Interviews
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A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Owen Conlan about the EU Project Provenance
Professor Owen Conlan is a researcher and educator at Trinity College Dublin. He guides the technical development of the Provenance Horizon 2020 project and he also leads the Digitally Enhanced Engagement strand at the large-scale ADAPT research centre (www.adaptcentre.ie), which focuses on research... -
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Oscar Espiritusanto about the EU Project Provenance
Oscar Espiritusanto is a professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid at the Department of Journalism and Audiovisual Communication, and he teaches classes to master’s students on citizen journalism, participation, user-generated content, verification and human rights. As a researcher at Fundación... -
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Sylvain Sebert about Climate change & Health (exposome)
Professor Sylvain Sebert leads a multicultural team of researchers who study the life-course trajectories to unhealthy ageing via the alteration of cardio-metabolic functions at the Centre for Life Course Health Research of the University of Oulu, Finland. Sebert and his team combine various sources... -
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Martine Vrijheid about Climate change & Health (exposome)
Interview with Professor Martine Vrijheid, an environmental epidemiologist and head of the ISGlobal Childhood and Environment Programme. Her research focuses on the impact of environmental exposures on child health and development. Professor Vrijheid coordinated the Horizon 2020 funded HELIX (Human Early... -
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Roel Vermeulen about Climate change & Health (exposome)
Interview with Roel Vermeulen, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Exposome Science at Utrecht University and the University Medical Center Utrecht. He is also director of the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) and the Dutch consortium Exposome-NL, and project coordinator of the EXPANSE... -
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Arie Kruglanski about our need for cognitive closure during COVID-19
Interview with Arie Kruglanski, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, and co-founder and senior investigator at the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism (START). How do our personal impressions, experiences and attitudes, related... -
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Barbara Sahakian about brain changes during COVID-19
Interview with Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, UK. How is the pandemic changing our brains, in situations when we haven’t contracted the virus itself? How... -
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor John Drury about changes in social identity during COVID-19
Interview with John Drury, Professor of Social Psychology and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK. How does our social identity change during mass emergencies and disasters, and in times of a pandemic such as this one? John Drury:...