People
Our team working on turning waste into resources
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Juan Moreno-Cruz, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Waterloo
Juan is an Associate Professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development of the University of Waterloo and a CESifo Research Affiliate.
His research focuses on the interaction of energy systems, technological change, and climate policy. His most influential work examines how solar and carbon geoengineering technologies affect climate policy. His most recent work provides novel insights into the process of energy transitions by demonstrating how energy access shapes the organization of the economy in cities and how energy consumption in cities in turn pollutes the local and global environment.
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Rebecca Saari, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Rebecca is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Her research aims to understand the health risks and benefits of engineering and policy responses to climate change. To do this, her lab develops novel, coupled, interdisciplinary modelling systems and data-driven approaches.
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Bryan Tolson, Professor, University of Waterloo
Bryan is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Waterloo.
He has two core research areas: hydrological modelling and environmental/water resources systems optimization. Bryan enjoys things like designing heuristic optimization algorithms, formulating complex and large-scale optimization problems and fitting simulation models to data, which are then applied to a variety of application areas including hydrologic model calibration, water distribution network calibration and optimal design and Great Lakes water level management.
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Nandita Basu, PI, Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Waterloo
Nandita is a Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) of Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology at the University of Waterloo.
She is an environmental engineer, who uses data science, process modeling and remote sensing to explore how climate, land use, and management impacts surface and groundwater quality from watershed to the regional and global scales, with the overall goal of leveraging these insights to develop watershed management strategies that maximizes environmental benefits without significant economic costs.
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Ushnik Mukherjee, Research Associate, University of Waterloo
Ushnik is a Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Waterloo.
He identifies water pollution hotspots using a combination of remote sensing and agricultural census.