Post-doctoral Fellow: Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, Stellenbosch University Dr Dominic Ayegba Okoliko is a researcher specializing in environmental communication, climate change, evaluation, and governance, with a focus on Africa. Based at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), Stellenbosch University, his work addresses sense-making on environmental challenges in the Global South to promote sustainable development and inform strategic decision-making. He has published extensively on climate change communication and public policy and currently sits on the editorial board of Environmental Communication as an Associate and Review Editor.
Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Surrey Dr. Daniela Carta received her degree in Chemistry from University of Cagliari, Italy and her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK working on sol-gel materials for biomedical applications. She has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cagliari, Italy on sol-gel synthesis and characterization of metals/alloys and functional oxide nanoparticles dispersed in highly porous matrices and as a Research Fellow at the NanoGroup at the Nanofabrication Centre, University of Southampton, UK, working on nanodevices for memory applications based on thin film oxides. In November 2016 she was appointed as a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. Her current research is focussed on fabrication of phosphate-based glasses and gels for tissue engineering using in-solution techniques (coacervation and sol-gel) for bone regeneration and wound healing. Dr Carta has received funds from EPSRC, UKRI, MRC and Royal Society of Chemistry.
Lecturer of Chemical Engineering, University of Surrey A passionate computational scientist and science communicator with 14+ years' experience in the development of mathematical models for a range of applications in Bioengineering, including dermal and ocular drug delivery.
Research Fellow in Biological and Physical Oceanography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Exeter Daniel Ford is a postdoctoral research fellow based at the University of Exeter Penryn campus in Cornwall, UK. His current research focusses on topics including air-sea CO2 exchange in the global ocean, the biological controls on the CO2 exchange and the ocean processes that drive variations in the global ocean CO2 sink. Internationally, he provides one of the ocean CO2 sink estimates to the Global Carbon Budget. Daniel has a PhD from the University of Exeter, UK.
Researcher, Oceans Regions Programme, University of Pretoria Daniela Marggraff is a researcher at the Ocean Regions Programme, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria. She is also an assistant lecturer, foreign policy analysis and diplomacy, for second-year students at the University of Pretoria. As a PhD student, Daniela's research focuses on the foreign policy of small island developing states (SIDS) in the context of major power competition in the Indo-Pacific. The research challenges the common perception of SIDS as passive players in global dynamics. Instead, it argues that these nations are critical actors with a distinct form of power. Rather than being constrained by a power deficit, SIDS wield alternative influences that enable them to actively shape their international environment. Daniela has published a few op-ed/research briefs here (including but not limited to): https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/915/breaking-the-surface-exploring-and-illuminating-ocean-regions_5-february-2024.zp252650.pdf https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/915/6_op-ed_22-july-2024.zp253692.pdf https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/915/unseen-realities-the-states-that-are-missing-from-our-maps_9-may-2024.zp252655.pdf https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/915/4_research-brief_21-august-2024.zp254770.pdf
Professor, University of Botswana David Sebudubudu is a professor of political science in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies (PAS), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Botswana. Sebudubudu holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, England.
