Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney Jem is a postdoctoral research associate in the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, which is nested under the Heat & Health Research Incubator (HHRI) in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. At the HHRI, Jem's research falls under the Ageing and Chronic Diseases research theme, and involves exploring human survivability limits with future climate change scenarios and effective cooling strategies for older adults during heatwaves. Jem is currently funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Lecturer in Management and Maritime Business, University of Plymouth Jonas Aryee's professional background includes shipping, maritime education & training, and policy-making in the west African, South African, and UK transport sectors. He obtained his MSc in transport & maritime economics and PhD from the University of Antwerp, Belgium and the Aarhus University, Denmark, in 2011 and 2023. His research is focused on the socio-technical systems within the maritime industry. He has collaborated with colleagues from the University of Aarhus and the University of Ghana to win two grants from the Danish Foreign Ministry in 2019 and 2021. The grants facilitated research on port efficiency and public-private capacity (PEPP I) in the port of Tema in Ghana. The research further emphasised the port service economy, digitalisation, and capacity building. He is currently on the verge of concluding research from the second grant (PEPP II)-https://projects.au.dk/pepp-ii- from the Danish Foreign Ministry. This research focused on the development of sustainability, gender, and the port cluster. Throughout both projects, he has actively engaged with practitioners and policymakers and contributed to discussions on relevant issues in the African port sector. He has disseminated his research in Denmark, Ghana and the Netherlands through conferences, workshops and interviews. As a host of the African Transportation Convos podcast, he advocates for equitable transportation practices to help alleviate poverty. He engages in discussions with policymakers, technopreneurs, logisticians, industry professionals and other stakeholders to gain insight and share knowledge with those responsible for implementing meaningful change. He is passionate about brainstorming sessions, reading and watching biographies, writing, and mentoring.
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn Teaching Areas: Political Science Research Areas: Media, Research Methods, Urban Politics and Governance, Voting / Elections
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington Dr. Jessica Ray (she/her) is the Robert O. and Irene V. Sylvester Family endowed assistant professor in Water Resources within the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. Ray joined the University of Washington in January 2019. Previously, Ray was a Miller Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley investigating low-cost engineered adsorbents for removal of trace contaminants in urban stormwater. This research was part of the NSF Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt) engineering research center at Berkeley. Dr. Ray received her B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. Upon graduation, Ray remained at Washington University in St. Louis to obtain a M.S. degree (2010, funded by the NSF GK-12 Graduate Research Fellowship) and a Ph.D. in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering (2015, funded by the EPA Students to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship). During her Ph.D., Ray employed surface chemistry techniques to investigate interfacial reactions of nanomaterials in water. At the University of Washington, Ray's research program utilizes a multidisciplinary platform that bridges materials science, and environmental and surface chemistry to increase urban water supply sustainability.
Palaeoclimatologist, Australian Antarctic Division My research exploits high temporal resolution ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland to address questions concerning climate forcings, variability and feedbacks over a range of timescales: (i) sub-annual to decadal-scale environmental influences on the 10Be solar activity proxy; (ii) centennial to millennial-scale internal climate variability; and (iii) the phase relationship between Antarctic temperature and atmospheric CO2 during the last deglaciation.
Professor of Environmental Social Science, University of Central Lancashire John has a multi-disciplinary background in the Natural and Social Sciences with expertise in developing and applying novel social science research methods across these disciplines, in both academic and practice-based settings. John is a Director of the UCLan Centre for Sustainable Transitions – a research centre that brings together Engineers, Social Scientists and Psychologists to work on the systemic challenges presented by the social impacts of Climate Change. He works extensively with farmers in the UK and Kenya, to support them in the transition to sustainable practices. He also works with young people in Kenyan agroforestry communities to support them into sustainable forms of employment – away from activities that focus on deforestation.
