Bernd Braunecker grew up mostly in Switzerland. He studied physics and received his PhD (docteur es sciences) at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, and subsequently held fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, University of...
Matteo Fumagalli's current project focuses on the internationalisation of the Lao PDR, with a particular focus on post-socialist state transformation and authoritarian environmental governance, energy mega-projects and infrastructural development and violence, and...
Dr Jessica Hope is a lecturer in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. As a political ecologist, she works across critical development studies and geography and researches the underlying knowledges, logics and politics that underpin...
Graham Turnbull is Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, where he served as Head of School from 2015 to 2019. His research interests include smart lighting solutions for applications in sustainability, spanning environmental sensing,...
Peter Wahl is a Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy. He graduated with a diploma in Physics in 2001 after studying at the Universities of Bonn and Lausanne. Peter went on to pursue a PhD degree in Physics at the Max Planck Institute of Solid...
Mara van der Lugt is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews, working mainly on the history of philosophy (17th C – current day) but also on issues in contemporary philosophy, such as environmental ethics, animal ethics, and the philosophy of ecology....
Diána Vonnak is a social anthropologist focusing on cultural heritage regimes in Eastern Europe and beyond. She looks at the intersections between political-economic regimes and heritage regimes, the role of soft power and cultural diplomacy in shaping heritage...
Following a Degree and PhD at Imperial College (the latter under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson) Bob spent 35 years in the Chemical industry. He played a pivotal role in the invention and development of several “new to the world”...
Gabriela Manley is a Teaching Fellow at the University of St Andrews’ Social Anthropology department. She studied Scottish nationalism and its futural orientations, paying attention to the ways in which the future influences political action, in particular...
John Irvine FRSE, FRSC has made a unique and world-leading contribution to the science of energy materials, especially fuel cell and energy conversion technologies. This research has ranged from detailed fundamental to strategic and applied science and has had major...