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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

This is Afsal. A. He is a B.Sc-M.Sc (integrated) Climate Change Adaptation student from Academy of Climate Change Education and Research (ACCER), Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, India. Now, he is working as a research scholar at National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology under the mentorship of Dr. Sejian Veerasamy (Senior Scientist, ICAR-NIANP). He is interested in doing research in the field of climate change in relation to the environment and agricultural sector, focusing on its impacts, adaptation and mitigation strategies that enable to reduce the negative impacts under the changing climate scenario. Presently, he is working on the field of climate change and livestock production. He was published four scientific articles in internationally reputed Journals and having three abstracts (National and International) and many lead papers. He attended several national and international conferences/symposium with in the country and abroad. Recently, he got a travel scholarship from World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and American Meteorological Society. Afsal, a young and enthusiastic researcher by profession and working sincerely for the sustainable development of the society as well as accomplishing his future goals.


Ajapnwa Akamin, University of Buea - Cameroon

Ajap is PhD Candidate and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Buea, Cameroon. He has also been PhD Fellow at the School of Economics, University of Cape Town. His areas of interest include; adjusting for ecological footprint in agricultural productivity analysis, natural disasters and extreme weather events, geospatial data analysis, impact of land-related policy interventions, economics of tropical forestry, biodiversity and ecosystem services.

url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajap-akamin-551744a7 link


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 - UK

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


Jake Organ, University of New Mexico - USA
pictured left in photo with wife Jemima

I am a 4th year PhD student in Environmental/Development Economics. My research concerns the demographic projections for Chad in Africa's Sahel region. I look at how climate change effects fertility outcomes in Chad, and hence mid century demographic projections.


Julie Hayes, University of Colorado Boulder - USA

First trained as an ecologist, Julie is now a postbaccalaureate student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder researching the intensely interesting questions at the intersections between these two fields. She plans to continue on to graduate work in these areas.


Kaarel Sikk, Center of Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg - Luxembourg

Currently studying Agent Based models for describing and assessing the formation processes of settlement patterns. My work is focused on settlement patterns that are observed in archaeological research and ways to interpret them. My previous background is software development and quantitative methods in archaeology.

url: http://kaarel.sikk.info


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/


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

I am a second year PhD in Environmental Science student at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), Laguna, Philippines. My proposed dissertation is on the socio-ecological resilience of Agusan Marsh, Philippines. I am interested in studying the interplay between the wetland ecosystem and the floating communities in both temporal and spatial scales and how the dynamics of this interplay affect the resilience of both social and ecological components to natural and anthropogenic pressures.

I am a warm person who appreciates different people I meet and values learning and new 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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Oluwatobi Adedeji, University of Ibadan - Nigeria

Career woman and entrepreneur.


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.


Prerana Mishra, People's Help Group - Nepal

Masters in Environmental Science from Tribhuvan University, currently associated with USAID's water project in Nepal as Sr. Project Officer. Recently published one scientific paper in Global Scientific Journal and three more published in different national scientific journals. Attended several national and international conferences in Nepal and in Malaysia.


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.