Caroline is a lead on the MUO project Quantifying citizen behavioural response to the city environment. She also researches interactive screens and their effectiveness at communicating and engaging the public with urban data

Caroline is also Research Director of the Software Sustainabilty Institute, and a keen advocate for open and reproducible science.

Dr Alex Casson’s research focuses on non-invasive bioelectronics interfaces: the design and application of wearable sensors, and 'conformal sensors', for human body monitoring and data analysis from highly artefact prone naturalistic situations.

The main focus of Hugh's research is on improving the knowledge of the physics and chemistry of atmospheric aerosols.

Hugh's current research interests include: biomass burning and dust aerosols; the long range transport of pollution aerosol; aerosol-cloud interactions; organic aerosol; transformation and transport of aerosols on urban to regional scales.

Julian is Director of Social Responsibility at The University of Manchester. Social responsibility is one of the University's three core strategic goals and aims to ensure Manchester's learning, research, engagement and operational activities make a positive difference to society. Julian has also provided leadership to the University's broad range of widening participation and student progression activities, including fair access and admissions, school liaison and bursary and scholarship provision.

Krassimira conducts cross-disciplinary research on innovation and the changing relationships between technology, people, governance, sustainability and urban transformation. Currently her work is focused on Smart Cities, Living Labs, open innovation and evaluation.