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Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham
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CBRN defence scientist, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Lecturer in Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling
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Radioecologist (NERC-CEH), UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Reader / Associate Professor in Environmental Geoscience, Sheffield Hallam University
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Researcher in Security and Defence, the Policy Institute at King's, King's College London
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Timothy J. Jorgensen adalah Sahabat The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Lecturer in Sustainable Chemistry, Bangor University
