Sustainability Research Directory

Jian Ni, PhD, specializes in the empirical and theoretical analysis of healthcare, financial service, educational, environmental and energy, technology, and emerging markets.

Rui Ni, PhD, focuses on the fundamental science of turbulence and multi-phase flows that involve more than one phase (i.e. liquid, solid, or gas) and has applications in next-generation energy systems, environmental engineering, and physiological flows in the human body.

Liz Nussbaumer, MPP, has research interests in ocean acidification and its effect on fisheries, as well as industrial poultry operations, pollution trading, bottled water, renewable energy and more.

Tom Özden-Schilling, PhD, examines how the tools and practices of ecological research, geology, and venture finance transform inter-generational relationships in rural areas.

Anne Palmer, MAIA, builds the capacity of food policy councils to work on issues such as hunger, food environments, and racial equity to create healthy, equitable and sustainable food systems.

Anand Pandian, PhD, is a cultural and environmental anthropologist, writer attending to various aspects of the contemporary ecological crisis, and a curator of the Ecological Design Collective.