Tom Breeze is a Senior Researcher at the University of Reading’s School of Agriculture, Policy and Development. Originally trained as an ecologist, he has a PhD in Ecological Economics and has spent 16 years working on interdisciplinary problems around pollinators and other ecosystem services, including on the IPBES pollinator assessment and the EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. His current research focuses on better understanding and monitoring the links between biodiversity and the food system.
Laura Bosco is a researcher at the Helsinki Lab of Ornithology as part of the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki, Finland. She studied Biology in Switzerland where she graduated in 2018 with a thesis on the impacts of vineyard management and landscape structure on Woodlarks and their arthropod prey. Afterwards Laura worked at the Swiss Ornithological Institute as scientific collaborator in a project on increasing vineyard biodiversity. Her research focuses on understanding biodiversity responses to climate and land-use changes in relation to habitat loss and fragmentation at various spatial scales. She is particularly interested how landscape ecological aspects play into species responses to global change. Laura is currently the President of the Society for Conservation Biology Europe Region.
Tibor Erős is a scientific advisor and leader of the Fish and Conservation Ecology Research Group at the HUN-REN Balaton Limnological Research Institute, Hungary. He earned his PhD in ecology from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Karlstad University, Sweden. His research focuses on aquatic ecology, biodiversity conservation, and environmental management. He has led several applied research projects aimed at developing and improving monitoring systems, assessing the impacts of invasive species, and evaluating ecosystem health in alignment with the European Union Water Framework Directive. His recent works explore biodiversity and ecosystem service trade-offs, as well as land-use planning for conservation and restoration prioritization to support sustainable water management.
Tamara Mitrofanenko is working as an expert in the field of regional sustainable development as part of the team of the United Nations Environment Programme, Office in Vienna, Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention and at the University of Natural Resources and life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning (ILEN). Her work has been largely focused on Central and Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus countries. Her PhD Thesis was focused on “Integrating approaches from the Intergenerational field into protected area management and regional development governance”. Since learning about the importance of transdisciplinary approaches for sustainable regional development, she has devoted her efforts to integration of transdisciplinary approaches into academic systems and policy processes as well as science-policy-practice interface in the context of sustainable regional development, as well as Education for Sustainable Development.
Agnieszka Wypych is an associate professor in climatology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and works also in the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute which serves as National Weather Service in Poland. Her main research fields cover climatology, hydroclimatology and GIS in environmental sciences while the current research interests are mostly weather extremes as well as climate change and variability and its impact on the environment and the society. She is currently a head of Human-Environmental Systems Research Centre at Jagiellonian University and also a chair of the Commission on Climatology International Geographical Union.
Magdalena Kubal-Czerwińska, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Tourism and Health Resort Management, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Faculty of Geography and Geology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her background is solid in socio-economic geography and tourism, she holds both: MSc and PhD in Tourism Geography. She is an active and involved researcher with research interests revolving around such topics as entrepreneurial behaviour in hospitality on rural areas, gender in tourism, cultural tourism, sustainable development in tourism and hospitality, attitudes and behaviours towards the problem of reducing food waste. She was involved as a researcher in national and international projects, e.g., the Visegrad funds, Twinning (H2020), National Science Centre (Poland). She is an active member of the Human-Environmental Systems Research Centre (HES Research Centre) at the Faculty of Geography and Geology of the Jagiellonian University, a center of excellence in the field of research on human-environmental system.