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Alassan’s research interest focuses on the nexus of farming systems, food security, and climate change. The aim of his research project is to assess the ecological, social, and economic effectiveness of agrosilvopastoral and silvopastoral practices. With his work, Alassan wants to contribute to the development of sustainable climate adaptation strategies in the livestock sector of Benin. more: Alassan ASSANI SEIDOU.
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The lack of water of good quality and sufficient quantity has significant impacts on communities’ health and well-being. In her research, Alexandra intends to provide evidence-based knowledge to assess the impacts of water supply accessibility on water quantity and quality. Her findings could help to understand the effects associated to seasonal sources’ reliability on households’ behaviours in accessing a water supply. more: Alexandra CASSIVI.
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Stefano is working on advancing artificial photosynthesis. Using this process would help to simultaneously reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and to create value-added products from CO2. Stefano aims to build a carbon economy from CO2 based on acetate as an upgradeable and modular primary intermediate. more: Stefano CESTELLOS-BLANCO.
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Warathida’s interdisciplinary research seeks to shed light on the climate change mitigation through promoting energy efficiency in the building sector of urban areas. She is studying the possibility of implementing zero-energy building technology reflecting the fact that people have to stay at home due to the COVID-19 outbreak. more: Warathida CHAIYAPA.
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Chong Yang works on the development of adsorbents and membranes for greenhouse gas capture, which offers lower energy penalty as compared to conventional processes. He works on increasing the relevance of these new separation processes toward realistic operation. more: Chong Yang CHUAH.
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Amos dedicated his PhD research to adopting and promoting green building technologies in the developing world. He investigated the issues hindering the adoption especially in his home country Ghana and mapped out a novel “Implementation Strategy” for green buildings. more: Amos DARKO.
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Glory works on developing scenarios for pathways to a sustainable rice system in Nigeria. She develops these pathways from a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods including stakeholder participation leading to the development of a fuzzy cognitive map; scenario development linking with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways; and land use modelling. more: Glory Ikponmwosa EDWARDS.
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Remote sensing data science has immense potential to save crop damage and ensure food security. Using modern technologies like machine learning, Parmita’s research provides statistics at field level and forecast trends for the agricultural sector. Her solutions can support farmers and policy makers in their decisions. more: Parmita GHOSH.
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In his research, Muhammad focuses on daylighting as a special aspect of sustainability in the built environment. Daylighting is one of the crucial factors that influence both the building’s energy performance as well as the well-being and productivity of its occupants. Muhammad is developing techniques to engage building occupants in the design and evaluation of performative daylight strategies using the state of art in real-time simulation and immersive virtual reality. more: Muhammad HEGAZY.
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Muhammad’s research is about water treatment using polymeric material and water quality control using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. He works on the increasing heavy metal pollution and contamination in Indonesia, especially on mercury pollution and removal in Aceh. more: Muhammad IQHRAMMULLAH.
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Haruka is a PhD student who is currently investigating the effect of cosmic rays in atmospheric models about clouds and aerosols. She aims to contribute to a better understanding derived from atmospheric models. more: Haruka MATSUMOTO.
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Jovana uses her expertise in organic and supramolecular chemistry to work on the development of new hybrid organic-inorganic photovoltaic materials. These materials are very promising since the production technology for solar cells using these materials is much more cost-effective than conventional solar cells. more: Jovana MILIĆ.
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Novel sources of anti-parasitic drugs are vital to combat tropical diseases, e.g., infections with parasitic worms, and to circumventing existing drug resistance. In her research, Samantha examines venoms as a source for developing innovative drugs against the major human and veterinary parasites: schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, hookworms, sheep parasites and malaria. more: Samantha NIXON.
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Emma’s research addresses two different challenges: decoupling plastics from fossil fuel resources and enabling a circular economy. To produce bio-based plastics she uses byproducts as feedstock and in this way contributes to a more efficient and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Being trained as an environmental chemist and in economics and social sciences, Jiamin sees herself as an interdisciplinary researcher who can understand the technical, economic and social challenges for sustainability transition. But yet she pushes the boundaries to advance knowledge and fasten sustainable transition to responsible production and consumption. more: Jiamin OU.
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Daniel is a material scientist and is working on perovskite solar cells. Hybrid perovskites are ideal materials for photovoltaic applications because of their outstanding optoelectronic properties, simple processing, and low fabrication costs. more: Daniel RAMIREZ ZORA.
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Daily’s research focuses on the design of nanomaterials with potential applications in two significant fields: firstly in the design of energy storage devices and secondly in heterogeneous catalysis. In both cases, the aim is to develop more sustainable processes that contribute to climate change mitigation. more: Daily RODRÍGUEZ-PADRÓN.
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Curtis is studying the drivers of environmentally friendly behaviour to better understand what governments can do to encourage positive behavioural change. To this end, he is integrating theories and methods from economics, psychology, and sociology to investigate the adoption of environmentally beneficial technology by households. more: Curtis ROLLINS.
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Laura is working on bioelectrochemical systems for the conversion of the surplus of renewable energy, which is difficult to store, into organic chemicals, which are easy to manage. By creating organic chemicals she is reducing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere at the same time. more: Laura ROVIRA ALSINA.
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In her research Nidhi is working on the association of short-term pollution effects and symptoms of skin aging in Indian women and how the association changes with the interaction of air pollutants and climate parameters such as temperature and humidity. more: Nidhi SINGH.
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Sadaf is examining how the goal of achieving sustainability could be supported in higher education. At the moment, higher education is mostly about transmitting knowledge and skills. Sadaf works on how to shift to a transformative pedagogy to educate future leaders who can contribute to building a sustainable society. more: Sadaf TAIMUR.
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Filipe works on the development of strategies to reduce contamination of the environment caused by non-biodegradable polymers. He is exploring environmentally friendly high-performance nanomaterials for active packaging and tissue engineering. more: Filipe VARGAS FERREIRA.
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Emmanuel is water resource scientist. He applies the ecosystem services approach to balance resource protection and river use in his home country Malawi. Based on his bio-physical research in ecotoxicology he develops guidelines for water quality in Malawi’s rivers taking into account the context of climate change. more: Emmanuel VELLEMU.
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Chuan is developing energy system optimisation models for net-zero emissions energy systems that help to identify required physical, institutional, and human-resource efforts through the transparent and granular costing and analysis of sectoral transitions. He works on such models for the transition of the United States’ energy system until 2050. more: Chuan ZHANG.
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Ines’ research is focused on the design, preparation, characterisation, and testing of materials and processes for environmental applications. She also works on quantifying the risk of nanomaterials on the environment and on developing a nanotoxicity screening tool. more: Ines ZUCKER.
