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Chunjiang An is an Associate Professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Concordia University Research Chair (CURC) in Spill Response and Remediation (New Scholar).  His research interests include a broad range of topics related to pollution control, risk assessment and systems analysis. 

Zhi Chen is Professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research includes modeling of environmental application of systems analysis and information technology, water quality modeling and assessment, pollution control planning, and management of soil and groundwater contamination, and coastal environmental protection.

Govind Gopakumar is Chair and Associate Professor at the Centre for Engineering in Society. His research focuses on technology and society, urban infrastructure, cities, development studies, engineering education, and global engineering. 

Fariborz Haghighat is a Professor in Dept. Bldg, Civil and Environmental Engineering and former Concordia Research Chair (Tier 1)  in Energy and Environment. His research focuses on the fundamentals of heat and mass transport and their applications in building and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems as well as the development of novel computational techniques for building thermal, airflow, and contaminants analysis, and design of healthy buildings.

Jaehoon Hwang is an Assistant Professor in the area of Environmental Engineering in the Dept. Bldg., Civil and Environmental Eng. at Concordia University. His research is on AI applications for renewable energy in the environmental field & circular economy, smart wastewater management, water-energy nexus and resource recovery, renewable energy production, carbon neutralization technology, biomass conversion, electrochemical and photocatalytic-based degradation technologies for the treatment of emerging contaminants and microsensors for in situ monitoring of water quality.

Biao Li is an Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the Dept. Bldg, Civil and Environ. Eng.  at Concordia University. His research expertise is in energy related experimental and computational geomechanics, thermal-hydro-mechanical coupling, soil-structure interaction, and geophysics.

S. Samuel Li is Chair and Professor of the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research is in river sediment transport, water quality prediction, water resources engineering, hydrotechnical Engineering, density-stratified flow and water-ice interaction. 

Damon Matthews is a Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University.   His research is on  climate change, global climate modelling, climate impacts, allowable emissions for climate mitigation targets, and national contributions to climate change. Damon is the Scientific co-Director of  Sustainability in the Digital Age, and directs the NSERC CREATE in Leadership in Environmental and Digital Innovation for Sustainability (LEADS) program, which aims to train graduate student researchers at the intersection of sustainability science and digital innovation.

Fuzhan Nasiri is a professor at Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) at Concordia University. He is interested in investigating the emerging challenges in design and operation of facilities, infrastructure, and buildings and their impacts on the environment and society from risk, resilience, and reliability perspectives. Dr. Nasiri has led projects related to energy generation and water supplies for northern communities and reduction of their environmental impacts. 

Ali Nazemi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) at Concordia University. His expertise is in hydrology, hydroclimatology, water security and climate change. He is serving as the co-chair of the Hydroclimatology Panel (2021-2026) of Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX), a core project within the framework of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).

Raymond Paquin is a Professor in Management at Concordia University. His research is industrial symbiosis and sustainability-oriented business model innovation; social networks.

Marius Paraschivoiu is a Professor, in the Dept. of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering and former Concordia University Research Chair. His research area is in wind energy, computational fluid dynamics, urban wind flow simulations and aerodynamic simulations.

Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques is an Associate Professor of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia U. She has expertise in the hydroclimatology of North America, adaptation to climate change, environmental impacts, paleoclimatology, climatology and hydrology.

Kathleen Vaughan is Professor of Art Education and Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures (Tier 1). She develops community- and studio-based research and creation projects that explore environmental and social issues using artmaking and storytelling as modes of generating and sharing knowledge and will employ these methods in this project for knowledge dissemination. 

David Walsh is Professor in Microbiology in the Department of Biology at Concordia University, where he leads the Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Genomics Research Laboratory. Dr. Walsh’s current research program investigates the biodiversity, metabolic versatility, and evolution of aquatic microbes using novel genomics-based molecular approaches. Dr. Walsh’s research program covers marine to freshwater ecosystems.

Laleh Yerushalmi is an affiliate associate professor Concordia University and the Chief Technology Officer of BioCAST Systems Inc. and Dagua Technologies Inc. 

Carmen Mihaela Neculita is Professor and Canada Research Chair in mine water treatment and management (Tier 1) at the Research Institute on Mines and Environment-University of Quebec in Abitibi- Témiscamingue (RIME-UQAT).  She is affiliate professor at Concordia University. Her research focuses on environmental biogeochemistry, treatment of contaminated mine water, mine water management and mining rehabilitation.

Tanja Tajmel is Associate Professor, Centre for Engineering in Society, Concordia University Research Chair (Tier 2).  Her main interest lies in understanding how technologies shape social equity, with a specific interest in science as human right, gender equality and a critical investigation of discourses around equity and technology.