Climate and energy - An interdisciplinary perspective

Alasdair Skelton

Alasdair Skelton is Professor of Geochemistry and Petrology at Stockholm University. He does research on and teaches about climate change from a geological perspective and about the ongoing climate crisis.

Dr Ria Dunkley

Dr Ria Dunkley is a Senior Lecturer in Geography, Environment & Sustainability within the School of Education & Associate Director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions at the University of Glasgow.

Anne Cadoret

Anne Cadoret is an Associate Professor in Social Geography at Aix-Marseille Université, specialised in the analysis of conflictual and concerted management processes especially on coastal zone and Marine Protected Areas. She is interested in the causes of conflicts, their mechanisms and their consequences in terms of dynamics of stakeholders, governance and social innovations in a context of socio-environmental changes. She studies the processes of place attachment, social and institutional acceptance, and effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas. 

Laurence Vidal

Laurence Vidal is a University Professor at Aix Marseille Université, working at CEREGE in the CLIMATE research group. She is currently in charge of the Master STPE in Earth & Environmental Sciences and she also teaches in bachelor’s degrees in Earth and Marine Sciences.

Since her PhD/post-doctorate, she has been working in the field of paleoclimatology, paleoceanography and continental paleohydrology. She is specialised in carbonate stable isotope analysis. My research work aims to better understand past climate variability through geochemical analysis of oceanic and continental environments and the improvement of the calibration of paleoclimate proxies in view of quantitative reconstructions of climate parameters from the Last Glacial Maximum to the last millennia. Currently, I am involved in an EU educational project in Climate Sciences at Master level and in two research projects: -Reconstructions of hydrological variability over the last millennia based on the study of lakes in the Moroccan Middle Atlas; -Study of the ENSO past variability inferred from individual foraminifera isotopic analysis.

Juan E. Malo

Juan E. Malo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ecology and researcher of the CIBC-UAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He is deeply convinced of the potential utility of Ecology to problem solving and their research interests are focused on the effects of human activities on animal populations and ecological interactions. He studies vertebrate populations affected by large human infrastructures from several perspectives (abundance, behavior, fragmentation, interactions), and also wild ungulates and human management of rangelands (plant-herbivore-carnivore interactions, wild-domestic ungulate coexistence). He regularly teaches Environmental Impact Assessment in the Degree in Environmental Science, and he is responsible of the Master Thesis in the Ms. Ecology.

Marco Petitta

Marco Petitta, PhD, is Full Professor of Hydrogeology at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, authoring about 90 papers on international journals. He coordinated the European Project Horizon2020 KINDRA (2015-2018). Following EU projects still ongoing are KARMA (PRIMA program, 2019-23) and NINFA (Horizon Europe, 2022-26). For the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) he was Chairman of the Italian Chapter (2012-2016) and Vice-President for Western and Central Europe and he is now Vice-President for Science and Program Coordination. He served as Coordinator of the Panel of Experts in Hydrogeology of the EFG (European Federation of Geologists) and he is still Member of the EC Working Group of Groundwater, for the Common Implementation Strategy of Water Directives

Dr Moreno Di Marco

Dr Moreno Di Marco is a conservation biologist with a passion for addressing the challenges that global change poses to biodiversity. He is especially interested in developing quantitative techniques for addressing large-scale conservation problems, and evaluate how the solutions to these problems interact with the achievement of other societal goals (such as food production, climate change mitigation, improved human well-being). Since 2009 he has worked for Universities, NGOs, and GOs across Europe and Australia, collaborating with >350 researchers worldwide. he now leads the Biodiversity and Global Change lab (biodiversitychange.com) at University Sapienza of Rome (Italy).

Todd Ehlers

Professor Ehlers' research interests are in how (paleo)climate, biota, and tectonics interact to produce the topography we live on. His approach involves state-of-the-art and coupled paleoclimate, dynamic vegetation, tectonic, and surface process computer models that are tested with diverse geochemical data to understand environmental change.  Since 2023, Todd Ehlers is a professor and Head of School for the Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.  Between 2009-2023 he was a professor and Chair of Geology at the Department of Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Before this (from 2003-2009), Prof. Ehlers was an assistant and associate (with tenure) professor of Geosciences at the University of Michigan, USA. He graduated in 2001 with a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Utah, USA, where he also completed two M.Sc. degrees (geology 1997; geophysics 1996). Professor Ehlers has received several awares for his research. From 2021-2022 hr was a Moore Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology. In 2018 he was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea and the recipient of the European Geosciences Union Bagnold Medal. In 2014,he received a European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant, and in 2009 he was elected as a fellow in the Geological Society of America.

Donatella Magri

Donatella Magri is a Palaeoecologist at Sapienza Università di Roma. She focuses on the quaternary vegetation and climate history of Europe. Her research interests include the following: a) timing and modes of Quaternary migrations, turnovers, and extinctions of tree populations, b) location and extent of refuge areas for trees during the glacial periods; c) effects of past human activity on the natural environment, with a focus on the Mediterranean regions; d) reconstruction of past climate changes from pollen records; e) combining fossil and genetic data to investigate persistence and diversification of plant populations over time.

Jose R. Ares

Jose R. Ares is an Associate Professor at Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), within the group of Materials of Interest in Renewable Energies. He has a long experience in teaching physics at different undergraduate and postgraduate courses being currently the coordinator of the Master's Degree about Energy at UAM.  His teaching is combined with research on energy related topics. In this context, his group aims to synthesise and characterise materials (i.e. mainly sulfides and hydrides based compounds) that are sustainable and suitable for energy conversion and storage, in particular in the field of hydrogen and thermoelectricity. He exhibits a high number of publications, seminars, courses as well as organization of energy related conferences and regularly participates in numerous outreach activities on physics and energy from elementary school to University.