Member Spotlights
Member spotlight —— Julia Sborz
12 Dec 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
Julia Sborz is a PhD candidate in Industrial Ecology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, researching how contextual factors shape household material consumption. She applies econometrics and Input-Output approaches to examine th...
Member Spotlights in November - Keagan Rankin
21 Nov 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
Member spotligh - Keagan Rankin:
I am a PhD candidate at University of Toronto Engineering. My current research (supervised by Shoshanna Saxe and Daniel Posen) investigates how we can sustainably satisfy demands for housing and infrastructure sys...
Tanya Tsui
10 Oct 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
I am a postdoctoral researcher with a background in architecture and a PhD in circular economy and cities, where I used GIS to study material flows and urban metabolism. My work now focuses on sustainability data and the built environment, with a ...
Yuil Shan
03 Sep 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
Prof. Yuli Shan is a Professor in Sustainability at the School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham (UoB). He is a Steering Research Committee Member and Lead of Finance for Sustainability of Birmingham Institu...
Gokulakrishnan Jayakumar
10 Aug 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
I’m a graduate student with a dual degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering and Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I am also an incoming MBA student in Ross School of Business at University of Michigan-...
Shauhrat S. Chopra
31 May 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
Member spotlight for Shauhrat Chopra:
I am Dr. Shauhrat S. Chopra, an Associate Professor at the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong (CityU). I received my PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the U...
Amy Brooks
02 May 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
Dr. Amy Brooks is a Research Scientist in Sustainable Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Georgia where her work focused on global issues related to plastic waste management and pollut...
Thomas Elliot
11 Mar 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
Thomas Elliot is an environmental scientist from Aotearoa New Zealand living in Aalborg, Denmark. He specialises in coupled human-nature system dynamics modelling typically incorporating methods from industrial ecology, such as urban metabolism an...
