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Abdullah Al Nayeem, Stamford University - Bangladesh

Abdullah Al Nayeem is a M.Sc. Student of Department of Environmental Science, Stamford University Bangladesh.Before that, he completed diploma engineering on Environmental Technology from Chittagong Polytechnic Institute. He working as a research associate with his institution since February, 2017. He published 4 scientific article where one is accepted and 2 other conference proceedings also. He attended several national and international conference in the country and abroad.


Adam Smith, Missouri Botanical Garden - USA

I am broadly interested in global change conservation and specifically in regards to this course, how automated vehicles might induce explosive urban sprawl. Currently I am comparing models of urban growth that assume past patterns of spread are a reliable guide to future growth with models that that reflect anticipated efficiency with widespread adoption of AVs across the next few decades.

url: www.earthSkySea.org


Afsal A, Kerala Agricultural University - India

I am interested in doing research in the field of climate change in relation to the environment and agricultural sector, focusing on its impact, adaptation and mitigation strategies that enable to reduce the negative impacts under the changing climate scenario.


Akshay Paropkari, University of California, Merced - USA

Akshay is currently a PhD student at University of California, Merced focused on understanding mechanism of fungal biofilms using predictive analysis, modeling and network theory.

url: https://github.com/akshayparopkari


Aman Borkar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences - India

PhD in Ecological Economics from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (India). Teaching Research Methods; Quantitative Research Techniques; Operations Management and other Management courses to the Masters and Executive Professionals. I have around 10 years of experiences working with the academic, corporate, and non-profit organisations.


Amy Lastuka, University of Washington - USA

Amy is finishing her PhD in Economics at the University of Washington, with a focus on labor and development economics. She just started a new position as a research analyst with the Center for Sustainable Energy in San Diego, where she lives with her husband and two sons.


Andrew Reinhard, University of York

Andrew Reinhard studies the archaeology of digital spaces and how humans inhabit them and founded the subdiscipline of video game archaeology (aka archaeogaming). In 2014 he helped excavate the Atari Burial Ground in Alamogordo, NM. In 2018 he documented the mass migration of hundreds of players in the game No Man's Sky who were displaced by a catastrophic climate change event.

url: andrewreinhard.com


Chhavi Tiwari, Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi - India

Chhavi is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Economics from Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi. Her research interests are Migration, Inequality, Development, and Environment.


Eva Nurwita, University of New Mexico

I am a third year PhD Student, a research enthusiast and also previously working in academia.


Florian Dost, Lancaster University Management School - UK

Born in Berlin, Florian trained as an engineer, interested in reducing biofuels cost. He then monitored word-of-mouth campaigns as data scientist in the Marketing industry. Back in academia, he focuses on Marketing embedded in dynamic systems, from investigating how growing e-commerce affects energy consumtion of an economy, to how consumers life courses evolve post retirement, now that they life more than a decade longer. Florian now works in Lancaster, UK, where he lives with his family.


Huma Khalid, National College of Business Administration and Economics - Pakistan

After completing my MBA I started working in ABN Amro Bank Lahore Pakistan. Than I did my M. Phil Economics. My research thesis was on terrorism in Pakistan. I attended South Asian Network for Development and Environment Economics (SANDEE) in Thailand 2018. There I learned a lot about environment, climate change and global warming. Now I am planning to attend seminar on Population and Environment in New Mexico USA.


Iza Romanowska, Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Spain

Iza holds a PhD in complex systems simulation in archaeology from the University of Southampton, UK. Her core research interests focus on human evolution and the interaction between climate change, population dynamics and migration. In 2017 she joined Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow to work on the EPNet project concerned with modelling trade in Ancient Rome.

url: simulatingcomplexity.wordpress.com


Kailey Martinez, New Mexico State University - USA

Kailey Martinez is a graduate student at New Mexico State University focusing in Archaeology and Museum Studies. She received a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and Management with a minor in Biology and a B.A. in Anthropology focused in Archaeology from NMSU. Her thesis is centered around a prehistoric Mimbres village in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness. She will be analyzing zooarchaeological artifacts to understand the relationship that existed between the village inhabitants and their local ecology.


Kaitlyn Davis, University of Colorado, Boulder - USA

I am a second-year PhD student studying archaeology at the University of Colorado. My research interests include frontiers and borders, particularly trade and socioeconomic interaction processes in those spaces, and transitions in settlement patterns and landscape use that occurred in the Pueblo societies of the North American Southwest.

url: https://colorado.academia.edu/KaitlynDavis
url: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kaitlyn_Davis3


Katie McElroy, University of Washington - USA

I grew up in San Diego, California and received a B.S. in Marine Biology and a Master’s in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UC Santa Cruz. After falling in love with Alaska, I joined the Alaska Salmon Program at the University of Washington. I am broadly interested in the interfaces of ecology, evolution, fisheries management, and conservation. Currently, I am investigating patterns of movement in a fishing fleet and the sockeye salmon they fish in Bristol Bay, Alaska.


Lindsey Bargelt, Trent University - Canada

I am a finishing masters student that researches landscape connectivity for biological conservation. I have an interdisciplinary background and enjoy working with the public and communicating science.

url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbargelt/

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Ma. Riza Lopez, Agusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and Technology (ASSCAT) - Philippines

I'm a warm person who values my relationships with different people and treasure new learnings and experiences.


Max Neumeyer, University of California Berkeley - USA

Max is a public policy graduate student interested in the study of complex systems. After graduating with an undergraduate degree in philosophy, Max worked on Capitol Hill before joining Teach For America in 2010. He taught middle and high school astronomy, earth science, biology, and US history for five years in Denver and Harlem. Max is now pursuing a graduate education focused on the application of complexity science to policy.


Mohammad Ali, University of New Mexico - USA

I am a sixth year Ph.D. student in economics at University of New Mexico. I am an applied microeconomist with research interests in the areas of food security, nutrition, health, cognition and other aspects of early childhood development. Currently my research focuses on cognitive catch-up during 'critical stages' as well as the different channels through which cognitive outcomes can be improved. Outside of my family and work, my favorite things are travelling, backpacking and barbecuing.

url: https://mohammadalibio.weebly.com/


Nadia Farooq, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) - Pakistan

I am a Ph.D Economics from Federal Urdu University, Islamabad, Pakistan. My research interest revolves around the Social Policy, Public finance, Trade policy and Macroeconomic framework etc. I have a vast experience of university level teaching and currently I am working as a Research Economist with Asian Development Bank, Pakistan.

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Peter Roolf, Portland State University - USA

Peter is a systems science PhD student at Portland State University where he currently studies general systems theory, complexity, and computer modeling and simulation. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh. His current interests include: resilience, transformation, and management of social-ecological systems, systems dynamics, reconstructability analysis, networks, ethics and value systems, community infrastructure development, and economics.


Rajan Bishwakarma, University of New Mexico - USA

Rajan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. The overarching theme of his research is to understand the dynamic relationship between human and nature while revealing a host of conflicts and harmony as observed through the economic theories. Rajan is currently writing his dissertation on the effect of climate change and natural disaster on child health.


Tasnim Fariha, University of Dhaka - Bangladesh

Tasnim Rahman Fariha is currently teaching as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at University of Dhaka. Besides, she is an enthusiastic researcher at Bureau of Economic Research. Her competence in mathematics and econometric modeling is worth mentioning. She has several publications in renowned journals. Her research interest encompasses environment and population, health economics, social safety nets and so on. She aspires to persue her Ph.D in Economics preferably from North- America.

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Trent Davidson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln - USA

Hey, all! I'm a Sociology student at Nebraska, currently working on my MA and later on, PhD. My research interests include neural correlates of social hierarchies, effects of concussion on likelihood to participate in risky or criminal behavior, and developing a model using fMRI scans and personality data to predict the rise and fall of dictatorships. Fun stuff.


Usama Bilal, Drexel University - USA

Usama Bilal is a postdoctoral fellow with the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University. His main research interest are the macrosocial determinants of chronic diseases. He works on the role that city/neighborhood dynamics have in generating disease, and the use of complexity methodologies to study the emergent properties of cities. He obtained his PhD in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. He holds MPH and MD degrees from the Universidad de Alcala and Oviedo in Spain.

url: www.usamabilal.info


Veeshan Rayamajhee, University of New Mexico - USA

Trained as an applied microeconomist, my research ventures into an interdisciplinary territory of the intersection between natural and human systems. I am particularly interested in human responses to natural shocks in vulnerable communities and regions. My dissertation focuses on the determinants of household resilience against natural disaster shocks.

url: veeshan.rayamajhee.com


Zachary Cooper, University of Colorado, Boulder - USA

Zach Cooper is an archaeology PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder who specializes in the Pueblo Southwest. His advisor is Dr. Scott Ortman. Zach’s research interests include ancient migrations, historical linguistics, and complex systems. His MA thesis addressed the origin of the initial farming population of the Northern Rio Grande. Zach speaks Portuguese and Italian and enjoys mountain biking, hiking, and triathlon.


Zeeshan Zeeshan, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Pilani Campus - India

Zeeshan is a PhD Student in Economics at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India with particular interests in Microeconomics of agricultural development, Applied Micro-econometrics, and Environmental Economics.