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Dr Zoe M Harris is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Surrey. She specializes in sustainable land use, bioenergy systems, and vertical farming technologies. Her research focuses on minimizing environmental impacts while enhancing food and energy provision, particularly through projects like the Taeda Tech Project (aeroponic biomass cultivation) and VF-UKFSR (vertical farming resilience). She leads the Bioenergy, Land Use and Agri-Innovation Group and holds roles in international committees like the IEA Bioenergy Executive (Head of Communications). Her work spans interdisciplinary collaborations, policy advising, and science communication, including training scientists in theatre-based communication. She also champions diversity in energy research through the IVUGER network. Education: BSc Biology and PhD from the University of Southampton. Previous Roles: Research Fellow at Imperial College London, Science Officer at DEFRA, Policy Adviser at BEIS/DfT. Key Projects: Taeda Tech (£4m), Social Enterprise Food Systems, Serious Games for Energy Solutions. Teaching: Director of Practitioner Doctorate in Sustainability; Fellow of HEA; course leader for Global Sustainability, Earth System Science, and Low Carbon Transitions. Labs/Teams: Leads the Bioenergy, Land Use and Agri-Innovation Group; collaborates with industry and academia on aeroponics, biomass, and circular economy. Awards: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA); grants from UKERC, DecarboN8, and BEIS. Her research bridges climate science, ecology, and socio-economic factors, addressing global challenges like BECCS deployment, biodiversity loss, and gender equity in STEM.

• Bioenergy
• Climate Change Mitigation
• Sustainable Land Use
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Professor Tony McEnery is a Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, where he has held various senior roles, including Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2008–2014) and Head of the Department of Linguistics and English Language (2000–2005). His research focuses on corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, and sociolinguistics, with notable contributions to corpus-based analyses of historical medical discourse, media representation of Islam, and swearing in English. He has led major research projects, including the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) and the Trinity Lancaster Corpus. McEnery has secured over £10 million in research funding and holds visiting professorships at institutions worldwide, including Zhejiang University of Media and Communications and Shanghai International Studies University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Trinity College London, and the Royal Society for the Arts. Education: No explicit details provided, but his career trajectory implies advanced degrees in linguistics. Research Interests: Corpus linguistics applications in theoretical and applied linguistics, historical language analysis, and language as a socially situated phenomenon. McEnery’s work extends to interdisciplinary collaborations, including projects with the Environment Agency and the Home Office. His teaching includes summer schools in corpus linguistics and a Futurelearn MOOC, reaching tens of thousands globally. He advises on research funding for international bodies like the Irish Research Council and the Qatar National Research Foundation. Grants and Awards: Queen’s Anniversary Prize (2015), Changjiang Chair (2021), and multiple fellowships. Current grants include the Lancaster-Northern Arizona corpus and the Trinity Lancaster Corpus projects. Advising and Labs: Supervises postgraduate students in linguistics and collaborates with teams like the ESRC CASS Centre and UCREL (University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language).

• Corpus Linguistics
• Applied Linguistics
• Theoretical Linguistics
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Kevin Kuruc is a Research Fellow and Managing Director of the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Senior Research Affiliate of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford. He holds a background as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Oklahoma and will join Middlebury College's economics department in fall 2025. His research focuses on macroeconomics—particularly growth and development—as well as agricultural and environmental economics. Key themes include the interplay of demographic change, technological progress, and sustainability, with recent emphasis on quantifying animal welfare as an externality in food production systems. Research interests span macroeconomic policy, climate change mitigation, and ethical frameworks for evaluating population dynamics. His work systematically examines trade-offs between population growth's innovation benefits and environmental costs, often integrating welfare economics and inclusive policy design. Upcoming work includes long-term projections of animal agriculture under climate and population externalities, and the effectiveness of IMF interventions in macroeconomic crises. Publications highlight methodological innovations such as synthetic control analyses and inclusive welfare functions. His 2023 paper on population decline's climate impact and 2025 survey on meat-consumer attitudes exemplify his dual focus on theoretical rigor and practical policy relevance. Kuruc’s interdisciplinary approach bridges economics, ethics, and environmental science, with a strong emphasis on actionable solutions for sustainable development.

• Macroeconomics
• Environmental Economics
• Welfare Economics
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Farah Magrabi is a Professor of Biomedical and Health Informatics at Macquarie University's Australian Institute of Health Innovation. She holds a BE (Hons 1) from the University of Auckland and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of New South Wales. Her research focuses on the safety and effectiveness of digital health and AI technologies, with notable contributions to patient safety standards, including the ISO/TS 20405 specification. She has been recognized with awards such as the Sax Institute’s Research Action Award (2015) and the Telstra Health Brilliant Women in Digital Health Award (2021). Magrabi’s leadership roles include co-chairing the Australian AI Alliance’s Working Group on Safety, Quality, and Ethics, and the 2023 Medinfo World Congress. She advises the Australian Digital Health Agency and contributes to global initiatives like the OECD’s Global Partnership for AI (GPAI). Her work spans policy development, clinical decision support systems, and AI ethics. Key projects include the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digital Health’s Safety Research Stream and evaluations of AI in clinical settings. Her research outputs emphasize AI governance, healthcare resilience, and climate change adaptation. Notable collaborations include studies on pandemic responses, generative AI in pain management, and digital health usability. Magrabi’s interdisciplinary approach bridges engineering, informatics, and policy to advance safe and equitable healthcare technologies.

• Health Informatics
• Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
• Patient Safety
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Professor Liz Stephens is a faculty member at the University of Reading's Department of Meteorology, specializing in flood forecasting, climate variability, and disaster risk management. Her work focuses on improving hydrological and meteorological models to enhance flood preparedness and climate adaptation strategies globally. Research Interests: Probabilistic flood forecasting Climate impacts on extreme events Enhancing forecast communication for decision-makers Applications in data-scarce regions like Kenya and Uganda Key Projects: Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) World Weather Attribution studies Probabilistic forecast evaluation frameworks Her research bridges academic analysis with practical implementation, collaborating with international organizations like ECMWF and humanitarian agencies to translate scientific insights into actionable disaster preparedness measures.

• Flood Forecasting
• Climate Variability
• Hydrology
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Susanna Hecht is a Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, specializing in tropical development, political ecology, and Amazonian studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and has advised graduate students including Mariana Fajardo-Arboleda and Sebastián Solarte-Caicedo. Her research integrates historical ecology, remote sensing, and socio-political analysis to address deforestation, forest resurgence, and alternative development pathways in Latin America. Key areas of focus include the socio-environmental impacts of corporate agriculture (soy, oil palm), indigenous land management practices (e.g., Amazonian Dark Earths), and the role of migration/remittances in reshaping rural land use. She has pioneered work on forest transition theory and critiques of Malthusian explanations for deforestation. Awarded the David Livingstone Medal and Carl O. Sauer Award, Hecht's influential books include *The Fate of the Forest* and *The Scramble for the Amazon*. Her work has shaped policies for extractive reserves, climate finance mechanisms, and global environmental governance. She collaborates with international agencies like NSF, NASA, and the MacArthur Foundation, and serves at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Recent projects explore globalization's impact on soy frontiers, carbon dynamics in pre-Columbian landscapes, and the socio-ecological implications of forest resurgence. Hecht advocates for integrating indigenous knowledge into modern conservation strategies and critiques neo-extractivist development models.

• Political Ecology
• Environmental History
• Climate Change
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Anthony Patt is a Full Professor of Climate Policy at ETH Zurich's Department of Environmental Systems Science and Deputy Head of the Institute for Environmental Decisions. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, along with a Juris Doctor from Duke University and a Bachelor's in Architecture and Landscape Design from Yale. His research focuses on identifying effective governmental approaches to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. Key areas include societal processes related to consumption patterns, technology use, and modeling interactions between people, institutions, and technological systems. Patt has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and serves as Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report on international cooperation. He has led major projects on renewable energy policies, climate adaptation, and energy security. Notable grants include funding from the European Union, Swiss National Science Foundation, and international organizations. Patt's work emphasizes the co-benefits of climate policies, such as financial impacts on cities and energy transition strategies. His career spans academic roles at institutions like the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Boston University, alongside contributions to policy initiatives like the EU's 100% renewable electricity roadmap. Patt's expertise bridges environmental science, policy analysis, and stakeholder engagement, addressing global challenges through interdisciplinary approaches.

• Climate Policy
• Environmental Science
• Climate Change Mitigation
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Rachel Price is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University, affiliated with the Program in Media and Modernity, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Program in Latin American Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Duke University and a B.A. from Yale University. Her research focuses on Latin American and circum-Atlantic literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on Cuba. Key areas include environmental humanities, media studies, slavery’s legacies, and visual art. She is the author of The Object of the Atlantic (2014) and Planet/Cuba (2015), exploring material aesthetics and planetary crises in Cuban art and literature. Price co-edited El populismo por venir? (2018) and has published widely on topics such as concrete poetry, neoconcrete art, and media during slavery’s height in Cuba. She is a 2024–2025 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow and has held roles in Princeton’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities. Her work bridges environmental policy, postcolonial theory, and media history, analyzing how material objects and artistic practices reflect broader socio-political transformations. Recent projects examine climate change in contemporary Cuban art and the interplay between digital culture and postcolonial identities. Price previously taught at Brown and Stony Brook Universities and has engaged in research with Colombia’s Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca.

• Environmental Humanities
• Latin American Literature
• Media Studies
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Dr Conrad Wasko is a Sydney Horizon Fellow at the University of Sydney and an honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in environmental hydrology and climate change impacts on extreme rainfall and flooding. His work has been cited by the IPCC and he co-leads the update to Australia’s flood estimation guidelines. Previously, he held an ARC DECRA Fellowship and a McKenzie Fellowship. He has published over 50 articles and received awards including the Batterham Medal (2023) and the MSSANZ Early Career Research Excellence Award (2019). His research focuses on quantifying climate-driven changes in rainfall patterns and flood risks, with applications to infrastructure resilience and policy. Education: PhD in Civil Engineering, UNSW Sydney (2016) Bachelor/Master’s qualifications (not explicitly stated in text) Key Roles: Member of The Net Zero Institute Editor of Journal of Hydrology X and Advances in Water Resources Hydroclimate Stream Leader, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand His research emphasizes the intensification of extreme rainfall events with global warming, particularly their implications for flood risk and urban infrastructure. He uses advanced statistical models and climate data to project future flood scenarios and improve design standards. Recent work includes analyzing non-stationary rainfall patterns and improving flood frequency analysis techniques. Awards and Honors: Batterham Medal (Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 2023) Veski Victoria Fellow (2020) MSSANZ Early Career Research Excellence Award (2019) Lorenz G Straub Award (2016) Grants and Projects: ARC DECRA Fellowship (University of Melbourne) Contributions to national climate change adaptation frameworks Labs and Collaborations: Partnerships with the Water Research Centre (UNSW) and the Net Zero Institute Collaborations on global flood risk assessments and hydrological modeling tools

• Climate Change
• Environmental Hydrology
• Extreme Rainfall Patterns
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Dr. Faranak Hardcastle is a Research Fellow at the UNESCO Chair in Science Communication for the Public Good at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (ANU). She also holds visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford’s Clinical Ethics, Law, and Society (CELS) and the University of Southampton’s Department of Medicine. Her research focuses on the interplay between science, technology, and society, addressing issues such as social inequalities, environmental sustainability, and ethical challenges in emerging technologies like AI and genomics. She holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and has contributed to interdisciplinary projects at institutions including the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics and the University of Bristol. Her work spans ethical frameworks for data governance, the environmental impact of biobanking, and equitable genomic research. Recent publications critique AI ethics, blockchain in biobanking, and climate-related health systems. She advocates for systemic approaches to address societal challenges through collaborative, practice-oriented interventions. Dr. Hardcastle’s research has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Bioethics , Science , and Science, Technology & Human Values . Her interdisciplinary projects emphasize cross-sector collaboration to shape more equitable and sustainable technological futures.

• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Ethical AI
• Environmental Sustainability
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Alan Andersen is a Professor at Charles Darwin University (CDU), holding positions in the Office of Research and Innovation and the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods. Previously, he served as Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO’s Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre in Darwin, leading interdisciplinary teams to address environmental challenges in tropical savannas. His research focuses on ant ecology, bioindicator systems, fire management, and tropical ecosystem dynamics. Research Interests: Global ant community ecology and biogeography Use of ants as bioindicators for ecological change Tropical savanna ecology and management Fire regimes and their ecological impacts Invertebrate biodiversity conservation Recent articles emphasize ant diversity in monsoonal Australia, fire effects on communities, and cross-taxa ecological responses. His work bridges basic and applied research, with practical outcomes for land management and policy. Awards include the 2000 Asian Innovation Award and the 2007 Charles Darwin Medal. He chairs the Australian Academy of Science’s National Committee for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation, and leads initiatives like the Territory Science Forum to promote innovation in the NT. Key Projects: TERN ant biodiversity surveys Ecosystem restoration genomics Beetaloo Basin environmental surveys Indigenous energy sustainability projects His contributions span over 250 publications, an h-index of 76, and extensive grants, reflecting leadership in tropical ecological science.

• Ant ecology
• Invertebrate bio-indicators
• Fire ecology and management
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Prof. Ellen Kandeler is a leading academic in soil biology and microbial ecology at the University of Hohenheim , heading the Department of Soil Biology within the Institute of Soil Science and Site Science. Her work focuses on microbial interactions, soil organic matter dynamics, and the impacts of land use and climate change on soil systems. She actively contributes to interdisciplinary projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), including studies on mineral-organic matter associations, pesticide degradation, and agroecosystem resilience. Research interests include rhizosphere dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, and the ecological functions of soil microorganisms, with applications in sustainable agriculture and environmental protection. She is also involved in institutional roles as a Deputy Ombudsperson for Scientific Integrity and member of committees overseeing large-scale research infrastructure. Her recent publications emphasize climate-soil feedbacks, microbial community assembly, and the biodegradation of agrochemicals. Projects like the DFG-FOR 1695 on agricultural landscapes under climate change highlight her commitment to addressing global environmental challenges through soil science. Prof. Kandeler’s work bridges fundamental and applied research, with a focus on translating soil microbial processes into strategies for sustainable land management and mitigating anthropogenic impacts on soil health.

• Soil Biology
• Microbial Ecology
• Biogeochemistry
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Laurent BACH is an Associate Professor of Finance at ESSEC Business School , France, and concurrently serves as Policy Evaluation Program Director at the Institute of Public Policies since 2019. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (2009) and an MSc in Management from HEC Paris (2004). His academic career includes roles as Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (2010–2017) and ESSEC (2017–present). His research focuses on financial economics, tax policy, corporate governance, and public policy evaluation , with notable contributions to topics such as dividend taxation, household wealth dynamics, gender disparities in real estate returns, and pandemic-related policy impacts. He has also examined the efficacy of small business financial aid programs and the effects of tax reforms on corporate behavior. Key publications include a 2023 American Economic Review comment on dividend taxes, a 2021 study on electoral risks during the pandemic in Journal of Health Economics , and a 2020 American Economic Review analysis of wealth inequality. His work frequently intersects with policy evaluation, such as assessing France’s super-profits tax (2024) and carbon targeting policies. Distinctions: MISTRA Global Grant (2016), Vinnova Grant (2014), Thiers Foundation Fellowship (2009). Reviewer: For journals including American Economic Journal , Journal of Finance , and Review of Financial Studies . Media Engagement: Commented on fiscal policies in La Tribune (2024–2025), highlighting tax reform inefficiencies and public spending transparency. His interdisciplinary approach bridges empirical finance, public policy, and gender economics, with ongoing projects addressing wealth taxation, climate policy evaluation, and corporate governance.

• Financial Economics
• Tax Policy
• Corporate Finance
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Dr. Tri Tri Nguyen is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of Roehampton's Faculty of Business and Law, serving as Programme Convener for BSc Accounting. He holds a PhD from the University of East London and an MSc from the University of Sydney. His research focuses on corporate financial reporting (earnings management, accounting conservatism), corporate governance, climate finance, and ESG reporting. He has published in top journals like the Journal of Business Finance & Accounting and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting . Prior roles include academic positions at the University of Brighton and Deloitte auditing experience. He actively supervises PhD students and leads projects on Vietnamese firms' ESG preparedness. Research highlights include examining manager sentiment's impact on accounting conservatism and analyzing customer concentration effects on accounting comparability. His work bridges theoretical accounting frameworks with practical implications for regulatory policies and corporate governance structures. He frequently presents at global conferences (AAA, EAA) and engages in policy discussions via platforms like Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog. Awards include FHEA and CMBE certifications.

• Corporate Financial Reporting
• Earnings Management
• Corporate Governance
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Melanie Jackson is an artist and researcher affiliated with the Royal College of Art (RCA), School of Arts & Humanities. Her practice spans multidisciplinary storytelling, focusing on bio-technocapitalism, milk’s sociopolitical roles, and toxicology. She holds a PhD from the University of Reading and has exhibited globally, including solo shows at Grand Union and Primary. Jackson’s research projects include 'Deeper in the Pyramid' and 'Hellmouth,' exploring bio-economies and material science. She is an external examiner at Leeds, UEL, and Camberwell College of Arts, and advises on the SPACEX EU-funded project. Awards include the AHRC Doctoral Award (2016–18) and Jerwood Drawing Prize (Winner). Education: PhD (University of Reading), RCA, LCC, Byam Shaw Key Collaborations: Esther Leslie, Arts Catalyst, Delfina Foundation Her work critiques technological and biocapitalist systems through sculpture, animation, and performance. Recent projects like 'Hellmouth' merge toxicology with digital systems, while 'Deeper in the Pyramid' examines milk’s cultural and economic significance. Jackson’s art navigates contradictions between complicity and critique, using provisional aesthetics to address complex socio-ecological issues.

• Multidisciplinary Art
• Bio-technology
• Sociopolitical Art
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