Dr Petr Kuneš
Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague, Czechia
Dr Petr Kuneš graduated in biology at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. His doctoral research focused on palaeoecology of late-glacial and early-Holocene vegetation and in 2008 he was awarded a Ph.D. at the department of botany. Between 2009 and 2011 Petr Kuneš worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, studying past interglacial dynamics. Petr Kuneš' basic research interests lie in palaeoecology, which he translates mainly as a connection between ecology, geology, and archaeology on various time scales, with the aim of investigating processes that are beyond direct observation and experimentation. Petr Kuneš likes studying ecosystem and environment dynamics and succession driven by natural and anthropogenic disturbances (climate, fire and human impact) and linking results with modern processes.
Dr Jonas Bunikis
European Research Council, Brussels, Belgium
Dr Jonas Bunikis is a Research Programme Officer in the Scientific Management Department of the European Research Council, a prestigious European funder of frontier research (https://erc.europa.eu). He has over a decade of experience in managing projects in life sciences, including managerial supervision of grant proposal evaluations. His efforts in reaching out to the scientific community focus on fostering effective grantsmanship in investigators at all career stages.Jonas Bunikis has a degree in medicine and a PhD in medical microbiology. His past research at Umeå University, Sweden and the University of California Irvine, USA spanned the molecular biology and ecology of tick-borne infections.
Mgr. Jana Čejková
Information Centre for European Research, Prague, Czechia
Jana Čejková is a member of the National Information Centre for European Research group and she works as a national contact point for societal challenge "Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials" of Horizon 2020. She is a manager of the EU project NCPs CaRE.
Jana Čejková graduated from the Faculty of Science Charles University in Prague with specialization in hydrobiology.
Dr Alessio Rovere
Dr Alessio Rovere is a geoscientist working on past sea-level changes and on the effects of current climate change on coastal environments. The focus of his research is understanding sea-level changes in the past through the measurement of past sea level indicators and comparison with earth models to unravel the magnitude of eustatic, isostatic and tectonic processes.Dr Rovere has a parallel interest in modern coastal environments, where he investigates coastal erosion, extreme wave events, interactions between ecological and geological processes and trajectories of coastlines and nearshore environments under changing climates and sea levels.
Dr Maria Uhle
National Science Foundation (NSF), Virginia, US
Dr Maria Uhle currently serves as the Program Director for International Activities in the Directorate for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation, where she develops mechanisms and agreements to foster international research collaboration through the Belmont Forum, the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and Future Earth. She is Co-Chair of the Belmont Forum, interim Co-Chair of the Governing Board of Future Earth and serves on the Executive Council of the IAI. She works with other US federal agencies on international cooperation through the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) where she is the National Science Foundation’s Principal to the Sub-committee on Global Change Research and co-Chair of the International Activities, Interagency Working Group of USGCRP. Prior to her appointment at NSF, she served as an International Affairs Officer in the Office of International and Academic Affairs (OIAA) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she developed programs to foster research collaboration with NIST’s international partners from countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Prior to working at NIST, she served as Program Director for the National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board and the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. She directed several committees that addressed topics relevant to the Arctic and Antarctic, and focused on reanalysis of historical climate data, and climate projections based on emission scenarios. Before joining the NAS, Dr Uhle served on the faculty at the University of Tennessee in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Her background includes degrees in environmental science and geology, and her research focused on investigating the fate of organic matter and contaminants in atmospheric, surface water and soil environments from urban areas and the polar deserts of Antarctica.