Contributors

Luke Burchill

Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiologist, The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiologist, The University of Melbourne Associate Professor Luke Burchill is a proud Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung man, adult congenital heart disease specialist and lead of the Cardiovascular Health Equity Group at University of Melbourne.

Lynette Cheah

Professor and Chair of Sustainable Transport, University of the Sunshine Coast

Professor and Chair of Sustainable Transport, University of the Sunshine Coast Lynette Cheah is Professor and Chair of Sustainable Transport at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She directs the Sustainable Urban Mobility research laboratory, which develops innovations and pathways towards sustainable cities, particularly in the area of mobility. Her research focuses on developing data-driven models and digital tools to assess and reduce the environmental impacts of passenger and urban freight transport. Areas of expertise include smart cities, intelligent transport, urban freight, transport modelling and simulation, technology and policy assessment, life cycle assessments, and material flow analysis. Lynette is a strong believer in translating research into real-world impact. She served as Review Editor for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report and is Coordinating Lead Author for UN Environment Programme’s Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) report. From 2019 to 2024, she was a member of Singapore’s Public Transport Council, promoting sustainable, affordable, and inclusive public transport for all. Prior to joining UniSC, Lynette was a tenured faculty member at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. As an active member in her academic communities, Lynette Cheah is Editor for Transportation Research Record and Journal of Industrial Ecology. She obtained her Ph.D. in Engineering Systems from MIT and Master’s in Management Science from Stanford University.

Levan Tielidze

Research Fellow in glacial geomorphology, Monash University

Research Fellow in glacial geomorphology, Monash University Levan Tielidze is a researcher at Monash University who studies modern and past glaciers in relation to climate change in different regions of the world.

Lilian Dove

Postdoctoral Fellow of Oceanography, Brown University

Postdoctoral Fellow of Oceanography, Brown University

Lala Rukh

Doctoral Researcher in Energy, University of Galway

Doctoral Researcher in Energy, University of Galway As a researcher at MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine Research, I am working on an interdisciplinary project that explores the interrelationships between operational energy demand practices, internal environmental conditions in buildings, people occupying buildings, materials, and technology used in the retrofit of buildings. My goal is to contribute to the development of innovative and sustainable solutions for energy resilience and the built environment. I am passionate about science communication and outreach, and I use various platforms and mediums to share my knowledge and insights with diverse audiences. I am proficient in English, Urdu, and Sindhi, and have skills in finance, nationally determined contribution, and faith-based initiatives. I am motivated by curiosity, creativity, and collaboration, and I strive to make a positive impact on society and the environment through my research and teaching.

Laura Melissa Guzman

Assistant Professor of Biology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor of Biology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The overarching goal of my research is to develop statistical and computational methods to leverage large biodiversity datasets to learn about ecological processes. While we know that the distribution of some species is changing, it is actually very difficult to make reliable inferences as to which species are declining and by how much from the often messy and complex historical and spatial datasets that we have to work with — for example, historical museum records, where species occurrences are aggregated from studies with different sampling procedures. In order to address this gap, my research focuses on determining if and how statistical models can be applied to historical records without yielding biased trends. In my research I also apply these statistical models to determine how the distribution of pollinators has changed through time, where museum records provide lots of information. I am also interested in determining which drivers (e.g. pesticide use, climate change, land use change, etc.) are causing the most decline of the most pollinator species. Another aspect of my research is to understand the processes that shape communities, for example I have combined experiments and modelling to understand how the structure of body size in a community affects the stability of food webs. In more recent work, I used large-scale simulations and machine learning to identify the signal of metacommunity processes in ecological time series.