Gioia Falcone is Rankine Chair of Energy Engineering at the
University of Glasgow, where she is the Director of the Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy, Associate Director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions, Head of the Energy and Sustainability Research Group and member of the
University’s Sustainability Working Group. She champions the Sustainable Net-Zero challenge in engineering and beyond, with a particular interest in solutions
that bring together people, places and the environments. Between 2011 and early 2016, she held the Endowed Chair and Professorship in Geothermal Energy Systems and Head of the Department of Geothermal Engineering at Clausthal University of Technology, Lower Saxony.

Prof. Dr. Lorna Hughes is Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow, where she is based in the Information Studies Subject area. Her research focuses on the creation of digital cultural heritage, and the use and re-use of digital collections for research, teaching, and public engagement. She has a specific interest in the conceptualisation, development, implementation and categorisation of digital methods in the humanities, and the collaborations between the humanities and scientific disciplines that drive this agenda.

Dr. Belgin Okay-Somerville is Senior Lecturer of Human Resource Management and School Director of Internationalisation at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on employability, skills utilisation and job quality, career transitions, chance events and employee wellbeing, especially among younger workers.

Prof. Dr. Bridgette Wessels focuses broadly on the research of social and cultural change in the digital age and the dynamics of social inequalities in digital societies. For instance, she has undertaken research projects on social exclusion and digital divides, financial exclusion and the e-economy, social media and political inequality, health inequalities and telehealth, welfare services and (digital) identity, regional/digital journalism and participatory democracy, and e-policing, ethnicity and communities. She also focuses on cultural participation in the digital age. Debates about the ‘Fourth Industrial’ are framing her research on work, smart publics and 5G.