ECR Forum Committee Members
About
Committee members of the ECR Forum generally commit to serving a three-year term. Committee members will be selected with concern for the ECR Forum’s representativeness regarding gender, ethnicity, geographic location, occupational sector, and disciplinary affiliation. Co-chairs will generally serve a two year term, followed by a single year as a committee member.
Kristie Cameron - Co-chair (Unitec)
Kristie is an Associate Professor in the School of Environmental and Animal Sciences at Unitec in Animal Behaviour Science and an emerging researcher in the field of experimental and applied animal behaviour. Kristie’ research focus is using behavioural economics and applied behaviour analysis to study captive, companion and laboratory animal behaviour and husbandry to improve and inform animal welfare science and educate owners and animal handlers.
Gergely Toldi - Co-chair (University of Auckland)
Gergely is a senior lecturer in neonatology at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland. His research primarily focuses on early life development of the immune response and understanding the immunological background of complications affecting preterm and term neonates as well as pregnant women. He also has significant results on the pathomechanism of various autoimmune disorders. He contributed to developing novel flow cytometry based diagnostic and experimental methods. In his clinical role, he works as a consultant neonatologist at Starship Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. He is an alumnus of the Global Young Academy.
Joya Kemper - Committee Member (University of Canterbury)
Joya is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury. She is passionate about transforming our economic and market system towards sustainable, ethical, and healthy consumption and production with a focus on behaviour, organisational and institutional change. Joya's research centres on four key themes: Business transformation (circular economy, waste reduction, sociopolitical activism), Sustainable and Healthy Eating (such as meat reduction, future foods/alternative proteins), Social Change (behaviour change, social and institutional change) and Education for Sustainable Development. She is an advocate for transdisciplinary research, believing that wicked problems will only be solved with multi-sector collaboration.
Olivia Truax - Committee Member (University of Canterbury)
Dr. Olivia Truax is a lecturer in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Canterbury. Olivia’s research focuses on the history of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and their response to a warming climate. Her current projects examine the past, present, and future of ice sheet meltwater and its impacts on climate in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ery Hughes - Committee Member (Te Pū Ao GNS Science)
Ery is a Volcanic Fluid Geochemist at Te Pū Ao GNS Science and part of the Technical Team for Volcanica, the Diamond open-access journal for all things volcano-related. She uses experiments, modelling, and natural samples to understand the influence of gas on volcanic eruption dynamics, how to interpret gas emission data for volcano monitoring, and model planetary-scale volatile cycling. She is also a GeoNet Volcano Duty officer and helps to collect, analyse, and interpret gas and fluid samples collected from volcanoes and geothermal systems for monitoring Aotearoa’s volcanoes.
Lauren Vinnell - Committee Member (Massey University)
Lauren is a Senior Lecturer in Emergency Management at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Massey University, Wellington. Her background is in applied social psychology and behaviour change. She primarily uses quantitative and experimental survey methods to study topics including risk perception and communication, predictors of natural hazard preparation, and improving human behaviour during earthquake shaking through drills and warnings.