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...
Since 2009 Tobias Haller is Professor in Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social Anthropology and CDE, University of Bern and lecturer at the ETH Zurich. He studied social anthropology, geography and sociology and made his PhD and Habilitation at the University...
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...
Mario Valente is a second year PhD Candidate at University of Foggia. For his doctoral research, Mario is currently studying the political impact of wind industry in the south of Italy. His research focuses on the connection between the actual socio-technical...
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”...
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...
Syed Ansar Ali Shah has completed MS Physics at COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan with a funded research work under the HEC Peridot Scholarship based in the Institute of Chemistry, Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF), France. His research was focused on the synthesis,...
David Schröter is an FNS Doctoral Student at the University of Lausanne, and part of the Cultural and Social Anthropology Laboratory (LACS). His research ethnographically explores the impact of lithium extraction at the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, by looking at practices...