Magaly Koch
Dr. Magaly Koch, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a remote sensing geologist with 30 years of experience in applied environmental research, including groundwater resources (in drylands), land degradation problems (soil salinization), geohazards and human impact in environmental change. She is particularly interested in projects addressing global water scarcity/flooding […]
Laurence Kotlikoff
Laurence Kotlikoff, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Economics at Boston University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, President of Economic Security Planning, Inc., and Director of the Fiscal […]
Jonathan Levy
Dr. Levy, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), centers his research on urban environmental exposure and health risk modeling, with an emphasis on spatiotemporal exposure patterns and related environmental justice issues. Application areas include air pollution, climate change, and COVID-19. Recent and ongoing research topics include spatial patterns of air […]
Sean Lubner
Sean Lubner, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an assistant professor at Boston University in mechanical engineering and materials science engineering. Before joining BU, Lubner was a research scientist at MIT and a Seaborg Fellow research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in both Mechanical […]
Nathan Phillips
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 […]
Justin Ren
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 […]
Madeleine Scammell
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 […]
Anne Short Gianotti
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 […]
Ian Sue Wing
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 […]
Pamela Templer
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 […]