Bo Chen
Bo Chen, 2024 Liu Scholar Bo Chen is currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC. He holds a B.S. and an M.A.Sc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Sichuan University, China, and UBC, respectively. His doctoral research focuses on exploring uncertainties in power system operations and analyzing intricate details of electricity […]
Angel Espinoza
Angel Espinoza, 2024 Liu Scholar Angel Espinoza is a Mexican PhD student at the Vancouver School of Economics in the University of British Columbia (PhD supervisor Prof. Torsten Jaccard). Interested in conducting research with clear implications for policymaking, his main field of interest is applied microeconomics, focusing on labor and trade. Angel completed a Master’s […]
Ali Maghzian
Ali Maghzian, 2024 Liu Scholar Ali is a PhD student at the Faculty of Forestry. He holds a M.Sc. in Energy Systems Engineering and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. His Doctoral research is supervised by Prof. Jack Saddler on the decarbonizing aviation sector by using biojet/Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production and how their feedstock availability, […]
Cara James
Cara James, 2024 Liu Scholar Cara is a PhD student in the Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences at UBC, working with Prof. Mark Jellinek. She investigates the physics of deep-sea mining particle clouds to predict their environmental impacts, inform regulation, and design ways to monitor pollutants. Deep-sea mining is a new industry that […]
Trym Eiterjord
Trym is a PhD student with the Geography Department at UBC. His research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and extractive activities in the global commons. In his doctoral project, he studies interactions between science and diplomacy in developing regional expertise in the Arctic region, again focusing on China. He is a Predoctoral Fellow at the […]
Younus Mushtaq Ahmed
Younus is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the University of British Columbia and a recipient of the Public Scholars Initiative. His research is inscribed in the subfield of medical anthropology with a focus on development in public health interventions. His doctoral project seeks to explore the absence of caste in India’s sanitation intervention program, […]
Kiran Sunar
They are a Liu Scholar, a guest doctoral fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies, and a PhD student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Kiran received their BA (Jt. Hons) from McGill University in Religious Studies and Gender Studies, and an MA […]
Hallie Dau
Hallie Dau is a Liu Scholar and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health. She also holds a Canadian Doctoral Scholar award. Hallie is supervised by Dr. Gina Ogilvie. She obtained her Master of Public Health in maternal and child health from The George Washington University where she […]
Eric de Roulet
Eric de Roulet is a Liu Scholar and a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program (Global Studies theme) at the University of British Columbia. He was also a fellow of the U.S.-based National Bureau for Asian Research (NBR) through its Chinese Language Fellowship Program, 2021-2022. Prior to commencing his doctoral studies, he earned […]
David James Watson
David Watson is a Liu Scholar and PhD student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. David researches in the field of international trade and intellectual property law. His focus is on the protection of geographical indications in regional trade agreements and he is looking at whether countries […]
Zana Mody
Zana Mody is a Liu Scholar and PhD student at UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability. Her project is mentored by Dr. Rashid Sumaila and addresses the emerging field of blue carbon, marine policy surrounding carbon credits, and the socio-economic valuation of coastal blue carbon ecosystems.
Khadija Anjum
Khadija Anjum is a Liu Scholar and PhD candidate at UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning. Her project is mentored by Dr. Matias Margulis and focuses on studying how the policy instruments propounded by the Community and Regional Planning and Social Network Analysis disciplines can complement the sociocultural, technological, and policy innovations put forth for sustainable food systems reform by the more traditional disciplinary vantage points on this subject.
Raphael Deberdt
Raphael Deberdt is a Liu Scholar and PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at UBC. His project is mentored by Dr. Philippe Le Billon and addresses the development of deep-sea mining and its potential impacts on traditional mineral suppliers such as the DRC.
Karen Wong
Karen Lok Yi Wong is a Liu Scholar and a Ph.D. student at UBC’s School of Social Work. Her research interests include ageing and technology, stigma on people living with dementia, and ageing and cultural and language diversity. She will be mentored by Dr. Heidi Tworek.
Bassam Javed
His interdisciplinary research combines quantitative and qualitative methods to develop public policy insights for the sustainability transition in the transportation sector. His research to date has focused primarily on Canada, and on emerging economies, particularly China and India.
Mrinmoy Chakraborty
He is interested in characterizing household sources of air pollution and its impact on human health and climate change.
Sun Ryung (Sun) Park
Her dissertation research mainly seeks to answer the following question; how and why leading countries turn to large-scale protectionist measures in ways both explicitly and implicitly, while still officially supporting free trade.
Oludolapo Makinde
Her research investigates the practicability of adopting an integrated approach which fuses corporate governance and corporate social responsibility measures with artificial intelligence tools to effectively tackle corruption.
Temitope Onifade
His research focuses on how law and society regulate low carbon economies, specifically the main role law plays, the limitations of this role, and how society can help law.
Susanna Klassen
Her research assesses the contribution of organic agriculture to food system sustainability, and the adoption of practices that enhance agro-ecological health and labour equity on organic farms in Canada.
Rumi Naito
Her research focuses on human behavior and behavior change in conservation and land use in tropical landscapes, collaborative decision-making, avoided deforestation, biodiversity conservation, tropical fire ecology, and ecosystem services.
Raquel Baldwinson
Baldwinson’s dissertation, “Global Health Doubt: Belief and the Grammars of Global Health,” tells the story of how, at the turn of the new millennium, societies were presented with a new grammar for social action called “global health”—but publics did not “believe” in it.
Prajna Rao
Her research interest is in infrastructure politics and everyday city life.
Michelle Hak-Hepburn
Her research engages with the agency and animacy of trees, interrogating how we can rethink our relationships with forests to combat deforestation.
Fernanda Rojas Marchini
Her research focuses on the material outcomes of environmental science/politics and development practices in the temperate rainforests located in the South of Chile.
James Rhatigan
His research focuses on the environmental history of the Canadian nuclear industry.
Gabriel Castillo Devoto
His research concerns sustainability in the extractive industry, focus in the social and environmental areas.
Federico Andrade-Rivas
His current research is exploring food systems in indigenous communities in Ecuador to better understand how global and local food systems are interconnected, and related to health equity and environmental sustainability.
Danielle Gendron
Her research explores: the embeddedness of history in place, multi-sensory/imaginative ethnographic methods, oral histories, Indigenous-settler relationships, and human-water relationships.
Brenda D’Acunha
Her research focuses on obtaining the water and carbon footprint of different crops in Mato Grosso, Brazil, one of the main crop exporters in the world, by making direct field measurements.
Alexa Tanner
Her research currently pulls from lessons learned about natural hazards from other communities.
Emily Amburgey
Emily’s research focuses on the transformation of ethnic identities, development practice and discourse, and state restructuring processes in Nepal’s Himalaya region.
Neila Miled
Neila’s research engages with feminist postcolonial theory and critical ethnography to explore the social and cultural contexts of education in relation to Muslim/immigrant and transnational youth.