the future Experts

David Kaplan

ProfessorUniversity of Florida

David Kaplan studies connecting ecosystems, the hydrologic cycle, and humans with the goal of advancing natural resources conservation.

Michael L. Parsons, Ph.D.

Expert in coastal water healthFlorida Gulf Coast University

Michael Parsons studies the causes of harmful algal blooms and how their toxins can impact marine and human lives.

Christopher Mejía Argueta, PhD

Director of International Academic Partnerships for the MIT Global SCALE Network | Director, MIT Graduate Certificate in Logistics and SCM (GCLOG) program | Founder & Director, MIT Emerging Market Economies Logistics Lab | Research ScientistMIT Center for Transportation & Logistics

Dr. Mejía-Argueta optimizes last-mile, retail, agri-food supply chains, global transportation and policymaking for emerging market economies

Andrew Palmer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor | Ocean Engineering and Marine SciencesFlorida Tech

Dr. Palmer's research interests include eavesdropping on bacterial 'conversations', Martian farming, and cell wall fragment-based signaling.

Carmel Majidi

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Carmel Majidi’s mission is to discover materials and methods that allow robots and machines to behave like soft biological organisms.

Mia Moody, Ph.D.

Professor & Past Department ChairBaylor University

Nationally recognized expert on mass media representations of people of color, women & other underrepresented groups

Anatoly Zhuplev, Ph.D.

Professor of Management, College of Business AdministrationLoyola Marymount University

Paulina Jaramillo

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Paulina Jaramillo is currently involved in research to understand the social, economic and environmental implications of energy consumption.

Glenn Bracey, PhD

Associate Professor of Sociology | College of Liberal Arts and SciencesVillanova University

Glenn Bracey, PhD, is an expert on race and social movements, race and the law and religion in contemporary society.

Joshua Goldberger

Assistant Professor | Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryThe Ohio State University

New materials expert, specializing in applications in electronics, energy conversion, and medicine