Team

Elaine is the Director at Spaice Ltd, a not-for-profit startup helping you make informed ethical purchasing decisions. On top of this, Elaine is a Freelance Behavioural Scientist and Environmental Psychologist for Best at Digital. She is working in the learning sector to help organisations understand behavioural barriers to learning and how best to overcome these using a strong evidence-based and analytical approach. She was also a member of Horizon 2020 project GoGreenRoutes advisory board member and a collaborator on Co-SPACE (Covid-19: Supporting Parents, Adolescents and Children during Epidemics) gathering understanding of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on child mental health and necessary supports.

Eleanor Ratcliffe is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey. Eleanor’s research interests focus on psychological interactions with physical environments, both built and natural with a particular focus on sensory experiences of being out in nature and the benefits of it. . On top of this, she is working with Tranquil City to assess impact assessment approaches and is funded by a British Academy Innovation Fellowship. Eleanor is an environmental psychologist who received her PhD in environmental psychology from the University of Surrey.

Elisabeth Wiegele is a Junior Researcher at the UNESCO Chair and Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. She is a geographer and trained nature conservation engineer. Her research and work focuses on nature conservation in civil engineering, management of invasive species and management of protected areas. She is responsible for the coordination of the nature conservation engineer course. Elisabeth has a Master’s in Management of Conservation Areas with the aim to promote biodiversity conservation and regional development.

Eva Lovheim, Urban planner for GoGreenRoutes partner Umeå – Eva Maaherra Lövheim is an urban planner in the Umeå Municipality in Sweden. She has extensive experience in the fields of transport and urban planning at municipal, regional, and national level having been a traffic planner for Umeå since 2018. Eva’s focus is predominantly on sustainable travel such as walking, cycling, and public transport. 

Evi Petersen is an Assistant Professor at OsloMet. She is employed at the department of early childhood education where she teaches and conducts research on movement, health and nature as well as effects of physical exercise on human health. In her most recent research, she explored the role of social relational emotions for human-nature connectedness and their impact on health and environmentalism. Evi is involved with many ongoing projects such as Nordic Nature Kindergartens (NORNAK), Holistic Approach to Increasing Student Exchange (HETBLU), among others.

Franck Lascaux PhD is a Pollution Models Engineer in the R&D department in ELichens. Lascaux was a PhD researcher for nine years at the INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, where they won a Marie Curie Excellence Grant position. During their four years there, they were in charge of the implementation of the complex numerical weather model Meso-NH, and they conducted a feasibility study of a real-time prediction system of the optical turbulence above ground-based astronomical sites. In 2015, they were a Teacher at COURS DIDEROT.