Guest Speaker Abstracts
We have invited a range of speakers to share their expert knowledge and experience on matters of diversity and inclusion. Here is a little more information about our speakers:
Dr Clara Barker (She/Her)
Clara Michelle Barker is a British engineer and material scientist. In 2017 she received the Points of Light award from the UK Prime Minister's Office for her volunteer work raising awareness of LGBT issues. She currently works as the IOP Inclusion and Diversity Representative.
Dr Nicolas Bonne (He/Him)
Nicolas Bonne is a vision impaired astronomer and outreach and public engagement officer at the university of Portsmouth. He leads the Tactile Universe public engagement project, opening up astronomy and astrophysics to people with vision impairments.
Dr Luke K Davis (He/Him)
Luke is a theoretical physicist and applied mathematician working to understand, design, and control soft, living, and active matter. He obtained his DPhil in Theoretical Physics at University College London (UCL), where he is also conducted a research stint at the University of Toronto, Canada. Luke then went to the University of Luxembourg for his first postdoctoral position. Currently, Luke is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics at UCL.