Mauricio Carvallo Aceves
PhD student, P. Eng. Peter Wall Legacy Award Les Lavkulich Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service, 2023 Mitacs Accelerate Fellow Four Year Fellowship Recipient, NSERC Alexander Graham Bell IRES Student Society Co-President, 2022-2023 Contact Details https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mauricio-carvallo-aceves-92567a106 Research Interests Bio Mauricio joined IRES in 2020 as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Stephanie Chang. […]
Verena Rossa-Roccor
PhD Student, CIHR Doctoral Scholar, Public Scholar, Four Year Fellowship Recipient Contact Details verena.rossa-roccor@ubc.ca https://www.grad.ubc.ca/campus-community/meet-our-students/rossa-roccor-verena Research Interests Bio After a very brief stint as a student of political science many years ago, Verena switched careers, went to medical school, and worked as a psychiatrist in Switzerland for several years. Her passion for policy and politics […]
Bulgan Batdorj
PhD Student, Institute of Asian Research Fellow Contact Details bulgan.batdorj@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/bulgan-batdorj/ Research Interests Bio Bulgan Batdorj is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, supervised by Professor Nadja Kunz. Before joining the IRES, Bulgan completed her master’s degree at the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering. In her master’s thesis, […]
Ilke Geladi
PhD Student, Trip Coordinator, 2022-2023 Contact Details ilkegel@student.ubc.ca Research Interests Ecosystem Services, Landbird Conservation, Evolutionary Ecology, and Socio-Ecological Systems Bio Ilke Geladi is a PhD student in the WoRCS Lab under the supervision of Claire Kremen. Her research explores questions related to the conservation of landbirds in the agricultural zone of Santa Cruz island in […]
Reem Salameh
PhD Student Research Interests Bio Reem is a PhD student at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her doctoral research is focused on Nuclear Power and Energy Choices in the Middle East. She is working under the supervision of Professor M.V. Ramana. Previously, Reem has joined […]
Anna R Santo
PhD Student Contact Details asanto@student.ubc.ca mobile: 6519005451 Research Interests Bio Anna Santo is a PhD student at the Institute for Resource, Environment and Sustainability (UBC). She is supervised by Professor Kai Chan. She is interested in the social dimensions of ecosystem rewilding and climate change mitigation. Anna received her B.A. in biology and environmental studies […]
Annie Lalande
PhD studentStudent Society Co-President, 2022-2023 Research Interests Bio Annie Lalande is a PhD student co-supervised by Drs. Jiaying Zhao and Andrea MacNeill, a surgical oncologist at Vancouver General Hospital leading the UBC Planetary Healthcare Lab. She is interested in understanding how considering food as a therapeutic intervention in healthcare can impact the health of patients, […]
Jerry Achar
PhD Candidate, Contact Details jerryachar@gmail.com Research Interests Bio Jerry is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES), a member of the Egesta Lab, and supervised by Professor Gunilla Öberg. His research interest entwines chemicals of emerging concern, human health, and chemical regulation. His Ph.D. research focuses on analyzing and characterizing […]
Abdulateef Gafar
PhD Student Contact Details Research Interests Bio Abdulateef is a PhD student with a passion for, sustainability, modelling, and programming. He is also an environmentalist who advocates for sustainable practice and adoption of disruptive technologies in human development and environmental management. Abdulateef’s research focuses on Energy systems and their impacts on the socio-economic and environmental sphere, with special focus on bioenergy/renewable systems in […]
Jessica Koski
PhD StudentIndigenous Graduate Fellow Contact Details jessica[dot]koski[at]ubc.ca Research Interests Natural resource governance, Indigenous resurgence, Indigenous peoples & sustainability, Global Indigenous rights & politics, Indigenous-State relations, Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous peoples & higher education Bio Jessica L. Koski (Anishinaabe-Ojibwe) is a PhD student at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (UBC) co-supervised by Professors David R. […]