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Pontifícia Universiade Católica de Campinas
Centro de Economia e Administração
Queens' University Belfast
Architecture - School of Natural and Built Environment
Dr Emma Campbell is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Architecture, at the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University, Belfast. Her research focuses on future relationships between people, food, and place through the lens of sustainability. As a design-researcher, she is really interested in how design and systems-thinking might help to solve some of the wicked problems inherent in food systems today.
Currently, Emma works within the Innovate UK funded Ideal Home project in partnership with Moy Park, the UK’s largest poultry integrator. The project applies a research-by-design methodology to consider how the UK’s poultry farming sector might improve welfare and achieve net-zero emissions. Emma’s recently completed Ph.D. research applies a similar methodology to consider the emergence, development, and future of supermarket shopping. Her final thesis brings together thematic insights to reimagine a range of different food-retail futures.
An experience public speaker, Emma has presented her ideas on sustainable food systems at conferences and workshops globally and locally, from Doha to Vancouver, Nicosia to Belfast. In Spring 2021, she recorded a TEDx talk called ‘Can bees help us to design sustainable supermarkets?’ which discusses how the principles of circularity might be embedded in a future food shopping experience.
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Zurich University of Applied Science
Institute of Natural Resource Sciences
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ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management Malegaon, Baramati 413 115, Pune Maharashtra, India
School of Soil Stress Management
Sangram Chavan was born at Karad (Satara) in the state of Maharashtra on 7th December 1987. He obtained a Ph.D. (Forestry) degree from CCS Haryana Agricultural
University, Hisar (Haryana) in 2019, M.Sc. (Forestry) from FCRI, TNAU, Coimbatore (TN) in 2011, and BSc (Forestry) from College of Forestry, Dr. BSKKV, Dapoli in 2009. He was also selected as Agricultural Research Service of Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India during 2013 at the age of 25 years. He has served as a Scientist (Forestry) at ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi (UP), and recently transferred to ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Baramati. For the last 9 years, he is working on various aspects of agroforestry research and developments mainly concentrated on biomass and carbon modelling, livelihood security, production of quality planting material, and climate change. His major research contribution was to quantify India’s agroforestry area and carbon sequestration potentials on the country level. He has published more than 25 research articles in international & national pee-reviewed journals (current science, springer, Elsevier) 10 book chapters, and more than 10 popular and technical bulletins on the agroforestry arena. He also authored two famous books; one is “Competitive Forestry” for ARS, NET, CET, state services, and UGC exams for students and the second is “Promising Agroforestry Tree Species in India” published by ICAR, New Delhi & ICRAF, Kenya for detailed package & practices of industrial important agroforestry species. He also guided two Msc students of Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (UP). During his short research span of 8 years, he worked as PI & CoPI in projects on climate change, biomass modelling, biofuels, tree improvements, and impact assessments of Soil & water conservation activities, etc. He has developed an android based application “FarmTree” for agroforestry practitioners, students, policymakers, and various stakeholders. He has co-organized one of meg-event 3 rd World Congress on Agroforestry” at New Delhi. He is an editorial member for the Journal of Tree Sciences published by the Indian Society of Tree Sciences and acting as a reviewer in many springers, Tylor & Francis, Elsevier, and Current Science. Currently, he is working on sandalwood
based agroforestry for higher-income generations in degraded lands.
University of Cádiz
GIAL
Laura Chavarria is an environmental engineer from Costa Rica. She graduated with her licentiate degree in 2016 from the Tecnológico de Costa Rica. She worked on environmental projects on water resource management, risk assessment, policy creation, impact assessment, geographical information systems for decision-making, and data representation and sanitation.
In 2019, Ms Chavarría won an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Scholarship for a double masters degree in Environmental assessment and management and Water and Coastal Management from the University of Bologna, the University of the Algarve and the University of Cádiz. She graduated in July 2021 with the master thesis "Urban ecosystem assessment for urban coastal areas in the province of Cádiz". Ms Chavarria specializes in ecosystem service assessment, ecosystem-based management and water resources, especially in cities or urban agglomerations. In addition, she has experience in using geographical information systems and remote sensing techniques as a decision support system and part of management or governance tools. She focuses her research on providing accessible, affordable and effective tools and frameworks for urban or environmental managers to reach sustainable and resilient communities, improve human well-being and recover ecosystem health.
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University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Department of Architecture and Built Environment
Melbourne Polytechnic
Business and Construction
Dr Rajjan Chitrakar is an architect, urbanist, researcher and educator with a background in architecture, urban design and planning with international qualifications and experience. He has more than 15 years of academic and industry experience in the field having worked in Australia, the Philippines and Nepal. Dr Chitrakar currently teaches Design Studios and Urbanism units at Melbourne Polytechnic. Before joining Melbourne Polytechnic, he taught at the School of Design at Queensland University of Technology as a Sessional Academic. Dr Chitrakar was awarded a PhD in Urban Design from Queensland University of Technology in 2015. He has also completed a Master of Urban Design from the University of Hong Kong in 2006 and a 5-year Bachelor of Architecture from Tribhuvan University in 2002. Dr Chitrakar is currently an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.
National University of Singapore
Asia Research Institute
Colleen Chiu-Shee a Postdoctoral Fellow at Asian Research Institute in the Nation University of Singapore. She’s starting a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of Hong Kong in 2022. Colleen brings a professional background in environmental design as well as scholarly training in social science. Her expertise lies at the intersection of four interlocking fields of study—city design and development, environmental planning, urban governance, and transnationalism. Building on the discourses in the four fields, she explores innovative spatial and socio-political interventions that seek to transcend pre-existing paradigms to promote environmental sustainability and social justice.
She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Her dissertation traces international flows of ecological ideas embodied in China’s eco-development and reveals how the nation expands urban ecology, institutional learning, and cultural shifts through ecological city design and planning. In addition, she has collaborated on research projects that examined a range of topics, including land reclamation and coastal development, urban informality and land politics, collective governance and urban resilience, private production and governance of housing, public housing policy design, and climate adaptation in vulnerable communities. At ARI, Colleen further pursues her inquiries about “eco” and “smart” transitions in urban development and governance, especially in the post-pandemic era.
Brunel University London
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Mehdi Chougan is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Brunel University London, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr Chougan obtained his PhD in “Graphene-engineered cementitious composites” from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy, in 2019. After the PhD completion, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate on “High-Performance Compressed Straw Board (HPCSB): A New Generation of Building Materials” project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) at Brunel University London.
He is an outstanding young researcher in the field of cementitious composite materials, especially in graphene-engineered cementitious composites and additive manufacturing of alkali-activated cementitious composites. His research focuses on three areas: (i) the design and optimisation of 3D printable alkali-activated materials (AAM) and manufacturing strategies, with the aim to enhance the sustainability and productivity of the construction industry. Key topics concern the inclusion of different types of additives, including graphene-based materials, nano clay, and fibres, focusing on rheology modifications and performance optimisation. (ii) Bio-based composites, such as lightweight compressed strawboard (CSB) for the construction industry. (iii) the design and optimisation of low-carbon concrete using cement and natural aggregate replacement procedures to reduce concrete's carbon footprint.
University of Glasgow
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
I am originally from Cyprus where I attended The English School in Nicosia. In 2017, I graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA with a BSc in Marine Biology and BA in Art. During my undergraduate studies I developed my passion towards marine invertebrates, while working as an aquarist at the Long Marine Laboratories. Currently I am working on my PhD thesis at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow, UK. My research focuses on identifying any effects of microfibers and artificial light at night on coastal mussels and the ecosystem services they provide.
Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW)
Department of Landscape Architecture
Agata Cieszewska is a landscape ecologist and environmental planner educated at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies with post doctoral degree in architecture and urban planning; Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology. Associate professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW, vice president of the Polish Association for Landscape Ecology and the scholar of the Fulbright Foundation and Kościuszko Foundation. Visiting professor at the University of Texas in Austin. Author and co-author of over 50 publications, and 40 practical studies (environmental plans, protection plans). Coordinator of environmental studies of: Warsaw, the metropolitan area of Warsaw, Mazowia Voivodeship. Co-author of the regional parks conservation plans and environmental protection programs. She is a leader of the green-blue infrastructure workshops for local government officials, residents and students. Her research focuses on environmental conditions in spatial planning process, including green infrastructure planning, green belts design, urban adaptation to climate change. Currently she is a promotor of the Norwegian Grant ‘Communities for Climate Change Action – Co-Adapt’. and design. Currently she is a promotor of the Norwegian Grant ‘Communities for Climate Change Action – Co-Adapt’
University of Hawaiʻi
Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education
Current PhD student in Learning Design and Technology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a background in Urban Planning and Geography. Research interests explore how ideals of community planning and development can be combined with philosophy for children Hawaiʻi (p4c Hawaiʻi) to enrich K-12 curricula and purposively influence young people toward creating a more aware, empowered, and active citizenry—the bedrock of sound urban governance.
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The University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning
Patrick Brandful Cobbinah is an urban planning academic at the Melbourne School of Design and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds a PhD in Human Geography with emphasis on regional planning and resource conservation from Charles Sturt University, Australia. Patrick's background is in human geography with broad experience in urban and regional planning gained through teaching and research conducted at universities in Ghana and Australia. He is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia, and the Ghana Institute of Planners, University of Michigan Presidential Scholar, a Visiting Scholar at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) at Stellenbosch University, Cape Town South Africa, Global Young Academy Fellow, and an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University. Patrick has published widely in his research area with over 2000 citations (Google Scholar). He is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Urban Affairs.
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University of Trento
Department of Civil Environmental and Mechanical Engineering
PhD candidate in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trento, Italy. Her major
interests include sustainable and resilient cities. Her doctoral research focuses on the promotion of climate adaptation and
energy transition in the built environment through an integrated approach.
Director Government & Institutiones, Circle Economy
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In her role as Director of Programmes, Hatty leads Circle Economy’s thematic and sector-focused portfolio (textiles, finance and built environment). Having worked for over 14 years in democratic strengthening and sustainable development, Hatty has extensive international experience of working with governments and parliamentary systems to enhance their capacity for effective oversight, scrutiny and representation in the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals.