Sarah-Louise Ruder
PhD with Terre Satterfield & Hannah Wittman, 2024; SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa; Researcher, Food and Agricultural Institute, University of the Fraser Valley
Kushank Bajaj
PhD with Navin Ramankutty, 2024
Jumi Gogoi
PhD with Navin Ramankutty, 2024; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Waterloo
Kyoko Adachi
MA Student Contact Details Research Interests Bio I was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, and came to Canada for my undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto. I majored in Environmental Ethics and double minored in History and Anthropology there. Currently at IRES, I am working with Dr. Hadi Dowlatabadi and Dr. Jiaying Zhao on people’s sense of responsibility for intergenerational transfers including climate impacts. Outside school, I enjoy swimming, volleyball, piano, and exploring different brunch places. Projects Courses Featured Publications
Carly McGregor
MSc with Claire Kremen, 2022; Lab Manager, UBC Plant-Insect Ecology & Evolution Lab
Rapichan Phurisamban
(they/them or she/her) PhD Candidate, Vanier Scholar, Public Scholar, 2023 IBioS Student Fellow Contact Details rapichan.phurisamban@ires.ubc.ca Research Interests Bio Returning to UBC where I received a bachelor’s degree in economics, I find the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES) to be an intellectual home for problem-based, interdisciplinary researchers with deep social and ecological concerns. I started my PhD journey in the fall of 2019, working under the supervision of Dr. Terre Satterfield. My current project draws on political ontology, decolonial studies, Indigenous studies, and ethnographic methods to study river relations, lived realities of river dwellers, and knowledge politics in Mekong […]
Narayan Gopinathan
MSc Student Contact Details narayansgopi@gmail.com phone: 8584494482 Research Interests Bio Originally from San Diego, California, Narayan graduated with his BS in environmental economics and policy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. During his undergraduate studies, he completed research internships at the University of California, San Diego, blueEnergy (an NGO that does water and sanitation work in Nicaragua), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the California Environmental Protection Agency. He has also published peer-reviewed work in Climate Policy, on the political economy of mid-century strategies for decarbonization. He is currently pursuing his masters’ degree in IRES under the supervision of Milind […]
Alberto Campos
PhD Candidate Contact Details alberto@aquasis.org Research Interests Bio Alberto is a PhD Candidate in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, supervised by Dr. Kai Chan, and Ocean Leaders graduate fellow. His research seeks to understand the cascades triggered by defaunation – including species extinctions, local extirpations and severe population reductions – and their ecological consequences, in order to propose management and rewilding practices that could recover environmental services for the benefit of all beings. As a conservation biologist, Alberto co-founded the NGO Aquasis (www.aquasis.org) and worked as its principal Director for nearly 20 years, promoting endangered species and habitat conservation […]
Bassam Javed
PhD Student Contact Details bassam@alumni.ubc.ca Research Interests Bio Bassam is a PhD student at UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability. His research focuses on electric vehicle policy in India with Dr. Amanda Giang and Dr. Milind Kandlikar. His methods include quantitative modelling and interviews/surveys, and he uses data analytics tools. Bassam’s professional career included technical and leadership roles in the mining sector. After completing his M. Eng. in Clean Energy Engineering at UBC, Bassam worked at a school district, providing energy management for its facilities and engaging students in environmental sustainability initiatives. Currently, Bassam is an energy & sustainability consultant […]
Rudri Bhatt
PhD Student Contact Details rudrib@alumni.ubc.ca Research Interests Bio Rudri is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. She completed her BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. During her bachelor’s degree, Rudri was an active member of Engineers without Borders (EwB) – Technion chapter for 3 years where she worked towards developing a water filtration system and household insulation for small off-grid communities. She further pursued a Master of Science at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at UBC, working on farmers’ perspectives on alternatives to agricultural waste burning and its […]