SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing
Our experts in biomedical and healthcare technologies
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| Benjamin Bach |
data visualization data science public engagement |
Working on data visualization and making data accessible and understandable by experts and non-experts. Data visualization is essential in understanding complex processes and data sets. Especially, techniques from storytelling and visual communication have huge potential to communicate findings and information to large and diverse audiences. |
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| Julio Bros-Williamson |
environmental adaptation social sciences renewable energy energy efficiency |
Interested in low embodied carbon materials and techniques in the built environment, energy-efficient technological solutions for the refurbishment of existing buildings, and climate change adaptation and resilience of buildings by developing solutions and low carbon building services. |
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| Dominic Campopiano |
biocatalysis industrial biotechnology sustainability |
Using biocatalysts (natural and engineered) to catalyse chemical reactions, as well as developing chemical tools to reduce waste and increase yields of enzyme-catalysed chemical reactions. | ||||
| James Cheney |
provenance data quality databases |
Data curation, provenance and data quality, which are particularly relevant to scientific data management settings that are generically relevant to many of the SDGs. | ||||
| Michael Cowley |
chemistry discovering new chemistry for a sustainable society |
Working on the chemistry of the most abundant metals in the Earth’s crust - aluminium and silicon - to provide synthetic methods to prepare bulk and fine chemicals with lower energy costs and without reliance on limited reserves of precious metals. | ||||
| Jamie Davies |
synthetic biology medicines biotechnology |
Focussed on improved health and well-being, particularly through research and also dissemination to and partnership wit the global south in the area of pharmacology and diagnostics. | ||||
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| Simone Dimartino |
bioprocessing adsorption technologies additive manufacturing |
Broadly interested in adsorption technologies for applications ranging from manufacture of new healthcare products and foodstuff to CO2 capture. | ||||
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| Katherine Dunn |
electrosynbionics bionanotechnology renewable energy |
Research on electrosynbionics, which involves the development of devices that use biological or bio-inspired components to generate, use or store electricity. This includes biophotovoltaics and biobatteries. | ||||
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| Andrew Free |
biotechnology anti-microbial resistance biogeochemical cycling |
Interested in the application of microbial communities to bioremediation, sustainable waste treatment and energy generation from waste. We also have interests in the evolution and spread of antimicrobial resistance and approaches to tackling it. | ||||
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| Margaret Graham |
biotechnology remediation renewables |
Remediation methods to tackle environmental contamination in urban areas, such as the use of biochar/microorganisms to remove manganese from drinking water. | ||||
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| Lea-Anne Henry |
science and policy renewable energy environmental adaptation |
Work centred on engaging with multiple stakeholders to develop the evidence base needed to implement and build better policies around oceans and marine ecosystems. I have strong links with the fisheries, tourism, oil and gas, and renewables sectors around the Atlantic. I engage with government agencies and international conventions with the aim of co-producing the evidence we need about the impacts of our activities and climate change to ensure marine policies are truly leading us on a path toward a more sustainable future. | ||||
| Louise Holyoake |
synthetic biology proteins |
Interested in Synthetic Biology and how it can be utilised to create sustainable solutions. | ||||
| Alex Hutchison |
data & AI for good climate change responsible innovation |
The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF is a joint partnership between UNICEF, The Scottish Government and the University of Edinburgh’s Data Driven Innovation Programme which seeks to enable improvement in outcomes for every child. We draw on the strengths of our partners and their network to bring insight and solve problems using data and responsible innovative data practices, with a focus on delivering against the Sustainable Development Goals. Our mission is to provide the platform that brings together the appropriate data and expertise to answer our challenge questions for children across a variety of themes and geographies. | ||||
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| Emily Johnston |
biotechnology microbial cell factories synthetic biology |
Development of yeast cell factories for the production of plant triterpenoid compounds. These compounds have huge potential in many industries; for example as surfactants in cleaning products, as vaccine adjuvants and anti-inflammatories in therapeutics, and as gelling agents and foam stabilisers in food products. Some compounds provide novel functionalities (SDG 3 and 9), while others are bio-based alternatives to petrochemical-derived chemicals (SGD 12 and 13). | ||||
| Meriem El Karoui |
biotechnology molecular microbiology anti-microbial resistance |
Works on understanding how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and how to better find solutions to avoid resistance. We combine molecular microbiology, mathematical modelling and biophysics to address these questions | ||||
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| Gary Loake |
biotechnology agritechnology |
Interested in cultured plant cells as sustainable biomanufacturing platforms for high value chemicals, and sustainable solutions for crop protection. | ||||
| John McCloskey |
risk co-production urbanisation |
We run the GCRF Tomorrow's Cities Hub which aims to reduce disaster risk for the 2 billion new urban residents of tomorrow's rapidly expanding cities. We use interdisciplinary methods to understand risk and tools for risk assessment that can democratise the concept of risk and allow poor communities to argue for safer and more human future urban expansion. | ||||
| Heather McQueen | Expertise in biology teaching and interested in the inclusion of SDGs in our curricula. | |||||
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| Bart Pander | autotrophic biotechnology business | Interested in non-photosynthetic autotrophic microbiology and biotechnology. | ||||
| Paul Patras |
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| Symon Podilchak |
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| Subramanian Ramamoorthy |
AI technology in education healthcare technologies |
Expertise in Robotics and AI, with broad interests in the applications of these technologies to helping address societal problems. I am particularly interested in the application of predictive modelling and design methods to advancing healthcare technologies, and technologies for energy and sustainable systems. Also, as an educator, I am keen to explore ways to improve the quality and access to education. | ||||
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| Lynne Regan |
biotechnology agritechnology human health |
Expertise in biomaterials, such as hydrogels, made exclusively from recombinant proteins produced by bacteria. This method contrasts with those that use petrochemically derived components to synthesise such materials. | ||||
| Judy Robertson | data literacy | Academic lead for Data Education in Schools. We're looking for researchers who work on sustainability themes using data who might want to explain their work to school children. https://dataschools.education/. Our seminar series for teachers is themed around the sustainability goals this year. | ||||
| Neil Robertson |
drinking water solar rural |
Expertise in materials chemistry for application in low-cost solar photovoltaics, and electrical energy storage via batteries and supercapacitors. We also work on photocatalytic water treatment for rural communities in India, which would also be applicable to similar communities around the world. This is focused on villages where untreated surface water is currently being consumed. | ||||
| Susan Rosser |
engineering biology biotechnology biomedicine |
Expertise in engineering biology approaches to engineer cells to perform novel functions e.g. build pathways for the production of biosurfactants, develop enzymes for cold water cleaning and new ways for biology to build things in general. My research is also focused on developing cell and gene therapies that are cheaper, more effective and widely available. | ||||
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| Adam Stokes |
robotics bioelectronics engineering |
Interested in robotics for a safer and sustainable world. | ||||
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| John Vines |
design co-creation data-driven technology |
Interested in issues of social responsibility around technology design and development, and co-creation of new systems with communities that are affected by and responsible for them. Conducted research around digital technologies and data-driven systems in relation to civic action, community development, and in general the role of technologies in supporting sustainable communities and address issues of social inequality. | ||||
| Gary Watnough |
EO4SDGS poverty mapping |
Interested in how satellite data can be leveraged for monitoring poverty and livelihoods. This is because we need more data on how SDGs are progressing but the traditional ways of doing this using household surveys are time consuming and expensive. | ||||
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| Christopher Wood |
biotechnology AI bioinformatics |
Developing new methods for protein design. We collaborate broadly to apply our methods to address challenges in sustainability, both in agriculture and industry. We have a particular interest in developing protein-based sensors as well as novel enzymes that incorporate unnatural cofactors to expand their chemistry. |