The Grand Challengers Podcast
By Peter Marcus Bach
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Episodes: 61
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In a world facing climate change, urbanization, and population growth, inspiring individuals are stepping up with innovative solutions. Each episode features passionate guests working at the cutting edge of science, engineering, technology, and design. Through their journeys, they share insights and personal growth while creating new ways of thinking for an uncertain future. Tune in for actionable advice and inspiration for young professionals aiming to make a difference.
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#52 - Makoto Kern: Feature-centric to user-centric - UX Design to navigate global challenges and the “AI Competence Mirage”
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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#51 - Rob Wreglesworth: A culture reboot for nature, biodiversity and conservation through incentives, conversations and T-shirts
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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#50 - Tables Turned: Part 2 - Personal reflections on Switzerland vs. favourite places, academia, nature, music, my career and much more…
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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#49 - Nadja Kunz: Towards water stewardship in mining, understanding critical minerals, safer and sustainable resource management
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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#48 - Christoph Ort: Sewers, Drugs and Rock n' Roll - from wastewater surveillance to saving lives in the pandemic
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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The NotebookLM Mini Series #8: "Broken Telephone" - lost in translation between leapfrogging and Dunkelflaute (feat. Mashael Yazdanie)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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#47 - Wei-Shan Chen: Valuing food waste and greening - the experience in delivering technology and tools to close the carbon and water cycles
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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The NotebookLM Mini Series #7: The “Tablecloth Problem”, headwaters in focus and the pollution party (feat. Belinda Hatt)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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#46 - Mark Swinnerton: Gravity vs. "giant hockey pucks" - what disused mines and renewable energy storage have in common
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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The NotebookLM Mini Series #6: These are neither the pollutants nor researcher you are looking for (feat. Lena Mutzner)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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#45 - Lena Mutzner: “A list that keeps getting longer” - understanding pollutants of emerging concern for healthier aquatic environments
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The NotebookLM Mini Series #5: Plot Twist! Figure 3 says more than a thousand words and a third of the hot dogs (feat. Yannick Back)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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#44 - Jarrod Luxton: What does a best-practice sustainability strategy look like? Discussing nature, valuation, Nordic and Aussie contrasts
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May 19, 2025 |
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The NotebookLM Mini Series #4: Jalapeños as part of the urban form and a lesson in Dutch (feat. Martijn Kuller)
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May 12, 2025 |
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#43 - Tom Young: Answers to sustainability are in the links between green roofs, beer, mushrooms, golf, water, cowboys and community
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May 05, 2025 |
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#42 - Mashael Yazdanie: "Doing the right things the right way" - how to holistically plan for sufficiency and renewable energy
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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The NotebookLM Mini Series #3: Multi-tasking superheroes and going meta on AI (feat. Veljko Prodanovic)
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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The NotebookLM Mini Series #2: Playing "Urban Tetris" and "Heat Detectives" with Blue Green Systems (feat. João P. Leitão)
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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#41 - Don Weatherbee: "Catalyzing" change beyond the mine - scaling up metals regeneration to enable the future circular economy
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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The NotebookLM Mini Series #1: Cooling establishment time, it's like baking a cake (feat. Lucas Gobatti)
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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#40 - João P. Leitão: Studying the extremes - "when it rains, it floods", and "just add water" when "the heat is on"
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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#39 - Lucas Gobatti: Spinoza, science, spirituality - confronting ‘displacements’ in planning urban nature, climate and heat
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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#38 - Patricia Cuervo Uría: The human side of planning and flood risk in London - the challenge of embedding history into policy
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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#37 - Brett Ferrin: "Safeguarding the ordinary" - achieving traffic safety planning and management in a data-rich, AI-powered world
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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#36 - Tables Turned: Part 1 - Guests ask me questions on the podcast origin story, life choices and more
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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#35 - Yannick Back: The answers are beyond the "clouds" - the water-energy link for climate adaptation in a world of data ubiquity
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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#34 - Denise Mitrano: A world of plastics from macro and micro to nano - should zero plastics be the long-term goal?
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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#33 - Bill Hunt: America's evolving stormwater management, our innate connection to water and walking your "Camino"
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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#32 - Luis Angel Sañudo Fontaneda: Partnering with nature in Spain's journey to Sustainable Drainage and Climate Adaptation
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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#31 - Neil Armitage: Reflections, from a canoe chute and litter traps to Day Zero and South Africa's Sustainable Drainage
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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#30 - Tobias Baur: From tropical Singapore to Europe - the "ABC Waters" of sponge cities and climate adaptive design
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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#29 - Katrin Pakizer: Grassroots movements, policy instruments and timing for transforming water, biodiversity and underground management
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May 27, 2024 |
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#28 - Alexa Delbosc: A social psychology toolkit for changing transport planning, built environment and future mobility
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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#27 - Darcy Molnar: A personal journey, from Africa to Switzerland - insights on education, nature-based solutions and women scientists
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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#26 - Manuel Fischer: The Good, the Bad, and the Socio-Political - can science really support collaborative policymaking?
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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#25 - Shubber Ali: Your garden, the 'field of dreams' for tackling the twin crises of climate change and artificial intelligence
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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#24 - Jon Hathaway: The ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of green infrastructure, opening a ‘can of worms’ and gaining control of watersheds
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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#23 - Markus Vogl: To give 'space' - from a library to collaborative urban transformation and rethinking the architect's role
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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#22 - Françoise Bichai: "God-like technologies in medieval institutions", discussing paradigm shifts for greener, water-resilient cities
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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#21 - Danielle Dagenais: The paradox of nature - process and parts and its implications for green infrastructure
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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#20 - Belinda Hatt: Stormwater control measures, healthy waterways, battleships and karate at the riverside camp
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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#19 - Anna Lintern: Diving deep into the underground, ‘forensics’ on river water quality to uncover environmental past and future?
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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#18 - Fritz Kleinschroth: From tropical forests to the city - reconciliation ecology between human infrastructure and nature conservation
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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#17 - Mohan Yellishetty: What to do with a hole in the ground - re-mining for critical minerals, rehabilitation and repurposing
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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#16 - Mattheos Santamouris: A 'hot' topic for cooler cities - high performance architecture to combat urban overheating
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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#15 - Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez: "Restrictions and constraints breed innovation" - sewers and nature-based solutions in Colombia
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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#14 - Janine Bolliger: Lights, Camera, GPS and Action around biodiversity enhancement in human-dominated landscapes
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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#13 - Veljko Prodanovic: Going vertical in a green horizontal world and promoting urban water and nature co-design
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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#12 - Liah Coggins: "Pondering" conversations around banana bread and boats from across the fence
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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#11 - Anas Ghadouani: A limnologist, filmmaker, foodie, water diplomat, and passionate teacher walk into a kitchen…
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May 22, 2023 |
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#10 - Daniele la Cecilia: Backyard balsamic vinegar, a pizza oven and technological progress in agriculture
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May 08, 2023 |
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#9 - Ana Deletic: From first flush and manholes to pendulums of stormwater, engineering and life
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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#8 - Megan A. Farrelly: Don't forget the social - experiments in urban water and energy transitions
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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#7 - Abishek Narayan: There are no silver bullets for the toilet, city or life's journey - just keep rowing
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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#6 - Arya Arabshahi: Citymaking in times of crises, from yoghurt shops to plans of resistance
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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#5 - Peter A. Vanrolleghem: Like wastewater for chocolate - control, serendipity and digital twins
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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#4 - Sofia Boarino: Good vibrations – a sensorial journey into urban soundscapes and acoustic design
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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#3 - Martijn Kuller: A game of planning, a set of maps and a match of nature-based solutions
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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#2 - Scott Lloyd: Cohabitation and close encounters with myths in urban design
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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#1 - Joao P. Leitao: Engineers never say never and never say always - a new take on flood models
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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#0 - Teaser
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Jan 02, 2023 |