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Nick Hockley
Lecturer in Optometric Clinical Skills, Director Deakin Collaborative Eye Care Clinic, Deakin University
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Nick Jennings
Vice-Chancellor and President, Loughborough University
My research focuses on developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems for large-scale, open and dynamic environments.
I focus on how to endow individual autonomous agents with the ability to act and interact in flexible ways and with effectively engineering systems that contain both humans and software agents.
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Nick Kanas
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Professionally, I received a B.A. degree from Stanford and an M.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. I interned at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and received psychiatric residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. I now am an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and I directed the group therapy training program there and at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. In 2003, I received the J. Elliott Royer Award for excellence in Academic Psychiatry. I am a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. For over 20 years I conducted research in group therapy and wrote a book entitled Group Therapy for Schizophrenic Patients. My latest book in this area is Integrative Group Therapy for Psychosis: An Evidence-Based Approach.
For over 50 years I have written about space psychology and psychiatry. I have been the Principal Investigator of several NASA-funded and ESA-sponsored international psychological research projects involving astronauts and cosmonauts in space. In 1999, I received the Aerospace Medical Association Raymond F. Longacre Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in the Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Aerospace Medicine. In 2008, I received the International Academy of Astronautics Life Science Award. I am the co-author of the text book Space Psychology and Psychiatry, which won the 2004 International Academy of Astronautics Life Science Book Award and is in its second edition. More recently, I have written a book for the general public entitled Humans in Space: The Psychological Hurdles, which won the 2016 International Academy of Astronautics Life Science Book Award. In 2017, I gave the Psi Chi Keynote Speech on space psychology at the Eastern Psychological Association Convention in Boston; I was invited by the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute to participate in a Mars mission social sciences workshop at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; and I was invited to give a series of lectures on space psychology to students at Beihang University, Beijing, China. My latest book came out in 2023 and is entitled Behavioral Health and Human Interactions in Space.
I have collected antiquarian celestial maps for over 30 years. I am a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (London) and have given talks on the history of celestial cartography to amateur and professional groups. I have written many articles and two books on astronomical history and celestial mapping: Star Maps (now in its expanded, hard-bound third edition) and Solar System Maps.
I have been an amateur astronomer for over 50 years and have given talks at numerous amateur astronomy meetings and several World Science Fiction Conventions. I have written articles for Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, one of which won the annual readers’ poll award for the 2015 Best Fact Article. I also have published three science fiction novels: The New Martians, The Protos Mandate, and The Caloris Network.
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Nick Lehr1
Arts + Culture Editor
Nick Lehr has been The Conversation's Arts + Culture editor since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, the Cut, the Christian Science Monitor and Salon.ure Editor
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Nick Lomb
Honorary Professor, Centre for Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland
I have had a variety of research directions over my career. During my PhD project on short period variable stars, I developed the theory of least squares frequency analysis for unequally spaced data. This is now a standard method of numerical analysis, called the Lomb or Lomb-Scargle Periodogram, that is used in astronomy and other fields.
Later at Sydney Observatory, the focus was on astrometry, that is, the positions and motions of stars and solar system objects. This work culminated in the publication of a star catalogue, of which I was co-author.
Then, when the Observatory came under the auspices of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, I became the Museum’s Curator of Astronomy. As such, I planned exhibitions and collected and looked after instruments and other items relating to astronomy. I was also involved with the media and with public education and outreach.
On leaving the Observatory and the Museum, my research emphasis became the history of Australian astronomy, with my latest book, with Toner Stevenson, 'Eclipse Chasers', to be released in March 2023. As well, I continue to prepare the annual Australasian Sky Guide for Powerhouse Publishing and maintain my interest in combatting light pollution.
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Nick Mayhew
Lecturer in Russian, University of Glasgow
Before joining the University of Glasgow, I was a Lecturer in Russian at the University of Oxford (2021-2022) and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Slavic Languages & Literatures at Stanford University (2018-2021). I received my PhD in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2018.
My research explores queer gender and sexuality in Russian, Ukrainian and Church Slavonic culture. As a gay man living in Moscow when Russia introduced its law against the "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations", I saw first-hand how culture, history and religion can be manipulated to fuel discrimination. My research is premised on telling queer counternarratives about Russian culture and especially religion, to shine light on a rich queer heritage too often obscured from scholarly perception.
I am particularly interested in bringing queerness to light in contexts that are usually deemed conservative and heteronormative, such as within the Orthodox Church. On the one hand, I am interested in thinking through how sexual minorities negotiate their relationships with cultural and religious traditions that have marginalised them, and on the other hand, I look at queerness inherent to the traditions themselves.
My publications focus mainly on the medieval and early modern periods, although I am moving increasingly into the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. I am also interested in the telling of cultural and historical narratives about gender and sexuality in the present, and in queerness in contemporary pop culture.
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Nick McKerrell
Lecturer in Law, Glasgow Caledonian University
Nick is a Lecturer in Law in the Department of Law, Economics, Accountancy and Risk. Nick teaches mainly in the area of Public Law, Human Rights and Civil Liberties. His research reflects this including many public law issues including: developments around the Scottish Parliament, constitutional legal theory, housing law and the changing ways in which the state interacts with society and individuals. Nick regularly appears on radio discussing civil liberties issues in Scottish society. He has also written on legal research skills for students at all levels.
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Nick Pepin
I am a climate scientist interested in mountain climates and how they may respond in a warmer world.
I graduated from the University of Durham in 1991 with a first class degree BSc in Geography. I went on to study in Durham for a PhD supervised by Joan Kenworthy and Nick Cox, investigating long-term climate change in the Pennines in Northern England using meteorological records, and was awarded the PhD in 1994.
In 1994 I started at the University of Portsmouth as lecturer in climatology/meteorology in the Department of Geography. In 1998 I was a visiting scientist for six months at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), part of the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. I studied long-term climate change in the instrumental records kept by the Mountain Research Station at high elevations in the Colorado Rockies. This work was sponsored by a Fulbright Scholarship.
In 2003/2004 I was awarded a National Academies National Science Foundation scholarship to visit NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory in Silver Spring Maryland, U.S.A. for 12 months as a Senior Research Associate. My work as part of the Climate Variability and Trends Research Group under adviser Dr Dian Seidel, was concerned with the comparison of temperature trends from a variety of global datasets (surface, radiosonde and reanalyses). The focus was trends at high elevations sites, since mountain summits show some of the characteristics of both the free atmosphere and the Earth’s surface (boundary layer).
More recently I have developed work on Kilimanjaro, installing a transect of 22 stations which observe air temperature and humidity - on both the south-west and north-eastern slopes. The range in elevation from below 1000 m to 5800 m is amongst the largest in the world, making the site critical for examining elevation changes in warming rates (elevation-dependent warming). In 2015 I helped lead a paper examining mountain warming (https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2563). I also have current field projects in the Pyrenees and in Finnsh Lapland examining cold air drainage patterns and how they may change in a warmer world.
In 2018 I was a visiting scientist at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (PIFI scholarship) and have links with many Chinese researchers.
I am currently Reader in Climate Science in the newly-formed SEGG (School of Environment, Geography and Geosciences) and I am a senior member of the Environmental Processes and Change Research Group.
Research Interests
Global and regional temperature change in mountainous regions
Research concerns analysis of 20th/21st century temperature change in mountainous regions using a variety of primary and secondary datasets. Comparison of high quality homogenised climate datasets allows a comparison between free-atmospheric changes (measured by radiosonde and some satellite data and assimilated datasets such as reanalyses) and surface temperature changes (as measured by conventional instrumentation). Most recently work has compared MODIS LST (land surface temperature) data for mountainous areas with in situ air temperature data, with a particular focus on the Tibetan plateau.
This work has been undertaken in collaboration with many international organisations including the Climate Variability and Trends Group at the Air Resources Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, the University of Washington, Oregon State University, and the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research in Beijing, China. Funding has been obtained from Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences (U.S), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fulbright Commission and Newton Fund.
Measuring and modelling surface temperatures in areas of complex relief
Part of the reason why mountains and areas of incised topography show varied environmental responses to climate change is because of their inherent spatial and temporal complexity. Members of staff at Portsmouth have been part of climate monitoring campaigns in mountains and complex terrain around the world, including the Rocky Mountains of the USA, Arctic Lapland (northern Finland and Sweden), the Pyrenees, the uplands of England and Scotland, and on Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa.
The focus has been on obtaining better information on the spatial and temporal variation in surface temperature and moisture fields using networks of meteorological sensors. This information allows us to relate temperature patterns to synoptic conditions, and thus to investigate the influence of landscape position on longer-term climate trends.
Work has been performed in collaboration with the following institutions:
University of Brunei Darussalam
University of Colorado Mountain Research Station
University of Turku Sub-Arctic Research Station
Abisko Scientific Research Station
University of Massachussetts
University of St Andrews
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Servei Meteorologic de Catalunya
Funding has been obtained from LAPBIAT 2, INTERACT, NERC and RCIF
The influence of land use change on mountain climate on Kilimanjaro and consequences for summit ice fields
Another emergent research strand is the response of the cryosphere (snow and ice) in mountain regions to contemporary climate change. This work involves a wide range of foci ranging from global analyses examining long term changes in snow cover in mountains and its influence on surface energy balance and mountain temperatures, to regional influences of atmospheric circulation on snow cover, and local field investigation into factors influencing snow distribution in the altitudinal and latitudinal forest-tundra ecotones (areas which are expected to show rapid environmental response to climate change).
In relation to this specific project, NERC funding has been obtained to monitor mountain climate on the slopes of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, East Africa. Through the installation of two unique climate transects on the SW and NE slopes of the mountain, covering a range of 5000 metres in elevation and extending back to 2004, this study can examine the day to day role of the diurnal thermal circulation in transporting moisture to and from the summit region. Typically, during the day moisture is transported upslope to the crater region, contributing indirectly (through cloud cover and increased humidity) or directly (through precipitation) to the mass balance of the summit ice fields. However these ice fields are in rapid retreat. The role of vegetation and land use change in this process is a focus of this project.
Funding has been obtained from NERC and RGS.
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Nick Pratt
Associate Professor of Education, University of Plymouth
I’m an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Plymouth, UK and I lead the Institute of Education’s research. I have worked in education for 35 years, first as a primary school teacher and then with Plymouth University. My areas of interest are particularly around teacher accountability and the effects this has on pupils/students and on pedagogical relationships. My teaching includes working with undergraduate education students and a number of post-graduate research students on both PhD and EdD routes. I live in East Devon, UK, close to the sea.
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Nick Ritchie
Professor, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of York
Nick researches and teaches in the areas of international relations and international security at the University of York. His particular focus is on nuclear disarmament, proliferation and arms control and US and UK national security.
After completing his PhD thesis at the University of Bradford in 2007 on the evolution of US nuclear weapons policy after the Cold War, he spent four years researching and teaching at Bradford’s Department of Peace Studies before joining York in 2011. He previously worked for five years at the Oxford Research Group, an independent Non-Governmental Organisation working with policy-makers and independent experts on the challenges of global security and nuclear disarmament.
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Nick Webb
Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Liverpool
Nick Webb is an architect and researcher based at the Liverpool School of Architecture. His research investigates how digital tools and techniques can be used as methods to enhance and critique our understanding of historic works of architecture. Nick’s research focuses on methods that enable new information to be provided that would have been almost impossible in a pre-digital context, including digital capture technologies such as laser scanning, three-dimensional digital modelling and analysis, and immersive virtual reality techniques. He is a registered architect and has previously worked in architectural practice, mainly community and social housing projects.
Nick’s research currently focusses on existing historic works of architecture, notably investigating the design and construction of English medieval vaulting aided by digital techniques in collaboration with Dr Alex Buchanan. The project, Tracing the Past, has analysed many significant sites in England including the cathedrals of Wells and Exeter, attracted funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, brought together international experts in vault design by hosting two symposiums, made their data available publicly via the Archaeology Data Service and Sketchfab, as well as organising a series of public talks and workshops to share their findings. The project resulted in a book, published by Routledge and co-authored alongside Dr Alex Buchanan and Dr James Hillson ‘Digital Analysis of Vaults in English Medieval Architecture.’
Nick is also interested in unbuilt, partially built and destroyed architecture, or designs that were not built at all. He previously researched Sir Edwin Lutyens’ partially built design for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. He has also collaborated with Dr Zoe Alker to investigate Bentham’s unbuilt Panopticon Prison.
As a registered architect, Nick spends a large amount of time teaching design studio at the LSA. He has tutored in BA1 (2009-2014), ran a design studio in BA2 (2013-2018), and co-led a heritage related design studio alongside Dr Ataa Alsalloum in BA3 (2019-present). He was also year lead for BA2 between 2016-2018. Nick has been part of the BA Admissions Team since 2013 and has been the department’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Co-Champion since 2020.
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Nick Whittaker
Subject Lead in Social Sciences & Law, University of Sussex
Nick is a researcher and teacher of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex International Study Centre. His book, 'Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse: The Island Race', is published with Routledge in July 2023. His research interests include critical geopolitics, British politics, foreign policy, national identity and discourse. He has written for the major academic journals 'Political Geography' and 'Geopolitics' and the 'Strategy in the Contemporary World' textbook. As a speaker, he has recently addressed a Labour Party branch meeting and a conference of Geography teachers on what Brexit means for British foreign policy and identity.
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Nick Wright
Research scientist, Department of Primary Industries & Regional Development, The University of Western Australia
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Nick Harvey Sky
Postdoctoral researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute
I am a conservation scientist who uses both biological and social science methods to help make conservation both more effective and more socially just. My
PhD at the University of Manchester and Chester Zoo focused on the eastern black rhino in Kenya. I used metabarcoding and population modelling to investigate variable breeding success between individuals and reserves in Laikipia, and determine if this was in part caused by differences in diet. I also used social science methods to study the role of zoos and concepts of wildness in the conservation of large herbivores.
I spent a few years working on research, land use and climate change policy for the British Ecological Society and Citizens Advice, and have now returned to academia as a postdoc at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen. I focus on the CONLAB (Conservation Labor: A New Frontier in Labor Theory and Conservation Science) project, studying how biodiversity conservation affects labor dynamics across axes of social difference and hierarchies of wage labour.
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Nick William Smith
Research Officer, Riddet Institute, Massey University
Dr Nick Smith holds degrees in mathematics and in nutritional science from Swansea University (UK) and Massey University (NZ). His expertise is in mathematical modelling of complex systems, with particular focus on human nutrition. His former research interest was in predictive models for dynamics in the human intestinal microbiome, and the influence on host health and wellbeing. He now studies the dynamics of the global food system and their impact on the nutrition of the global population.
Dr Smith is currently a Research Officer at the Riddet Institute, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence hosted by Massey University. The focus of the Riddet Institute is upon food science, food technology, and human nutrition. Dr Smith’s current research is part of the Sustainable Nutrition Initiative, a program providing evidence for the sustainable food system debate and ensuring that human nutrition is seen as a key aspect of sustainability. His focus is on the continued development of the DELTA Model: a world-leading and freely available tool to investigate sustainable nutrient production and what is possible, practical and optimal from the global food system.
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Nicky Grimaldi
Assistant Professor of Arts, Northumbria University, Newcastle
After graduating in 1993 from Northumbria University with a Master of Arts Degree in the Conservation of Fine Art Nicola Grimaldi spent many years working in private practice. Clients have included many Regional and National Museums and Galleries, organisations such as National Trust, and Chatsworth Trust. From 2004 she was employed by Tyne and Wear Museums as the painting conservator for a collection of around 3000 easel paintings. During this period she was involved in overseeing major projects such as National Gallery Partnership Exhibition with Tyne and Wear Museums.
Nicola has been involved with the preparation of loans and courier duties for many National and International organisations including the Teniers Exhibition in Germany in 2006 and an exhibition of work by Paul Gauguin and Van Gogh in Dallas Museum of Art 2006. She supervised and advised on care of collections, including storage, packing and handling and was also involved in training internal and external museum staff as part of Renaissance in the Region project in aspects of care of easel paintings and general collections care. She is currently employed by Northumbria University as Senior Lecturer for the Masters Degree in Conservation of Fine Art teaching aspects of painting conservation as well as supervising MA dissertation projects. Nicola is also involved in external work for the University including research and consultancy.
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Nicky Jones
Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
Research interests
Public international law, human rights law, secularism and religious freedom, anti-discrimination law, politics, consumer issues and consumer law.
Professional memberships
Queensland Law Society
Australian & New Zealand Society of International Law
International Law Association (Australian branch)
Australasian Law Academics' Association
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
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Nicky Nielsen
Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester
I am a Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Manchester. Originally from Denmark, I was awarded an AHRC Block Grant to undertake PhD research at the University of Liverpool investigating subsistence strategies and craft production at the Ramesside fortress site of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham. I obtained my PhD in 2016.
I have excavated in Europe, Turkey and Egypt, and I am currently the field director of the University of Liverpool Tell Nabasha Survey Project, which conducts archaeological investigations of the ancient city of Imet located in the north-eastern Nile Delta. I have published several peer-reviewed papers, as well as more public-oriented articles and I am the author of 'Pharaoh Seti I' (2018), 'From Mummies to Microchips' (2020, co-authored w/ Professor Joyce Tyldesley) and 'Egyptomaniacs: How We Became Obsessed with Ancient Egypt' (2020).
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Nico Orce
Full Professor of Physics, University of the Western Cape
Nico Orce is a nuclear physicist whose passions are novel science and true transformation. Nico's research involves fundamental nuclear physics and includes 150 publications (~1/3 led by him) in Physics mainly, but also in top Mathematics, Biology and Astronomy journals. He has broadly explored the nuclear chart using a variety of nuclear techniques and theoretical calculations and discovered new types of collective excitations and shell phenomena in nuclei. Nico and collaborators recently discovered changes in nuclear polarization that narrow down the reaction network for element production in stellar explosions, which may explain the universality of elemental abundances in our universe [https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/525/4/6249/7259922]. As PI, he has secured research funds worth over R50M, led to the completion of African-led experiments at CERN and the implementation of major infrastructure research projects in South Africa:
1. the GAMKA spectrometer at iThemba LABS; and
2. Modern African Nuclear DEtector LAboratory at UWC.
Prof Orce has active experiments and observations at different laboratories and observatories around the world, including iThemba LABS, SALT, TRIUMF and CERN. He is the chair of the Tastes of Nuclear Physics conference series and the Science Research Open Day 2013, bringing in 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Serge Haroche, to UWC. He is the referee of most nuclear physics journals and a proud Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of York, he has given talks at CERN, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford, and was nominated for the Margarita Salas Award in 2021, aimed “to recognize international impact, contributing to social progress in an exemplary and extraordinary way”. His postgraduate students are world-trained and find jobs in the local and international nuclear energy, big-data and machine-learning industries as well as in national research facilities such as the National Metrology Institute and iThemba LABS or Universities in Japan, China, Canada or India.
For more information about Nico’s work please visit: https://nuclear.uwc.ac.za or the group’s GitHub @ https://github.com/UWCNuclear
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Nicola Baresi
Lecturer in Orbital Mechanics, Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey
Nicola Baresi started his Astrodynamics career with a MSc thesis on “Optimal Control of Formation Flying Satellites”. After graduating full marks in Physics from the University of Padova in 2011, he moved to Israel where he worked as a postgraduate researcher for the Distributed Space Systems Laboratory of the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology.
Starting from 2013, Nicola moved to the United States of America as a US-Italy Fulbright scholarship awardee and pursued his PhD studies on spacecraft formation flying and dynamical systems theory. He was later awarded with a PhD in Astrodynamics and Satellite Navigation Systems from the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as with an outstanding graduate research award from the department of aerospace engineering sciences of the same university.
Following graduation, Nicola was employed at the Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), working on small and large scale satellite missions to the Moon and Mars. He eventually joined the University of Surrey in 2019, first as a Surrey Research Fellow and now as a lecturer in Orbital Mechanics at Surrey Space Centre.
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Nicola Helps
Research fellow, Monash University
Nicola Helps is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre. Nicola holds a PhD in criminology from Monash University. Nicola’s current research examines identification and responses to domestic and family violence perpetration. Nicola also works on projects examining early intervention and prevention of workplace sexual harassment.
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Nicola Lester
PhD Candidate, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
Nicola's PhD research focuses understanding the impact of the military's response on the bereaved military family following a death in the line of duty. She has a background as a mental health nurse, specialising in working with psychological trauma. In addition to her research activities, she works as an advisor to both statutory and non-statutory organisations, in the UK and overseas, to support the development of trauma informed organisational responses following a traumatic incident.
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Nicola Ranger
Director and Senior Research Fellow, Global Finance Group, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Dr Nicola Ranger is the Director of the Global Finance and Economy Group at the ECI and of the Resilient Planet Finance Lab. She is also Executive Director of the Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Initiative, co-Director of the UKRI Integrating Finance and Biodiversity Programme and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking of the Oxford Martin School.
Her research addresses the advancement of finance and policy to address critical societal challenges across climate, nature, food, water, economic development and human well-being. She brings two decades of experience working in senior roles across government, research, international financial institutions and the private sector, and holds multiple advisory roles, with substantial experience in working to drive change both locally and globally and deep technical expertise in data, risk, analytics, scenario analysis, environmental sciences, economics, policy and decision science.
In 2023, Dr Ranger founded the Global Finance and Economy Group in the ECI that acts as a hub for world-leading research at the intersection of finance, climate, nature and analytics in close collaboration with financial institutions, Central Banks and government. She is deeply involved in developing approaches to stress testing and scenario analysis for government, financial institutions and regulators, including working with the IMF, World Bank, NGFS and UK Climate Financial Risk Forum. She is particularly passionate about mobilising sustainable investment in Emerging and Developing Economies (EMDEs) and deeply involved in the development of taxonomies and frameworks to mobilise investment for a net-zero, nature-positive and resilient transition. She also works extensively on systemic resilience, including global systems for tracking, assessing and managing major systems-level crises, with an analytics, risk governance and finance lens. Her interdisciplinary research brings a strong quantitative risk analytics, economics and decision science lens on issues such as assessing systemic risks, measuring the impact of investments, mobilising finance for sustainability, green fiscal policy, sustainable finance, financial regulation and supervision, the role international financial institutions and designing global crisis risk financing mechanisms.
Nicola also holds several leadership and advisory roles beyond Oxford, including: a Senior Advisor for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Deputy Director, Secondment) on Sustainable Finance and Resilience; co-Chair of the Resilient Planet Data Hub with the High Level Climate Change Champions, the UN and the Insurance Development Forum; a member of the TRASE Advisory Group; a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance in Low and Middle Income Economies; a member of the UK Green Taxonomy Advisory Group; an expert member of the UK Climate Financial Risk Forum working groups on Adaptation and Scenarios; a member of the Financial Systems Thinking Innovation Centre of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries; and a former Senior Advisor to the World Bank and Visiting Researcher at the Bank of England. Nicola holds a Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at the Grantham Research Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science and Cetex.
During her career, Nicola has been involved in founding and leading many significant global initiatives related to sustainable finance and systemic resilience, including the G20-V20 InsuResilience Global Partnership, the Global Shield Financing Facility, the Centre for Greening Finance and Investment and the Centre for Disaster Protection. Nicola joined the ECI from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment where she was Director, Climate and Environmental Analytics, UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment, and Head of Sustainable Finance Research for Development in the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group. Prior to joining Oxford, Nicola held senior roles in the World Bank and DFID (now FCDO). In these roles, Nicola worked with financial institutions, Ministries of Finance, Central Banks, International Financial Institutions and regional institutions to strengthen fiscal and financial resilience to climate and other crises, strengthen financial sector development, mobilise finance for resilience and put in place local, national and international systems to strengthen resilience to shocks and crises. At DFID, she also worked to strengthen national early warning systems, shock-responsive systems and integrate climate adaptation and disaster risk management into national policy and investment. Nicola also has a professional background in insurance and catastrophe risk modelling and has been involved in establishing insurance-based mechanisms, contingent financing and regional risk pools protecting multiple countries.
Nicola began her career as a scientific advisor on climate mitigation and adaptation policy and researcher on the science, economics and policy of climate change. Nicola completed her postdoctoral research in climate economics and policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a doctorate in Atmospheric Physics from Imperial College London. In 2005/06, she was part of the HMT/Cabinet Office Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change team and has worked as a Scientific Advisor at Defra, HM Treasury and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. She has published extensively and contributed to major reports including two UK National Climate Change Risk Assessments, the first UNEP Emissions Gap Report, and reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Nicola Walshe
Professor of Education, UCL
I am currently Pro-Director of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, a role which gives me strategic oversight of the IOE’s portfolio of educational work. I am also co-founder and Executive Director of the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education the aim of which is to significantly improve climate change and sustainability education within schools by providing free professional development for teachers of all disciplines, all phases and all career stages, underpinned by high quality research.
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Nicola J. Williams
Wellcome Lecturer in The Ethics of Human Reproduction, Lancaster University
Nicola Williams joined the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Lancaster in September 2014. Her research background is in the fields of Philosophy and Politics and her main academic interests lie in questions of reproductive ethics, transplantation ethics, personal identity and intergenerational justice. She graduated from The University of Reading in 2008 with a BA in Politics and Philosophy, The University of York in 2010 with an MA in Practical Ethics, and The University of Manchester in 2015 with a PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence.
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Nicolai N. Petro
Professor of Political Science, University of Rhode Island
I teach comparative and international politics, with a focus on the role that religious, historical, and cultural narratives play in democratic development. My regional areas of expertise are Russia and Ukraine.
My latest book, The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical Greek Tragedy Can Teach us About Conflict Resolution (Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023), looks at the conflict in Ukraine through the lens of classical Greek tragedy, highlighting its deep domestic roots. For the parties to move from confrontation to dialogue will require untangling these roots and embracing a change of heart or catharsis. To facilitate this process we should look to classical Greek tragedy, which once performed a similar therapeutic function in Athenian society.
As of 2024, I am also a Senior Washington Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy.
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Nicolas Ajzenman
Assistant Professor of Economics, McGill University
Nicolas Ajzenman is an Assistant Professor at McGill (Economics Department) and an affiliated professor at J-PAL and IZA. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV. Ajzenman is an applied microeconomist, working at the intersection of development economics, behavioral economics, and political economy. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in top scientific journals such as the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Economic Journal, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Development Economics, The Journal of Law and Economics, Economics of Education Review, and Health Economics. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Behavioral Economics Group of the Inter-American Development Bank. He has also worked and consulted for multilateral development organizations, such as the World Bank and the EBRD. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Sciences Po), a Master in Public Administration-International Development (Harvard University), a Master's degree in Economics (Universidad de San Andres), and a BA in Economics (Universidad de Buenos Aires).
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Nicolas Bancel
Professeur ordinaire à l’université de Lausanne (Unil), chercheur au Centre d’histoire internationale et d’études politiques de la mondialisation (Unil), co-directeur du Groupe de recherche Achac., Université de Lausanne
Nicolas Bancel, historien, professeur ordinaire à l’université de Lausanne (UNIL), codirecteur du Groupe de recherche Achac et chercheur au Centre de recherche d’histoire internationale et d’études politiques de la mondialisation (CRHIM) à l’UNIL. Il a notamment publié ou codirigé La Fracture coloniale, La Découverte, 2005 ; Sexe, race & colonies. La domination des corps, du XVe siècle à nos jours, La Découverte, 2018 ; Le Postcolonialisme, Presses universitaires de France, 2019 ; Décolonisations françaises. La chute d’un empire, La Martinière, 2020 et Décolonisations ? Élites, jeunesses et pouvoirs en Afrique occidentale française (1945-1960; Éditions de La Sorbonne, 2022 et Colonisation & propagande. Le pouvoir de l’image, Le Cherche midi, 2022.
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Nicolas Barbier
Chercheur en Écologie Tropicale à l'UMR AMAP, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Nicolas Barbier
Chercheur en Écologie Tropicale à l'UMR AMAP, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Nicolas Barth
Assistant Professor of Geology, University of California, Riverside
Though my research interests span many aspects of geology, at the core I aim to improve our understanding of active faults and the evolution of landscapes. I strive to employ a multi-disciplinary field-based, lab-supported, collaborative approach to explore far-reaching, broader picture research that is widely beneficial and societally relevant. My research is currently focused on the New Zealand and California plate boundaries.
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Nicolas Cabaton
Chercheur en Toxicologie, Inrae
Après une thèse en sciences des aliments, option toxicologie de l’Université de Bourgogne, j’ai passé trois ans à l’Université Tufts à Boston (USA) pour étudier les effets néfastes du bisphénol A après une exposition périnatale à (très) faibles doses sur les paramètres de fertilité, développement et fonctionnement de la glande mammaire. De retour en France, j’ai fait un second post-doc dans l’unité Inra «Xénobiotiques» puis «Toxalim» pour mettre en place des approches globales de métabolomique pour l’étude des effets à faibles concentrations de perturbateurs endocriniens sur le métabolisme. J’ai ensuite été recruté en 2011 dans cette unité Inrae pour m’intéresser au rôle de la bioactivation métabolique dans les mécanismes d’action toxique des contaminants alimentaires et environnementaux de type perturbateur endocrinien.
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Nicolas Charles
Géologue, PhD, BRGM
Docteur en géologie, Nicolas Charles est géologue au BRGM, le Service géologique national. Il participe à de nombreux projets à l'international et en France sur la cartographie géologique et les ressources minérales. Depuis 2016, il coordonne un projet européen de formation en géosciences en Afrique (PanAfGeo) visant à renforcer les partenariats entre services géologiques européens et africains. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages de médiation scientifique sur le patrimoine géologique français, il anime aussi des conférences sur la géologie et les ressources minérales.
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Nicolas Benjamin Lubitz
Researcher in marine ecology, James Cook University
I am a marine biologist with Biopixel Oceans Foundation and James Cook University from which I recently received my Doctorate degree. For over 8 years I have worked on marine ecology projects, specifically regarding the migration patterns of marine megafauna species such as sharks. In this time I have lead over 100 research expeditions and tagged over 1000 sharks of multiple species to track their movements. From this data, many scientific publications arose. Overall, my passion is addressing pressing research questions regarding how marine animals use their habitats in the face of global change, such as climate change.
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Nicole Adams
Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
I have over 15 years at the bedside and in hospital leadership positions as an RN in the Southwest and Midwest United States. I am a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Fellow and completed my PhD in the RWJF nursing and health policy collaborative at the University of New Mexico. My current research focuses on how community coalitions address substance use and the meaningful use of technology in healthcare. The latter includes the development of software solutions and Narcan delivery drones.
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