers urban planning and policy, housing policy, and urban redevelopment. She is the lead researcher on a recently completed study examining the impact of Airbnb in Australia's major cities, and is also a chief investigator on a new ARC Linkage Grant examining the extent of building defects in multi-unit housing in Sydney. Laura teaches urban development and land law in the Faculty of Built Environment's city planning program, and is currently developing a course on strategies to address urban social justice issues through digital mapping. In addition, she is the Chair of the UNSW Early Career Academic Network, and was previously a NSW Fulbright Scholar (2012-2013), spending 8 months at the University of Michigan. 

Dr Holly Seale is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, at the University of New South Wales. She is the Program Director for the Masters of Infectious Disease Intelligence (PLuS Alliance Program) and is responsible for convening three masters courses including an Internship Program, Current Challenges in Infectious Disease (PLuS Alliance course) and Infection Prevention and Control in the Healthcare Setting. She is a social scientist who focuses on improving engagement and acceptance with a range of infectious disease prevention strategies such as immunization and hand hygiene. Within this program, she examines the socio-cultural aspects that influence engagement and acceptance and formulates interventions to improve compliance. She works closely with a range of professional organizations including the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control (ACIPC), hospitals and domestic and international health departments.

Dr Lois Meyer is the inaugural Director the Bachelor of International Public Health (BIPH). She is responsible for steering through the first PLuS Alliance degree to be developed, approved and offered by UNSW in partnership with Arizona State University (ASU) and drew upon her extensive background in curriculum design and accreditation in public health within Australia and internationally. As Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM) for close to a decade she has taken a leadership role overseeing the strategic learning design and evaluation of the postgraduate programs in the School including innovations in online and evidence-informed pedagogy. Dr Meyer’s research focuses on students’ learning and career trajectories and professional formation. She represents UNSW on the national Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia (CAPHIA) and is on a national project reviewing the use of CAPHIA competencies in higher education public health programs.

Dr Kathleen Steinhöfel is a Reader in Computer Science at King’s College London and an Adjunct Professor at UNSW Sydney. She is currently also working with the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research centre dedicated to finding new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat conditions such as cancer, heart disease and stroke, infections and neurodegenerative conditions. Dr Steinhöfel’s research interests include: Local Search Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation; Energy Landscape Analysis; Applied Algorithmics; Structure Prediction in Molecular Biology and Evolutionary Computation. She is also part of a PLuS Alliance research team seeking to identify risk factors associated with genetic mutations of an efficient human-to-human transmissible form of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, commonly known as ‘bird flu.’

Ivor Mason is a Professor of Developmental Biology at King’s College London. His research concerns embryonic brain development and he is a world leader in the field of fibroblast growth factor signaling in the embryo. He lectures and leads workshops and practical classes in subject areas spanning molecular and cell biology, developmental biology, genetics and evolution, histology, anatomy and neurobiology. He is currently developing online teaching resources for medicine. Professor Mason has served as Secretary of the British Society for Developmental Biology and for the UK Medical Research Council as a member of its Neuroscience and Mental Health Grant Panel and Advisory Board, its Molecular and Cell Biology Advisory Board and has chaired its Studentship Award Panel. Professor Mason also has an interest in science communication and is developing an undergraduate module in that area. He writes for The i national newspaper in the UK and was previously a British Science Association Media Fellow.

Dr Kimberly Goldsmith is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics at King’s College London. She is a Biostatistician and Clinical Trials specialist with extensive experience in clinical trials in mental health as well as other disease areas. Her particular areas of interest are complex psychological therapy treatments and mediation of treatment effects.She holds an Honours degree in Biology and MSc in Microbiology and Virology from McMaster University, and a Master of Public Health from Oregon Health & Science University.  She was awarded a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2011 and graduated with a PhD in Biostatistics from King’s in 2014. She has  previously worked as a statistician and data manager in the areas of employment support for people with disabilities (in the United States), antimicrobial resistance, and heart and lung diseases.

Andrea Ellner, PhD in Political Science (Berlin), MA in History (Munich), is a Lecturer in the Department of Defence Studies at King’s College London. Her research focuses on civil-military relations, specifically moral injury, gender integration in armed forces, and the Women, Peace & Security (WPS) Agenda, including sexual violence in militaries and armed conflict. She has disseminated her research and provided expert advice to peers and practitioners nationally and internationally. Dr Ellner contributed to and co-edited with Professors Brad Allenby (ASU, Phoenix) and Tom Frame (UNSW, Canberra) the White Paper 'Moral Injury: Towards an International Perspective,' released at New America, Washington DC, in conjunction with the PluS Alliance in 2017. Also in 2017 she contributed to a panel on moral injury at the Future of War Conference, Washington DC, presented on the WPS Agenda and Just War Theory at the annual Euro-ISME conference, Brussels, and provided subject matter expertise on research and Professional Military Education (PME) on WPS at the Australian Defence Force Academy-UNSW, Canberra. In Defence Studies she is academic lead on gender, armed forces and violent conflict. She is a member of the Core Team (Gender SME) in the Centre for Military Ethics, King’s College, London.

Dr. Sean Beevers is a Senior Lecturer in Air Quality Modelling at King’s College London and founder of the London Air Quality Network. He helped to establish the Environmental Research Group at King’s and has worked closely with London policy makers to implement major changes to the city, such as the Congestion Charging Zone, the Low Emission Zone, the Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy, and the Ultra Low Emission Zone. Dr Beevers has been an investigator on numerous research projects looking at associations between air pollution and health. His future research goals are to develop King’s as a world leading air pollution exposure modelling group, develop smart policies to reduce the impacts of air pollution, and to investigate the interaction between air quality and climate change policy.

Dr David Whetham is Director of the King’s Centre for Military Ethics and a Reader in Military Ethics in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London. He has a PhD in War Studies from King’s and his main research interests are focussed on the ethical dimensions of warfare and the development of the laws of war. Dr Whetham has previously worked as a BBC researcher and with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Kosovo, supporting the 2001 and 2002 elections. He has been a Resident Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, a Visiting Fellow with the Centre for Defence Leadership and Ethics at the Australian Defence College, Canberra, and a visiting lecturer in military ethics at the Baltic Defence College and for the Royal Brunei Armed Forces. He is also a co-founder of the European Chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics and is a member of the Military Ethics Education Network steering group.

Brian J. Gerber is an associate professor at the College of Public Service and Community Solutions, Arizona State University, where he is director of the Emergency Management and Homeland Security program. Gerber received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University (SUNY) in 2000. His research specialization areas include disaster policy and management, homeland security policy and administration, and environmental regulatory policy and has published such research in a number of academic journals. Prior to arriving at ASU, he served as executive director of the Buechner Institute for Governance at the University of Colorado Denver, as research director for the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute at Louisiana State University, was a research associate with West Virginia University’s Regional Research Institute, was a research fellow with the National Science Foundation’s “Next Generation of Hazards Researchers” program and has served as a subject matter expert on a variety of projects.  He sits on the executive committee of the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships, was a five-year member of the Denver Board of Environmental Health. Gerber has extensive experience performing policy analysis and program evaluation work for state and local government agencies, as well as major national nonprofits engaged in disaster relief and recovery work. 

Joni Adamson is Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Senior Sustainability Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.  She directs the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI) at ASU and is Past President (2012) of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), the largest international organization of environmental humanists.  She serves on the editorial boards of her field’s leading journals and is the author and/or co-editor of many books and volumes that helped to establish and expand the environmental humanities and environmental justice critical studies, including Humanities for the Environment (HfE): Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice (Routledge 2017); Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies—Conversations from Earth to Cosmos (Routledge 2016); and Keywords for Environmental Studies (New York University Press, 2016). She is a Convener of the North American Observatory of the Humanities for the Environment global network (HfE), an Andrew Mellon Foundation seed-funded system of eight Observatories focused on globally networking humanists, social scientists, and scientists working on the challenges of climate change, social inequities, and environmental injustices.

Dr. Paul Westerhoff is a full professor in the Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering program in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, which is part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University and currently serves as a Senior Advisor on Science and Engineering to the ASU Provost. Westerhoff obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a MS from University of Massachusetts and BS from Lehigh University.  Westerhoff leads research funded by AWWARF, USEPA, NSF, DOD and local organizations investigating the fate of nanomaterials in water, use of nanomaterial-based technologies for water and reuse treatment, reactions and fate of oxo-anions (bromate, nitrate, arsenate) during water treatment, characterization, treatment and oxidation of natural organic matter in watersheds, formation of disinfection by-products, removal of taste and odor micropollutants. Westerhoff has received several research awards including the 2013 AEESP/Arcadis Frontier in Research Award, 2005 ASCE Walter L. Huber Research Award and the 2006 WEF Paul L. Busch Award.

Dragica Vasileska joined the ASU faculty in August 1997. She has published over 130 articles in refereed journals, book chapters, and in conference proceedings in the areas of solid-state electronics, transport in semiconductors, and semiconductor device modeling. She has also given numerous invited talks. She is a member of IEEE, the American Physical Society, and Phi Kappa Phi.

B. L. Turner II took his B.A. and M.A. degrees in geography from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968 and 1969 respectively, and his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974. At ASU he is the Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society. Turner came to ASU after 28 years in the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, where he was Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, served as Director of that School for more than decade, and helped to create and administer the George Perkins Marsh Institute, which engages a range of human-environment problems. Professor Turner is currently engaged in land change science focused especially on deforestation and sustainability in the southern Yucatán. Turner continues to engage in large range of research activities focused on the theme of human-environment relationships. These range from those of the ancient Maya peoples of Mesoamerica, to smallholder farming behavior in the tropics, to tropical deforestation and sustainability. A significant portion of this work combines natural, human and remote sensing/geographical information sciences to address problems of human-environment systems, including: land change science, sustainability science, cultural and political ecology, global environmental and climate change.

Brian Smith is a behavioral neuroscientist who studies how animals learn about odors in order to predict important events, such as an encounter with food, a mate or predator. His research employs detailed behavioral studies of learning and memory. He and his research team also use a combination of electrophysiological, bioimaging, molecular and computational techniques to directly link changes in behavior to changes in the brain. Smith’s research focuses on learning and memory systems in both insects and mammals. His work is being applied to studies of human diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, as well as to the negative effects of heavy metal poisoning on learning and memory.

Osvaldo Sala is the Foundation Professor and Julie A. Wrigley Chair at Arizona State University, where he contributes to both the School of Life Sciences and School of Sustainability. He came to ASU in 2010 from Brown University where he was the founding Director of the Environmental Change Initiative and the Sloan Lindemann Professor of Biology. Dr. Sala has explored several topics throughout his career from water controls on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in arid and semi-arid ecosystems to the consequences of changes in biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems, including the development of biodiversity scenarios for the next 50 years. He is particularly interested in working with scenarios as a way of simplifying, understanding, and communicating the complex relationships that emerge from the study of social-ecological systems. He has worked in the Patagonian steppe, annual grasslands of California, steppes of Colorado and deserts of Southern Africa and currently he has experiments in the Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico. Osvaldo Sala served in numerous international institutions and in different capacities from the Scientific Committee of Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), where he was the president, to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

Mark Henderson is professor of Engineering at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus. He received the MS degree in biomechanical engineering and the Ph.D. in mechanical engineering (CAD) from Purdue University. Henderson was named a Presidential Young Investigator from 1985-90 and is co-author of the textbook, Computer-Integrated Design and Manufacturing. His major research includes 60 papers in computer-aided design and global engineering and he serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Computer-Aided Design (CAD).  Henderson is on the founding faculty of an engineering program at ASU's Polytechnic campus. He is also co-founder of the InnovationSpace, a new approach to transdisciplinary product development and entrepreneurship. Henderson's interests extend across typical disciplinary boundaries and include global design teams, innovative product design, computer graphics, CAD and rapid prototyping.

Dr. Erica Forzani is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Program as well as joint faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy at Arizona State University (SEMTE). Dr. Forzani also has a joint appointment with ASU’s Center for Bioelectronics & Biosensors (CBB) at The Biodesign Institute, and she is Deputy Director of CBB.  Dr. Forzani’s current research interests are the development of novel hybrid chemical and biosensors and the integration of sensors into wireless, non-invasive and inexpensive sensor devices. She is focused on health applications, and environmental health and safety. Currently, she has over 40 peer-reviewed publications, seven patent applications and two transferred intellectual properties. In addition, she has served as Guest Editor of Nanotechnology Journal, and is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Dr. Coon has a PhD in Counseling Psychology from Stanford University, a MEd from University of Oklahoma, and a BA in Foreign Service/Public Affairs, from the University of Oklahoma.  His research interests include design, evaluation, and translation of effective psychosocial interventions for midlife and older adults facing chronic illness (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS) and their family caregivers.

Professor Patrick Leman is the Dean of Education at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. His research is in the area of child psychology, with a particular emphasis on children’s moral understanding, exclusion and inclusion and issues of social justice, how this is affected by gender and ethnicity.

Dr Harding is a Reader in Palliative Care at King's College London and has a number of collaborations with African palliative care leaders that has brought change in outcome measure for research and clinical practice as well has significantly grown the evidence base. Dr Harding’s research areas include outcome measurement and tool validation, HIV/AIDS, heart failure, family caregivers, sub-Saharan Africa, Global Health, audit and quality improvement, mixed methods, intervention development and testing.

Dr Megan Bowman began her career in Australia as a solicitor at a top-tier commercial law firm and then subsequently at a non-profit environmental law organisation. Her expertise focuses on transnational analyses of commercial and financial regulation, climate finance, corporate ethics, and optimal regulatory design which accounts for both the levers and limits of law and policy.

Dr Kyle Dyer is a Senior Lecturer in Addiction Science at Kings College London, and the Academic Lead for Education and Training within the Department of Addiction (KCL). Dr Dyer’s research interests include the application of oral fluid for therapeutic drug monitoring, harms associated with the use of methamphetamine, the relationship between alcohol and drug concentration and psycho-behavioural and cognitive impairment and factors impacting upon the translation of research into practice.

Dr George Adamson is an interdisciplinary geographer with specialisms that span the physical, social and cultural dimensions of geography, particularly climate. His research calls for a greater attention to pre-industrial or 'natural climate variability' and also an appreciation of the deeper historical interrelationship of climate and society.

Professor Simon Killcross is Head of the School of Psychology at UNSW. He received a BA and PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge, before taking up a research fellowship at Magdalene College Cambridge. He was appointed a lecturer in Psychology at the University of York in 1996, and Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University in 1999. He was appointed Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Psychology at Cardiff before moving to UNSW as Head of School in 2009. His research examines preclinical models of fronto-striatal function, as well as translational models of human mental disorders such as schizophrenia. He has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters, and has received research funding from major government granting agencies (e.g. ARC, NHRMC in Australia, BBSRC, MRC in the UK), international charities (e.g. NARSAD, Wellcome Trust) and industry partners (e.g. Lilly, Wyeth, MSD).

Professor Nick Wailes is Associate Dean (Digital and Innovation) at UNSW Business School and Academic Director of AGSM’s specialised online MBA, MBAX. Nick’s role is to the lead the digital transformation of the Business School. Prior to joining UNSW Nick was the MBA Director at the University of Sydney Business School. Nick research interests including international and comparative employment relations and the impact of new and emerging technologies on organisation. Nick regularly comments in the media on how digital is reshaping traditional business models and industries
 

Lynne Bilston is a biomedical engineer whose research focuses on how mechanical forces are involved in physiological and pathophysiological processes in the body. Her research encompasses injury biomechanics, neural and other soft tissue biomechanics, and the development of novel imaging methods for making mechanical measurements in vivo. She has a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia senior research fellow. She is a Senior Principal Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia, and is a conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales.

Professor Cameron Holley is the Co-Director of Postgraduate Studies at UNSW Law, Chair of the Environmental Law Research Cluster at UNSW Law and a member of the leadership teams of the Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre and the Global Water Institute, UNSW. His research is in the areas of environmental law and water governance. Within these fields, he has examined issues of compliance and enforcement, environmental security, resilience, democratic participation, adaptive management and collaborative governance. An empirical researcher, Cameron works closely with international government and non-government organisations on research projects. His current agenda is centred on water law and energy governance (under an ARC Discovery) and identifying best practices in the regulation of water scarcity by comparing laws in Europe, USA and Australia. In 2014, he was awarded the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Scholarship Award for my contribution to environmental law scholarship.

Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Australia. He specialises in the sociology of health and illness, with a current focus on issues related to: illness experiences; the therapeutic encounter; experiences of suffering, healing and survivorship; and, the moralities of care and caregiving. His work extends across a variety of cultural contexts, with current projects being based in Australia, Britain, India and Brazil. Over the course of the last decade, his international research contribution is distinguished by its interdisciplinary focus and emphasis on translational outcomes as produced through rigorous sociological enquiry. His research program, with its focus on end-user relevance, engagement and translation to practice, involves regular partnership with community groups, private industry and government-funded organisations, to facilitate knowledge synthesis and policy and practice change. He has published over 200 publications including 12 books, and is an investigator on over AU$8 million in competitive research grants. Recent books include Men's Health: Body, Identity and Social Context (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia (Routledge, 2011), Evidence-based healthcare in context (Ashgate, 2012), Gender and Masculinities: Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2013) and Dying: A Social Perspective on the End of Life (Ashgate/Routledge, 2015). He presently convenes the 'Health Stream' within UNSW Arts and Social Sciences’ Practical Justice Initiative.

Scientia Professor David Waite from the UNSW School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is leading a team working at the intersection of nanotechnology, materials science and environmental engineering, developing new composite materials made from silver nanoparticles anchored onto the low-cost silica from rice husk ash (RHA).  When burned, the ash from rice husks has a high concentration of silica, which is thought to be an excellent supporting material for ultra-fine silver nanoparticles.  These nanoparticles have become well-known for their anti-bacterial properties and applications in water treatment, but at the size where these particles are most effective (diameters less than 20 nm), they have a tendency to aggregate, which decreases their disinfecting potential.  The rice husk ash prevents aggregation of the silver nanoparticles, the rice husk ash support slows down the release time of dissolved silver, enhancing the long-term anti-bacterial applications of the particles.  The technology is ideal for supplying clean, affordable drinking water to remote communities or for providing purified water after a disaster or emergency.

Professor Karin Sanders (School of Management, UNSW Business School) is professor of Human Resources Management (HRM) and Organizational Behaviour at the UNSW Business School, and Head of School of Management. Her research focuses particularly on the impact of employees’ perceptions and understanding (attributions) of HRM on employees’ innovative behaviour and firms’ innovation. Her research has been published in such scholarly outlets as the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Organizational Studies, Academy of Management Learning and Education and HRM (all Financial Times list journals). Karin is a recently elected board member of the Executive Board of the HR Division (Academy of Management, the professional association for management and organization scholars) and is one of the leaders of HR Division’s International Ambassadors program.

Professor Lovell obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in 1984, and his PhD in Engineering (specialising in cardiac neurophysiology and biomedical engineering).  Lovell’s research expertise can be categorised into 3research themes based around neural prosthetics, physiological modelling and telehealth.  He has published 218 journal articles, 277 refereed conference proceedings, 6 books/proceedings, 22 book chapters and >150 abstracts.  Lovell is a most prominent biomedical engineer on the world stage being a fellow of six learned academies/societies and having taken on major leadership roles in professional organisations related to biomedical engineering, particularly the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Professor Gooding is a founding co-director of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine and an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of New South Wales.  His research background has been focused specifically on surface chemistry with a particular emphasis on how to design molecular scale devices on surfaces.  Much of this work has by motivated towards molecular devices that detect chemical or biological species to give sensors. In recent years this has led to sensors that detect many single molecules and many single cells.  He is also the inaugural editor-in-chief ACS Sensors published by the American Chemical Society.  He has published over 300 papers in electrochemistry, surface chemistry, cell biology, biosensors, nanomedicine and molecular electronics.

Professor Luca Viganò is a Professor in Computer Science (Software Modelling and Applied Logic). He is also ViceDean (International) for Natural and Mathematical Sciences, promoting international collaboration throughout the Faculty. His research interests include formal Methods for security, security logics, security testing, and labelled deduction for non-classical logics (modal logics, sub structural logics, etc.) and the combination of logics.

Professor Chris Roberts Is the first PLuS Alliance Professor, a role which will facilitate PLuS Alliance activities through innovation and entrepreneurship. Professor Roberts has extensive experience in the biomedical devices industry, and previously led one of the major companies in this area, Cochlear, an Australian-based multinational. He has also had experience in renal (dialysis), orthopaedics (electrical bone growth simulation), cardiology (pacemakers) and respiratory and sleep medicine (CPAP and ventilation). Each of these areas has been driven by innovation on a global scale. Professor Roberts is a non-executive director of ResMed Inc and a member of the Jobs NSW Board, NSW Innovation and Productivity Council, Monash University Industry Council of Advisors, University of Technology Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Industry Advisory Board, UNSW’s Faculty of Medicine Advisory Council, the Health Innovation Advisory Committee (a principal committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council), and a member of the Board of Governors of the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology. He holds a BE (Honours) in chemical engineering (UNSW), an MBA (Macquarie University) and a PhD (UNSW) and has been awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from both Macquarie and UNSW. He was recipient of the Charles Copeman Medal from the HR Nicholls Society for service to freedom of employment and is also a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. In 2015, he was Engineer Australia’s  Professional Engineer of the year.

Barry Bozeman, PhD, is Arizona Centennial Professor of public management and technology policy and the director of the Center of Organizational Research and Design at Arizona State University. Bozeman also serves as the director of the School of Public Affairs.

Most of Bozeman’s research primarily focuses on public management, organization theory, and science and technology policy. His practitioner experience includes a position at the National Science Foundation’s Division of Information Technology and a visiting position at the Science and Technology Agency’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy. He also has served as a consultant to a variety of federal and state agencies in the US, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Commerce, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy. Bozeman has helped in the design and evaluation of the national innovation systems of the Republic of South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, France, Israel, Chile, and Argentina.

Andrew Maynard, PhD, is a Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University and director of the Risk Innovation Lab, a unique center focused on transforming how we think about and act on risk, in the pursuit of increasing and maintaining value. Professor Maynard was previously chair of the Environmental Health Sciences department at the University of Michigan.

Maynard’s research and professional activities focus on risk innovation and the responsible development and use of emerging technologies, including nanotechnology and synthetic biology. He is widely published and has a regular column for the Journal of Nature Nanotechnology. Maynard has served on National Academy panels and has testified before congressional committees. He is co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Nanotechnology and is a member of its metacouncil. 

David Guston, PhD, is the founding director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and interim co-director of the Institute for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. Professor Guston is co-director of ASU’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, where he is principal investigator and director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society. He also is a senior sustainability scientist for the Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU.

Guston’s research interests include societal aspects of emerging technologies, responsible innovation, anticipatory governance, technology assessment, and public engagement in science and technology. He is published and cited on research and development policy, technology assessment, public participation in science and technology, and the politics of science policy. His book, Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research was awarded the Don K. Price Prize by the American Political Science Association for best book in science and technology policy. In addition to co-authoring several publications, Guston is also the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Responsible Innovation.

Professor Pettit is the inaugural Chair of Urban Science (2015) at UNSW Sydney, being previously at the University Melbourne (20011-2015). The State Government of Victoria, (2004-2011) and RMIT University (2002-2004).  He is responsible for the Digital Cities course at UNSW. He previously developed the Urban Informatics course at the University of Melbourne and was the lead author on the ESRI online virtual campus course in GIS and Planning which attracted more than 3,000 students between 2000 and 2010. His educational background has been focused specifically on the fields of spatial planning and GIS at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.  His Ph.D. examined the using of GIS and mapping technologies for undertaking scenario planning at the land parcel level across municipalities.  Professor Pettit is closely involved with a number of professional organisations.  He is a member of the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) and the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA).

Professor Kingsford is Director of the Centre for Ecosystem Science at UNSW Sydney. Good management of river systems is dependent on good information of the ecological responses and a long history of monitoring the breeding of waterbirds in the Macquarie Marshes is producing dividends. The Macquarie Marshes is now established as the most important site in Australia for the breeding of colonial waterbirds (herons, egrets and ibis). The project monitors the impacts of changing water regimes on the breeding and abundance of waterbirds in the Macquarie Marshes.  In October of each year Professor Kingsford conducts an aerial survey to estimate the abundance of waterbirds in eastern Australia. This project is one of the largest surveys of fauna in the world.

Professor Kristy Muir is the Research Director of the Centre for Social Impact at UNSW Sydney.  Her research and teaching programs work with dozens of government, not-for-profits, corporates and philanthropic organisations to help understand, measure and find innovative solutions to some of society’s most intractable, complex social problems and to achieve social justice.  Professor Muir has obtained over $10 million in competitive research funding; published in the highest-ranking international academic journals and demonstrated exceptional leadership.

Nina McDermott is Head of the English Language Centre at King's College London and has overall responsibility for all programmes run by the Centre. She has worked for many years in the fields of EFL, EAP and Business English in both the UK and Europe. Her current research interests are in the fields of learner autonomy and effective learning in a higher education environment.

Professor Anna Reading is Head of the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries. Her interdisciplinary research examines broader questions of social and cultural continuity and transformation with an emphasis on: digital methodologies, materialities and knowledge practices, cultural heritage and collective memory rights, gender and memory, cultural memories of nonviolent struggle, cultural memories of the holocaust and genocide, mobile and social witnessing of terrorism and atrocity.

Dr Jenny Driscoll is the Child Studies Lecturer and Programme Director and Barrister at Law. Her research interests cover the protection and rights of vulnerable children, in particular the child protection ‘system’; the education of looked-after children; ethical issues arising from research with vulnerable children and young people; and the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in the UK. She has recently completed a longitudinal study of the educational transitions of looked after young people aged 15-18.

Yasmin Saikia, PhD, is a Professor of History and the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in peace studies at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU in 2010, professor Saikia taught at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and Carleton College, Minnesota. She has strong ties with the academic community in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Malaysia.

Saikia’s research and teaching interests straddle peace studies, history, and religion with a focus on gender issues, conflict transformation, and Islamic values. 

Nikolas Rose is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine. He originally trained as a biologist before switching to psychology and then to sociology. For the last decade, his work has focussed on the conceptual, social and political dimensions of the contemporary life sciences and biomedicine. His current research concerns biological and genetic psychiatry and behavioural neuroscience.

Professor Worth is the Head of the International HIV Research Group in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, at UNSW Sydney.  Professor Worth’s research has been primarily in the area of HIV social and behavioural research in Asia and the Pacific, with a focus on gender, sexuality and global HIV. Professor Worth’s research activities span many areas of Global Health including understanding HIV in China: the Social Aspects of the Epidemic Mobility; HIV risk across the Papua New Guinea/Indonesia border; and strengthening HIV social research capacity amongst HIV social research leaders in Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

Professor Raina MacIntyre (MBBS Hons 1, M App Epid, PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM) is Head, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW and Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology. She leads a research program in control and prevention of infectious diseases, spanning epidemiology, biosecurity, risk analysis, personal protective equipment, vaccinology, mathematical modelling, public health and clinical trials. Her global health research includes collaborations in India, Vietnam and China. She has over 300 peer reviewed publications in peer reviewed journals. She has received many awards including the Sir Henry Wellcome Medal and Prize from the Association of Military Surgeons of the US in 2007 for her work on bioterrorism, the Public Health Association of Australia’s National Immunisation Award in 2014, and the 2003 Frank Fenner Award for Research in Infectious Diseases. She has sat on numerous national and international expert committees and editorial boards in her field, including the US IOM. She currently heads a NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Epidemic Response and UNSW Vaccine and Infections Research Lab (UNSW-VIRL). She is also a founding director of ARM, Australia’s only national epidemic response network. She is an adjunct professor at Arizona State University and in this role is the UNSW lead in collaborative research and teaching in public health security within the PLuS Alliance.

Professor Bryant is Director of the Traumatic Stress Clinic and Scientia Professor of Psychology at UNSW Sydney. His research has focused on identification of people at risk of mental health problems after trauma, early intervention strategies, treatment strategies for posttraumatic stress, and complicated grief.  His research has resulted in many national and international awards. He was elected to Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2005, and he also holds an ARC Professorial Fellowship.  Professor Bryant also works on many major national and international projects, including developing the Australian NHMRC PTSD treatment guidelines, web treatments for US troops returning from Iraq, tsunami survivors in Thailand, developing counselling programs for disaster survivors in the USA after Hurricane Katrina, and web-based treatments for complicated grief patients in the USA.

Stephen Challacombe is a Professor of Oral Medicine Department of Mucosal & Salivary Biology at the Dental Institute. He has a long term enthusiasm for clinical and translational research and has supervised (and examined!) many PhD students in the fields of mucosal immunology, oral microbiology and oral medicine, fields in which he has published extensively. He has a long term interest in oral manifestations of HIV and chairs an international steering committee which oversees world workshops embracing basic, translational and clinical research in HIV and which has led to an internationally accepted classification on the oral manifestations.

Matthew Scotch, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Center for Environmental Security at Arizona State University. Professor Scotch’s research interest is in the intersection of public health informatics and bioinformatics, specifically linking health data on animals and humans to support surveillance of zoonotic diseases (diseases transmitted between animals and humans). He is also working on developing an informatics system to support phylogeography of zoonotic RNA viruses.

Scotch earned a master’s degree in biomedical informatics from Columbia University, a PhD in biomedical informatics from the University of Pittsburgh, and a master’s degree in public health from Yale University. In 2008, he was the recipient of the National Institute of Health’s Pathway to Independence grant, a five-year career development award funded through the National Library of Medicine.

Nancy Gonzales, PhD, is Associate Dean and Professor in the Department of Psychology. An alumna of ASU, Professor Gonzales earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology. She received her PhD from the University of Washington. Gonzales is also the co-director at the Prevention Research Center, which focuses on preventative interventions for children who are at risk of developing mental health problems because of exposure to the high-stress situations of parental divorce, parental death, and inner-city Mexican American children in transition to high school.

Gonzales’ research examines cultural and contextual influences in social, academic, and psychological development of youth across their lifespan. The aims of this work are to translate findings into community-based interventions that are effective at promoting successful adaptation and reducing social inequalities and health disparities for high-risk populations.

Professor Frans Berkhout is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy and Professor of Environment, Society and Climate. His early research was concerned with the economic, political and security aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle. His more recent work has been concerned with science, technology, policy and sustainability, with a focus on climate change, systems innovation and global resource securities.

Dave White is Professor in the Arizona State University School of Community Resources and Development. His scholarship is focused on understanding and enhancing the linkages between science and policy for sustainabilty.

White is Director of the ASU Decision Center for a Desert City, which brings together scientists and stakeholders to develop transformational solutions for water sustainability transitions. Professor White is widely published and cited in the academic literature and his work has been covered in popular media including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio. At ASU, he also holds appointments as Senior Sustainability Scientist with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Fellow of the Global Security Initiative, and Fellow of the PLuS Alliance. White is a recipient of the President's Medal for Social Embeddedness from Arizona State University and the Celebrating Natural Resources Award from the University of Idaho.

He received his Ph.D. in Forestry from Virginia Tech.

Bruce Rittmann, PhD, joined ASU in January 2005 and has expertise in biotechnology, bioenergy, biofilms, and microbial ecology. An international leader in managing microbial communities, Professor Rittmann's work is leading to new ways of cleaning up pollution, treating water and wastewater, capturing renewable energy, and improving human health.

Rittmann is also at the lead of ASU teams using two innovative approaches to renewable bioenergy: using anaerobic microbes to convert biomass to useful energy forms, such as methane, hydrogen, or electricity; and using photosynthetic bacteria that can capture sunlight to produce new biomass that can be turned into liquid fuels, like diesel or jet fuel.

Michael Hanemann, PhD, is the Julie Ann Wrigley Chair in Sustainability, a distinguished sustainability scientist for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and professor in the Department of Economics at ASU. Professor Hanemann is also the professor of environmental and resource economics and chancellor’s professor emeritus in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty since 1968.

Prior to joining ASU, Hanemann earned a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and a master’s of science degree in economics from the London School of Economics. He went on to earn his master’s degree in public finance and decision theory and doctorate in economics from Harvard University.

Hanemann’s research interests include behavioral science, economic valuation, and environmental regulation and conservation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and holds an honorary PhD from the University of Vigo, Spain.

Rimjhim Aggarwal, PhD, is an Associate Professor for the School of Sustainability and a senior sustainability scientist for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Professor Aggarwal also serves as an affiliated faculty for the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes.

Aggarwal’s research and teaching interests lie at the interface between sustainability science and international development. A central focus of her research has been on examining the links between globalization, resilience of social-ecological systems, and human wellbeing. Currently, Aggarwal is researching the emerging conflicts in the framing of water as a human right as well as an economic, ecological, and social good in rapidly urbanizing regions, with a focus on Delhi, São Paulo, and Johannesburg. She is also engaged in research projects examining the impacts of globalization and climate change on agricultural and water governance, farm livelihoods, and food security in India, Nepal, Thailand, and Arizona.

Professor Reza Razavi is Director of Research at King’s Health Partners and Assistant Principal (Research and Innovation), King's College London. He is also the Leader of the Imaging and Biomedical Engineering Clinical Academic Group, Professor of Paediatric Cardiovascular Science and Consultant Cardiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital. The main focus of his research is imaging and biomedical engineering related to the cardiovascular disease. One area of focus is cardiac MRI particularly in relation to congenital heart disease, electrophysiology and heart failure, image guided intervention, XMR (X-ray and MRI) guided cardiac catheterisation and methodological advances to move to faster 3-Dimensional cardiac imaging.

Professor Merlin Crossley was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UNSW Sydney in February 2016. He is a molecular biologist, specialising in human genetic disease. He is also an enthusiastic teacher and science communicator who contributes frequent articles on science, education and policy. Professor Crossley serves on the Trust of the Australian Museum, is Deputy Chair on the Board of the Australian Science Media Centre, sits on the Boards of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science and New South Innovations, is on the Council of the EMBL Australia, and Editorial Board of The Conversation. Professor Crossley undertook his BSc at the University of Melbourne, majoring in genetics and microbiology, moved to Oxford University supported by a Rhodes Scholarship, and then did post-doctoral research at Oxford and Harvard before taking up a position at The University of Sydney where he was Professor of Molecular Genetics 2005-9, Acting Dean of Science 2004, Director of Research for the College of Sciences and Technology 2005, and Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research from 2006-8. In 2010 he began as Dean of Science at UNSW before taking up his current role in 2006.

Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan was the founding director of the School of Computing and Informatics and was instrumental in founding the Biomedical Informatics Department at ASU. He also served as the chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department. He founded the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) at ASU. CUbiC’s flagship project iCARE, for individuals who are blind and visually impaired, won the Governor’s Innovator of the Year-Academia Award in November 2004.

In 2014, Panchanathan was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. National Science Board (NSB). He has also been appointed by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE).

Professor Ian Jacobs BA, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCOG is President and Vice-Chancellor of UNSW Sydney Professor Jacobs came to Australia from the UK, where he had a distinguished career as a leading researcher in the area of women’s health and cancer and in university leadership. Immediately prior to joining UNSW he was Vice President and Dean at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, a partnership linking the University with six healthcare organisations involving over 36,000 staff. He was previously at University College London, where he created and led the Institute for Women’s Health, was Research Director of UCL Partners and Dean of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences.  Professor Jacobs is the Principal Investigator for the Cancer Research UK and Eve Appeal funded PROMISE (Prediction of Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Screening and Early Detection) programme and on several large multicentre clinical trials including the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening involving 202,000 participants in 13 collaborating UK centres and the UK Familial Ovarian Cancer Screening Study.  In 2005 Professor Jacobs established the Uganda Women’s Health Initiative, which he still chairs and which conducts a series of projects in Uganda including a cervical screening programme. He has been President of the British Gynaecological Cancer Society (2001-2004) and of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (2005-2007). He is Medical Advisor to the Eve Appeal charity (also known as the Gynaecology Cancer Research Fund) which he founded in 1985, a Patron of Safehands for Mothers, founder and non-Executive Director of Abcodia Ltd and patent holder of the ROCA (Risk of Ovarian Cancer Algorithm).