Géologue, PhD, BRGM Docteur en géologie, Nicolas Charles est géologue au BRGM, le Service géologique national. Il participe à de nombreux projets à l'international et en France sur la cartographie géologique et les ressources minérales. Depuis 2016, il coordonne un projet européen de formation en géosciences en Afrique (PanAfGeo) visant à renforcer les partenariats entre services géologiques européens et africains. Auteur de nombreux ouvrages de médiation scientifique sur le patrimoine géologique français, il anime aussi des conférences sur la géologie et les ressources minérales.
Assistant Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto Nidhi Subramanyam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research investigates how planning, policies, and governance intersect with and enhance water security and environmental justice for socially marginalized communities in rapidly urbanizing regions. She has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Mumbai, India, a Master of Regional Planning and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, USA. Prior to starting her Ph.D., Nidhi worked as a researcher at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. Before moving to North America, she was a professional architect in India.
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia Dr Nerida Wilson is a marine molecular biologist, who received her B.Sc from University of Melbourne, and B.Sc. (Hons.) and PhD at University of Queensland (2004). After two postdocs in the USA she returned to Australia to work at the Australian Museum, and later the Western Australian Museum. Currently, Nerida works as Scientific Campaign Coordinator at the National Biodiversity DNA Library, CSIRO. Her research interests focus on understanding and describing the extent of biological diversity present on Earth and resolving the evolutionary relationships among those taxa. She is passionate about taxonomy and systematics as the foundational discipline that underpins biological science. Nerida has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has four species named after her. Nerida has participated on over 16 oceanographic expeditions and acted as Chief Scientist on several of those.
