Climate Change: Time for Change

Dr Helen Czerski

Dr Helen Czerski is a physicist, but she’s acquired a few other labels along the way: oceanographer, broadcaster, author and bubble enthusiast.   Her academic home is the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London, where she studies the physics of ocean bubbles and their impact on the ocean and atmosphere.   She is a regular science presenter on the BBC, having fronted major series on the Earth’s atmosphere, the physics of animal sensing, the physics of the everyday world and much more.   She is also a writer, with a regular science column for the Wall Street Journal. Storm in a Teacup, her first book, was published in 2016 and was the joint winner of the 2018 Asimov Prize, named one of the top ten physics books of 2016 by Physics World, and has been awarded the Louis J. Mountbattan Author’s award by the American Meteorological Society.

Professor Andrea Sella

Professor Sella is a synthetic inorganic chemist, teacher of chemistry, and presenter of chemistry in public both live on stage, on radio and television, and through social media. He writes the Classic Kit column for Chemistry World.  He has been involved in numerous television documentaries, including the 2010 BBC documentary Chemistry: A Volatile History, which was nominated for the 2010 British Academy Television Awards in the category Specialist Factual. In 2014 he presented "My Family and other Ibex and "Urine Trouble: What's in our Water on BBC Radio 4. He has been a guest on Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time and appeared regularly on radio programmes like Start the Week, Weekend, Newshour, the Today Programme and the Infinite Monkey Cage. He was awarded the 2014 Michael Faraday Prize from The Royal Society for "his excellent work in science communication.

Aliza Ayaz

Aliza has been a "sociopreneur" since the age of 15 when she started volunteering in environmental relief projects. She educates, advocates and acts for climate-change resolution across multiple campuses and cities, making climate action more engaging, applicable and affordable.  Currently, a Population Health student at UCL, she is also the youngest nominee of a House of Lords honour. Recently, Aliza has worked closely with the UN for environmental relief projects.

Richard Jackson

Richard has over 20 years experience within the sustainability field, from early work as a conservation volunteer through to his current role as Director, Sustainability for University College London (UCL). In this time, he has been involved in many aspects of sustainability – strategy development, operational management, policy and lobbying and research.

Richard has been in his current role for nearly 8 years, during which time he has led UCL’s work on embedding sustainability into all of its activities.

Prior to UCL, he worked for 7 years as both Head of Sustainability and the Principle Sustainable Development and Regeneration Manager at the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA). In this time, he was involved in supporting London2012’s bid team as well as developing and implementing the ODA’s Sustainable Development Strategy.

Dr Matt Winning

Dr Matt Winning is a researcher at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources with a PhD in climate change policy and is also a stand-up comedian who has written and performed three sell-out shows at the Edinburgh fringe on the topic of the climate crisis as well as appearing on Dave, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Three. He uses comedy to reach wider audiences on the topic by entertaining them in a non-preachy way while helping people relate on a more personal level.

Kate Jones

Kate Jones is Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity at University College London and has held appointments at the Zoological Society of London, University of Cambridge, Columbia University and Imperial College London. Her research investigates the interface of ecological and human health, using statistical and mathematical modelling to understand the impact of global land use and climate change on ecological and human systems. Kate’s research also develops applied artificial intelligence tools for monitoring ecological health, particularly for monitoring ecosystems acoustically and runs a number of wildlife citizen science programmes. Kate has written over 100 articles and book chapters in prestigious journals such as Nature and Science and is a scientific advisor for a number of international biodiversity charities and chaired The Bat Conservation Trust for 9 years. In 2008, Kate won the Leverhulme Prize for outstanding contributions to Zoology. Kate is the director of the Nature Smart Research Centre in the Institute of Future Living at the new UCL campus at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park opening in 2022.