Chris Pearson

Astronomy Group Lead, Space Operations Division at RAL Space and visiting fellow, The Open University
Chris is the astronomy group lead in the space operations division at RAL Space.

He combines astrophysics research with the development and operation of space missions.

My PhD was in “Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology" at Imperial College London.

After working in Japan for seven years on infrared space telescopes, he moved back to the UK to work for RAL Space, working on the SPIRE instrument that flew on the Herschel Space Observatory.

He also works on the Ariel exoplanet mission and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

The SKA is the largest scientific facility ever to be built. It consists of a giant array of radio telescopes built in the deserts of South Africa and Australia.

On SKA, Chris manages two of the software teams that are developing something called the science data processor. This software will process the vast amounts of data that will come in once the telescope array becomes operational.

The job at RAL Space allows Chris to participate in both astronomy research and the development of spacecraft missions.

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Chris Rees

Postgraduate Researcher of Space Risk Engineering, University of Surrey
Chris is a highly experienced Radiation Safety / Assurance Engineer with over 16 years of experience. Chris holds a Masters in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, he is a Chartered Engineer and Physicist with the UK Institute of Physics.

Chris started his professional career in 2007 with British Nuclear Group. Since then, he has worked with various industries in the UK, Australia, and Canada, including space, oil and gas, automotive, nuclear and academic research. His expertise focuses in conducting risk / safety assessments for high hazard facilities and safety critical systems, including nuclear reactors, decommissioning activities, waste storage facilities, spacecraft, oil pipelines, autonomous vehicles, and nuclear research.

Chris has also spent over a decade lecturing in universities on nuclear disasters, safety cases, and, atomic and nuclear physics. He is currently finishing a part-time PhD in ‘near space’ flight risk engineering focusing on radiation risks from space weather effects.

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Chris Sanderson

PhD Candidate, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University
Chris is a PhD student at Lancaster University. His thesis involves investigating how dementia is spoken about on social media, and how awareness campaigns might be effective in the digital age. He has also been involved in other projects such as with the Questioning Vaccination Discourse (QuoVadis) Project Team.

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Chris Shannahan

Research Fellow in Faith and Peaceful Relations, Coventry University

Prior to joining the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in 2015 Dr Chris Shannahan was Lecturer in Religion and Theology at the University of Manchester (2013-2015). His Doctorate (2008, University of Birmingham) developed the first critical analysis of urban theology in the UK and led to work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urban Theology and then a Teaching Fellow in Religion and Society at the University of Birmingham (2009-2012) where he developed a major ethnographic project working alongside unemployed young men on a large Birmingham housing estate.

His first monograph, 'Voices from the Borderland' (2010) was described as a ‘ground-breaking’ example of cross-cultural urban theology and is a set text at Universities and Theological Colleges in the UK, the USA and Australia. His second monograph, 'A Theology of Community Organizing' (2013) provided the first systematic theological analysis of broad-based community organising. His research also utilises Hip-Hop culture as a discourse of meaning, as seen in his 2012 partnership with the street artist Mohammed ‘aerosol’ Ali on his ‘Bromford Dreams – Graffiti Spiritualities’ action research project.

Chris Shannahan's research arises from more than 20 years grassroots experience as the head of Religious Education in a large East London Secondary school; a youth worker in the East End of London and Trenchtown, Jamaica; a Methodist Minister in inner-city London and Birmingham and a community organiser. This diverse background informs and influences his commitment to researching, teaching and writing for progressive social change.

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Chris Speldewinde

Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
My PhD was conferred by Deakin University in February 2023. My research looks at how STEM teaching and learning occurs in bush kinders. My PhD was 'by publication' and included
10 academic articles. I also have contributed to a number of book chapters and practitioner publications. Bush kinders are a nature-based early childhood education context where 3 to 5 year old spend time in nature.

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Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University
I completed my degree in Chemistry with Industrial Experience in 2002 from Cardiff University before moving to the School of Pharmacy to undertake a PhD in transdermal delivery. Following this I completed a postdoctoral position in Cardiff University School of Medicine before being awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2010 to study at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN. In 2013 I was awarded a NISHCR/Wellcome Trust fellowship before acting as co-investigator and Research Fellow on an MRC Research Award. I started my current position as Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Nov 2016.

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Chris Thompson

Chris is a lecturer in chemistry at Monash University, specialising in chemistry education, while moonlighting in high resolution spectroscopy using the Australian Synchrotron. Chris originally studied Bachelor degrees in both Science and Arts at the Australian National University before completing his PhD at Monash University, and spending time as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne.

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Chris Thorogood

Head of Science and Public Engagement for Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum, University of Oxford
I research the evolutionary genetics of plants, plant taxonomy and biodiversity hotspots. Specifically, I am interested in speciation and adaptive radiations in poorly known parasitic and carnivorous plant groups, and also in taxonomic diversity in biodiversity hotspots including the Mediterranean Basin region and Japan. I am based at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and work in close collaboration with other scientists at University of Oxford Department of Plant Sciences. I am also interested in identifying novel and effective routes to public engagement with research, as Head of Science & Public Engagement at the Botanic Garden.

Instagram: @illustratingbotanist

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Chris Toronyi

PhD Candidate and Lecturer, Loughborough University
PhD Candidate and Lecturer at Loughborough University London in the Institute for Sport Business (ISB). Research focused on the intersection of nation branding, sport, diplomacy and supporter responses to state football ownership structures. Additionally, lecturer on nation branding through the lens of the Sport PR and Communications master's course, featuring guest speakers in sport media, communications and branding, and academia.

Also, have taught in the Department of Marketing Communication and Department of Communication Studies at Emerson College (Boston and Los Angeles). Courses grounded in branding and consumer behaviour theories and models, as well as social empathy to provide a base for students to become not only culturally conscience brand marketers, but globally-responsible-citizens. Courses include guest speakers from various global perspectives that add real world context to consumerism and evolving brand archetypes.

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Chris Turney

I am a Professor of Earth Sciences and Climate Change at the University of New South Wales where my team and I are focusing our efforts on using the past to better understand the causes and impacts of future environmental change. As part of this I set up and now direct the Earth's Past Future Project (www.earthspastfuture.com), an international, multidisciplinary programme dedicated to exploiting records of past change to help reduce the uncertainties surrounding future projections; within this I co-lead the Ellsworth Mountains Project (http://ellsworthmountains.com/) and the Ancient Kauri Project (http://ancientkauriproject.com/). To do something positive about climate change, I am working with a wonderful group of people at CarbonScape (http://carbonscape.com/), a carbon refining company that has developed microwave technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, including activated carbon, sustainable fuels and biochar.

Communicating science is more critical than ever. As a scientist I believe we need to show why science is such a wonderful tool for understanding the world around us; not just the headline discoveries but how science actually works. I have written several books, the most recent of which is 1912: The Year The World Discovered Antarctica which looked at the dawn of a new age in understanding the natural world, and how we might reawaken the public's excitement for exploration and discovery.

Inspired by the events surrounding 1912 I led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014, a privately-funded multidisciplinary scientific expedition, that set out to discover the environmental changes taking place in the south. A major part of the AAE 2013-2014 was communicating our scientific findings – from the deep field and in real time.

You can follow my team in the lab and the field using the full range manner of social media as Intrepid Science (www.intrepidscience.com), reporting discoveries when they happen, where they happen.

I'm passionate about science, adventure and leadership. Please feel free to contact me.

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Chris Vagasky

Meteorologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chris Vagasky is a meteorologist and manager of the Wisconsin Environmental Mesonet, a network of weather and soil monitoring stations across Wisconsin. His primary research focus includes lightning and lightning safety. He is a frequent guest of The Weather Channel, The Washington Post, and other media to speak on topics related to lightning, lightning safety, and weather measurements.

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Chris Walkinshaw

PhD Candidate, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Chris is a PhD student based at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, funded by the EnvEast DTP and affiliated with UEA (University of East Anglia). Chris has an MSc in Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Monitoring from Ulster University, which he completed part-time whilst working full-time as a senior research and development scientist for a contract development company based in Cardiff.

His PhD project, entitled ‘Does microplastic pollution pose a risk to marine life and food security’ is supervised by Dr Matthew Cole (PML), Dr Trevor Tolhurst (UEA), Dr Pennie Lindeque (PML) and Professor Richard Thompson (University of Plymouth). This project aims to investigate the effects of microplastic pollution on marine organisms in the environment, and whether microplastic pollution may pose a risk to food security and human health through the marine organisms that we consume.

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Chris N. H. Street

Senior lecturer in in Cognitive Psychology, Keele University
I joined Keele University in 2021 as a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, having worked previously at the University of Huddersfield for six years. I carried out my PhD work at University College London (UCL) and went on to become a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

My work explores the cognition of how people make a lie or truth judgment. This work has culminated in the Adaptive Lie Detector account (Street, 2015). My research has included working with national organisations to create evidence-based interventions to reduce susceptibility to phishing and smishing scams. I make use of a combination of behavioural, eye tracking and modelling techniques. This work has been recognised through funded projects and an APS Rising Stars award. I am the author of the textbook An Introduction to the Science of Deception and Lie Detection.

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Chris R. Pavey

Principal Scientist in Ecology, CSIRO
I am an ecologist passionate about understanding how organisms function in nature and developing approaches to conserve them.

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Chris R. Reid

ARC Future Fellow, Macquarie University
My current ARC Future Fellowship at Macquarie Uni follows my previously held positions at Macquarie Uni, New Jersey Institute of Technology and University of Sydney. I have secured over $AU3.1M in research grant funding, and published over 20 scientific papers (see up to date info on my Google Scholar page; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7xjbHpEAAAAJ&hl=en). I have written several articles for The Conversation on collective behaviour in ant colonies and slime moulds, and my work has previously been featured in National Geographic, Catalyst, BBC News, ABCNews 24 and COSMOS magazine.

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Chris S. Duvall

Professor of Geography, University of New Mexico
I am a geographer with a broad range of interests. In my research, I study how humans interact with plants, both intentionally and unintentionally. I have examined plant-people interactions from multiple perspectives, including ecology, cultural studies, history and ethnobotany. My spatial focus is on western Africa and the African Atlantic diaspora.

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Christa van Raalte

Associate Professor of Film and Television, Bournemouth University
Christa van Raalte began her career in theatre, moved into Further Education and then Higher Education, working in a number of management positions before re-calibrating to focus more of her energies on research.

Christa is currently Associate Professor in Film and Television and Head of the CEMP (Centre for Excellence in Media Practice) research centre at Bournemouth University. Her research addresses the experience of working in the television industry, including career development, retention and the ‘leaky’ talent pipeline, management practices, workplace bullying and media education. She has published on these themes in academic journals as well as in industry-facing reports. Dr van Raalte also publishes on representations of gender and on narrative strategies in film and television texts.

Her article 'More than just a few ‘bad apples’: the need for a risk management approach to the problem of workplace bullying in the UK’s television industry', co-authored by Richard Wallis, was published earlier this year in the Creative Industries Journal.

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Christiaan Harinck

Lecturer in the history of international releations and war , Utrecht University
I am a lecturer in the history of international relations and war. My specialisation is military history. My PhD thesis was on the Dutch military's tactical conduct in the Indonesian decolonization war 1945-1949. My PhD thesis was published for a wider audience in the Netherlands. I have published in English and Dutch on violence, tactics and the post 1945 decolonization wars. My current research is on the Austro-Hungarian armed forces and its war against suspected civilians and illegal combatant’s during the First World War. This fall, I also designed and taught a class for MA students on Europe’s land and colonial empires during both world wars.

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Christian Bretter

Research Fellow in Environmental Psychology, University of Leeds
I am a Research Fellow in environmental psychology, particularly interested in the intersection of environmental behaviour (such as transport usage or food waste), social psychology, and political psychology. After completing my undergraduate degree and gaining significant experience in the industry, I sought to diversify my skill set and decided to study Engineering Business Management at the University of Warwick. It was here where I became interested in learning more about why people behave in certain ways and how, if possible at all, we can encourage them to change their behavior. After having spent another year in the UK construction sector, I went to the University of Leeds to dedicate the next three years to my PhD in Organisational Behaviour. These years have sparked my interest in understanding environmental behavior and the psychological factors that influence it. Hence I started working as an ESRC-funded Research Fellow in Environmental Psychology with particular focus on better understanding the psychological and behavioral factors driving household food waste. Working with different institutions such as the Waste & Resource Action Programme (WRAP), I have also launched and tested different interventions to reduce household food waste in the UK. After successful completion of this project, I have now joined the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) to examine, among other activities, the factors driving transport usage (particularly car use) and, building on this assessment, to explore possible avenues for behaviour change to reduce demand for individual car ownership. I am also examining the extent to which the public supports various climate policies, how we can encourage support for more effective policies, and the role worldviews and biases play in shaping such support.

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Christian de Perthuis

Professeur d’économie, fondateur de la chaire « Économie du climat », Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
Économie du changement climatique et de la transition énergétique.

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Christian Faize Canaan

Master’s student, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
Christian Faize Canaan is a Master's Degree student in the Disaster and Emergency Management program at York University in Toronto, Canada.

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Christian Franck

Bjorn Borgen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christian Franck is the Bjorn Borgen Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia in 2003, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2008. Dr. Franck held a post-doctoral position at Harvard investigating brain and neural trauma in 2009, and was on the faculty in Solid Mechanics in the School of Engineering at Brown University from 2009 to 2018.

He is the acting director of the Center for Traumatic Brain Injury at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the ONR-funded "Physics-based Neutralization of Threats to Human Tissues and Organs" (PANTHER) program, which consists of over 30 PIs nationwide. Key objectives of Dr. Franck’s research program are in advanced detection and prevention of traumatic brain injuries by providing accelerated translation from basic science discovery to civilian and warfighter protection solutions.

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Christian Gagné

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval
Christian Gagné is a professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering Department of Université Laval since 2008. He is the founding director of the Institute Intelligence and Data (IID). He holds a Canada-CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair and is an associate member to Mila. He is conducting research on the development of methods for machine learning and stochastic optimization. A significant share of his research work is on the practical use of these techniques in domains such as computer vision, microscopy, health, energy and transportation.

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Christian Ginski

Lecturer of astronomy, University of Galway
The main focus of my work is high contrast imaging of extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks.
I use all kinds of instruments around the globe, but chiefly the extreme adaptive optics instrument SPHERE at the ESO Paranal observatory located in the Atacama desert in northern Chile.

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Christian Göritz

Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet
Dr. Göritz studied Biochemistry at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. He performed his PhD studies in Strasbourg, France, in a joint Max Planck / CNRS research environment in the field of Neuroscience. For his postdoctoral training, he joined the lab of Prof. Jonas Frisén at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. In 2012 he established his own research group at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dr. Göritz investigates the physiological and pathological function of perivascular cells. The main focus of his research has been fibrosis and tissue repair following lesions to the central nervous system. In his latest research he addressed the physiological role of perivascular fibroblasts in the context of penile erection.

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Christian Hampel

PhD candidate, University of Cambridge

Christian is a doctoral candidate in Management on the Innovation, Strategy & Organisation pathway. His research explores how organizations manage reputations with a particular focus on fighting stigmatisation, reviving legitimacy, and altering institutions.

Christian joined the PhD programme in 2012 after having undertaken a bachelor degree at Warwick, a research master degree at Cambridge and work experience in consulting. At Cambridge Judge Business School he initiated the "Methods Forum", a platform for the School's faculty and students to discuss the use of research methods. Christian's PhD research is funded by a scholarship from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Christian was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at the Management & Organizations Department of the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) from September to December 2015.

Christian's teaching experience includes roles as seminar lecturer and teaching assistant in a variety of courses (research masters, MBA, EMBA), covering the domains of organisational behaviour, organisation theory, social entrepreneurship and strategy.

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Christian Henderson

Professor of International Law, University of Sussex
Chris Henderson joined the University of Sussex as Chair of International Law in 2015. Prior to coming to Sussex he was Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool and obtained his PhD from the University of Nottingham. His research and teaching interests are in public international law, in particular international law governing the use of force, collective security, human rights and international humanitarian law. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, a general editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Hague Justice Journal, a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force, and on the Advisory Council for the Institute for International Peace and Security Law (University of Cologne, Germany).

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Christian Ilbury

Lecturer, Linguistics and English Language, The University of Edinburgh
I am a sociolinguist who is principally interested in exploring the social meaning of variable patterns of language.

My research explores the intersection of digital culture and language variation and change. I am an interdisciplinary scholar utilizing methods and approaches from sociolinguistics, (linguistic) anthropology, and media studies.

I am particularly interested in exploring variable patterns of language across offline (i.e., face-to-face) and online (i.e., social media) space. Most of my research has focussed on the digital and linguistic practices of young people.

I am also interested in language, politics, and globalisation. My work has examined the sociolinguistic dynamics of gentrification, the effects of standard language ideology and youth language, and the impact of accent bias on perceptions of professional competence.

Prior to this appointment, I held teaching and research positions at Queen Mary University of London, the University of York, Newcastle University, the University of Suffolk, and Regents University London.

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Christian Klug

Professor, Curator of the Palaentological Museum, University of Zurich
I am interested in the palaeobiology of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic. As far as groups are concerned, I focus on cephalopods and early vertebrates. Cephalopod research is a vast field; I thus focus on the origin of ammonoids, Middle Triassic ammonoids (mainly taphonomy), Jurassic coleoids, and soft tissue preservation. Currently, my students and me work on Devonian faunas from Morocco, Devonian non-ammonoid cephalopods, Devonian placoderms and chondrichthyans etc.

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Christian Krohn

Postoctoral Researcher, School of Science, RMIT University
An early career researcher whose interests could be summed up with: “Environmental sequencing, microbial ecology, chlorinated pollutants, organic matter, wastewater, anaerobic digestion, and how everything connects".

In 2021 I joined the ARC Biosolids Training Centre at RMIT (www.transformingbiosolids.org.au), where we help water utilities to improve circular resource management by getting more renewable biogas and carbon/fertiliser values out of our municipal biosolids. In project 1C of the Centre we develop metagenomic methods to monitor the microbiome of anaerobic digestion, an important microbial treatment process for wastewater. DNA-based diagnoses of wastewater sludges promises to help the water/biosolids sector improve resource recoveries and risk management.

Before that, after a career in one of the most fast-cycled and short-sighted manufacturing industries that took me from Germany to Vietnam and Hong Kong/Shenzhen, I decided to hit the switch and start thinking long-term and circular. Ten back-to-uni years later, in 2021 I finished a PhD in Soil Science at La Trobe Uni where I sequenced soil DNA and explored if and how soil biology was involved in the degradation of extremely persistent legacy pesticides that contaminate agricultural surface soils since several decades.

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Christian Lévesque

Professeur de Relations du Travail, HEC Montréal
Christian Lévesque is full professor at HEC Montréal and the co-Director of the CRIMT, the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and work He is also co-responsible for the research activities on Industry 4.0, Work and Employment undertaken at the OBVIA, the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of IA and Digital Technology.

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Christian Ridley

I just received my PhD in Plant Biotechnology from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. My research focuses on the development of industrial-scale algae biotechnology, for applications such as biofuels, nutritional supplements and animal feeds.

During my PhD, I explored whether algal-bacterial consortia could enhance the productivity and stability of algal cultures, so that growing algae at very large scales might be improved. Currently, I am working in the Cambridge Algal Innovation Centre, working with biotechnology companies to explore how we can better exploit algae for more sustainable food, feed and fuels.

I'm broadly interested in science - from microbiology to drug development and space exploration - and in the crossover between science and entrepreneurship.

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Christian Turney

Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, University of Technology Sydney
I am an experienced, positive, energetic and optimistic leader, scientist, entrepreneur and author. I have the privilege to be the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). I champion the value of research findings in decision-making and am passionate about universities supporting the rapid decarbonization of the global economy to reach net-zero carbon pollution. To help reach this goal, I was a Founding Director, Inventor and am now a Scientific Advisor to the New Zealand-based cleantech company CarbonScape (www.carbonscape.com) which has developed technology to covert plant material into locally-produced, sustainable, carbon-negative bioengineered graphite for lithium-ion batteries.

To cut through the noise surrounding 'Fake News' and 'Alternative Facts', it's so important universities share discoveries, their implications and opportunities for society. With Imagine Entertainment, iHeart Media, Awfully Nice, and an incredible lineup of inspirational guests, I am excited to be hosting a new podcast series called 'Unf**king the Future' which will explore the sobering climate reality our planet faces today and the common–sense solutions that can be implemented now to save it.

My research has generated over 240 research papers, a h-index of 68, and been cited in policies and patents around the world. I have received several major prizes and medals. In 2014, the Australian Academy of Science honoured me with the Frederick White Prize for the understanding of natural phenomena; in 2007, I was awarded the inaugural The Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal for outstanding young scientist for pioneering research. I completed a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellowship at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) in 2015. I am also a Non-Executive Director of Cicada, the Sydney-based incubator of deep tech innovation (www.cicadainnovations.com), and a Non-Executive Director of the NSW Government’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to help deliver a thriving and healthy environment for the beautiful state of New South Wales.

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Christian Wolf

Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University
My research interests include: wide-field sky surveys, object classification and photometric redshift estimation; growth of supermassive black holes, early universe and variability; optical counterparts to gravitational-wave events; galaxy evolution through cosmic epochs and via environmental influence; dust in the Milky Way and star-forming galaxies.

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