External Core Members (CNCS)

Madhur Anand

Professor, University of Guelph

 is professor in the at the University of Guelph. She is an internationally recognized ecologist with research interests ranging from theoretical to empirical studies of natural and human-induced changes in ecosystems at regional and global scales and their implications for sustainability.

Joern Davidsen

Professor, Physics & Astronomy

 is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and a member of the  as well as the  at the University of Calgary, leading the  under the University of Calgary’s Brain and Mental Health Strategy. With a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Kiel, Germany, he has worked on applications ranging from neurosciences to earthquakes, from the climate system to nonlinear chemical reaction kinetics (with Nobel laureate Gerhardt Ertl’s group, for example), using tools from statistical physics, network science and nonlinear dynamics. Dr. Davidsen is a Humboldt Research Fellow at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany and was elected Secretary of the Nonlinear Geophysics Focus Group of the American Geophysical Union in 2015 and in 2017.

Laurette Dubé

James McGill Chair of Consumer Psychology and Marketing, Desautels Faculty of Management; Chair and Scientific Director, McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics

 holds the James McGill Chair of consumer and lifestyle psychology and marketing at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University, and is the founding chair and scientific director of the .

Liane Gabora

Professor, Psychology, University of British Columbia

is a Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on how the creative process works, and the role of creativity and innovation in cultural evolution, using both experimental studies with humans and computational models.

Thomas Homer-Dixon

Director, Cascade Institute and University Research Chair

, WICI founding director, is now the Director of the  at Royal Roads University, and a University Research Chair in the Faculty of Environment at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, in À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, Canada.

Mary O'Connor

Associate Professor, Zoology; Associate Director, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia

is an Associate Professor in the Zoology Department and Associate Director of the  at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. O'Connor is a leader in metabolic ecology research, using experiments, data synthesis and theoretical models to understand change in aquatic ecosystems, including causes and consequences of biodiversity change and climate change impacts.

Raja Sengupta

Associate Professor, Geography, McGill University

s research projects follow three distinct but complementary paths that fall under the broad umbrella of GIScience: agent-based models, spatial tools to measure anthropogenic impacts, and methodological improvements to existing GIScience tools.  Within GIScience, the use of agent-based mo

James Shelley

Director, Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Lab; Knowledge Mobilization Specialist, Faculty of Health Sciences

 Director, Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Lab; Knowledge Mobilization Specialist, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University

Roger White

Professor, Geography, Memorial University

is Honorary Research Professor in the Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and since 2007 has also been affiliated with the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) in Mol, Belgium.