Invited Speakers & Panelist

Susmita Joshi

Susmita Joshi

Susmita Joshi is a Product Line Manager at Astera Labs, leading the Ethernet product line. She has more than 15 years’ experience with high-speed connectivity solutions, optical communications, and data center and core networks. Prior to Astera Labs, Susmita held product management, program management, business development, and research roles with Intel, HUBER+SUHNER, and Nokia-Siemens-Networks. She […]

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Samir KC

Samir KC

Samir KC is a senior research scholar at IIASA. He first joined the institute in 2005 and has previously led the Multidimensional Demographic Modeling research group. Currently, he is affiliated with the Population and Just Societies Program. Concurrently, Samir serves as a professor and founding member of the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai

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Monica Contestabile

Monica Contestabile

Monica joined the Nature family in 2011 as a Senior Editor at Nature Climate Change, where she handled original research and review articles across the entire breadth of social sciences, and interdisciplinary articles integrating natural and social science disciplines in the context of climate and global environmental change. She became the launching Chief Editor of Nature Sustainability in

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Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence

Prof. Dr. Mark Lawrence is scientific director at RIFS, the Research Institute for Sustainability at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (formerly IASS). He addresses the Anthropocene in an integrative manner, bringing together a wide range of academic expertise in his team and involving societal actors in a transdisciplinary research approach. His main transformative research

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Marianne Beisheim

Dr. Marianne Beisheim is Senior Associate at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs, in Berlin, Germany. Her focus is on the governance of sustainable development, with an academic background in political science and international relations. She is an expert on the follow-up and review processes of the UN High-Level

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Lorenzo Squintani

Lorenzo Squintani

Prof. Lorenzo Squintani is Professor of Energy Law and Director of the Wubbo Ockels School for Energy and Climate at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). He is co-director of the Like!Me Living Lab, where he collaborates with government and market parties to improve participatory processes in environmental law and the energy transition. He is

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Klaus Hubacek

Klaus Hubacek is an ecological economist and Professor in Science, Technology and Society in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the director of the Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG). His research focuses on conceptualizing and modeling interactions between human and environmental systems. Klaus has

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Jacquelien Scherpen

Jacquelien Scherpen

Jacquelien Scherpen is currently rector-magnificus of the University of Groningen. Her research area covers a variety of complexity reduction methods for control systems, and the study and design of controllers for smart energy systems is a major application area of her. For that, she works together with researchers of other disciplines.

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Huadong Guo

Huadong Guo

Guo Huadong is Director General of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), and a professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Aerospace Information Research Institute. He is an Academician of CAS, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Finnish Society of Sciences

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