Top Influencers: 55 UK Researcher’s To Follow in 2022

2 years ago

Researcher play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Researcher role. We have selected these Researcher’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.

Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Researcher’s. The list is in no particular order!

Vlad Zamfir

Researcher @ Ethereum Foundation

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James Forshaw

Security Researcher (Project Zero) @ Google

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John Davies

Chief Researcher @ BT

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John Davies is Chief Researcher in BT‘s Future Business Technology Research Practice. His interests include the application of semantic, Internet of Things and data analytics technologies to smart cities, business intelligence and information integration. He leads BT contribution to the HyperCat IoT interoperability project and is Project Director of the Stride smart transport collaborative project. He has previously coordinated a number of European collaborative research projects. Currently chairman of the Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS-15) conference, he is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a chartered engineer and has published many books and papers in his areas of expertise. Learn more about John Davies on Crunchbase…

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Arjun Hassard

Product Lead and Network Economics Researcher @ NuCypher

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Arjun Hassard is a CMO at Factmata. Learn more about Arjun Hassard on Crunchbase…

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Richard MacKenzie

Principal Researcher @ BT

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Richard MacKenzie is a principal researcher at British Telecom. He researches many areas of 5G, with a particular focus on network automation and the use of small cells. He is a BT technical representative at NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks) and SCF (Small Cell Forum). Richard joined BT in 2009. His past work has covered several areas of wireless research including spectrum management, cognitive radio, and next generation technologies. He has been involved in EU projects, in particular QoSMOS, where he was work package leader for the network architecture design. He worked as a spectrum manager for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and was part of BT’s bidding team for the U.K. 4G spectrum auction in 2013. Richard, has an M.Eng. in electronic engineering from the University of York and Ph.D. from the University of Leeds. Learn more about Richard MacKenzie on Crunchbase…

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Kim Hartmann

Lead Analyst and Senior Researcher @ Conflict Studies Research Centre

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Kim Hartmann is a senior consultant, researcher and an acknowledged evaluator for EU projects in the fields of cyber, network and software security at the Conflict Studies Research Centre, formerly part of the UK Ministry of Defence. As a computer scientist and mathematician she combines profound technical knowledge with an in-depth analysis of the geopolitical context of cyber incidents. Her fields of excellence are cyber security risk assessment of embedded systems and networks, IT forensics, privacy protection and secure software development. She has advised private, military and governmental organisations for over a decade on the assessment and integration of security aspects in existing technologies. Learn more about Kim Hartmann on Crunchbase…

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Sebastian Nowozin

Researcher @ Microsoft Research

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Sebastian Nowozin develops novel algorithms and models for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Nowozin’s current research interest is in the following areas: 1. probabilistic deep learning methods for unsupervised learning and semi-supervised structured prediction; 2. the consequence of model misspecification on estimation and on decision problems; 3. understanding agent complexity in order to improve learning efficiency; 4. designing models for reasoning and planning. In terms of methodology, Nowozin is interested in structured prediction, deep learning, Monte Carlo methods, and decision theory. Nowozin’s work has found industrial applications in computer vision, cloud-based machine learning, gesture recognition, statistical image processing, numerical optimization, and in time-of-flight imaging. Learn more about Sebastian Nowozin on Crunchbase…

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Julia Slipantschuk

Quantitative Researcher @ Stratagem Technologies Ltd

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Zeina Nazer

Doctoral Researcher @ University of Southampton

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Zeina Nazer is Co-Founder of Cities Forum, Researcher at University of Southampton and Secretary General of ITS ARAB. Zeina has over 20 years’ of global experience in strategy, consulting and research in Smart Cities. Zeina led Advisory services for governments and major global players in Intelligent Mobility, Road Safety, Sustainable Transport, Smart Cities, energy, and the public sector in the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia and USA. After 7 years working in the USA with KPMG, Parsons, Jacobs and AECOM, Zeina moved to London to support international projects including leading international consultancy work with Arcadis for M25 Design-Build Integral Demand Management. Zeina also provided support to financial design of the New Zealand Toll System project with Deloitte, supported Booz & Co in the PMO for Abu Dhabi DOT and supported in shaping the future of transport for Dubai Government in preparation for Dubai Expo 2020. In 2018, Zeina co-founded CITIES FORUM in collaboration with University of Oxford. CITIES FORUM is a global organisation with international experts specialised in sustainable urban development working as a catalyst with cities and organisations. Learn more about Zeina Nazer on Crunchbase…

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Anna Wojnarowska

Senior UX Researcher @ Google

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Anna Wojnarowska is the Senior UX Researcher at Google. Learn more about Anna Wojnarowska on Crunchbase…

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Jennifer Ross

User Researcher @ Cazoo

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Jennifer Ross is User Researcher at Cazoo. Learn more about Jennifer Ross on Crunchbase…

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Adam Laurie

Security Researcher & Director @ Aperture Labs

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This talk will cover one of the winning entries in last year’s Mobile Pwn2Own, and show exactly how the exploit worked, why it was successful, and how it could have been avoided. Learn more about Adam Laurie on Crunchbase…

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Marco Selvi

Senior Software Engineer and Machine Learning Researcher @ Jukedeck

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Don Syme

Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research

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Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist, an F# community contributor and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language. Earlier, Don created generics in the .NET Common Language Runtime, including the initial design of generics for the C# programming language, along with others including Andrew Kennedy and later Anders Hejlsberg. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is a member of the WG2.8 working group on functional programming. He is a co-author on the book Expert F#. Learn more about Don Syme on Crunchbase…

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Johanna Ernst

Visiting Researcher @ Misfit Wearables

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Wearable technologies such as activity trackers have the potential to speed up the evaluation of medical treatments and reduce the costs associated with their development. Supporters of the use of wearable technologies in clinical trial monitoring argue, that the access to continuous, objective data may allow for a faster, more detailed understanding of the impact of a treatment even in situations that are currently difficult to assess (rigidity in Parkinson’s patients). There is also however an appreciation of the challenges associated with the use of unregulated devices including, amongst others, reliability, interchangeability and data security. Even if the latter challenges were overcome, there is a need to understand how to best utilise data, such as step counts or energy expenditure, in a meaningful manner. This session aims to assess the current use of general wellness tools within clinical trials, potential benefits and limitations of their use as well as the role that ‘deep medicine’ can play to overcome these limitations. Johanna Ernst is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford working in affilitation with the Institute for Biomedical Engineering and the George Institute for Global Health, where she is involved with the center’s Program on Deep Medicine. As part of her research, Johanna explores the use of wearable technologies for heart failure risk-stratification. She previously worked as a visiting researcher at Misfit Inc., a world-leading wearable technology developer, where she investigated the use of commercially available physical activity monitors for clinical trial monitoring. Learn more about Johanna Ernst on Crunchbase…

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Amy Dickens

Researcher @ University of Nottingham

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Simon Wardley

Researcher [Advisor] @ Leading Edge Forum

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Simon Wardley is a researcher for the Leading Edge Forum focused on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. Simon is a seasoned executive who has spent the last 15 years defining future IT strategies for companies in the FMCG, retail, and IT industries—from Canon’s early leadership in the cloud-computing space in 2005 to Ubuntu’s recent dominance as the #1 cloud operating system. As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination for economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether in behavioral patterns, the environmental risks of chemical pollution, developing novel computer systems, or managing companies. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditization, innovation, organizational structure, and cybernetics. Simon’s most recent published research, “Clash of the Titans: Can China Dethrone Silicon Valley?,” assesses the high-tech challenge from China and what this means to the future of global technology industry competition. His previous research covers topics including the nature of technological and business change over the next 20 years, value chain mapping, strategies for an increasingly open economy, Web 2.0, and a life-cycle approach to cloud computing. Simon is a regular presenter at conferences worldwide and has been voted one of the UK’s Top 50 Most Influential People in IT in Computer Weekly’s 2011 and 2012 polls. Learn more about Simon Wardley on Crunchbase…

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Claudia Wagner

Researcher @ Tech Against Terrorism

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Claudia Wagner is a Researcher on the Tech Against Terrorism Project, a project initiated by the UN Counter-Terrorism Directorate (UN CTED) in 2016. Prior to this project, Claudia worked in the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch, researching limitations to freedom of speech and violence against women. At the European Union Delegation in Moscow, she focused on human rights and the North Caucasus. Claudia earned her bachelors in Russian with Politics and Economics at University College London and her Masters at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Learn more about Claudia Wagner on Crunchbase…

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Samer Abdallah

Machine Learning Researcher @ Jukedeck

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Paul Gunning

Principal Researcher @ BT Global Services

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Paul Gunning is a Principal Researcher in the Converged Networks practice at BT Research & Innovation investigating Optical, Ethernet, and Software Defined Networking. He received his BSc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University in 1992. Paul joined BT in 1994, was awarded an MSc in Laser Physics (1995) and a PhD in Photonic Switching (2001) from Essex University. Learn more about Paul Gunning on Crunchbase…

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Mike Swarbrick Jones

Machine Learning Researcher @ Evolution AI

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Mike Swarbrick Jones is a machine learning researcher at Evolution AI. Learn more about Mike Swarbrick Jones on Crunchbase…

Evolution AI works with enterprises to uncover value in data and develop a natural language processing application. Read more aboutEvolution AI on Crunchbase…

Rocío Calvo Martín

Senior UX Researcher @ Aviva Group

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Rocio is a Senior UX Researcher at Aviva. Her PhD research looked at how to improve chat interaction for people with disabilities, and older adults. She is certified by IAAP as a web accessibility specialist and CPACC. Prior to Aviva, she was an accessibility and usability consultant at AbilityNet. Learn more about Rocío Calvo Martín on Crunchbase…

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Richard Clayton

Security Researcher @ University of Cambridge

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Jason Hill

Lead Cyber Security Researcher @ Cyberint

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Gareth Heyes

Researcher @ PortSwigger

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Gareth works as a researcher at Portswigger and loves breaking sandboxes and anything to do with JavaScript. He has developed various free online tools such as Hackvertor and Shazzer. He also created MentalJS a free JavaScript sandbox that provides a safe dom environment for sandboxed code. Learn more about Gareth Heyes on Crunchbase…

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Gregory Parkes

Postgraduate Researcher @ University of Southampton

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Corinne Cath

PHD Researcher @ University of Oxford

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Corinne Cath is an expert in the fields of technology, policy, business and human rights, with a passion for international relations and the Internet. Her doctoral research focused on the politics and ethics of Internet governance and new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI). She was part of the inaugural cohort of students that received a doctoral studentship from the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science. Learn more about Corinne Cath on Crunchbase…

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Francis Yates

Deep Learning Researcher @ VISUA

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Alexander L. Gaunt

Researcher @ University of Cambridge

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Pepita Stringer

Researcher: Human Factors, Healthcare, Computer Science @ University of Nottingham

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My passion is facilitating socially beneficial collaborative endeavours. I am currently engaged in a multidisciplinary PhD in Digital Economy, with the Horizon Digital Economy Institute, at the University of Nottingham, England. My research straddles Computer Science, Engineering and Medicine. My PhD addresses young adults’ attitudes towards receiving and sharing genomic information with an overall aim to produce principles for design to support genomics information sharing. I hold an MSc in Health Services Research and a BSc in Professional Practice (Nursing), all from the University of Nottingham. I have been a registered mental health nurse with the NHS, in team leadership roles and as a Community Mental Health Nurse. I am a PRINCE2 certified project manager, with hands-on risk assessment and change management experience: having successfully project managed and facilitated technical, medical and safety improvement collaborative efforts in primary, secondary and tertiary care healthcare environments. I project-led Safer Prescribing at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, part of the Health Foundation’s Safer Clinical Systems Programme. I have also managed the Medicines Management Services Programme in Southern Derbyshire and the Electronic Patient Records Project in Nottingham’s hospitals and community. I these roles I ran workshops, undertook stakeholder analysis and engagement, benefits management and dissemination. My PhD studies have enriched my research knowledge and skills as well as adding to my project management abilities, software engineering knowledge and creative business development skills for ingenuity and innovation. Learn more about Pepita Stringer on Crunchbase…

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Marc Brockschmidt

Senior Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research

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Marc Brockschmidt is a Researcher at Microsoft Research in the Programming Principles and Tools group in Cambridge. Brockschmidt’s research focuses on topics around software developer productivity. This includes fully automatic analyses of implicitly specified properties (such as memory safety, termination or complexity) and the use of machine learning techniques to help where classical program analysis fails. Most recently, Brockschmidt also returned to some of his F/OSS roots and started studying the efficient use of build systems with colleagues in MSR and TSE. Brockschmidt obtained his Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen under the supervision of Jürgen Giesl, where he worked on termination and complexity analysis of (Java) programs. There, Brockschmidt focused on heap abstractions in the analysis of object-oriented programs. Learn more about Marc Brockschmidt on Crunchbase…

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Sean Rintel

Researcher @ Microsoft

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Sean Rintel is a Researcher in the Human Experience & Design group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. His work investigates how communication technologies interact with language, social action, and culture. His work in video-mediated collaboration, enterprise social media platforms, cross-device interaction and device ecologies, and engineering culture draws on ethnographic data analyzed using qualitative methods such as conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis. Rintel has published on topics ranging from video calling in personal relationships, to ambient audio technologies to support independent living, social media in the workplace, crisis memes, error mascots, Internet culture, and cross-device interaction in video-mediated collaboration. Rintel has been a member of three global first-place winning projects in Microsoft OneWeek Hackathons, including one on Mobile Sharing and Companion Experiences for Microsoft Teams Meetings. Learn more about Sean Rintel on Crunchbase…

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Jamie Woodcock

Researcher @ University of Oxford

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Jamie Woodcock is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of Working The Phones, a study of a call center in the UK. His current research involves developing co-research projects with workers in the so-called gig economy. He is on the editorial board of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism. Woodcock’s current research focuses on digital labor, the sociology of work, the gig economy, resistance, and videogames. Woodcock completed his PhD in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and has held positions at Goldsmiths, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Queen Mary, NYU London, Cass Business School, and the LSE. Learn more about Jamie Woodcock on Crunchbase…

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Rigas Kouskouridas

Computer Vision / Machine Learning Researcher @ WIREWAX

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Baptiste Caramiaux

Senior Researcher in Machine Learning & Interaction Design @ Mogees

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Rashid Minhas

Researcher in Criminal Psychology @ Spot

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Fraser Howard

Principle Threat Researcher @ Sophos

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Fraser Howard is a Principal Virus Researcher at SophosLabs. He is a respected security expert and has been with SophosLabs since 2006. He joined Sophos from McAfee, where he managed anti-malware researchers across EMEA. He was previously technical editor of Virus Bulletin magazine, the industry’s leading publication dealing with the issue of viruses and associated malware. Learn more about Fraser Howard on Crunchbase…

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Brian Grellman

Senior UX Researcher @ Aviva Group

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Brian is a Senior UX Researcher at Aviva. Prior to Aviva, he was working on the INCA project which is investigating how to empower people with aphasia to create, curate, and access digital content. Aphasia is a language impairment, which is often the result of a stroke, but also causes vision, motor, and cognitive impairments. Learn more about Brian Grellman on Crunchbase…

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William Kelly

Researcher @ University of Oxford

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William Kelly is an anthropologist of Japan and research affiliate at the University of Oxford. Current research focuses on the production, rating and censorship of video games in Japan, including the treatment of violence, sexuality and depictions of the body in the evaluation and rating of game content. Learn more about William Kelly on Crunchbase…

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Michael Stepankin

Security Researcher @ Veracode

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Gilad Rosner

Visiting Researcher @ Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute

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Vasilios Mavroudis

Doctoral Researcher @ University College London (UCL)

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Vasilios Mavroudis is a doctoral researcher in the Information Security Group at University College London. He studies security and privacy aspects of digital ecosystems, with a focus on emerging technologies and previously unknown attack vectors. His recent publication on ultrasound tracking received wide-spread attention and is considered the seminal work on the security of that ecosystem. Vasilios is currently working towards the standardization of ultrasound communications, and designs extensions of his previous attacks. Moreover, in cooperation with industrial partners, he has recently prototyped a high-assurance hardware architecture, that maintains its security properties even in the presence of malicious hardware components. In the past, he has developed auditing tools for the Public Key Infrastructure of Deutsche Bank and participated in an international consortium studying large-scale security threats in telecommunication networks. Furthermore, he has cooperated with UC Santa Barbara in several projects, including a detection system for evasive web-malware. Vasilios holds an Information Security MSc from UCL, and a BSc on Computer Science from University of Macedonia, Greece. Learn more about Vasilios Mavroudis on Crunchbase…

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Angela Attwood

Researcher and Lecturer @ University of Bristol

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James Linton

Threat Researcher @ Agari

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James Linton is a Threat Researcher for the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID). James is better known as the Email Prankster who famously pranked many White House members of staff and various British public personas. At Agari, James is instrumental at researching and turning the tables on cybercriminals that exploit Business Email Compromise (BEC), identity deception and email scams as means of attacks to defraud individuals and businesses. Learn more about James Linton on Crunchbase…

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John Blakey

Keynote Speaker, Researcher & Author – Coaching & Leadership @ Aston Business School

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John was named as one of the top thought leaders globally on organizational trust at the Trust Across America awards in 2016. This accolade reflects his prize-winning doctoral research on trust at Aston Business School, his writing of the acclaimed book, ’The Trusted Executive’, as well as his practical experience as a highly successful business leader and pioneer in the executive coaching profession. Learn more about John Blakey on Crunchbase…

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Leontina Mati

UX Researcher @ Travel Republic

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Albert Prieto Marquez

Evolutionary Biology Researcher @ University of Bristol

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Jannes Klaas

Quantitative Researcher @ University of Oxford

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Jannes Klaas is a quantitative researcher for the University of Oxford. Learn more about Jannes Klaas on Crunchbase…

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Eva Blum-Dumontet

Senior Researcher Officer @ Privacy International

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Simon Peyton Jones

Principal Researcher @ Microsoft

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Francesco Giordanna

Researcher @ MPC

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Francesco Giordana leads the development of real-time technologies for film at MPC, with a special focus on virtual production and VR. Franceso started his career in real-time rendering and video games, first in a research lab and then at Guerrilla Games. He also worked at Double Negative VFX, where he wrote a GPU-accelerated fur system and led an R&D team dedicated to the development of digital creatures for film. Francesco also joined ILM, where he focused on real-time digital acting, in particular facial performance capture and real-time rendering of characters. Learn more about Francesco Giordanna on Crunchbase…

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Dr. Federica Lucivero

Senior Researcher in Data and Ethics, University of Oxford @ The Medic App

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Rafael Garcia-Dias

Researcher Associate @ King’s College London

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Emma Barrett

Researcher @ Lancaster University

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Dr Emma Barrett holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Birmingham and is Honorary Researcher in Psychology at Lancaster University. She has led a behavioural science research team that collates, conducts, and communicates research for a wide range of public sector customers. She has also run popular blogs on deception and on forensic psychology for the general public. In 2010 she was awarded the OBE, partly in recognition of her achievements in translating research findings into practical advice and guidance for non-specialist audiences. Learn more about Emma Barrett on Crunchbase…

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Paolo Pugioni

Quantitative Researcher @ Stratagem Technologies Ltd

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