Contributors

Lin Schwarzkopf

Professor in Zoology, James Cook University

Professor in Zoology, James Cook University I study vertebrate ecology with a focus on reptiles and amphibians.

Fiona Longmuir

Lecturer - Educational Leadership, Monash University

Lecturer - Educational Leadership, Monash University Dr Fiona Longmuir is a Lecturer in Educational Leadership in the School of Education, Culture and Society at Monash University. She has a background of 15 years as a teacher and leader at schools in disadvantaged, urban communities in Victoria, Australia. Fiona’s research interests are in intersections of educational leadership, educational change, and student empowerment. Her recent research studies have investigated teachers' working conditions, student engagement in alternative education settings and leading and learning through crisis and disruption.

Joseph Hayes

Associate Professor, Psychology, Acadia University

Associate Professor, Psychology, Acadia University I am an experimental psychologist with expertise in social-personality psychology. My research examines how people respond to threatening events.

Andrew Biro

Professor, Politics, Acadia University

Professor, Politics, Acadia University I am a Professor in the department of Politics at Acadia University. I also teach in Acadia's Environmental and Sustainability Studies, and Social and Political Thought programs. My teaching and research interests are at the intersections of critical theory, environmental politics, political economy, and media/cultural studies.

Nathan Cheetham

Senior Postdoctoral Data Scientist, Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London

Senior Postdoctoral Data Scientist, Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London Nathan Cheetham is a quantitative researcher studying the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic on health. Nathan is focused on understanding the role of social factors on health outcomes in the United Kingdom. Since 2021, Nathan has been at King's College London, where he has worked with the TwinsUK and COVID Symptom Study Biobank studies, researching immune response to COVID vaccination and the long term effects of COVID infection on cognition and everyday functioning. Nathan has a background in physical sciences, completing his MSci in Natural Sciences at Durham University in 2013. He then moved to Imperial College London where he earned his PhD in Physics in 2018, researching new materials for solar energy applications. Following his PhD, Nathan moved to NHS North East London Clinical Commissioning Group in 2019, working as a data analyst and manager. During the coronavirus pandemic, Nathan developed a mathematical model to estimate the effects of easing restrictions on hospital admissions (Cheetham et al., Scientific Reports, 2021), created a interactive tool for senior leadership to track COVID-19, and joined the North East London vaccination program team to help set up and deliver COVID-19 vaccinations.

Paloma Trascasa-Castro

PhD Candidate in Climate Science, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, University of Leeds

PhD Candidate in Climate Science, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, University of Leeds I am a postgraduate researcher looking at how different climate states modulate El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and its impacts. My supervisors are Dr Amanda Maycock (University of Leeds), Dr Yohan Ruprich-Robert (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) and Prof Piers Forster (University of Leeds). I obtained my undergraduate degree in Environmental Science at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain). My BSc dissertation was focused on understanding how large-scale climate variability such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) affects local climate and weather conditions in Madrid, with a special focus on the urban heat island effect and air pollution episodes. I did a year abroad at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where I developed my interest for ENSO and its impacts on ecosystems and populations. In 2018 I enrolled in an MRes in climate and atmospheric science at the University of Leeds. My masters’ thesis was entitled “European climate response to El Niño-Southern Oscillation”, which later on was adapted and published in Journal of Climate. In 2019 I co-founded “The Climate Press”, an outreach project aimed to bring climate science closer to everyone. We’ve produced a number of podcasts and blogs that you can find here: www.theclimatepress.com During the early stages of my PhD, I worked as a demonstrator in the masters’ modules “Physical Science Basis of Climate Change” and “Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation”. I am particularly interested in large-scale climate variability. More specifically, the first part of my PhD project consists on understanding how the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) modulates ENSO and its impacts. My future research includes assessing ENSO and its teleconnections under climate change conditions. I enjoy learning about all things climate-related, especially climate change projections, climate extremes, teleconnections, seasonal forecasts and climate variability in the troposphere and stratosphere.