People
The Centre's research fellows, research associates, and advisory board members come together in transdisciplinary research and research-creation to explore how sustainability studies and initiatives can help shape the future of human communities and the ecosystems they depend upon.
Our researchers come from a wide variety of disciplines, including Biology; Business; Chemistry and Biochemistry; Communication Studies; Design; Economics; Engineering; English; Geography Planning and Environment; History; Journalism; Management; Music; Philosophy; Political Science; Sociology and Anthropology; and Theological Studies.
- Core Members and Concordia Associates
- External Associates
- Junior Associates (Grad Students and Post-docs)
- Alumni (former Junior Associates)
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Political Economy, Ecological Economics, Development Economics, Economic Alternatives Political Ecology, Feminist Economics, Social Movements -
Sustainable Mobility, City Logistics, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Congestion, Connected Communities, Quality assurance in supply chain management, IT & Decision making, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Cybernetics -
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Ethics of Biotechnology, Virtue Ethics and Well-being -
Hydro-geomorphology and river dynamics, River management in agricultural watersheds, Geographical Information Systems, Morphodynamic numerical modelling, Stream restoration for fish habitat. -
| Scientific Research Manager, CERC Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Communities and Cities |
Smart, sustainable cities; University campuses as living labs; architecture; innovation management; urban labs; university-industry partnerships; sustainable energy concepts; social innovation
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Bothello, Joel
Associate Professor, Management
Concordia University Research Chair in Resilience and Institutions
Institutional Theory, sustainability, stakeholder theory, the informal economy -
Bukowski, William Michael
Professor and Research Chair in Early Adolescent Development, Psychology
Principal, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
Peer Relations, Social Development, Origins of Psychopathology, Culture, Economic Inequality, Early Adolescence, Studying Change -
Cucuzzella, Carmela
Professor, Design and Computation Arts
Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design And Sustainability for the Built Environment (IDEAS-BE)
Founding Co-Director, Next Generation Cities Institute
design studies, sustainability studies, architecture studies, built environment, cities, eco-design, eco-architecture, public space design, architecture competitions, teaching buildings, sustainability assessment tools, complex dynamic systems -
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Evolution and maintenance of biodiversity in forest and agricultural landscapes -
Individual behaviour in insect-plant interactions, and its role in population-level processes -
Diamantoudi, Effrosyni
Professor, Economics
Interim Dean, Graduate Studies, School of Graduate Studies
Game Theory, Coalition Formation, Cartel Stability Environmental Economics, International Environmental Agreements -
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Asset Management, Water System Sustainability, Infrastructure Resilience -
Urban energy systems, 3D City modeling, Urban data and simulation platform development, Renewable energies, Zero Carbon Cities, Demand response and flexibility, District and solar heating and cooling networks, sustainable transport -
Evolutionary applications to conservation biology; adaptation to environmental change; fisheries and wildlife management; population, conservation and quantitative genetics; molecular ecology. -
Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, biogeochemistry, climate change, environmental forensics, stable isotopes, chemical oceanography. |
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Gopakumar, Govind
Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society
Affiliate Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Technology and Society, Urban Infrastructure, Cities, Development Studies, Engineering Education, Global Engineering -
The distribution of resources in space and time and their influences on the aggressiveness of animals -
Environmental Politics, International Political Economy, Global Governance, International Relations, Lobbying, Private Standards, Forestry, Trade Barriers -
Environment and Infrastructure, Politics, Bureaucracy, Paraguay, Montreal -
Landscape ecology, including road ecology, Quantification and assessment of landscape structure and landscape change, Urban sprawl, Ecological modelling, Impact assessment. -
Kross, Angela
Assistant Professor, GIS Summer Certificate Director, Geography, Planning and Environment
Remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems, Ecosystem structure and function, vegetation dynamics, land use change and climate change. -
Energy politics and policy, global environmental politics, sustainability transitions, social-technical aspects of sustainable development, International politics, the role of technology in development, U.S. politics, methodology -
langshaw, pk
department chair, Design and Computation Arts
professor, Design and Computation Arts
fellow of the loyola college for diversity &sustainability, Loyola International College
directrice of d_verse lab (&all things verse, reversed, in.verse), Fine Arts
social design, research-creation, media arts, social creativity, textile arts, poetics, performance art, responsive environments, experimental typography, interface design, social networks, collective creations, community-university, the live of animals, clothing and dress, activism, urban futures, democratic values, ethnocultural diversity, sustainability studies -
Community ecology and biogeography, Macroecology, Biodiversity, Global Change, Entomology -
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Matthews, Damon
Professor and Concordia Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, Geography, Planning and Environment
Climate change, global climate modelling, climate impacts, allowable emissions for climate mitigation targets, national contributions to climate change
| Part-time faculty member in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment | Climate change, water resource management, Northern studies |
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New media, environment, interactive documentary, human rights, community based research, participatory documentary, feminist media, climate change, refugee youth, research-creation -
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Mulligan, Catherine
Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
Concordia Research Chair in Geoenvironmental Sustainability (Tier I)
Environmental Engineering, Surfactant-enhanced washing and flushing of contaminated soils and sediments, Treatment and management of metal-contaminated soils, sediments and wastes, Bioremediation, Physical, chemical and biological treatment of wastewater, Biological treatment of air. -
Mulrennan, Monica E.
Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research (Development and Outreach), Geography, Planning and Environment
Indigenous stewardship; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Indigenous conservation and protected areas; traditional fisheries; seaweed harvesting; ethno-geomorphology -
Hydrology, water security and climate change, coupled human-water systems, mathematical modeling and algorithm development -
Biodiversity Conservation Governance; Politics of Socio-ecological Sustainability; Social Studies of Science; Environmental Nationalism/Transnationalism; Eco-citizenship -
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quantitative ecology, fisheries, marine and aquatic community ecology, rapid change in ecosystems, movement ecology, biostatistics -
aquatic ecology, fish biology, spatial ecology, community ecology, biodiversity, biostatistics, quantitative ecology -
Comparative Politics; Policy; Africa; natural resources; (de)centralization; elections; social justice and inclusion; research design -
Institutional theory, Sustainability, Social Innovation
| Assistant Professor, Political Science |
Institutionalized cooperation to address climate change, climate change policy |
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Earth surface processes and landscape evolution; Sediment production and transport; Water resources management; Interactions among ecological and geomorphic processes; Global change and sustainability science -
North American freshwater availability, decadal-to-centennial water variability, regional hydrology and climate, impacts of global warming, water management for sustained droughts and floods, paleoclimatology, tree-rings, pollen, instrumental data, climate models. -
Microeconomics, Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics -
Tittler, Rebecca
Academic Advisor and Research Administration Coordinator, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
Part-time Faculty, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
Part-time Faculty, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research Administration Coordinator, Loyola Sustainability Research Centre (LSRC)
Sustainability, ecology, forest management -
Transportation policy, projects and politics; built environment characteristics of Canada's metropolitan areas; urban sprawl and the effect of legally protecting non-urban land; urban planning in the developing world. -
Primatology, Behavioural ecology, Japanese macaques and disability, Animal behaviour and behavioural plasticity, Human-animal interactions, Animal responses to human-induced environmental change, Conservation and biodiversity -
environmental and ecological humanities; atomic photography; nuclear and atomic history and aesthetics; cultural theory; writing as method; north and nordicity; monuments, archives and memory; risk and futurity -
Behavioural ecology of large herbivores, life history strategies and evolutionary ecology, population ecology, population dynamics, terrestrial ecosystems ecology, wildlife conservation and management, wildlife ecology, welfare of captive wildlife. -
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Landscape ecology; ecosystem services; biodiversity science; urban ecology; multifunctional landscapes; forest ecology; land-use legacies; sustainability
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| Peace-building and resource governance |
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| Critical food studies, social network analysis, active learning |
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| Invasive species, carnivore conservation | |
| Comparative urban and environmental politics, global environmental governance, urban and environmental policymaking and administration, the politics of infrastructure, agriculture and natural resources, Internet governance | |
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(UNEP) |
Programme Officer at UN Fund for International Partnerships |
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(Earth Systems Governance Representations of and Rights for the Environment Workgroup) |
Law, international organisations, environmental governance, Indigenous rights and law, environmental humanities, legal linguistics and semiotics |
| Environmental politics and energy | |
| Biodiversity and ecosystem management and conservation, global and public health, One Health, climate change, regulatory energy policy | |
| Strategic and sustainability marketing and management, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business models | |
| Gender, political ecology, and urban social-environmental justice in Central America | |
| International relations and law, global environmental politics, human rights, biodiversity conservation policy, transnational environmental crime, marine pollution prevention, climate justice, Canadian-American environmental relations | |
North American environmental politics and policy, urban sustainability, environmental policy history, interagency and multilateral policy networks |
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| Sustainable Development Goals, sustainable finance, governance and multilateral agreements |
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Urban development in India, transit-oriented development, non-motorized transportation in cities, public policy |
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Communications, socio-environmental impacts of renewable energy infrastructures in Quebec |
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Corporate environmental practice, institutional theory |
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Electric vehicles, gender equity, urban mobility |
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(PhD Student) |
Wildlife management, landscape ecology, landscape connectivity |
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(MSc Student) |
Urban ecology, conservation, human-use, birds, urban greenspaces, parks |
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(MASc Student) |
Decision-making in both corporate and policy areas, decision-analytic frameworks |
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(PhD Student) |
Intergenerational justice and contemporary art |
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Biogas, agricultural waste, environmental justice |
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Surface engineering, life-cycle assessment |
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Transit, travel behaviour, development, planning |
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(MSc Student) |
Biodiversity, connectivity, private land, restauration, urban ecology |
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(PhD Student) |
Stream habitat restoration, fluvial geomorphological, environmental economics and externalities, sustainable land use practices, and water quality and quantity problems |
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Landscape fragmentation, landscape ecology |
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Land access, agricultural development, natural resource management, food security |
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(PhD Student) |
Human impacts on the ecology and evolution of fishes |
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(PhD Student) |
Environmental and sustainability education |
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(PhD Student) |
Corporate accountability for climate change, emissions accounting |
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(PhD Student) |
International environmental agreements, climate change |
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Mobility, transport infrastructure, commuting, cycling, walking |
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Sustainable fisheries management |
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(PhD Student) |
Tropical forest dynamics, floral phylogeny, rhizosphere, carbon storage |
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(PhD Candidate) |
Politics of energy reform, Sub-Saharan Africa, private-sector participation |
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(MSc Student) |
Animal personality, behavioural ecology, human-wildlife conflicts, conservation |
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(PhD Student) |
Water management, politics of knowledge production |
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(MASc Student) |
Sustainable food production, urban agriculture |
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(MSc Student) |
Greenbelts, urban sprawl |
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(PhD Student) |
Dendroclimatology, climate history |
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Process-based environmental life cycle assessment models |
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Façade design characteristics, façade data model, building energy efficiency |
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Active mobility, technological change, urban experimentation |
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Urban trees, ecosystems |
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Community ecology, spatial ecology, graph theory, landscape genetics |
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(PhD Student) |
Waste management, data mining, big data, remote sensor technology, machine learning algorithms, circular economy |
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(MSc Student) |
Butterflies, invasive species |
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(PhD Student) |
Japanese macaques, animal behaviour, behavioural flexibility, animal disability |
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(PhD Student) |
Environmental communication, memory, sensory and care studies, urban design, storytelling, food justice |
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(PhD Student) |
Ants, community ecology, biogeography, conservation |
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(PhD Student) |
Energy transitions, energy governance, sustainable development, and sub-Saharan Africa |
Nicole Yu (MSc Student) |
Urban biodiversity, arthropods |
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(MFA Student) |
Sustainable fashion, sustainable textile design practices |
Administrative Board
The Administrative Board oversees the strategic direction and administration of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre.
Administrative Board Members
- Natasha Blanchet-Cohen - Department of Applied Human Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science
- James Grant - Co-Director of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre / Principal of the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability / Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science (on sabbatical until January 2023)
- Shannon Lloyd - Department of Management, John Molson School of Business / Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Elizabeth Miller - Department of Communication Studies / Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Katja Neves - Department of Sociology and Anthropology / Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Raymond Paquin - Department of Management, John Molson School of Business / Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Sarah Turner - Co-Director of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre / Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board provides general guidance and advice on operations and events and serves to facilitate information exchange for the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre.
Advisory Board Members
- Jason Ens - Executive Director, Academic Policy, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs
- Andrée Tremblay - Ph.D. Student and Student Associate Member of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre / Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science
- James Grant - Co-Director of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre / Principal of the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability / Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Patrick Leroux - Associate Dean Research / Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Sarah Turner - Co-Director of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre / Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Rebecca Tittler - Coordinator of the Loyola Sustainability Research Center / Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
- Manon Tremblay - Senior Director, Indigenous Directions, Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs