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Annual General Meeting and International Conference

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Speakers

Opening Panel

Panel I

Panel II

Keynote

Panel III

Conference Opening Panel

Hussam Mahmoud

Colorado State University, USA; Co-Chair New Voices

Hussam Mahmoud is the George T. Abell Professor in Infrastructure at Colorado State University. He obtained his BSc and MSc in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota and his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Mahmoud’s research focuses on sustainable and resilient infrastructure and communities, emphasizing developing socio-physical models to capture the recovery of systems as influenced by human behavior and socio-economic policies. He is an international authority on infrastructure and community resilience and an advisor to the World Bank, insurance companies, and other agencies on such topics.  

Marcia McNutt

President, U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Marcia McNutt (B.A. in physics, Colorado College; Ph.D. in Earth sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography) is a geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she was editor-in-chief of Science journals. McNutt was director of the U.S. Geological Survey from 2009 to 2013. McNutt is a fellow of multiple renowned associations, and member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, UK, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. In 1998, McNutt was awarded the AGU’s Macelwane Medal for research accomplishments by a young scientist, and she received the Maurice Ewing Medal in 2007 for her contributions to deep-sea exploration.

Vint Cerf

VP, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google; Honorary Fellow and Inaugural Patron of the ISC

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet.  A former Stanford Professor and former member of the US National Science Board, he is also the past President of the Association for Computing Machinery and serves in advisory capacities at NIST, DOE, NSF, NRO and JPL. He earned his B.S. in mathematics at Stanford and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at UCLA.  He is a member of both the US National Academies of Science and Engineering and the UK Royal Society.  

Patricia Gruber

Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State Office of the Science and Technology Adviser

Dr. Patricia Gruber serves as the Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State where she engages with academic and private sector research communities to inform foreign policy priorities.  At the Office of Naval Research, she promoted domestic and international science and technology collaboration as the Director of Research and the Technical Director of ONR Global.  She has held technical and business management positions at the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University, Battelle, AT&T, and Bell Laboratories.  She holds a MS and a Ph.D. in Applied Marine Physics from the University of Miami. 

Plenary Panel I – Bridging the Gap and Paving the Way for Future Leaders

Meghana Gadgil

Associate Professor, University of California San Francisco; New Voices Member

Dr. Meghana Gadgil is an academic physician and award-winning educator with interests in human-centered design, systems and quality improvement, global health, and climate change adaptation and mitigation in the health sector. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and is an Assistant Professor at UC San Francisco’s in the Department of Medicine. Her clinical practice is as a hospitalist at San Francisco General Hospital.

Gregory Weiss

Professor, University of California Irvine; Founding GYA Member

Gregory Weiss is the Director of Innovation in the School of Physical Sciences, UCI, and a tenured Professor of Chemical Biology in the Departments of Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCI. He earned a BS from UC Berkeley and PhD from Harvard. Awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship, he pursued post-doctoral studies with Dr. Jim Wells at Genentech. His laboratory focuses on the interface between chemistry and biology, including studies of enzymes, molecular recognition, and bioelectronics. Co-founder of four companies (including Debut Biotechnology), he was named UCI’s Entrepreneurial Leader of the Year in 2018.

Kimberly Montgomery

Director, International Affairs and Science Diplomacy at AAAS

Kim Montgomery is the AAAS Director of International Affairs and Science Diplomacy where she manages international institutional relationships, directs the Center for Science Diplomacy, and serves as the Executive Editor of Science & Diplomacy. Previous positions include external relations manager at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), scientific consultant at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), senior program officer at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), professional staff for the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and legislative assistant for Representative Rush Holt. Kim has a Ph.D. from Princeton University and a B.A. from Northwestern University. 

Pongpan Kaewtatip

Vice President, Thailand Research and Innovation

Dr. Pongpan Kaewtatip is Vice President of the Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI), the national organization responsible for policy planning and budget allocation under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. He is also Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, KMUTT, where he was Head of the Department from 2010-2014. He received his Ph.D. from Nippon Institute of Technology (NIT), Japan. Dr. Kaewtatip’s research interests include metal forming technology, as well as forming of new frontier materials such as SMA, biomedical materials, etc. He is also interested in the field of energy policy, renewable energy especially in the transport sector. Dr. Kaewtatip has been committee member and Vice President for R&D of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Thailand (TSAE). He has also served as the Vice President for research promotion of the Electric Vehicle Association of Thailand (EVAT) since 2016. 

Priscilla Kolibea Mante

Professor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Ghana; GYA Co-Chair

Priscilla Kolibea Mante is a neuropharmacologist with expertise in drug discovery and neurogenetics. She has a Ph.D. from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and postdoctoral training from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on developing better therapeutic options for resistant epilepsy by reducing diagnosing costs and improving therapy based on patients’ genetics.
Priscilla has received the International Rising Talent Award in 2019 for her research. She is a 2019 OWSD Early Career Fellowship; a Fellow of the African Science Leadership Programme, an Affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences as well as The World Academy of Sciences.

Plenary Panel II – In a Challenging World, No One Should be Left Behind

Hiba Baroud

Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University; GYA Member

Dr. Hiba Baroud is an associate professor and the associate chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. She holds secondary appointments in Computer Science and Earth and Environmental Science. Her research is interdisciplinary at the intersection of data analytics and risk analysis. Her group develops and applies methods founded in statistical learning, network models, and decision analysis to evaluate infrastructure performance during disasters. Hiba is the recipient of the 2019 Global Voices Fellowship, the 2020 National Science Foundation Early CAREER award, and the 2022 National Academy of Sciences Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship. She is a member of the Global Young Academy and a fellow of the International Science Council. 

Sudip Parikh

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Publisher, Science Journals, AAAS

Sudip Parikh is the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the Science family of journals in January 2020.  Parikh has spent over two decades at the intersection of science, policy, and business as a Senate staffer, life science business leader, and in the policy community.  He was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship while earning his Ph.D. in macromolecular structure and chemistry from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California and earned his BS in Applied Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry, University of California, Merced; Past Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry, & Ted and Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced. She is also Past Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, among other appointments, and recipient of many awards, including a member of the inaugural class of the US National Academies’ New Voices in Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Her research focuses on biogeochemical cycling of essential elements in the soil system, global change science, nano-geochemistry, political ecology of land degradation and ownership. She is passionate about all things soil and is driven to ensure that scientific education and careers are equally accessible to people from all walks of life, and that academic workplaces are free from bias and harassment.

Nishal Mohan

Founder of mohuman, USA.

Dr. Nishal Mohan is a distinguished leader known for his impact on global social initiatives.
Coming from a humble background he has risen as a champion of hope and change
through his work as a scientist, technologist, entrepreneur, and policy architect. As the
founder of mohuman in 2018, he spearheaded initiatives to bridge the digital divide for the
digitally underserved. His mission extends to empowering youth through entrepreneurship
in science and technology for grassroots social impact. He has/had roles at NSF, US Ignite,
FAS, and UCSD with a Ph.D. from Princeton University and a B.A. from Hunter College.

Flavio Carvalhaes

Assistant Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, GYA Member.

Flavio Carvalhaes is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research focuses on the subjective experiences and attitudes of individuals towards social inequality, comparing Brazil with countries like Germany, the United States, South Africa, and Botswana, going beyond statistical analysis and delving into the reasons why people believe social inequality exists and the consequences it has on society. His research uses a variety of methods, such as public opinion polls, online discussions, and focus groups, with the ultimate goal being to find the most effective ways to promote redistribution in different contexts. Flavio was selected as a member of the Global Young Academy in 2023. 

Keynote

Frances Colon

Senior Director, International Climate Policy at American Progress

Dr. Frances Colón is the Senior Director for International Climate Policy at Center for American Progress, where she leads a program to drive international ambition and action to meet global climate mitigation and adaptation goals. Colón is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the former Deputy Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. Colón earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2004 from Brandeis University and her B.S. in biology in 1997 from the University of Puerto Rico. Colón was a 2019 Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government fellow, a city of Miami Climate Resilience Committee member, and a 2020 Yale-OpEd Project Public Voices on the Climate Crisis fellow. She is a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and the Global Science Diplomacy Roundtable.   

Plenary Panel III – Science Innovation, Transformation, or Both

Alison Sheets-Singer

Biomechanics, Nike Sport Research Lab; former New Voices Co-Chair

Alison Sheets-Singer is a Principal Researcher in the Nike Sport Research Lab, and her team focuses on creating products and services that help all athletes achieve their goals. Dr. Sheets-Singer was co-chair of the New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and is a Standing Council member of the NSF sponsored Engineering Research Visioning Alliance. Prior to joining Nike, Dr. Sheets-Singer was an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She received a Mechanical Engineering B.S. from Cornell University and Ph.D. from the University of CA, Davis, and was Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University. 

Derya Baran

Professor, KAUST, Saudia Arabia; GYA Member

Derya Baran is the co-founder and Chief Engineer of iyris, an innovation and technology led Agri-tech growth company. She is pioneering advances within transparent heat shielding composites for use in controlled environment agriculture in hot climates, helping to solve the globally important topic of sustainable food security. She also holds an associate professor position in Material Science and Engineering Program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Her research group (OMEGALAB) at KAUST focus on the engineering smart materials for flexible electronics and energy applications. She is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and selected as Talented 12 Chemists given by C&EN in 2021 globally. She strives to be a role model with her research and an inspiration to next generation scientists.  

Timothy Jones

Founder and Managing Principal, TBJ Investments

Timothy Jones has over 30 years’ experience in technology innovation leadership from startup through IPO.  Mr. Jones also served in the public sector as a Presidential Innovation Fellow for The White House, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the General Services Administration. 

Mr. Jones holds a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in management science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master’s degree in computer information systems from Georgia State University. He has also earned a certificate in nanotechnology and nanoscience from Stanford University and a certificate in biotechnology for business from Duke University.

Ourania Kosti

Executive Director, InterAcademy Partnership

Dr. Ourania “Rania” Kosti is executive director of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), based at the Secretariat office hosted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, and the director of the Board on International Scientific Organizations of the U.S. National Academies. Dr. Kosti’s expertise is in radiation health effects and emergency preparedness and response. She received a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom; an M.S. in molecular medicine from the University College London; and a Ph.D. in molecular endocrinology from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, United Kingdom. 

Mohamed Abdel-Kader

Chief Innovation Officer, USAID

Mohamed Abdel-Kader serves as USAID’s Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director of the Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub. In these roles, he promotes the application of innovation, technology, and research for greater aid effectiveness. He served in the Obama administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education and later led the Aspen Institute’s Stevens Initiative. A speaker of fluent Arabic, Mohamed is a Truman National Security Fellow, an Eisenhower Fellow, and the author of a children’s book about stereotypes. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Clemson University, a master’s degree in Higher Education from Vanderbilt University, and an MBA from Georgetown University.

Speakers

Motoko Kotani

President-elect, International Science Council

 

Motoko Kotani is Executive Vice President for Research, Tohoku University, Japan. Her interest has been in mathematics (geometric analysis), related to mathematical physics. She was awarded the 25th Saruhashi Prize for “Study of crystal lattice via discrete geometric analysis” in 2005. While she works in pure mathematics, she is active in communication with researchers in other scientific fields. She has led several big research projects bridging mathematics and materials science. Based on her experience and achievement both in research and management, she was appointed as Director of the Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University in 2012, an institute with 200 researchers, first established under the national program “World Premier International Research Center Initiative” in 2007.

Kotani holds / held the following positions:

  • At Tohoku University: Executive Vice President for Research (April 2020-)/Associate Executive Vice President (2014-2019)/Principal Investigator (2011-)/Director (2012-2019), Advanced Institute for Materials Research/Professor (2004-), Mathematical Institute
  • At RIKEN: Executive Director (4/2017-3/2020)

Her social contributions are varied: Executive member, Council of Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Japan (2014-)/Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (2014-)/President of the Mathematical Society of Japan (2015-2016), board member (2008-2019)/Member of advisory committees of several national research institutes (such as National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Informatics, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, National Institute for Materials Science), RIKEN

Akihiro Kishimura

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan

Akihiro Kishimura received his Ph.D. degree of engineering under the supervision of Prof. T. Aida from the University of Tokyo in 2005. He joined the research group of Prof. K. Kataoka in 2005 as a postdoctoral researcher, and became an assistant professor in Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2006. Then, he moved to Kyushu University as an associate professor in 2013, and has been engaged as Executive Assistant to the President since 2020. He joined the Science Council of Japan in 2016, and worked as the chair of Young Academy of Japan from 2017 to 2020. He has been a member of the Global Young Academy since 2017.

Masaki Nakamura       

Professor, Center for Education in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Osaka University / Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University

Dr. Masaki Nakamura received his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo in 2005. After working as a research associate at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, and as a research fellow at National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, MEXT, he assumed a post of Associate Professor at Osaka University in 2007. His research area is a wide range including Research Ethics, Science Communication, and the History of Science and Technology.

Ryoji Noritake

CEO, Board Member, Health and Global Policy Institute

Ryoji Noritake is the CEO, Board Member of Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI), a Tokyo-based independent and non-profit health policy think tank established in 2004. He is a graduate of Keio University’s Faculty of Policy Management, holds a MSc in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He served as a Visiting Scholar at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2016-2020) and a member of Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Policy Discussion Roundtable for Super Ageing Society (2018). He is currently serving as a member of Salzburg Global Seminar’s Advisory Council and various health related committees in Japan and the world.

Juichi Yamagiwa

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Dr. Juichi Yamagiwa was a research fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 1980 to 1982. In 1982, he joined Kyoto University as a research fellow. From 1983 to 1988, he was a research fellow with the Japan Monkey Center. From 1989 to 1997, he was an assistant professor with the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University. In 1998, he joined the Graduate School of Science at Kyoto University as an assistant professor and was promoted to professor in 2002. In 2011, he became the Dean of Graduate School of Science. In October 2014, he became President of Kyoto University, retiring from the position in September 2020.

Oriza Hirata

President, Professional College of Arts and Tourism

Oriza Hirata graduated from Humanities Division, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University. Hirata was a professor of theater at Obirin University from 2000 to 2006, where he pioneered a new theater education program which is comprehensive as well as open to society. Hirata moved to Osaka University Center for the Study of Communication-Design in 2006, where he now focuses on “how to develop communication ability through education”.

His method and activities have drawn much attention in Japanese teaching circles around the world, and he has been invited to give workshops and lectures in many countries.

Takeru Sakai

Professor, Campus Planning Office, Department of urban design, planning, and disaster management, Kyushu University

Connie Nshemereirwe

Past Co-Chair, Global Young Academy

Dr. Connie Nshemereirwe is an independent science and policy facilitator, and acts at the science-policy interface as a trainer, writer and speaker. She is on the Director of the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) based at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She is also currently a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Global Commission for Science Missions for Sustainability, and participates in various other global, continental and national science advice processes. In 2022 she launched a video podcast titled “A is not for Apple”, through which she explores ways by which to transform Africa’s education challenges.

She completed a master’s degree in the design of education and training systems at the University of Twente in 2004, later followed by a PhD in Educational Measurement at the same University in 2014.

Anindita Bhadra

Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India

Dr. Anindita Bhadra is a behavioural biologist at the Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India. She studies the behaviour, ecology and cognitive abilities of dogs using the free-ranging dogs in India. Dr. Bhadra is the recipient of the INSA young scientist award, SERB women excellence award, IAP young scientist award and the Janaki Ammal National Women Bioscientist award Young category. She was the founding Chair of the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) in 2015-18. She is the immediate past Co-Chair of the Global Young Academy. She is currently the Associate Dean of International Relations and Outreach at IISER Kolkata. She is highly engaged in science outreach, communication and policy. A mother of two, she is also a professional thespian.

Michael Salib

University of Stuttgart, Germany

Prof. Michael Saliba is a full professor and the director of the Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv) at the University of Stuttgart, with a dual appointment at the Research Center Jülich, Germany. His research focuses on a deeper understanding and improvement of optoelectronic properties of photovoltaic materials with an emphasis on emerging perovskites for a sustainable energy future. Since 2021, Michael is the Speaker of the DFG Graduate School (GRK) 2642 for “Quantum Engineering”. In 2022, he was awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).

Previously, Michael was at TU Darmstadt, Fribourg University and a Marie Curie Fellow at EPFL, Switzerland with research stays at Cornell and Stanford. He obtained his PhD at Oxford University and MSc degree at Stuttgart University together with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.

Michael has published numerous works in the fields of plasmonics, lasers, LEDs and perovskite optoelectronics. He is listed as ISI Highly Cited Researcher since 2018. He was awarded the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and named as one of the World’s 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. He is a Member of the German National Young Academy (Junge Akademie, hosted by the BBAW and Leopoldina).

Dojin Miyamoto

Writer

Dohjin Miyamoto was born in Tokyo in 1989. He received his PhD in Science from the University of Tokyo in 2019. He works as a writer while engaging in science fiction research at university. He has written criticisms on literature, movies, and video games. He has also developed and conducted workshops on the use of science fiction in business and education at various Japanese companies.

 

Yoko Shimpuku　

Vice President (International Public Relations)/Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University

Yoko Shimpuku is a midwife by profession and specializes in Global Health Nursing, conducting field research in Tanzania to improve maternal and child health. Her research work includes development of education for adolescents, pregnant women and families as well as midwives using information communication technology. As a former Executive Committee of the Global Young Academy and a member of the Science Council/Young Academy of Japan, she has been contributing to discussion and statements for a wide scope of scientific and social issues such as post pandemic recovery, SDGs, etc. at the IAP Conference, STS Forum, G Science, and S20. She was recently recognized as one of “the 100 Outstanding Women Nurse and Midwife Leaders” by WHO, UN, and other international organizations.

Dennis Sherwood

The Silver Bullet Machine Manufacturing Company Limited

Dennis read physics at Clare College, Cambridge, has an MPhil (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry) from Yale University, and a PhD (Biology) from the University of California at San Diego. He was a consulting partner at Deloitte Haskins + Sells for twelve years, and subsequently Managing Director of the UK operations of SRI Consulting. Dennis is the author of fifteen books, including Smart Things to Know about Innovation and Creativity, How to be Creative – A Practical Guide for the Mathematical Sciences (co-authored with Professor Nicholas Higham FRS), and Creativity for Scientists and Engineers.

Sandra Lopez

Department of Research in Virology and Biotechnology, Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies

Dr. Sandra López Verges received her Ph.D. in Microbiology speciality Virology (2007) at the Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Ecole Normale Supérieure d’Ulm and Pasteur Institute in France. As her research focuses to understand viral infections and the virus-human host interactions, she complemented her expertise in Virology with a post-doctoral training in Immunology at the University of California San Francisco. She is now back to Panama and became Senior Health Researcher and the Chief in charge of the Department of Research in Virology and Biotechnology at the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies (ICGES) in 2020. Dr. López is committed for Women in Science as she has helped organised an annual Panama National UNESCO-L’OREAL award with SENACYT, L’OREAL and UNESCO in 2017 to encourage young women pursuing scientific careers in her country.

Cristina Blanco Sío-López

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow and Principal Investigator (PI) of the EU Horizon 2020 research project NAVSCHEN at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

She previously was Assistant Professor in European Culture and Politics at the University of Groningen and ‘Santander’ Senior Fellow in European Studies at the European Studies Centre (ESC) – St. Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, where she remains a Senior Member.

She is Executive Committee Member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) 2021-2022, Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and Full Member of the Young Academy of Spain.

Mitsunobu Kano

Vice Executive Director, Dean of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Professor, Okayama University

Dr. Kano graduated from and started research activity in University of Tokyo, did his clinical residency in St. Luke’s International Hospital, and is now Professor, Dean of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Vice Executive Director in charge of the SDGs in Okayama University. As the latter role he led the university to be awarded by the Japanese government for achieving the SDGs. Meanwhile he led to establish a new interdisciplinary graduate school focusing on the health care systems involving faculties from medical sciences, engineering, social sciences, and humanities, started in April 2018. He was the former Deputy Chair of the Young Academy Japan, and a former Executive Committee member of GYA. In Japanese government he was the first Science and Technology Co-Advisor to Foreign Minister of Japan from 2019 to 2022 and is a Council Member of Science Council of Japan since 2021.

Rob Jenkins

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of York

Rob Jenkins received his PhD in Psychology at University College London. He is a cognitive psychologist. He uses experimental methods and data analysis to examine problems in practical ethics. Many of the most pressing problems facing humanity are human in origin. He is interested in general principles of decision making and behaviour that expose humanity to these risks, especially extinction risks such as nuclear war, pathogen release, and misaligned AI. Ethical consideration of others (humans, robots, rocks) often depends on whether or not we view them as conscious. His research examines cues that inform attribution of consciousness to others in everyday life.

Lissette Lorenz

PhD candidate, Cornell University

Lissette Lorenz is a rising 6th year doctoral candidate in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. She studies the socio-ecological impacts of nuclear disasters on more-than-human communities in the age of the Anthropocene, the current period of Earth’s history marked by increasing planetary instability due to anthropogenic activities. She is interested in using experimental forms of qualitative methods to address the multiple existential crises that face Earthlings today. She is a 2019-2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Asami Oue

Lecturer, Department of Business Management, Faculty of Commerce, Fukuoka University

Dr. Asami Oue is an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist and a Lecturer and member of the Citizen Science Research Center at the Faculty of Commerce, Fukuoka University. In her research, she has explored the relationship between in/extra-role behaviors, especially innovative behavior, and motivation in organizations. Her current research focus is on multiple motivations in citizen science, which she is undertaking with members of the Citizen Science Research Center. Dr. Oue has published and presented several papers for Japanese and international social psychology conferences, including the Japanese Association of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and the Asian Association of Social Psychology.

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