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  Marcia Pescador Jimenez

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health

  Marcia P. Jimenez, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), received her PhD in epidemiology from the Brown University School of Public Health and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular disease and environmental epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has a multidisciplinary research portfolio that includes […]
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  Nathan Phillips

  Core Faculty, IGS; Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Nathan Phillips, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. He is a physiological ecologist who studies land-climate interactions in terrestrial ecosystems and human-dominated environments, including exchanges of energy, water, and greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide exchanged between the air […]
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  Erin Polka

  Graduate Student Summer Fellow, IGS Environmental Health

  Erin Polka is a PhD Student in the Environmental Health Department in the School of Public Health and a trainee in the Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health Graduate Program. Her research focuses on understanding the health impacts associated with energy infrastructure. She seeks to understand how decarbonization efforts can benefit both human and ecosystem health. […]
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  Mukesh Prasad

  Advisory Board, IGS; Founder & Co-Managing Partner, Innova Capital Partners; Senior Advisor, US Department of Commerce; Associate Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology, Weill Cornell Medicine

  Mukesh Prasad, an advisory board member for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Innova Capital Partners. He is responsible for the strategic growth and capital resources for Innova with over a decade of experience investing in the energy sector. Innova invests in companies and projects at […]
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  Richard Primack

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor, Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

  Richard Primack, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Biology with interests in plant ecology, conservation biology, climate change biology, citizen science, and tropical rain forests. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Malaysia, New Zealand, Japan, Central America, the United States, and other countries. He has […]
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  Richard Reibstein

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Lecturer, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Richard Reibstein, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), has taught environmental law (Law for Sustainability, EE521) to non-law students in the Department of Earth & Environment since 2000, while also developing technical assistance and enforcement efforts for the state of Massachusetts and the Environmental Protection Agency. He created the courses […]
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  Justin Ren

  Core Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor and Chair of Operations & Technology Management, Questrom School of Business

  Justin Ren, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and Associate Professor of Operations and Technology Management and Dean's Research Fellow at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, is a member of the Board of Directors for the Asia Pacific Decision Sciences Institute as well as the President of the Chinese […]
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  Edward Riedl

  Associate Director, IGS; John F. Smith Jr. Professor of Management and Professor of Accounting, Questrom School of Business; Director, Impact Measurement & Allocation Program

  Eddie Riedl is an Associate Director at Boston University’s Institute for Global Sustainability. He is the director of the Impact Measurement & Allocation Program within the Questrom Institute for Business, Markets, and Society, the John F. Smith Jr. Professor of Accounting at the Questrom School of Business, and former chair of the accounting department. He […]
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  Andrew Robichaud

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, History, College of Arts & Sciences

  Andrew Robichaud, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), works in various fields of American history, including environmental and urban history, with a focus on nineteenth-century America and the creation of modern environmental and spatial relationships.He is the author of Animal City: The Domestication of America (Harvard, 2019) and is at […]
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  Roberto Rösner

  Advisory Board, IGS; Head of Energy and Commodity Management at Enel North America, Inc.

  Roberto Rösner, an advisory board member for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Head of Energy and Commodity Management at Enel North America, Inc., where he leads the company’s energy commodity business across the United States and Canada. In this role, he oversees trading, origination, risk management, and customer operations for utility-scale […]
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  Jesse Ross

  Project Coordinator, IGS

  Jesse Ross is a Project Coordinator with Boston University's Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), helping to manage a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship called ENERGIZE. The primary goal of the traineeship is to prepare students to undertake convergent research to tackle the urgent societal problem of developing sustainable energy storage and conversion. Ross has a […]
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  Chloe Rowen

  Operations Assistant, IGS

  Chloe Rowen is the Operations Assistant for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). Currently an undergraduate student at Boston University in the College of Arts and Sciences, Rowen is pursuing a BA in both Environmental Analysis & Policy and International Relations. Especially interested in utilizing data through different methods of modeling, she hopes […]
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  Emily M. Ryan

  Associate Director, IGS; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, College of Engineering

  Emily M. Ryan, Associate Director with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at Boston University, received her PhD in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, where her dissertation research focused on numerical modeling of chromium poisoning in the cathode of […]
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  Hanee Ryu

  Visiting Researcher, IGS

  Hanee Ryu is a Visiting Researcher at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). She conducts interdisciplinary research on technology, policy, and market structure in energy transition. Recently, the focus has been on addressing cost overrun issues based on project-level costs for various power sources. A comparative evaluation of cost overruns for energy sources […]
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  Mariam Saadieh

  Financial Administrator

  Mariam Saadieh, Financial Administrator with the Institute for Global Sustainability, is a highly skilled finance professional with expertise in financial administration, accounts receivable, and accounts payable coordination. With a strong foundation in financial operations, she excels at managing transactions, maintaining accuracy in financial reporting, and supporting organizational efficiency. Mariam is adept at collaborating with cross-functional […]
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  Maxime Sauzet

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Finance, Questrom School of Business

  Maxime Sauzet is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. He is also an affiliated faculty at the Department of Economics. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021. His research combines theoretical, empirical, and computational approaches, and focuses on topics in Asset Pricing & […]
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  Madeleine Scammell

  Core Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Environmental Health, School of Public Health

  Madeleine Scammell, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health and a JPB Environmental Health Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her expertise is in the area of community-driven and community-based participatory research and includes […]
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  Caterina Scaramelli

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Senior Lecturer, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Caterina Scaramelli, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), focuses her research on ethnographic and archival methods, how communities and individuals respond to environmental change and biodiversity loss. It also focuses on the varied ways in which competing claims about livability, justice, and ethics are entangled in visions and experiences of […]
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  Steven Schwartz

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences

  Steven Schwartz, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an environmental anthropologist whose research explores how the climate crisis and the global rise of renewable energy intersect with Indigenous peoples’ environmental relations, practices of resistance, and political and economic life in Latin America. Dr. Schwartz is developing his first book […]
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  Henrik Selin

  Associate Director, IGS; Professor, International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

  Henrik Selin, Associate Director with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Dean for Studies and Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He conducts research and teaches classes on global politics, regional politics, and policy-making for the environment and sustainable development. […]
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  Sahar Sharifzadeh

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

  Sahar Sharifzadeh, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), leads a research group focused on understanding and predicting functional material properties using first-principles electronic structure methods. They develop and apply these methods, which can predict, with quantitative accuracy, the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of materials from the basic laws of […]
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  Andre Sharon

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, College of Engineering; Director, Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Engineering

  Andre Sharon, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), has accumulated over 20 years of experience, both academic and industrial, conducting research, developing, and deploying computer-controlled automation systems, devices and instruments for several industries, ranging from sub-micron, high-precision machinery for optoelectronics, biotech/biomedical, and semiconductor fabrication to high-speed assembly of consumer products. […]
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  Koichiro Shiba

  Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health

  Dr. Shiba, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, focuses on the application of epidemiologic and social science thinking and methods for rigorous causal inference in studying social determinants of health. He is particularly interested in the effects of traumatic events (e.g., disasters, child adversity, pandemic, and global financial crisis) on population […]
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  Anne Short Gianotti

  Core Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Curriculum, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Anne Short Gianotti, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Curriculum, Earth & Environment at Boston University where her research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of conservation, wildlife management, and urban climate action. Her work investigates how various socio-political and […]
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  Benjamin Siegel

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor, History, College of Arts & Sciences

  Benjamin Siegel, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a historian of modern economic life and politics, agriculture, and the environment, with a geographic focus on South Asia and its entanglements with the wider world. His first book, Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University […]
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  Sheldon Simon (Co-Chair)

  Advisory Board Chair, IGS; Founder and CEO, Third Gear Investments

  Sheldon Simon, an advisory board member for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Partner and Equity Analyst at Adage Capital Management L.P., a Boston-based money management firm. At Adage, Sheldon is responsible for investments in energy infrastructure as it relates to electric power and natural gas. Prior to joining Adage in […]
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  Mayank Singhal

  Advisory Board, IGS; Vice Chairman and Managing Director, PI Industries Ltd.

  Mayank Singhal, an advisory board member for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Vice Chairman and Managing Director of PI Industries Ltd. with more than 25 years of experience. Singhal is responsible for bringing transformative, global change to the unique business model of the agri-sciences company. He has partnered with more than […]
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  Tawnya Smith

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor of Music, Music Education, College of Fine Arts

  Dr. Tawnya D. Smith, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an interdisciplinary researcher who explores expressive arts principles to promote holistic learning, wellbeing, and sustainability in music education settings. Her current research bridges across trauma and mental health, LGBTQIA+ studies, and ecopsychology and ecojustice informed music learning. Dr. Smith […]
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  Brian Sousa

  Graduate Student Summer Fellow, IGS Environmental Health

  Brian Sousa, a 2024 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an MS student in the Department of Environmental Health. His interests focus on climate mitigation strategies, the impacts they have on public health, and how we can work to mitigate these impacts through an environmental justice lens. Sousa plans […]
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  Benjamin Sovacool

  Director, IGS; Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Benjamin K. Sovacool, Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. He works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to global energy policy and politics, energy security, energy justice, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. More specifically, his research focuses […]
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  Gianluca Stringhini

  Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

  Gianluca Stringhini, project champion for the Focused Research Program on data and misinformation jointly sponsored by the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University where he co-directs the Security Lab (seclaBU). Gianluca's research develops computational methods to measure, model, and […]
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  Richard Stuebi

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Lecturer, Strategy & Innovation, Questrom School of Business

  Richard Stuebi, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Industry Relations Manager, Energy & Sustainability, and a Lecturer in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. His academic research interests relate primarily to the drivers of energy consumption, especially the antecedents of […]
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  Ian Sue Wing

  Core Faculty, IGS; Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

  Ian Sue Wing, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University. He conducts research and teaching on the economic analysis of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on climate change and computational general equilibrium (CGE) analysis of economic adjustment […]
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  Emery Taylor

  Campus Climate Lab Program Coordinator

  Emery Taylor is the Program Coordinator for Campus Climate Lab at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS). She is a Master’s in Global Marketing Management candidate pursuing a complimentary certification in Supply Chain Management. She comes from a background in political science, marketing, and project management, with a skill-set designed for streamlining business […]
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  Pamela Templer

  Core Faculty, IGS; Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

  Pamela Templer, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is chair and professor in the Department of Biology and director of the PhD Program in Biogeoscience at Boston University. She is broadly interested in ecosystem ecology and the influence that plant-microbial interactions have on nutrient cycling and carbon exchange. Dr. Templer is […]
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  Remi Trudel

  Core Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Marketing, Questrom School of Business

  Remi Trudel, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. Trudel's research focuses on consumer well-being with translational implications for business. Specifically, he explores three consumer behaviors that he believes are destructive and unsustainable to […]
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  Irena Vodenska

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor of Finance, Director of Finance Programs, and Chair of Administrative Sciences, Metropolitan College

  Irena Vodenska, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Finance and Director of Finance Programs at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. She is also a chair of the Administrative Sciences Department at Metropolitan College, Boston University.  Her research focuses on network theory and complexity science in macroeconomics. She […]
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  Monica Wang

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health

  Dr. Monica Wang, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a globally recognized and award-winning researcher, educator, and thought leader on health equity, […]
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  Adam Warren

  Visiting Researcher, IGS; Director, Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support (ADDS) Center, NREL

  Dr. Adam Warren, a Visiting Researcher with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is the director of the Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support (ADDS) center within the Energy Systems Integration directorate at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. As the name suggests, the ADDS center focuses on the later stages […]
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  Gregory Wellenius

  Core Faculty, IGS; Professor, Environmental Health, School of Public Health; Director, Center for Climate & Health

  Gregory Wellenius, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health and Director of BUSPH’s new Center for Climate and Health. He previously earned a doctorate jointly in Environmental Health and Epidemiology from the Harvard TH Chan School of […]
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  Chris Wells

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Associate Professor of Emerging Media Studies, College of Communication

  Chris Wells, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication and a founding member of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. He is also project lead for the Focused Research Program on data and misinformation jointly sponsored by IGS. […]
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  Joerg Werner

  Core Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

  Joerg Werner, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), received his PhD from Cornell University with Prof. Uli Wiesner. His research focused on functional and precise three-dimensional (3D) nanomaterials from block copolymer self-assembly for energy storage applications, including the demonstration of the first functional nano-interdigitated battery. In his postdoc at Harvard […]
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  Amelia Wesselink

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health

  Dr. Amelia Wesselink, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). Her research focuses on how environmental exposures influence reproductive and gynecologic health, with a specific focus on factors related to neighborhoods and climate change. She […]
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  Ronald Wheeler

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Dean for Law Libraries and Associate Professor, School of Law

  Ronald Wheeler, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a recognized leader in the area of legal research instruction having served in various law library management roles at law schools across the country. Wheeler has taught legal research in various contexts including in stand-alone 1L legal research courses, upper division […]
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  Brooke Williams

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Associate Professor of the Practice, Computational Journalism, College of Communication

  Brooke Williams, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an investigative reporter and educator who specializes in data journalism. Her work has contributed to a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, a George Polk Award, and a Gerald Loeb Award, among many others. Williams' students help cover the city of Newton […]
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  Darien Alexander Williams

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Macro Practice Department, School of Social Work

  Darien Alexander Williams, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an assistant professor in the Macro Practice Department, with a focus on climate & environmental justice. His research broadly engages Black and Muslim urban planning history, hurricane disaster recovery, climate change, and community organizing. Williams’ research examines methods of counter-institution […]
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  Mary Willis

  Core Faculty, IGS; Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health

  Mary D. Willis, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health. Her expertise lies at the intersection of environmental epidemiology, spatial exposure assessment, and applied data science. Much of her work also leverages econometric-based causal […]
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  Muhammad Zaman

  Affiliated Faculty, IGS; Professor and Vice Chair, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering; Director, Center on Forced Displacement

  Muhammad Hamid Zaman, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health at Boston University. He is also the Director of Center on Forced Displacement at the University. His research focuses on access to healthcare among vulnerable communities, including refugees and […]
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  Alicia Zhang

  Research Assistant, IGS

  Alicia Zhang is a Research Assistant at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a PhD student in Boston University’s Department of Earth and Environment. She is interested in how sustainable and responsible measures in the corporate environment can help achieve climate change mitigation and social justice improvements. Prior to BU, Alicia worked […]