KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
INVITED SPEAKERS
Join us for inspiring dicussions about
CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIETY
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KEYNOTES
Opening note 3rd December
Lorraine Whitmarsh
Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh is an environmental psychologist, specialising in perceptions and behaviour in relation to climate change, energy and transport. She is Director of the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST). Her research projects have included studies of energy efficiency behaviours, waste reduction and carrier bag reuse, perceptions of smart technologies and electric vehicles, low-carbon lifestyles, and responses to climate change.
Closing note 4th December
Oscar Berglund
Dr. Oscar Berglund is a Critical Political Economist, focusing on contestation. He is particularly interested in civil disobedience and recently published the book Extinction Rebellion and Climate Change Activism. Oscar is Lecturer in International Public and Social Policy in the School for Policy Studies and incoming co-editor of Policy & Politics.
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IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Thursday, 3rd of December 2020
Brianna Craft
Brianna Craft is a senior researcher at the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED). Since 2011, she has worked to support the Least Developed Countries - those who have done the least to cause climate change but are the most vulnerable to its impacts - in the UN climate negotiations. Her research areas include climate diplomacy, the Paris Agreement and technology development and transfer.
Maia Elliott
Maia Elliott works for UK Research & Innovation’s Global Food Security programme, which funds, coordinates and disseminates research that will be influential in supporting food security goals in government, industry and wider society. She leads multiple projects that explore how the UK food system could be transformed to meet the UN’s global agreements as well as the UK’s Net Zero pledge, and is a strong advocate of climate justice, food equity, and collaborative problem-solving.
Clare Heaviside
Dr. Clare Heaviside is a NERC Independent Research Fellow/Associate Professor in the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering. Her research interests cover climate change impacts - particularly on health, urban climate and meteorology, the urban heat island, air pollution and heatwaves. Her fellowship investigates the impact of the urban heat island (whereby cities are a few degrees warmer than the countryside) on health, using atmospheric modelling and health impact assessment. She is also Principal Investigator on a Wellcome Trust Climate Change and Health Award (2020-2023). This project looks at the Health and Economic impacts of Reducing Overheating in Cities (HEROIC), for example, by using green infrastructure, in cities in different climatic zones and with different income settings.
Eunice Lo
Dr. Eunice Lo is a Research Associate in the Climate Dynamics group, part of the inter-disciplinary Cabot Institute for the Environment at the University of Bristol. Her research interests lie in the changing impacts of extreme weather in a warming world. Currently, her research is focused on extreme heat and its impacts on human health. This includes estimating current and future heat-related mortality in locations around the world and investigating the urban heat island effect in cities. She also has an interest in the storm surge impacts of hurricanes on island states in the Caribbean region under different future warming scenarios.
David Stainforth
Professor David Stainforth is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He is a physicist by training and a climate modeller by experience, with research interests in uncertainty, its implications and how we understand and respond to climate change. He is a co-founder of the climateprediction.net project, which uses the home computers of thousands of volunteers to run large ensembles of climate model simulations. He also works on how we design large climate modelling experiments, how we interpret them for science, how we interpret them for policy decisions, and how we communicate climate science to the public and decision makers.
MITIGATION, ADAPTATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Friday, 4th of December 2020
Lora Fleming
Professor Lora E Fleming is a physician and epidemiologist with expertise in the environment and human health; she is based at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (University of Exeter Medical School). Prof. Fleming is involved in research, training and policy activities in the new transdisciplinary area within Planetary Health of Ocean and Human Health. She has received the Ocean and Human Awards from the Edouard Delcroix Foundation (2014) and the IOC Bruun Award (2015). Prof. Fleming is leading two H2020 funded Projects to explore the connections between blue environments and human health and to establish a network and create a strategic research agenda for Ocean and Human Health in Europe and beyond.
Aritra Ghosh
Dr. Aritra Ghosh is a Lecturer at the University of Exeter, where he is a member of the Renewable Energy Group in the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences and he is part of the interdisciplinary Environment and Sustainability Institute. His research activities focus on advancing technologies for energy-positive building and climate-smart solutions. His developments draw attention not only for their application in building sustainable environments, but also for their aesthetic looks and colour changing properties.
Anusree Saha
Anusree Saha is Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Raja Narendra Lal Khan Women's College (Autonomous) in India. Previously, she worked as visiting scholar at the University of Essex and her current doctoral project in collaboration with the University of Hyderabad focuses on elucidating extra-ribosomal attributes of ribosomal protein genes. She is interested in the detailed functioning of independent genes and ribosomal small subunit proteins, to unravel their less studied role in stress tolerance and generating stress-tolerant crops.
Avinash Sharma
Dr. Avinash Sharma is currently working at the Department of Biotechnology for the Government of India and he is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow at the National Centre for Cell Science. His research focuses on understanding microbial communities and how they function under different environmental scenarios, especially in extreme ecological niches. Last year he visited Antarctica to carry out research on specific adaptations of previously unknown prokaryotes. Dr. Sharma is interested in developing novel cultivation methods, including modern genomic and taxonomic techniques, to discover next generation antibiotics from yet-to-culture microorganisms.
