Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

Sustainability

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 […]

Lindah Ddamba

MA Student with M. V. Ramana, 2024

Jaden L. Phillips

MSc Student, Community Engagement Coordinator, 2022-2023 https://twitter.com/wizard_008 Research Interests Bio Jaden Phillips (They/Them) is a MSc student joining the IRES team in Fall 2021, under the supervision of Dr. Jiaying Zhao. They graduated from the University of Toronto in 2020 with a combined honors in Environmental Science and Psychology. Now a 24-year-old climate activist, Jaden […]

Shuoqi Ren

PhD Student Research Interests Bio Shuoqi Ren is a Ph.D. student in IRES supervised by Dr. Amanda Giang in the Lab for Environmental Assessment and Policy (LEAP). Her research focused on urban environmental quality and justice assessment using digital tools like GIS techniques. Her broader interests include understanding and characterizing the impacts and outcomes of […]