Andrew Robichaud
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 […]
Emily M. Ryan
Emily M. Ryan, Associate Director with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and 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 a solid […]
Maxime Sauzet
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 & […]
Madeleine Scammell
Madeleine Scammell, 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 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 the […]
Caterina Scaramelli
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 […]
Steven Schwartz
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 […]
Henrik Selin
Henrik Selin, Affiliated Faculty 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. […]
Sahar Sharifzadeh
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 […]
Andre Sharon
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. […]
Kayoko Shioda
Kayoko Shioda, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an infectious disease epidemiologist and veterinarian working at the intersection of global health, One Health, vaccine epidemiology, and Bayesian statistics. Her research integrates veterinary medicine, epidemiological methods, mathematical modeling, and Bayesian statistics to tackle issues in infectious disease epidemiology, with two […]