Profiles

Filter by:

Limit to profiles where the name matches:
Limit to profiles where the type is one or more of:

Kirsten Wright

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

Kirsten Wright moved to À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ 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.Ìý

Dan McCarthy

Assistant professor, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

Ìýis a faculty member with Social Innovation Generation, the À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Institute of Social Innovation and Resilience as well as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Environment, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.

John McLevey

Assistant professor, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

is an assistant professor in knowledge integration at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, 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

Associate professor, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

Eihab Abdel-Rahman is associate professor of systems design engineering at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ. 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.

Steve Mock

Research director, Ideological Conflict Project at Balsillie School of International Affairs

Steven J Mock is research director of the Ideological Conflict Project of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, 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.

Bruce MacVicar

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bruce MacVicar, Associate Professor ofÌýCivil and Environmental Engineering, isÌýinterested 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

Tejal Patel

Clinical Professor, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

Dr. Tejal PatelÌýis an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ School of Pharmacy, and a practicing clinical pharmacist with the Memory Clinic at the Centre for Family Medicine Family Health Team in Kitchener, Ontario.Ìý Dr. Patel obtained her PharmD from the University of Kentucky and completed a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Neurology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Ìý In her position with the School of Pharmacy, Dr.

David Porreca

Associate Professor and Chair, Classical Studies

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 À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.ÌýDavid's research interests broadly involve Medieval intellectual history,Ìýespecially the reception of the pagan Classical tradition in the Christian Middle Ages.

Peter Carrington

Professor, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

Peter CarringtonÌýretired in 2019 as Professor ofÌýSociology at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, and is now Adjunct Professor in the Department of Knowledge Integration. His current research project, the Canadian Criminal Careers and Criminal Networks Study, combines his long-standing interests in social network analysis and in the development of crime and delinquency.

Neil Craik

Associate professor, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

, PhD,ÌýÌýisÌýan associate professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED)at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, where he teaches and researches in the fields of Canadian and international environmental law.

Sarah Tolmie

Professor, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

Sarah Tolmie, aÌýProfessor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, 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.Ìý

Owen Gallupe

Assistant professor, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

Owen Gallupe is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ. He received his PhD in criminology from Simon Fraser University (2012). His research generally examines peer group dynamics as they relate to various forms of offending, often using social network analysis.

Marek Stastna

Associate Dean, Computing and Professor, Applied Mathematics

Marek Stastna, Associate Dean of Computing and Professor of Applied MathematicsÌýis an applied mathematician by training (PhD, À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ 2001). ÌýHisÌýapplied mathematics interests are rooted in the descriptions of nonlinear waves, whether analytical (perturbation theory, variational methods) or numerical. ÌýHis post PhD career has covered a broad range of application topics, with coastal oceans and large lakes the primary focus.Ìý He has made occasional forays into climate modeling, hydrology and other porous media problems. ÌýHeÌýenjoys developing numerical models, and hasÌýbeen involved in large, MPI based models, GPU based models as well as data analysis methods meant for a non-technical audience.Ìý

Michael Lawrence

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Cascade Institute and Instructor, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ

Michael Lawrence is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Cascade Institute (CI) at Royal Roads University, where he leads the Complexity Education for Action project, which integrates complexity thinking into multiple levels of education to better address the global challenges of the twenty-first century. He has published several CI policy briefs on COVID-19 recovery in relation to a Green New Deal, global inequality, and the risks of economic depression.Ìý

David Porreca

Associate Professor, Classical Studies

David Porreca, Associate Professor andÌýChair of Classical Studies, and Co-Director of Medieval Studies at University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, researchesÌýMedieval 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 EnglishÌýtranslated the Latin astral magic text known as Picatrix in 2019. In parallel to his interest in intellectual history, he has begunÌýexamining the dynamics of the rise, flourishing and downfall of complex societies, such as ancient Roman civilization,Ìýespecially with regard to the impact of resource depletion on these processes. David joined WICI's Steering Committee in 2022.

Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam

Professor, Systems Design Engineering

PonnuÌýKumaraswamy PonnambalamÌýis a Professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.

He has previously worked at several academic institutions including the College of Engineering in Guindy,ÌýMadras, 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 À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.

Luis Ricardez-Sandoval

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Multiscale Modelling and Process Systems

Luis Ricardez-Sandoval is an Associate 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.

Jessica Blythe

Postdoctoral Fellow, and Adjunct Associate Professor

Ìýis a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow and adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.Ìý 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

Simone Philpot

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainabilty

Simone PhilpotÌýis a postdoctoral research fellow in the Lab for Environmental Assessment and Policy at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia. Simone merges systems modelling and qualitative research techniques to examine environmental management and planning issues. She also works to integratea range of real-world decision motivators into decision support systems.Ìý

Rodrigo Costa

Assistant Professor, Systems Design Engineering

RodrigoÌýCosta is an Assistant Professor in Systems Design Engineering at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, whose research employs computational simulations to investigate how communities’ physical, economic, and social systems interact and exacerbate disaster risk and inequalities. ÌýHe 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 theÌýCenter of Excellence for Equitable and Climate Resilient Housing funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Abel Torres Espin

Assistant Professor, Health Data Science

Dr. Abel Torres-Espin is an Assistant Professor of Health Data Science in the School of Public Health Sciences at University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ. 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.

Jangho Yang

Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering

JanghoÌýYangÌýis an Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ. Before joining the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, 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.