Assistant Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University Daniel is an Assistant Professor in Nature-based Solutions based at the Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh campus. Prior to working at Heriot-Watt University, Daniel was based at the National Green Infrastructure Facility at Newcastle University, UK working as a PDRA on the EPSRC Urban Green DaMS (Design and Modelling of SuDS) project. Daniel completed his PhD at Loughborough University, which focused on urban rainfall-runoff responses using physical and numerical modelling approaches. He has worked as a NERC-funded PDRA focusing on emergency responder accessibility during flood events at Loughborough University, as well as a Senior Lecturer in Flood Risk Management at the University of Chester. Daniel’s research interests can be divided into three core areas: Monitoring, assessing and quantifying the influence/performance of blue-green infrastructure and nature-based solutions to mitigate and attenuate flood risk in urban areas; flood risk analysis and resilience assessment, exploring the impact of fluvial and surface water flood events on urban infrastructure; modelling of urban surface water flooding caused by intense precipitation events using numerical and experimental, rainfall simulator based approaches.
Senior Lecturer, Anatomy and Pathology, James Cook University Dr Amanda Meyer is an educator, researcher, and anatomist, who holds a Bachelor of Science degree with first-class honours in Anatomy & Human Biology, a PhD in medical science, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. With over 13 years of teaching experience, she has taught over 8,500 students, ranging from first-year students to doctoral-level in science, biomedical science, medical, and health professions. Dr Meyer is passionate about her work and is dedicated to helping her students reach their full potential. This was recognised with her winning the 2022 UWA School of Human Sciences Teaching Excellence award. She has developed multiple units and taught at Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia before joining James Cook University in Queensland in July 2024. Dr Meyer is a twice-elected (2016 to 2018 and 2019 to 2023) actively involved Council member of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Clinical Anatomists (ANZACA), the professional body in Australia for clinical anatomy and educational research. She also advocates for equity and inclusion in the anatomy teaching and research field evidenced by my position on the Federative International Committee for Equality and Diversity in Anatomy (FICEDA). She engages in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) by conducting research into effective teaching methodologies since 2014. Most of her papers have been published in the Q1 journal, Anatomical Sciences Education. Conducting this research, Dr Meyer has collaborated with anatomy educators from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and New Zealand demonstrating strong positive international relationships. Dr Meyer is an advocate of open education resources and open access to research and disseminates her knowledge of SOTL to the anatomy community worldwide using the platform formerly known as Twitter with over 4,000 followers and 70,000 views a month.
Researcher, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Desalegn Chala holds a PhD in Ecological Modeling from the University of Oslo and has over a decade of expertise in the field. Currently a multidisciplinary researcher at the University of Oslo, his experience spans GIS, remote sensing, ecological niche modeling, molecular genetics, and biodiversity digital twins. His research interests include food security, biogeography, conservation biology, and related disciplines.
Postdoctoral research fellow, Auckland University of Technology Duncan Caillard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Communication Studies. He holds a PhD in Screen and Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne, in which he conducted a systematic study of the screen works of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His research interests include Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander screen cultures, experimental and artist filmmaking, moving image archives, and political aesthetics. His current research projects transnational art cinema in the Asia-Pacific, concentrating on works of anti-authoritarian and decolonial art practice in Thailand and Hawai’i.
Adjunct Professor of Economics, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego Dale Squires is Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of California San Diego, and former Senior Scientist with US NOAA Fisheries. He is an applied economist and econometrician working on national and international conservation, environment and resource issues. He is the co-author or co-editor of 11 books and about 150 peer-reviewed scholarly papers. He has considerable experience in developing countries, international treaty negotiations, member of US State Department delegations to international organizations, and as independent consultant to international organizations. He is the architect of both national and international resource management plans. He has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in applied economics from the University of California Berkeley and Ph.D. from Cornell University.
