Jackie Lerner
Adjunct Professor Contact Details Research Interests Bio Jackie Lerner is an impact assessment specialist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Jackie has been an environmental consulting professional for over 20 years. Her experience includes environmental and social impact assessment of major resource developments across Canada and internationally: primarily mining, oil and gas, and infrastructure projects. Jackie holds a PhD from the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at UBC. Her academic research focuses on methodologies for creating future development scenarios in cumulative effects assessment as well as practicable approaches for incorporating gender-based analysis into impact assessment. She is also broadly interested in […]
Evelyn Arriagada
PhD with Leila Harris, 2025
Atlanta-Marinna Grant
MA with Hannah Wittman & Maggie Low, 2023
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 never ceased, however, and Verena became increasingly frustrated with the limited impact she had as a clinician on the systemic issues that made her patients sick. She therefore made the decision to leave her clinical career path and came to Canada to complete an MSc in […]
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. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at ITESO (Mexico) in 2012. Having lived in big cities all his life, he quickly became passionate about sustainable urban development. Through his involvement in various projects during his undergraduate studies, Mauricio started working on infrastructure, and more […]
Celeste Pomerantz
MSc Student Research Interests Bio Celeste Pomerantz is a masters (MSc) student in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, supervised by Dr. M.V. Ramana. Her research focuses on energy storage and grid optimization in Canadian remote and off-grid communities. She has a BSc in natural sciences from the University of Calgary concentrating in alternative energy and geosciences. During her undergrad, she focused her projects on alternative energy storage systems writing and co-authoring several papers including Fuel Cells for Heavy Freight Transport, Pumped Hydroelectric Storage, and Hydrogen as a Future Energy Source. She also aided Dr. Jason Donev on his award […]
Diana Bedolla López
MA with Gunilla Oberg, 2023
Emma Gillies
MSc with Amanda Giang, 2022; Biologist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Taya Triffo
MA with Leila Harris, 2022
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, she focused on theories of collaborative governance, resource course, wicked problem and social networks, basing it on the case of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative in Mongolia. In her doctoral work, Bulgan examines whether there is a correlation between participatory processes and improved mining outcomes, with […]