Keynote Speech on Climate Change: Prof. (Dr.) Jyoti K Parikh
Professor (Dr) Jyoti K Parikh, Executive Director of (IRADe), was a member of the former Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, India and is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to IPCC authors in 2007. She has held numerous national and international appointments and has served as an energy consultant to the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy, the EU, Brussels, and U.N. agencies such as UNIDO, FAO, UNU, UNESCO, and so on.
She obtained her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1967. She has served as the senior professor and Acting Director of IGIDR, Mumbai 1986-2003, and has served as a Visiting Professor and a senior energy consultant at various international organizations. She has more than 250 research and other publications, in a vast area ranging in energy and power sector, climate change, renewable energy, inter-regional power trade etc., just to name a few.
Intersection of HEP and the climate: Prof. Veronique Boisvert
- BSc Physics at Universite de Montreal (born there hence French-Canadian name)
- PhD at Cornell University on CLEO detector
- CERN fellow working on ATLAS at the LHC
- Marshak fellow with University of Rochester working on CDF at the Tevatron
- Professor of Physics at Royal Holloway, University of London working on ATLAS since 2007
Computational science and sustainability: Dr. Loïc Lannelongue
Dr Loïc Lannelongue is a Research Associate in Biomedical Data Science in the Heart and Lung Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Cambridge-Baker Systems Genomics Initiative.
He leads the Green Algorithms project, an initiative promoting more environmentally sustainable computational science. His research interests also include radiogenomics, i.e. combining medical imaging and genetic information with machine learning to better understand and treat cardiovascular diseases. He is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, a Post-doctoral Associate at Jesus College, Cambridge, and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Overview on sustainable accelerators: Prof. Masakazu Yoshioka
- During my student days, I was a Kendo (traditional martial art using a sword made of bamboo) master
- Institute for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo (1976~1989)
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation, KEK (1989~2012)
- Retired in 2012 (Professor Emeritus of KEK)
- President, International Economic Policy Research Association
- Sustainable town planning for the ILC
- ILC-related technology development
Contribution from the IOP PABG - Sustainable Accelerator R&D in the UK: Ben Shepherd
Ben Shepherd is the group leader of the Magnetics and Radiation Sources Group, and chairs ASTeC's Sustainable Accelerators Task Force. He has over 20 years of experience designing, building and testing novel magnetic systems for accelerators. He is passionate about sustainability and is keen to ensure that we build and operate future accelerators in the most efficient way possible.
Psychology of Climate Change: Dr. Thijs Bouman
Dr. Thijs Bouman is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen in The Netherlands. His expertise is in the field of environmental psychology, group processes, human values, social identity.
Bouman's work focuses on individuals' responses to global crises, in particular climate change. In this, he looks at how these responses are affected by personal and social factors, as well as the context in which people operate. One line of research he is currently working on is the interaction between people and technology, particularly within the energy domain. Research questions he addresses are: How can we better understand and consider the preferences and motivations of people within energy systems? How can we adjust technological innovations to user preferences and motivations? and Can we give people a more active role within energy systems and the decision making about energy systems?
Industrial scale involvement on sustainability development (Industry: ARUP): Suzanne Evans
Suzanne is a civil and sustainability engineer at Arup, and is passionate about promoting and integrating sustainable development on projects. She plays an active role in sustainable infrastructure design within Arup and is experienced in undertaking life cycle assessments, decarbonisation of infrastructure assets, and decarbonisation implementation plans in line with PAS2080:2023.
Best Practice in HECAP+: Dr. Ayan Paul
Dr. Ayan Paul is a research scientist on the AI + Life Sciences team at Northeastern University, Boton, United States. Currently, Ayan’s research is focused on charting RNA biology using multi-omics data. He focuses on the specific processes that drive transcriptome and protein diversity.
Ayan has published work in theoretical particle physics (Higgs physics and heavy quark physics), symmetry and symmetry breaking, quantum field theory, mathematical epidemiology, computational socioeconomics, interpretable machine learning and genetics.
He is also actively involved in technology transfer and is the cofounder of CoVis Inc. and KarmaV Inc. He is the chief scientific officer of the company KarmaV.
He received his doctorate in theoretical particle physics from the University of Notre Dame du Lac and was a postdoctoral fellow at INFN, Rome. Before joining the Institute for Experiential AI in 2022, he was a fellow at DESY and a senior scientist at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Workshop on "Know Your Footprint": Naman Kumar Bhalla
Naman Kumar Bhalla completed his bachelor studies in Engineering Physics in Delhi (India) before moving to Germany, where he pursued a Masters in Physics in Göttingen. Currently he is a doctoral researcher in Freiburg (Germany) searching for lepton flavour violation with the ATLAS experiment. Since April 2023 he was involved with the young High Energy Physicists (yHEP) association, contributing towards the development of a survey tool that allows researchers in HEP-related fields to estimate their individual professional carbon footprint. He strongly believes that sustainability needs to be promoted in every endeavor.
