Working with Atoms

Prof Roger Pielke Jr - Climate Change, Energy and Science in Politics.

Professor Roger Pielke Jr has been a fellow of the University of Colorado Boulder since 2001 where he founded and has directed the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and the Sports Governance Center. He has won multiple prizes for his work including an honorary doctorate from Linköping University in Sweden, the Public Service Award of the Geological Society of America, and the Eduard Brückner Prize in Munich, Germany in 2006 for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research. He has published multiple books including: * The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics https://amzn.to/2FjnLBp * The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell you About Global Warming https://amzn.to/33Yr3o6 * The Edge: The War Against Cheating and Corruption in the Cutthroat World of Elite Sports https://amzn.to/2Y5GAhZ * The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change https://amzn.to/3kO5oF7

Eleanor Thomson - Carbon mapping, drones and trees.

Eleanor is a DPhil/PhD student in the Geography Department at the University of Oxford where she is using hyperspectral cameras on drones to test spectroscopy as a measure of tropical forest chemical composition. If successful, the results will be scaled up by applying the same method to satellite data. Eleanor is collaborating with the European Space Agency and Google Earth Engine to create a publicly available map of tropical forest carbon absorption in Google Earth Engine that can be used by scientists and policymakers. In 2016, she completed an MSc in Environmental Change and Management at Oxford with distinction. She also has worked as a research scholar at Northern Arizona University, USA, using drones to remotely measure tropical leaf traits.

Dr Anna Ploszajski - Hydrogen, 4D printing and science comedy.

Anna is a materials scientist, engineer and science communicator. She graduated from the Oxford Department of materials in 2013 with a first, then went on to research at UCL for both her PhD and for post-doctorate research. In 2017 she was named Young Engineer of the Year by the Royal Academy of Engineering, and in 2018 won the Silver Medal from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. She is a keen science communicator who regularly speaks at both comedy clubs and science festivals about materials, has written regular pieces in both the guardian and materials world and hosts her own podcast Handmade.