Explore speakers and facilitators
Meet the world-leading experts at the Explore weekend who have generously shared tales, insights and advice from their deep involvement in expeditions and fieldwork.
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Aoife Cantwell-Jones
Aoife is a PhD student at Imperial College London. She recently completed a fieldwork expedition to Arctic Sweden, to study how bumblebees might be affected by changes to climate.
Eleanor Drinkwater
Eleanor Drinkwater is an entomologist, expedition leader and science communicator.
Holly O'Donnell
Holly is a conservation biologist with a passion for remote places and understudied species.
James Borrell
James is a research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. As a conservation biologist he has been involved with expeditions and fieldwork in a diverse range of environments, and is currently working in Madagascar.
James Kempton
James is a researcher in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford. In the summer of 2023, he led an international coalition of scientists to New Guinea for Expedition Cyclops
Joe Langley
Joe is a recent MSc Conservation graduate from UCL with fieldwork experience in the Congo Basin and South Africa. His particular interests are in tropical biodiversity and human-wildlife conflict.
Joshua Elves-Powell
Joshua is a conservation biologist, currently completing his PhD on large carnivore conservation in north-east Asia at the Zoological Society of London and UCL.
Matthias Hammer
Dr Matthias Hammer is the founder and executive director of citizen science & wildlife conservation NGO Biosphere Expeditions. He is a qualified wilderness medical officer, ski instructor, mountain leader, divemaster and survival skills instructor.
Niall McCann
Niall is a Fellow and former Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society, National Geographic Explorer, conservationist, and broadcaster, with a particular interest in humankind’s relationship with nature.
Suzannah Egleston
Suzannah recently completed an MRes in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at Imperial College London.
Thomas Starnes
Thom is Key Biodiversity Areas Programme Officer with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Cambridge.
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