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Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment

 

The Forum was founded in January 2013.  This year, members are drawn from all six University Schools and 21 University departments, centres and institutes, ranging from the Centre for Development Studies, the Departments of Engineering and Architecture to the new Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Institute for Public Health, as well as the British Antarctic Survey.  People from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) are also founding members of the group.

New members for this academic year include Professor Carol Brayne, the Director of the Institute for Public Health, Professor Nick Wareham, the Director of the Centre for Exercise and Activity Research (CEDAR) and the Director MRC Epidemiology Unit and Dr David Pencheon, the the Director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit.  

They will join Dr Stephen Cave, the Director of the new Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and Dr Rob Doubleday, the Executive Director of the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP). Dr Mariana Fazenda, Innovation and Enterprise Project Officer in the Department of Plant Sciences, Dr Erwin Reisner, a Reader and Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry and Dr Kristen MacAskill, the Associate Director of the Construction Engineering Masters Course in the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology will also become members.  Professor Theresa Marteau, the Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit, will also re-join us in January to help lead and shape the term focused on connections between our lifestyles, health and wellbeing and sustainability.

Dr Konstantina Stamati has also joined the core team as Head of Partnerships and Development and Dr Rosamunde Almond is now the Forum's Deputy Director.


Profiles of the Forum members


Dr Rosamunde  Almond
Deputy Director of the Forum,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge,
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Dr Simon  Beard
Postdoctoral Reseacher,
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
Professor Carol  Brayne
Director of Cambridge Institute of Public Health andProfessor of Public Health Medicine,
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge
 Polly  Courtice
Director
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), University of Cambridge
Dr Hildegard  Diemberger
Senior Associate in Research
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU),
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Dr Robert  Doubleday
Executive Director, Centre for Science and Policy,
University of Cambridge
Professor David  Dunne
Professor of Parasitology and Director of the Cambridge-Africa Programme,
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge
Dr Mariana  Fazenda
Innovation and Enterprise Project Officer and Co-ordinater of CambPlants,
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Dr Shailaja  Fennell
Lecturer in Development,
Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Professor Howard  Griffiths
Professor of Plant Ecology,
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Professor Peter  Guthrie
Director
Centre for Sustainable Development
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Professor Andy  Hopper
Professor of Computer Technology and Head of Department,
The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Dr Julian  Huppert
University Lecturer,
Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS),
University of Cambridge
Professor Roderic  Jones
Professor in the Department of Chemistry,
University of Cambridge
Professor Ian  Leslie
Professor of Computer Science,
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Professor Paul  Linden
Director of the Forum
The G.I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge
 Gordana  Najdanovic
Head of Partnership Development
Research Strategy Office, University of Cambridge
Professor Alan  O'Neill
Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading and currently a visiting professor in the Cavendish Laboratory and a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Professor Susan  Owens
Professor of Environment and Policy
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Dr David  Pencheon
Director,
NHS Sustainable Development Unit
Professor Simon  Redfern
Professor of Mineral Physics and Head of Department,
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Professor Lord Martin  Rees
Chair of the Forum
Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Department of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Dr Erwin  Reisner
University Reader, Co-director nanoDTC and the Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory,
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Dr Jake  Reynolds
Director, Sustainable Economy,
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), University of Cambridge
Dr Emily  Shuckburgh
Deputy Head of the Polar Oceans Team,
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
Professor Alison  Smith
Professor of Plant Biochemistry,
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Dr Konstantina  Stamati
Head of Partnerships and Development of the Forum,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge
Professor Koen  Steemers
Head of Department and Professor of Sustainable Design
Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
Professor Nick  Wareham
Co-Director of the Institute of Metabolic Science, Director of the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR) and Director,
MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
Professor Martin  White
Programme Lead – Food behaviours and public health interventions,
UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR),
MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge