Anna Klinkova’s research is focused on developing efficient synthetic approaches to advanced nanomaterials for applications in alternative energy and catalysis.
Kirsten Wright moved to ݮƵ 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.
is an assistant professor at the University of ݮƵ in the Department of Management Sciences and associate director of research training for the Games Institute.
Dr. CraigJanes is a medical anthropologist interested in and committed to social science approaches to public health and global health policy.
is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of ݮƵ. His research interests lie at the center of land use, land management, and the carbon cycle.
Sharon Kirkpatrick,PhD, is a nutritionist and professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems.
Francis Poulin
is a faculty member with Social Innovation Generation, Co-Director oftheݮƵ Institute of Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR), as well as an associate professor in the Faculty of Environment, University of ݮƵ.
His research focuses on complexity, resilience, social innovation, and inner transformation.
is an associate professor in knowledge integration at the University of ݮƵ, with cross-appointments to sociology and legal studies, and environment and resource studies. He has a PhD (2013) in sociology from McMaster University.
Eihab Abdel-Rahman is associate professor of systems design engineering at the University of ݮƵ. 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.
Steven J Mock is research director of the Ideological Conflict Project of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, ݮƵ, 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.
Dr. Lisa Aultman-Hall, PhD, isProfessor and Chair of Systems Design Engineering at the University of ݮƵ.
Bruce MacVicar, Associate Professor ofCivil and Environmental Engineering, isinterested 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
Sarah Burch, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of ݮƵ, Canada. Dr.
Dr. Christopher Perlman is an associate professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of ݮƵ. His research focuses on understanding and improving the quality of healthcare for vulnerable health populations, particularly older adults and persons with mental health conditions.
Dr. Tejal Patelis 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.
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 ݮƵ.David's research interests broadly involve Medieval intellectual history,especially the reception of the pagan Classical tradition in the Christian Middle Ages.
Peter Carringtonretired in 2019 as Professor ofSociology at the University of ݮƵ, and is now Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies.
, PhD,isan associate professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED)at the University of ݮƵ, where he teaches and researches in the fields of Canadian and international environmental law.
Sarah Tolmie, aProfessor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of ݮƵ, 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.
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 ݮƵ.
is a PhD student in the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability at the University of ݮƵ, where she studies medicine in the Anthropocene.
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 andsocial-ecological connectivity.
Owen Gallupe is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of ݮƵ. His research mostly focuses on criminological theory testing, social influence dynamics, decision-making processes, and politics and crime.
Yu Huang is currently completing her PhD degree in urban planning at the School of Planning, University of ݮƵ. Her research focuses on the complex interactions within the urban housing market system and the emergent urban patterns and market dynamics.
Marek Stastna, Professor of Applied Mathematicsis an applied mathematician by training (PhD, ݮƵ 2001). Hisapplied 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. Heenjoys developing numerical models, and hasbeen involved in large, MPI based models, GPU based models as well as data analysis methods meant for a non-technical audience.
Kerstin Dautenhahn is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of ݮƵ. 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 ݮƵ. She is Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. At ݮƵ she is the Director of theSocial and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory (SIRRL).
Dr. Michael Lawrence (he/his/him) is a Research Fellow on theat 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 ofon complex systems thinking, and serves as Section Editor for the special edition “” of the journalGlobal Sustainability.
research uses an interdisciplinary and mixed methods approachwith the aim of understanding and addressing the social and ecological determinants of global health and development.
David Porreca, Associate Professor andChair of Classical Studies, and Co-Director of Medieval Studies at University of ݮƵ, researchesMedieval intellectual history, especially the pagan Classical tradition in the Christian Middle Ages. In addition, he has become interested in ancient and Medieval magic, astrology, alchemy, palaeography, manuscript transmission and glosses, and produced a new Englishtranslated the Latin astral magic text known as Picatrix in 2019. In parallel to his interest in intellectual history, he has begunexamining the dynamics of the rise, flourishing and downfall of complex societies, such as ancient Roman civilization,especially with regard to the impact of resource depletion on these processes. David joined WICI's Steering Committee in 2022.
PonnuKumaraswamy Ponnambalamis a Professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of ݮƵ.
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 ݮƵ.
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.
Ed Jerniganis a professor and former chair of the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of ݮƵ. He joined ݮƵ in 1976 after completing his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and PhD degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow and adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability at the University of ݮƵ. Trained broadly as a sustainability scientists, Jessica applies a social-ecological lens to explore how coastal communities experience environmental change, and what explains their different
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 ݮƵ. 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.
RodrigoCosta is an Assistant Professor in Systems Design Engineering at the University of ݮƵ, 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 theCenter of Excellence for Equitable and Climate Resilient Housing funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Dr. Abel Torres-Espin is an Assistant Professor of Health Data Science in the School of Public Health Sciences at University of ݮƵ. His research expands the cross-section between health and biomedicine with data science.
With a background in biology, neuroscience, bioinformatics and biostatistics, Abel is interested in conceptualizing and modeling health as a complex system and using systems thinking, knowledge integration, and machine learning approaches to understand and model such complexity.
His research has focused on the health context of complex heterogeneous populations such as spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, dementia and chronic low back pain, resulting in tremendous individual and societal costs. He is also interested in analytical and computational methods, multivariate statistics, the reproducibility and replicability of research and real-world evidence.
JanghoYangis an Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering at the University of ݮƵ. Before joining the University of ݮƵ, 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.