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Dr Amy Cooper has a dual appointment at the James Hutton Institute and is an Environmental Microbiologist in the Environmental
Antonio is native from Mexico where he studied a BA in Political Science from Universidad de las Américas Puebla. He
Stuart is an applied plant ecologist at the Institute focusing on how land-use management and restoration influences ecosystem functioning, particularly
Jianyu Chen is a researcher in People-Environment studies and Behavioural Modelling in the Department of Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) at the James Hutton Institute (Aberdeen) since late 2022.
I completed my PhD in Microbiology at the University of Pretoria (UP, South Africa); my research focus is the legume-rhizobium
Katy is a Research Assistant in the Social Economic and Geographical Sciences Department (SEGS) working in Environmental Governance. Her projects
Trinity Sandra Ndlovu (nee) Senda is as Agroecosystem ecologist at the James Hutton Institute (JHI). She attained her PhD thesis from the University of Nairobi in Kenya in Management of Agroecosystems and the Environment. Her PhD work focused on the socio-ecological implications of communal land rights formalization in pastoral settings.
Alon is a landscape agroecologist with a background in geosciences, geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing. He holds a BSc degree from the University of Victoria, Canada and an MSc from the Lund University, Sweden. His work involves the use of GIS, remote sensing applications, programming, and conceptual modelling to evaluate landscape changes and to greater understand a landscape’s potential for sustainable agricultural practices.
Niamh Mahon is an environmental social scientist, with an interdisciplinary background, working in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) group at the James Hutton Institute. Niamh is interested in stakeholders’, and in particular farmers’ practices, and their perspectives and understandings of sustainability in farming and the wider food system.
