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Eihab Abdel-Rahman is associate professor of systems design engineering at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. He specializes in the study of system dynamics and control with a particular interest in nonlinear systems. His current application areas are micro and nano electromechanical systems and energy harvesting systems.

Dr. Lisa Aultman-Hall, PhD, is��Professor and Chair of Systems Design Engineering at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ.��

Sarah Burch, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, Canada. Dr.

Peter Carrington��retired in 2019 as Professor of��Sociology at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, and is now Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies.

��ǻ������������Dz��ٲ� is an Assistant Professor in Systems Design Engineering at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, whose research employs computational simulations to investigate how communities’ physical, economic, and social systems interact and exacerbate disaster risk and inequalities. ��He uses agent-based simulations to help decision-makers better understand and address post-disaster unmet needs. Costa’s work has been recognized with the 2021 Best Graduate Paper Award by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute for his paper titled ‘Agent-based Model for Post-earthquake Housing Recovery’ and is a co-PI in the��Center of Excellence for Equitable and Climate Resilient Housing funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Kerstin Dautenhahn is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. She is a Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics and is cross-appointed to the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, and the Department of Systems Design Engineering at University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. She is Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. At ��ݮ��Ƶ she is the Director of the��Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory (SIRRL).

is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. His area of research is computational mathematics and scientific computing, with applications to problems in science, engineering and technology.

research uses an interdisciplinary and mixed methods approach��with the aim of understanding and addressing the social and ecological determinants of global health and development.

Paul Fieguth is Professor and Department Chair in Systems Design Engineering, and a co-director of the Vision and Imaging Processing (VIP) Lab at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ.

Owen Gallupe is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. His research mostly focuses on criminological theory testing, social influence dynamics, decision-making processes, and politics and crime.

Dr. Craig��Janes is a medical anthropologist interested in and committed to social science approaches to public health and global health policy.

Sharon Kirkpatrick,��PhD, is a nutritionist and professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems.

Anna Klinkova’s research is focused on developing efficient synthetic approaches to advanced nanomaterials for applications in alternative energy and catalysis.

Dr. Michael Lawrence (he/his/him) is a Research Fellow on the����at the Cascade Institute (, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) where he examines the causal mechanisms of crisis interactions across such global systems as governance, energy, food, economy, climate, ecology, and international security. He also developed the website��, leads the Cascade Institute’s production of����on complex systems thinking, and serves as Section Editor for the special edition “” of the journal��Global Sustainability.

Bruce MacVicar, Associate Professor of��Civil and Environmental Engineering, is��interested in complex systems related to alluvial rivers where the form of the river is determined by a complex interplay between flow shear stress and turbulence, sediment transport, vegetation growth, and the development of bedforms like riff

��is a faculty member with Social Innovation Generation, Co-Director of��the����ݮ��Ƶ Institute of Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR), as well as an associate professor in the Faculty of Environment, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ.

His research focuses on complexity, resilience, social innovation, and inner transformation.��

is an associate professor in knowledge integration at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, with cross-appointments to sociology and legal studies, and environment and resource studies. He has a PhD (2013) in sociology from McMaster University.

Steven J Mock is research director of the Ideological Conflict Project of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, ��ݮ��Ƶ, Ontario. He completed his PhD in government at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009. He is a former chair of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) and member of the editorial team of Nations and Nationalism.

Kwabena is a postdoctoral fellow working with Professor Dawn Parker��in the School of Planning.��Prior to joining University of�� ��ݮ��Ƶ��he completed a postdoctoral position at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-Senegal)��-��a Pan-African center of excellence for��post-graduate��training, research, and public engagement in mathematics.

Keywords:��applied mathematics, climate/environmental science, computational sustainability,��sustainability, climate change, human behaviour,��agent-based modeling, systems modeling and simulation, mathematical modeling and analysis of complex social-ecological systems.

Dr. Tejal Patel����is a Clinical Associate Professor and Schlegel Specialist in Medication Management and Aging with the Schlegel-UW Research Institute of Aging and Pharmacy Lead for the MINT Memory Clinics.

Dr. Christopher Perlman is an associate professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. His research focuses on understanding and improving the quality of healthcare for vulnerable health populations, particularly older adults and persons with mental health conditions.

Jeremy Pittman is an Associate Professor in the School of Planning, whose research interests include: environmental policy and governance in the Anthropocene,��landscape- and seascape-scale approaches to planning,��human communities in an interconnected world and��social-ecological connectivity.

Ponnu��Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam��is a Professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ.

He has previously worked at several academic institutions including the College of Engineering in Guindy,��Madras, India; the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa and the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. In the past, Professor Ponnambalam has been the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies in the Systems Design Engineering department at University of ��ݮ��Ƶ.

David Porreca is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies and the Co-Director of Medieval Studies Undergraduate Program, at University of ��ݮ��Ƶ.��David's research interests broadly involve Medieval intellectual history,��especially the reception of the pagan Classical tradition in the Christian Middle Ages.

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Luis Ricardez-Sandoval is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Multiscale Modelling and Process Systems. Dr. Ricardez-Sandoval's current research interests are focused on the development and application of novel optimization tools for various emerging applications including multiscale systems.

Rebecca Saari is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Global Change, Atmosphere, and Health, and an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. Her research advances the field of health impact assessment by using coupled human-natural systems (CHANS) models to identify policies – for mitigation and adaptation – that robustly and equitably protect health from air pollution under a changing climate.��

Marek Stastna, Professor of Applied Mathematics��is an applied mathematician by training (PhD, ��ݮ��Ƶ 2001). ��His��applied mathematics interests are rooted in the descriptions of nonlinear waves, whether analytical (perturbation theory, variational methods) or numerical. ��His post PhD career has covered a broad range of application topics, with coastal oceans and large lakes the primary focus.�� He has made occasional forays into climate modeling, hydrology and other porous media problems. ��He��enjoys developing numerical models, and has��been involved in large, MPI based models, GPU based models as well as data analysis methods meant for a non-technical audience.��

Sarah Tolmie, a��Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, is a traditionally-trained, philologically-oriented medievalist with a master's degree from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in historiography, visionary poetry and embodiment. She has published articles on Middle English and Scots literature, as well as on Langland's Piers Plowman.��

Kirsten Wright moved to ��ݮ��Ƶ to go to school for engineering. Her background is in robotics and embedded systems and more recently she has worked in social innovation. She is an author of the leading manual for Social Innovation Labs and has recently finished her PhD in Engineering, studying methods for measuring resilience in agent based models of social innovation.��

Jangho��Yang��is an Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. Before joining the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, he completed his Ph.D. at the New School for Social Research and then undertook a postdoctoral research position at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on information-theoretic approaches, power-law behavior, firm-level productivity and investment, and Bayesian multilevel modeling. In particular, he specializes in applying complex system frameworks, such as maximum entropy modeling and power law modeling, to economic data on technological change.