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.