Dr. Jessica Thorn, a lecturer at Imperial College London and ARISE Fellow, researches climate adaptation, biodiversity, and land use change. With 17 years across 65+ countries, she’s secured £7 million in funding, influenced global policy, and supervises PhD students, postdocs, and interns in interdisciplinary environmental research.

Geographer, climatologist, PhD in Earth Sciences in the field of geography. Magdalena's scientific interests focus on bioclimatology and urban climate. She developed a monitoring network of the urban heat island in the Warsaw agglomeration. I research the climate of neighbourhoods and the impact of Warsaw’s parks on the surrounding areas.

Dr Sareh Moosavi is a lecturer in Environmental Planning and Design at the University of Melbourne. Her research and teaching activities focus on innovative landscape-led and nature-based approaches for climate responsive circular cities. Associate Professor Cathy Oke is the Director of Melbourne Centre for Cities, and Associate Professor / Melbourne Enterprise Principal Fellow in Informed Cities in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning. Cathy's interests focus on research, policy and practice boundary spanning for increased nature and climate action in cities. She is Senior Advisor to the Innovate4Cities program of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.