People

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Daniel Yupanqui — The community and regional economic impacts of energy transitions in remote, Northern and Indigenous communities

Doctoral Students

  • Mónica Leguízamo, School of Environment & Sustainability — Climate micro-finance for urban energy transitions and climate adaptation (in progress)
  • Daniel Yupanqui, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics — The economics of community energy transitions (graduated 2025)
  • Shivangi Jha, School of Environment & Sustainability — Bioresource Waste Management and Circular Economy (graduated 2025)

Master's Students

School of Environment and Sustainability - Master of Environment and Sustainability (MES) 

  • Abigail Velasteguí — The inequality of residential water consumption (in progress)
  • Linda Morales — Community energy transitions in remote, ecologically rich communities (in progress)
  • Diego Galdámez — Renewable Energy and Economic Growth: A Quantitative Analysis of Remote Communities in Canada (graduated 2026)
  • Daniela Alava — A Framework for Culturally Appropriate Sustainable Renewable Energy Projects in Remote Regions (graduated 2025)
  • Virginia Moreno de Quevedo — Social Acceptability of Renewable Energy: Exploring Community Members' Preferences for Attributes of Energy Projects in El Zangarro Community, Mexico (graduated 2024)

Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) 

  • Kendall Horan — Meaningful Consultation with Indigenous Peoples in Northern Saskatchewan (graduated 2025)

Rural Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), Public Administration & Rural Development 

  • Vitória Galindo de Lima (Emerging Leaders for the Americas Program) — Short-term economic effects of the São Francisco Inter-basin Water Transfer on the low-income population in Brazil (graduated 2021)

Undergraduate Visiting Research Students

MITACS GLobalink Summer Research Internship  

  • Denis Avecillas (Chimborazo Polytechnic University, Ecuador), MITACS Globalink Research Award for research in Canada, project: Echoes of the Andes: Community health and climate resilience in Ecuadorian Paramo Communities, summer 2026.
  • Syeda Samreen Abid (PMAS-ARID Agriculture University, Pakistan), project: High-Resolution Economics: Mapping Development with Satellite Imagery and Remote Sensing, summer 2026.
  • Sofiia Hloza (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of wisdom, summer 2026.
  • Luisa Fernanda Victoria (University of Antioquia, Colombia), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of adversity, summer 2026.
  • Laura Krug (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany), project: Decision making for sustainability: priorities and trade-offs among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), summer 2025.
  • Nataliia Khomich (National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Ukraine), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of power, summer 2025.
  • Anastasiia Teslyk (Sumy State University, Ukraine), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of superstition, summer 2025.
  • Saúl Rivera (Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico), project: Decision making for sustainability: priorities and trade-offs among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), summer 2024.
  • Danna Rengifo (University of the Valley, Colombia), project: Decision making for sustainability: priorities and trade-offs among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), summer 2024.
  • Juliana Rodríguez (Konrad Lorenz University Foundation, Colombia), project: Decision making in the era of climate change: the behavioural economics of adaptation and mitigation to climate change, summer 2024.
  • Linda Morales (Externado University, Colombia), project: Energy development: an economic, historical and anthropological perspective of traditional societies, summer 2023.
  • Andrea Rangel (Konrad Lorenz University Foundation, Colombia), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of music, summer 2023.
  • Sharanya Kannan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of food, summer 2023.
  • Zhixin Liu (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of adversity, summer 2022.
  • Srinwanti Chowdhury (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India), project: Principles of economics from the lens of indigenous values and ways of living, summer 2022.
  • Rebekah Fyfe, Augustana University (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of language, summer 2021.
  • Emily Soule, University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of power, summer 2021.
  • Pia Stermann, Osnabrück University (Osnabrück, Germany), project: Behaviour in everyday life: the economics of food, summer 2021.

Emergent Leaders of the Americas Program (ELAP)

  • Daniela Andrade (IKIAM University, Ecuador), Emerging Leaders for the Americas program (ELAP), project: Preserving nature, culture and local livelihoods: promotion of traditional crops and identity in the Amazon. Sep 2022 – February 2023.