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Dr Rob Bellamy is Senior Lecturer in Climate and Society in the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester.

Holly Jean Buck is an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo in New York.

Cathy is a chemist by background and works in the Climate Science Team of the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, where she leads on greenhouse gas removal technologies.

Henry King is Science and Technology Leader – Sustainability in Unilever’s Safety and Environment Assurance Centre.

Dr Whendee Silver is the Rudy Grah Endowed Chair and Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley.

Harley is the Head of Climate Mitigation Science at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), supporting evidence-based net zero policymaking.

Dr Fanny Monteiro is an associate professor in Ocean Sciences and co-director of the Bristol Research Initiative for the Dynamic Global Environment (BRIDGE) at the University of Bristol. She develops models to represent the interactions between the marine ecosystem, ocean biogeochemistry and climate.

Dr Hannah Whitby is a marine biogeochemist interested in the interactions between trace metals and organics in aquatic systems. She studies the cycling of trace metals
and how their bioavailability can impact aquatic life and water quality, as either toxicants or nutrients.

Dr Jamie Wilson is an Earth System Modeller interested in the interactions between marine plankton ecosystems, biogeochemistry, and the carbon cycle. 

Lisa Ainsworth is an Adjunct Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and the Research Leader of the Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit.

Assoc. Prof. Dr Suzan Benedick has been working as a lecturer in the Faculty of Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Malaysia Sabah since 2007.

Carl Bernacchi is a research scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and an associate professor in the department of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Michael Bird trained as a geologist at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University.

Evan H DeLucia is the G William Arends Professor of Biology and Baum Family Director at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr Neil R. Edwards, MA, PhD is Professor of Earth System Science at The Open University, UK.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Rachael James is Professor of Geochemistry within the School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton.

Professor Lenny Koh, is a Chair Professor in Operations Management, Founders and Directors of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre at the Management School.

Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil

Paul Nelson is a soil scientist/agronomist, with research and leadership experience in industry, government and tertiary sectors.

Melissa is the Deputy Director of SEARRP and has over 11 years’ experience in environmental consultancy and planning, natural resources and conservation management as well as stakeholder engagement

Chris Pearce is a Senior Marine Geoscientist at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton.

Nick is Professor of Environmental Psychology and Risk and Director of the Understanding Risk Research Group based within the School of Psychology at Cardiff University.

Earth's carbon balance, ecosystem modelling, forest observations from space

Glen Reynolds is the current Director of the South East Asia Rainforest Research Programme (SEARRP).

Professor Andy Ridgwell is a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Bristol and Professor of Geology at the University of California, Riverside.

Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil

Andrew Yool is a research scientist in the Marine Systems Modelling (MSM) group at NOC, Southampton.

Elena's research combines empirical and modelling approaches to investigate the physical and biological processes driving systems’ responses to the environment.

Vicky studied at the University of 91Ö±²¥â€™s School of Biosciences, where she obtained a First Class combined undergraduate and Master’s degree (MBiolSci).  She joined the LC3M team as a Research Technician in September 2023.

Victoria is the Research Centre Manager for the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation and also the Greenhouse gas removal with UK agriculture via enhanced rock weathering Demonstrator.

Heather is a geochemistry research technician at the University of Southampton.

Fred Holden is a Research Officer at James Cook University (JCU) who is running the LC3M enhanced weathering field trial in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Dr Ilsa Kantola is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Euripides Kantzas is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation.

Prior to joining LC3M in January 2022, Robin gained research experience in multiple disciplines, including an internship with the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP).

Mark has been a Research Associate at the University of 91Ö±²¥ since 1994, mainly working on the global land surface carbon and hydrological cycles via dynamic vegetation models.

David joined LC3M as a Research Technician in April 2023.

Elspeth has a background in environmental psychology and is interested in public risk perceptions of environmental risk, specifically emerging risk issues.

Assistant Manager in Sustainability, IOI Corporation Group. Postdoctoral Research Associate between 2017-2021, based at the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP), Malaysia.

Joined LC3M in October 2020 as a PhD student with the BBSRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership in Mechanistic Biology.

Katie completed an MSci in Chemistry at the University of Bristol in 2021. She started her UKRI-funded PhD at the University of 91Ö±²¥ in October 2022, titled ‘Quantifying air quality and indirect climate feedbacks of land-based greenhouse gas removal strategies’.

Issi is researching whether enhanced rock weathering is part of the solution to net-zero cocoa farming.

Xi (Helen) Chen is a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant within the School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton.

Interdisciplinary model coupling applications, integrated assessment and uncertainty quantification.

Climate Scientist and Physical Geographer with research interests in climate dynamics, modelling, and mitigation.

Becky is an Atmospheric Chemist and a Climate Scientist with research interests in climate change mitigation, atmospheric chemistry, climate modelling and air quality. She holds a PhD from the University of York and an MChem from the University of Leeds.

Megan began her PhD at the University of Illinois in the summer of 2022 and subsequently joined LC3M. She is part of a team working on the RockFACE (Free Air Carbon-dioxide Enrichment) project.

Elliot Chang is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Eion Corp.

Dr Dimitar Epihov is an Early Career Fellow in Nature-based climate solutions.

Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and former Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil

Professor of Environmental Science, Department of Environment and Geography.

Yoshiki Kanzaki is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Mike has a background in the physical and earth sciences, with an emphasis on evaluating the relative merits of geoengineering proposals.

Facility Leader: Mineralogy, Petrology and Biostratigraphy, British Geological Survey (BGS).

Dr Jean-Francois Mercure is Associate Professor in Climate Change Policy at the University of Exeter.

Chris Montes is a Research Plant Physiologist with the USDA-ARS Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit in Urbana, IL, USA.

Research Fellow at the School of Agriculture and Environment, UWA.

Noah is an isotope geochemist that works on environmental change in Earth’s past, present, and future. 

Hector Pollitt is a Director and the Head of Modelling at Cambridge Econometrics.

Tom is a PhD candidate in the Planavsky Group at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale.

Chris Reinhard is a biogeochemist and Earth system scientist whose research focuses on the scaling up deployment of approaches toward carbon dioxide removal (CDR).

Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering.

Head of Science, British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO).

Chief Executive, Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO).

Climate Scientist, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool.

Adam Wolf is Founder and CEO of Eion Corp. He founded and led Arable Labs Inc from 2014-2020, and holds a PhD in Biology from Stanford, and an MSc and BSc in Agronomy from UC Davis.

Dr Shuang Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University.