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Alexander Poignant

Alexander is a student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is also a co-owner of Catalysts Development Ltd.

Helen Kendrick

Helen Kendrick is the programme manager at the Institute for Future Cities based at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Jillian Ney

Dr Jillian Ney is the UK’s first Dr of Social Media and Digital Behavioural Scientist. She is an international consultant, lecturer and speaker on digital behavioural intelligence. She helps companies through digital transformation projects by helping them understand the behaviour changes caused by digital technologies, identifies how to close the gaps and harness digital behaviours for commercial advantage.

Joseph Clarke

Joe Clarke is a professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Strathclyde. He is also the director of the Energy Systems Research Unit at this university. The ESRU is an internationally recognised research centre that is looking into new approaches to the built environment, energy demand reduction and sustainable means of energy supply.

Mary Stewart

Dr Mary Stewart is currently Reader in Psychology at Heriot-Watt University. She completed her Undergraduate degree in Psychology, Masters in Neuroscience, and her PhD in the Department of Medicine all at the University of Edinburgh. Her research areas are in auditory processing and language, emotional processing, mood and the broader autism phenotype.

Massimiliano Vasile

Professor Massimiliano Vasile is the Director of Strathclyde’s Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory and Coordinator of the Stardust Network for space debris and asteroid mitigation.

Nikolaos Dimitriadis

Dr Nikolaos Dimitriadis is an award-winning marketer and educator, helping top international brands with strategy and communications. He is a certified neuromarketer and the co-author of “Neuroscience for Leaders: A Brain Adaptive Leadership Approach”. He is the Development Director at the Executive Development Center of the University of Sheffield International Faculty.

Rebecca Scott

Rebecca Scott is a Law student. In addition to this, she is also a young ambassador for B-eat, the UK's Eating Disorder Charity and regularly delivers talks across the country challenging the stigma of mental health and educating young people, sufferers, friends and family and professionals alike.

Reza Pakravan

Reza Pakravan is an extreme adventurer, motivational speaker, documentary maker and a promoter and fundraiser for educational projects in Africa. He’s a former basketball player and has extensive professional education in finance, working for ten years in the industry in London. In 2013, Reza decided to leave his job behind and pursue extreme adventuring full-time in order to make a difference in his life and to raise funds to support educational projects in Africa. He set the world record in 2011 for crossing the Sahara desert by bicycle. He then set the world record in 2013 for the fastest bicycle journey the length of the planet from Norway to South Africa – 11,000 miles in 102 days.