Andy Norris, is a Senior Geospatial Consultant at the Satellite Applications Catapult with many years of experience applying geospatial technology across a variety of industries. He is a founding member of the Catapult’s international development and humanitarian programme of work, evangelising geospatial to the sector. In his spare time Andy is a volunteer with the global disaster relief mapping charity MapAction.
Victoria Christmas founded Orange Tree to provide specialist expertise to companies on developing their bidding strategy and delivering key proposals. She works in the space sector supporting industry and academia to develop sound actionable strategies for company development and bids. She also works with UKSA and ESA as an independent expert advisor and assessor to multiple programmes.
In the last five years, she has worked as a professional mentor supporting several industry initiatives and launching the undergraduate mentoring programme, Lift Off – Stay Grounded to support students targeting a career in the space industry.
Her bidding career spans twenty years across defence, commercial and academic sectors. Victoria is an award-winning bid professional, a trained mentor and a STEM Ambassador with a passion for developing capability in others.
Dr Amani Becker is a Coastal Scientist in Ocean Biogeosciences at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). Her research interests are centred on blue carbon, coastal processes and resilience, with a focus on stakeholder engagement, capacity building and achieving impact from research.
Amani has led ESA and UKSA funded projects in the Southwest Indian Ocean providing satellite-derived data on sea level, winds, waves, currents and coastline change to support vulnerable coastal populations in adapting to the consequences of climate variability and change
Dr Claire Evans is a principal biogeochemist at the National Oceanography Centre. Her mission is to integrate biogeochemical cycles into the larger socioeconomic context, specifically looking at opportunities, trade-offs and threats arising from human interactions with the marine environment. To accomplish this, she employs an interdisciplinary approach, utilizing analytical techniques, autonomous technologies, remote sensing and computational tools to generate data needed to support the sustainable management of natural resources. Dr Evans’ approach is stakeholder-driven and her vision is to realise the benefit of her work by facilitating evidence-based policy making, relevant action and capacity development.
Nigel Fox is an NPL Fellow in Optical Radiometry and Earth Observation. Nigel joined NPL from University College London in 1981 with a BSc in Astronomy and Physics. Since that time he has been responsible for the establishment and dissemination of primary optical radiation measurement scales and in particular pioneered the development of techniques such as laser, cryogenic and filter radiometry. These techniques led to an improvement of nearly two orders of magnitude in the accuracy of many radiometric measurements and have been widely adopted by the international metrology community, and also resulted in the award of a PhD from the University of London. Nigel has published more than 150 papers on a range of topics from primary optical radiation measurements through to climate monitoring, various book chapters and presented widely around the world though invited and other contributions and is a Fellow of the institute of physics.
Qiu Yubao is a Professor of CBAS. He specializes in the microwave remote sensing for snow and ice, Arctic environment, and data science for Earth observations. From March 2012, he began his secondment as the Scientific and Technical Officer in Secretary to Group on Earth Observations (GEO) based in Geneva, supporting the water component-information services for cold regions, ecosystems, and data sharing. He has been brokering the Earth observation programs and applications. He was with the Helsinki University of Technology in 2008, and Finnish Metrological Institute as a short-term visiting scientist for each year from 2016 to 2018. Currently, he is also working as the PI for three national level projects funded by Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2017, he started to co-chair the working group on High Mountain and Polar Cold Regions under Digital Belt and Road Program, and co-lead to the GEO Cold Regions Initiative.
Alexia Tsouni is a Research Associate at the National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Operational Unit“BEYOND Centre of Earth Observation Research and Satellite Remote Sensing”. She leads the BEYOND/FloodHub team and she also works for the EuroGEO Secretariat in the coordination, support and facilitation of the smooth implementation and integration of EuroGEO initiative activities and Action Groups. Alexia Tsouni is the deputy coordinator of the UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office Greece in support of capacity building, outreach, horizontal cooperation and technical advisory support, and also deputy coordinator of the GEO Initiative GEO-CRADLE for the uptake of Earth Observation and Copernicus in the regions of Mediterranean, North Africa, Middle East, Balkans, and Black Sea. She is member of the CEOS Working Group on Disaster Resilience as well as of the GEO Working Group on Capacity Development. Alexia Tsouni is a graduate of the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), with specialisation in Water Resources, Hydraulic and Maritime Engineering, and she also holds a postgraduate diploma in Water Resources Science and Technology from NTUA. She is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA on floods simulation and risk assessment in urban areas combining multiple data sources. She has rich experience in Earth Observation coordination, capacity building and dissemination, exploitation of research outcomes, emergency management, disasters monitoring, water resources management and consultancy services.
Nathalie Morin is a remote sensing engineer specializing in forestry for the past 18 years. Since 2022, she has been working at GeoVille GmbH in Innsbruck, Austria, as a senior project manager in the fields of climate change mitigation, greenhouse gas reporting, and Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF). She excels in advancing scientific method developments toward operational services that address the needs of various stakeholders while ensuring compliance with the latest policy frameworks, including the Paris Agreement and the EU Green Deal.