Claudio Palomares-Salas: Claudio Palomares-Salas is Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at Queen's University. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Toronto. He is the author of the monographs Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2025), and The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde (Brill, 2020), the novel El lugar más triste para soñar (The Saddest Place to Dream), and numerous academic articles. His areas of specialization are the Nueva Canción movements in Latin America (1960-1990), particularly Mexico, and the Hispanic avant-garde movements (1910-1927). At Queen’s University, he teaches a variety of courses on Latin American literature, music, and culture. In addition to his academic work, he is an active drummer in Montreal and has toured and recorded with numerous artists in Canada and abroad.
Jean-Philippe Lessard: Dr. Jean-Philippe Lessard is a Professor in the Department of Biology, where his research group investigates topic such as global biodiversity, climate change and ecosystem function. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Monographs, a journal of Ecological Society of America. He obtained his BSc from McGill University (2004) and his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee (2010). He pursued postdoctoral work at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, based at the University of Copenhagen (2010-2012) and at the Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science, based at McGill University (2012-2014).
Jordan Lebel: Dr. Jordan L. LeBel received his MSc from Cornell University and his PhD from McGill University and joined Concordia University in 2000. He previously headed the Executive MBA program as well as the Luc Beauregard Centre of Excellence in Communications Research. He has developed many successful and award-winning courses including the MBA elective course "Experience Design and Marketing" and the online course "Marketing Yourself" taken by over 20,000 between 2004 and 2017. He is the recipient of the 2005 and 2010 best teacher award in the John Molson School of Business, the 2011 President's Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2011 MBA Professor of the Year award, the 3M National Teaching Fellowship (2013), and the award for Outstanding Contribution for Student Life at Concordia (2023).
Nicole Alberts: Dr. Alberts received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Regina in 2015, which was followed by a residency (Behavioral Medicine) and postdoctoral fellowship (Rehabilitation Psychology) at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, US. She joined the faculty at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 2016. In August 2020, Dr. Alberts returned to Canada and began her position as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University. Dr. Alberts holds a CIHR Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Behavioural Health Intervention and is the director of the Behavioural Health Innovations Lab at Concordia.
Suryadipta Majumdar: is an Associate Professor and Concordia-MCN Research Chair at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is also a Gina Cody Research and Innovation Fellow and recipient of the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award 2023. Previously, Suryadipta was an Assistant Professor at the Information Security and Digital Forensics department at the State University of New York, Albany, USA. During his PhD at Concordia, he was a National Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada Graduate Scholar. His research focuses on cybersecurity, specifically, cloud computing security, IoT security, and SDN/NFV/5G security.