The Knowledge Archives

Dr. Benjamin Goldstein is an Assistant Professor of Bioresource Engineering at McGill University in Canada. His work focuses on tracking the supply chains of corporations. Specifically, he's developed a new methodology to analyse the sustainability of corporations, working on case studies like linking factory farmed cattle to Costco's beef.  

To learn more about his work, please visit: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5VCGc9kAAAAJ&hl=en. You can also visit some resources Dr. Goldstein mentioned: 

- https://trase.earth/. A project to track agricultural product sustainability. 

- https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800918313818. Dr. Goldstein's research paper on his new methodology 

Dr. Gunther Bensch is a Researcher at the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economics Research in Germany. His work focuses on development economics, specifically regarding energy use. He especially analyses issues like spreading improved cooking technology and lighting in countries like Senegal.

Dr. Mac Callaham is a research ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture. His work studies soil ecology with a focus on the organisms that live within soils. Specifically, he's researched how soils play a role in restoring the health of ecosystems, especially after disturbances like invasive species.  

Dafni Avgoustaki is a PhD Student at the Aarhus University in Denmark. Her work studies the optimisation of vertical farming for businesses to implement. Specifically, she's researched how to decrease energy and lighting costs for vertical farms, as well as starting her own company to find solutions for this.  

Dr. Mike Irvine is the Biostatistical Lead at the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute in Canada. His work uses mathematical models to help prepare public health responses to disease. Specifically, he's researched the effects of interventions on infectious diseases and opioid overdoses.

Dr. Francis Poulin is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Canada. His research studies oceanic processes like currents and vortices, especially in regards to their effects on marine ecology and climate. Specifically, he uses mathematical and computational models to analyse features of these processes like the stability of ocean currents.  

Dr. Jesse Reynolds is an Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law in the US. His research studies the regulation of future technologies to achieve environmental sustainability, including solar geoengineering.  

Dr. Zack Blount is a Research Assistant Professor at the Michigan State University in the US. His research focuses on studying evolutionary contingency - that evolution is influenced by random events. Specifically, he works on one of the longest-running evolution experiments studying how E. coli evolve.  

Dr. Nishant Malik is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the US. His research focuses on problems in applied mathematics, especially regarding complex systems like the climate. Specifically, he shares his recent work on analysing time series of past climate data.  

Dr. Manuela Nagel is the Head of Cryo and Stress Biology at The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany. Her research focuses on plant cryopreservation - a process to store genetic materials from plants for decades. Specifically, her work involves preserving agricultural crops for gene banks.