D. Marcus
Australia

Dr. Daniel Marcus is a dental surgeon. After graduating from The University of Adelaide, he worked in private practice in Australia and New Zealand. Daniel’s involvement in volunteer and community work has exposed him to people from all walks of life; he has treated patients in orphanages and jails in Cambodia and members of remote Aboriginal villages in the Northern Territory of Australia. As well as practising dentistry, Daniel pursues research projects.  His role, in “The Pursuit of Happiness, Stress and Temporomandibular Disorders,” was to connect stress and temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and by examining the incidence of TMD amongst different socioeconomic status (SES) groups to uncover patterns to compare with happiness data.

E. Baehrisch
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Germany

Dr. Eunju Baehrisch received her doctorate degree in Literature for her doctoral thesis “Disaster and Perversion in Techno-Capitalist Societies: Reading J. G. Ballard’s Fiction from a Deleuzian Perspective” at the University of Essex, UK, in 2009. She is currently conducting her second doctoral research on the topic of “Political and Cultural History of Coffee in Modern Korea” at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. She has taught English Literature at various universities in Korea including Konkuk University and Anyang University. She has a wide range of research interests: contemporary fiction, history of emotion (especially boredom) and food culture. She is regularly publishing her research in the field of literature, film and cultural studies. Some of her publications include “Gluttony in the Late Medieval Monasteries (2013),” “Ennui and Violence (2013),” “Analyzing The Matrix in the frame of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (2012),” and “Observation and Power Relation in Control Societies (2010).” Her role in this research project was to expose the problems that arise as a result of the misinterpretation of happiness and the mismanagement of its pursuit.