PhD Candidate in Geography, University of Leeds I am a second-year PhD candidate at the University of Leeds. My research focuses on how people at the community level perceive, experience, and respond to wildfires in high-latitude contexts, including the Arctic and surrounding boreal regions. I am interested in understanding why people throughout the high North are more or less vulnerable to the effects of wildfires and how we can increase their resilience. I have been involved in various projects at under- and postgraduate levels focusing on assessing climate impacts and vulnerability in spatially explicit and context-specific ways and tracking climate change adaptation at global and regional levels. I am also active in publishing my scholarly contributions in the peer-reviewed literature. Research interests – Wildfire risk and adaptation – Community vulnerability and resilience – Climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction – Compound impacts
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, University of Cambridge My team studies the molecular and physiological pathways involved in the regulation of human appetite and body weight and their disruption in obesity. Some of the molecular pathways involved in regulating weight also regulate blood pressure and lipid metabolism, and affect an individual's risk of cardiovascular diseases. One of the links between obesity and cardiovascular disease is leptin. We have identified mutations in leptin gene using candidate gene approach in patients with severe, early onset obesity, and have demonstrated that leptin contributes to hypertension in obese individuals. These results suggest that pharmacological approaches that modulate leptin’s effects on cells could represent a useful therapeutic strategy for the treatment of obesity-associated hypertension and might help prevent a subset of obesity-associated cardiovascular disease.
Professor in Economics, Universitat Jaume I Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso is Professor at the Universities of Göttingen(Germany) and at Jaume I (Spain). She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham (England) in 1998. She has extensive teaching experience in several bachelor and master programs at the Universities of Birmingham, Valencia and Nottingham and has been actively engaged in building and managing international networks. Currently, she chairs the cluster in Social Sciences, Economics and Law of the Enlight Consortium, and is a member of the steering committees of the Center for Global Migration Studies and the CliMigHealth Network, as well as a board member of INFER.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet I am an assistant professor in genetic epidemiology of ageing, interested in combining genetic and longitudinal designs to understand complex traits. My primary research aim is to understand how overweight influences risk of age-related diseases, by studying why different forms of overweight have different effects on the risk of dementia, cardiovascular disease, and type-2 diabetes. I am also interested in understanding how geographic circumstances influence late-life health.
Lecturer, American University Isa Haskologlu is an Invited Lecturer at the American University in the Department of Government. His research interests are civil conflict and negotiations. His papers appear in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict.
Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Ibrahim Kocaman is an Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Department of Security Studies and International Affairs. His research interests are civil conflict, civil-military relations, interstate conflict, and political economy. His papers appeared in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Civil Wars, and National Interest.
