Professor, University of Potsdam Martin H. Trauth is a professor of paleoclimate dynamics at the University of Potsdam. After completing a degree in geophysics and geology, he started his career as a palaeoceanographer, working on questions of statistical uncertainties of paleoclimate time series. Then he became a paleolimnologist, working in the Argentine Andes, involved in the consequences of climate change in areas with extreme relief, also here with a strongly quantitative reconstructive and modelling approach. Recent work has focused on the statistical classification of climate change in order to better understand the relationship between climate and human evolution. Martin H. Trauth published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals such as Science, Nature Geosciences, Nature Communications and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. He also authored six bestselling textbooks on collection, processing, analysis and presentation of geoscientific data with SpringerNature, including the popular MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences, which will be published in its 6th edition in 2024. Martin H. Trauth has published a large number of popular science works and has been involved in television documentaries on various topics in an active or advisory capacity. Since ~30 years Martin H. Trauth has taught courses mostly in data analysis in earth sciences and science communication. He also directed five international summer schools funded by the Volkswagen Foundation with 25-70 participants and 15-20 lecturers in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Germany–and during the Covid19 pandemic–online. He has supervised numerous bachelor's, master's and doctoral theses by young scientists who now hold positions of responsibility in geosciences in the private sector and in science. He is also very involved in communicating scientific knowledge to the public, above all in the context of the Potsdam Children's University with lectures for up to 1450 children aged 8-10, Open Day and Science Day, lectures for schools and the Society for the Gifted Child.
Assistant Professor of School Psychology, Mississippi State University Dr. Mark Wildmon is a full-time Assistant Professor in the Counseling, Higher Education Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations department at Mississippi State University. He holds a BCBA and is Licensed School Psychologist. Dr. Wildmon has over 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents and adults with high-intensity needs. Dr. Wildmon’s research interests include developmental disabilities, applied behavior analysis, parent involvement, and homeschooling.
Postdoc Fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies I’m an applied environmental economist focusing on two major environmental issues, ambient air pollution and climate change. I'm working on the effectivenes of climate policy, in particular in the energy and transport sectors, the societal costs of air pollution, and the determinants of support to green policies.
Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Sheffield Hallam University Mel is an Associate Professor at Sheffield Hallam University with over a decade’s teaching experience. She currently teaches microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry across the Biosciences and Chemistry undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. She is passionate about improving the accessibility of science from school and college students, to our students here at Hallam, through to the public as a whole. This underpins Mel’s teaching approach, research and roles within her department. She is an active researcher in both the Accessibility of Science and Molecular Microbiology group and within the Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre. Mel has a departmental role in undergraduate admissions, organising the departmental schools, colleges and public engagement programme as well as the STEM ambassador programme
Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University Dr Maria Pournara is from Kavala, Greece and has lived in Cardiff since 2014. Prior to coming to Swansea University, she has been a doctoral researcher at Cardiff University and postgraduate tutor at Cardiff University (2014-2019). She holds an MSc in Crime Analysis from the University of Southampton (2013-2014). Before that, she worked as a lawyer practising mainly in the areas of Criminal Law and Human Rights in Thessaloniki, Greece (2008-2013). Her main research interests are in the areas of policing and decision-making, organised crime, intelligence and social problems. Her doctoral research has explored police decision-making in tackling organised crime and more specifically the processes of constructing and prioritising crime problems in the UK.
Professor of Political Science, Carleton University Dr. Mira Sucharov is Professor of Political Science. She holds a PhD in Government from Georgetown University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and a BA in Middle East Studies from McGill University. She is the author of Borders and Belonging: A Memoir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (SUNY Press, 2005). She is co-editor (with Aaron J. Hahn Tapper) of Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational & Contemporary Debates (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and (with Eric Van Rythoven) Methodology and Emotion in International Relations: Parsing the Passions (Routledge, 2019). She is currently writing a dual travel-memoir with Omar M. Dajani on space, place and emotion in Israel/Palestine, and they are developing a podcast on the past and future of Jaffa, called “The Vacant Lot.” Her many op-ed pieces have appeared in Haaretz, The Forward, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, JTA, Jewish Currents, The Ottawa Citizen, The Daily Beast and Huffington Post. She is also a frequent media commentator, having appeared on CBC, CTV, Global News, Agence-France Press, and NPR affiliate KDNK; and having been quoted in Vox, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, The Globe and Mail, The National Post and Al Jazeera. In 2019, she won the Faculty of Public Affairs award for Excellence in Public Commentary. Dr. Sucharov is a nine-time teaching award winner, including having won the highest university teaching award in Ontario. At Carleton, she has developed courses in Israeli-Palestinian relations, op-ed writing and social media engagement, graphic novels and political identity, and Netflix and politics. She is the founding co-chair of the Jewish Politics Division at the Association for Jewish Studies, and is immediate past co-editor of AJS Perspectives.
