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The impact of climate change on health has, until recently, been largely overlooked. A dearth of research is especially apparent in the world’s most vulnerable areas, such as East Africa. Precious intends to address this imbalance by investigating the association between climate change and infectious diseases in Uganda.
more: Precious AKAMPUMUZA.
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Zeyad is working on the design and development of a portable medical device that will help prevent the spread of infectious diseases. more: Zeyad AL-SHIBAANY.
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Aretha is working on an off-grid rural electrification project using renewable energy sources in Indonesia. She is also evaluating the renewable energy policy mix to encourage the growth of renewable energy penetration in the country, including off-grid rural electrification. more: Aretha APRILIA.
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Bishnu has been working for many years on improving the grid integration of renewable energy sources through the development of various smart grid technologies. His research is primarily focused on enhancing energy security, reliability, and resiliency of integrated electrical, thermal, and transportation systems. more: Bishnu Prasad BHATTARAI.
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Sustainable cities need plenty of green space; however, urban environments pose significant challenges for conservation efforts. Katherine is seeking to tackle this problem by researching how green spaces can be designed to support biodiversity enhancement and other ecosystem functions. In addition to this, she also wants to demonstrate how increased access to green space not only boosts biodiversity, but also improves the well-being of urban populations. more: Katherine BERTHON.
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To meet the food demands of a rapidly growing human population, without negative effects on the ecosystem, Rama Kant is validating sustainable agro-biotechnological approaches for improving the soil and the nutritional quality of agricultural produce. more: Rama Kant DUBEY.
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Hannah is developing a holistic picture of conflicts in the discourse about small-scale voluntary salmon hatcheries. She intends to identify underlying drivers of conflict for more sustainable salmon fisheries management. more: Hannah HARRISON.
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Anup is using his training in both Environmental Science and Economics to support the ecotourism sector in Nepal. In his PhD research project, he is assessing opportunities to promote ecotourism in the country by benefitting local indigenous communities and conserving wildlife. more: Anup K C.
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Sea Jin's research is focused on climate modeling and disaster risk reduction using geographic information systems (GIS) in order to support better land and environmental management strategies and promote sustainability. With natural disasters posing greater threats to people around the world, her research in developing disaster-related indices and predicting hazards and risks, such as forest fires and drought, will be of immense value to vulnerable populations. more: Sea Jin KIM.
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Ellin is investigating how we can increase climate resilience through evidence-based and innovative policy mechanisms. more: Ellin LEDE.
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For Megan, the everyday practices of ordinary people that have sustainable outcomes should be recognised in cities of the global south. She identified self-motivated individuals and NGOs promoting sustainability in an impoverished township in Cape Town. She hopes to use the examples of their practices to inform decision-makers about what is required to achieve sustainability and improve well-being within townships. more: Megan LUKAS-SITHOLE.
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Liv is focused on energy system transitions towards high levels of solar and wind power penetration, working with system modelling and policy analysis. more: Liv LUNDBERG.
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Biogas production offers an opportunity for a reliable energy supply for remote coastal communities. However, the resulting waste sludge poses a risk to the ecosystem. Powell is investigating ways of making biogas production more sustainable. Coastal villagers in the Philippines are surrounded by abundant marine biomass, and Powell is working on efficiently tapping into this supply, without damaging the environment. more: Gian Powell B. MARQUEZ.
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Enayat’s research is focused on computational and participatory approaches for modelling socio-ecological systems under the uncertainties of future global change. His research is applied to a range of areas, such as renewable energies, sustainable mobility, and the Sustainable Development Goals, aiming to advance robust decision-making and adaptive planning. more: Enayat A. MOALLEMI.
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Ahmed is researching ways to improve the efficiency of solar-powered engines. He has worked on boosting the water-pumping capability of Stirling engines in order to increase access to water in remote rural areas of his country, Egypt. more: Ahmed Zakaria Hafez MOHAMED.
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As founder of a marine plastics recycling startup, Olga aims to make production and consumption in today’s world more sustainable. With her past research projects, she brings expertise in marine pollution into her business of reversing pollution in the seas by rethinking the way we produce and consume. more: Olga MIRONENKO.
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Eyram is seeking to lower the world’s dependency on crude oil by inserting a substitute material into asphalt. He has identified lignin as an ideal replacement as it will lower costs, decrease environmental damage, and reduce the impact of flooding. Asphalt is the world’s most important binder for road construction; however, its use poses significant problems. more: Eyram NORGBEY.
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Unsustainable agricultural practices in Sub-Saharan Africa are both contributing towards climate change and exacerbating its impact on local populations. Chukwuebuka’s research interest centres on the accurate quantification of soil carbon in relation to climate change. more: Chukwuebuka Christopher OKOLO.
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Kamila is aiming to overcome planned obsolescence by raising awareness of the problem. Her research focuses on finding political solutions and appropriate legal regulations. more: Kamila POPE.
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Kashif is taking on two of the world’s most pressing environmental concerns: water contamination and water security. He is developing innovative methods for extracting contaminants from industrial wastewater, so that it can be safely and sustainably returned to the freshwater supply. He is focusing on the removal of organics, heavy metals, nutrients, and emerging micro-pollutants from a variety of wastewater streams, coupled with renewable bio-energy production. more: Kashif RASOOL.
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Ravindra is a social environmental scientist and has dedicated his academic career to the study of climate change and natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and to the understanding of coping strategies. His research is contributing towards improving the relationship between people and the ecosystem around them. more: Ravindra RATTAN.
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Pratiksha has developed a unique piece of technology to enhance constructed wetlands technology in order to provide more efficient water sanitation in rural communities. Clean water and sanitation stand out as being among the most important aims of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). more: Pratiksha SRIVASTAVA.
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Attila’s research is geared towards transforming cities into sustainable and resilient urban landscapes for a liveable and inclusive Europe. He is studying the environmental effectiveness of green infrastructure and nature-based solutions. more: Attila TÓTH.
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Jayati seeks to make energy production sustainable and cleaner through interdisciplinary research in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, and Agricultural Sciences. Using clean sources of energy is a vital step towards a more sustainable economy. In order to contribute to this effort, Jayati is researching energy generation from renewable lignocellulosic biomass. more: Jayati TRIVEDI.
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Linjun’s research focuses on environmental governance and sustainable urbanisation. During her PhD, she contributed to the first systematic comparative analyses of the development of green economies between EU and China, in a collaborative research project that involved China, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France. more: Linjun XIE.
