Justyna Lisinska
Justyna is a PhD student in Web Science in her final year. Her thesis investigates the discursive practices of populist supporters on the Internet. Justyna recently joined the Open Innovation Team for their secondment and worked on presenting complex issues in a consumable way and various other projects as a policy advisor. Read more here.
Felipe González Soley
Felipe is a doctoral researcher in Economics, focusing on international macroeconomics and monetary policy. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Duke University (USA) and a Bachelor of Economics from the Catholic University of Asuncion (Paraguay). Prior to starting his doctoral studies, he served in different positions at the Economic Studies Office of the Central Bank of Paraguay.
Cristina Argudin Violante
Cristina is a PhD student at the School of Biological Sciences. Her research focuses on evaluating the sustainability of alternative forest livelihoods and implementing conservation actions to preserve biodiversity in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. She is very excited to be part of the PPS Associate Scheme and contribute to link science and policy, whilst learning from a multidisciplinary team. Read more here.
Tim Muntslag
Tim is a PhD-student in Clinical and Experimental Sciences. He studies immune cells in the brain (i.e. microglia) and aims to identify their diversity in health, to provide a basic science answer to the complexity of age-associated disease. With the policy associates, he is keen to explore his first experience in public policy.
Ben Batchelor
Ben is currently in his 3rd year of his PhD modeling the spread of Tau in a fruit fly. In doing so he hopes to gain further insight into the spread of Alzheimer's disease. He is excited to get into grips with making scientific breakthroughs into future policy.
Juljan Krause
Juljan is a final-year PhD student at the School of Electronics & Computer Science where he investigates the global security challenges of quantum computing and quantum communication networks. In his previous role as Policy Advisor with the UK Cabinet Office, he worked on a number of tech-related projects and he is generally very curious about the transmission mechanisms between cutting edge university research and policymaking. He is particularly excited to be joining the Policy Associate scheme at this point as thoughtful and impartial policy advice on both the potential and limits of technology to solve pressing social and political problems has never been more urgent. He recently completed a secondment experience with the Cabinet's Office Open Innovation Team. Read more here.
Paul Muckelt
Paul is a Research Fellow and PhD student within the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis and the Faculty of Health Science, University of Southampton. Paul’s PhD aims to reduce injuries and reduce the impact of Osteoarthritis, he also works on a project with the UK space agency. Paul is excited about the opportunity to help to transform research knowledge into something that can make a difference to everyday life.
Salma Sabour
Salma is a third year PhD student at the Climate Change and Energy group (Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences). During her research project, she is assessing the vulnerability and resilience of coastal Natural World Heritage sites to present and future shoreline change (erosion, flooding, sea-level rise) through the integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches. She is really interested by climate change subjects and diversity issues.
Michele Zadra
Michele is a second year PhD student in Politics and his PhD aims to determine the factor the influence political participation of EU citizens in England.
