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Joe Battikh is a senior sustainability expert with over sixteen years of international experience in the private sector.��He has a strong interest in developing corporate sustainability through economic, environmental and social development.

Christina Comeau is a PhD candidate in Social and Ecological Sustainability working under the supervision of Dr. Vanessa Schweiwer and Dr. Dan McCarthy.�� She is working on trans disciplinary application of complexity science to designing and governing interventions in social and environmental systems that lead to a just and sustainable future.

Nicholas Damer is currently completing his Masters of Arts in Political Science at Carleton University and recently discovered his passion for Complexity Science as��a discipline which articulates��his��underlying discomfort with conventional positivistic interpretations of social phenomena. He is interested in applying computational modelling and/or GIS methods to solving problems around��conflict, peace building, and institutional resilience.

Clayton Dasilva is currently a PhD student in global governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, having also obtained his Master of Arts there in 2012.

Ileana I. Diaz is a PhD Candidate��in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. Broadly, her research interests lie in the intersections of sustainable food systems, feminist geopolitics, climate and environmental justice.

Julia Goyal is pursuing a Joint Interdisciplinary PhD at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ between the School of Public Health and Health Systems and Department of Mechatronics and Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Ellen MacEachen and Dr. Arash Arami respectively.

��is��a PhD student with Dr. Kevin McCann in the department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph. For his��PhD, he is��examining the interactions of ecological processes across scales in a variety of systems.

Margo Henning is a candidate for a Master of Climate Change at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. She holds a BA in General Studies, and Post-Baccalaureates in Community Economic Development, Business Administration, and Education.��

Yu Huang is currently completing her PhD degree in urban planning at the School of Planning, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. Her research focuses on the complex interactions within the urban housing market system and the emergent urban patterns and market dynamics.

Fatemeh Jahanmiri is currently completing her PhD in urban planning at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ under the supervision of Dr. Dawn Parker. Given her background in architecture and her interest in nature-inspired design, she followed her research in the field of complexity exploring the origin of fractal patterns in cities.

Peter Jentsch is a PhD candidate in the Department Of Applied Mathematics at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ. Supervised by Dr. Chris T. Bauch and Dr. Madhur Anand, his research is primarily in the field of mathematical ecology and human-environment systems.��

Ryan Johnson is a PhD candidate in the Sustainability Management program with the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development. His research explores sustainability transitions and transformations by investigating the development of sustainability reporting frameworks for agriculture, including the specific metrics they include, and their underlying paradigms and philosophies. Curiosity and eclecticism have also inspired Ryan to undertake transdisciplinary research and consulting work in a diversity of other areas, including economic and community development, climate change mitigation and adaption, and nature-based solutions planning.

Jim Jones, PhD Candidate, Social and Ecological Sustainability

The role of narratives in transitions towards sustainability through a social-ecological systems lens; the role of narrative as a tool to understand and work with complexity and 'wicked problems'. The tensions that arise at different spatial and temporal scales in the nexus of land, energy, technology, food and culture.��

Ecological economics, systems thinking and complexity, participatory governance, food systems, sustainability transitions, participatory narrative inquiry, soft systems, complexity intervention

is currently completing a PhD in applied mathematics at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ under the supervision of Dr. Hans De Sterck. His work entails studying how mathematical modelling of human interaction and decision making over social networks might provide insight into the development and evolution of social movements like the Arab Spring.

Katherine Laycock is currently enrolled in PhD studies at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, School of Planning.

Christopher Luederitz is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, where he researches on business-driven sustainability-oriented innovations in food systems. He is particularly interested in the role knowledge plays in the creation and use of sustainability innovations that have the ability to support transformations of entire food systems.

Adrienne Mason is a Masters Candidate in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, supervised by Stephen Murphy.����Adrienne completed her Environmental Science degree at Trent University and worked as an ecological restorationist creating and implementing

Majid Mirza is pursuing his PhD in Sustainability Management at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ with a focus on financing the Sustainable Development Goals. He has over 10 years of international development and impact investing experience and is a consultant to the Canadian Government on development finance.��

Nicholas Palaschuk is a PhD Candidate in the Sustainability Management program at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ in Ontario, Canada. Nicholas works in the fields of corporate sustainability, environmental behaviour, and sustainability transitions. Nicholas holds both a BSc. in Biology (2015) and MSc.

Stephany Peterson is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of New Brunswick. Her research investigates how knowledge behaves under complexity and develops a diagnostic systems framework to support ignition, responsiveness, and decision-making in live systems.��

Alex Petric is a PhD Candidate in Urban Planning at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, working under the supervision of Dr. Dawn Parker. His previous work includes master’s degrees in Rural Planning & Development (2019) and Applied Mathematics (2016). Prior to his Ph.D. studies, Alex worked in rural research, data analysis, and consultancy positions.

Alex’s research explores how urban environments affect social capital, which refers to the density and quality of social connections and the benefits that flow from them. His studies focus on missing middle housing (higher-density low-rise developments) and their potential community benefits. Alex's work uses agent-based modelling alongside in-field research to study how housing type, housing mix, and social infrastructure affect social capital formation, with an aim to help planning practice to support social capital formation and reduce social isolation among urban residents. Alongside this research, Alex has worked as a Research Assistant for the SSHRC-funded study “Why did the Missing Middle miss the train?” and was part of a team that reached the national semi-finals for the 2022 Map the System competition.

Jinelle Piereder��is a PhD candidate in global governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), specializing in conflict and security, and supervised by Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon. Drawing on complexity approaches and tools such as Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM) and network theory, Jinelle researches the contents, causes, and effects of ideological conflict within global governance and policymaking.

Taylor Roth is��an MASc candidate in Chemical Engineering at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ, working under the supervision of Dr. Luis Ricardez-Sandova whose research focuses on using various optimization techniques and computational modelling to improve the sustainability and efficiency of complex chemical engineering systems through process intensification.

��is completing a PhD with the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ’s School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability (SERS), whereby she delineates a regenerative sustainability paradigm as one of balancing among multilayered, social-ecological systems complexities, from local to planetary scales.

Ajar Sharma is a��Ph.D. student in Systems Design Engineering. He has a Masters in Water Management and background in hydrology and is currently working with Vanessa Schweiser (Knowledge Integration), and Keith Hipel (Systems Design Engineering). His research interests include��climate change, water, Cross Impact Balances (CIB), conflict resolution, and sustainability.��

Shahab Valaei Sharif is a current Ph.D. student in Urban Planning at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ under the supervision of Dr. Dawn Parker. He holds a master’s degree in Civil Engineering with a major in Construction Engineering and Management from the Sharif University of Technology (2021). He is interested in interdisciplinary research in areas such as land and housing markets, urban infrastructure systems, and healthy cities.

In his previous research projects, he has used simulation and modelling techniques to develop policy analysis tools evaluating the effectiveness of community response and mitigation policies in the face of crises, such as natural disasters and pandemics. His current research mainly focuses on the application of system thinking techniques to solve longer-term urban problems with the final goal of increasing the resilience of cities.

Natalya Siddhantakar is a PhD Candidate in Sustainability Management at the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development, working under the supervision of Dr. Vanessa Schweizer. Her research interests include just and equitable transition to sustainable low-carbon economic practices, systems thinking, sustainability accounting, and cross-impact balances (CIB) analysis.

Kwaku Owusu��Twum��is a��sustainability management��PhD candidate with almost a decade of multidisciplinary research experience at the intersection of digital innovation, spatial planning, climate resilience, and sustainable food systems.

Emily Voigt is a Master’s student in Sustainability Management working under the supervision of Dr. Simron Singh and Dr. Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam.��