Eric Galbraith

Group leader

Eric has a background in various aspects of Earth system science, which he draws on to develop novel ways to quantify the human component of the Earth system. He previously studied and worked at the University of British Columbia, Princeton University and ICREA in Barcelona.

Eva Clancy

Undergraduate student

Eva is an undergraduate student in Earth and Planetary Science at McGill, working on the human chronome and material flux projects.

Ava Fuchs

Undergraduate student

Ava is a McGill undergraduate student in Earth system science, working on historical demographic models to support the human chronome project.

Cassiana Silva Young

Undergraduate student

Cassiana is a McGill undergraduate student in mechanical engineering, contributing to data and literature analysis on waste fluxes.

Ian Hatton

Research Associate

Ian has a PhD in theoretical ecology, and has worked and studied at Princeton University, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, the Autonomous University in Barcelona, and the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, South Korea, as well as McGill. He uses large datasets to tackle complex problems in systems biology.

Abdullah-Al Faisal

PhD student

Faisal's undergraduate training was in urban planning at the Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology in Bangladesh, followed by a masters in applied GIS and remote sensing at the University of Southampton. His PhD project combines machine learning with remote sensing data and jurisdictional statistics to infer spatial aspects of the human system.

Max Kaye

PhD student

Max did his undergraduate degree at Tufts University, majoring in Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics. His PhD project in Mathematics uses network theory to better understand global flows of material and energy in the human system (co-supervised with Louigi Addario-Berry).

William Fajzel

PhD student

William's undergraduate training was in Earth System Science and economics at McGill. His PhD research focuses on developing the global understanding of time use through the Human Chronome project.

Yan Su

MSc student

Yan has an undergraduate degree in Marine Science from Sun Yat-sen University in China. She is developing an Earth-System Economics model for simulating structural change.

Fanjing Xu

Visiting PhD student

Fanjing is completing a PhD on urban soil carbon stocks at Peking University in China, and contributing to development of the SESAME Human-Earth Atlas.

Alumni

Maimoonah Ahmed (Research assistant, McGill, 2024)

Mildred Munjunga (Erasmus intern, Barcelona, summer 2024)

Majdi Hunter-Batal (Undergrad, McGill, 2022-2024)

Elena Frie (Undergrad, McGill, 2021-2024)

Justin Lipper (Undergrad, McGill, 2023)

Veronica Xia (Undergrad, McGill, 2021-2023)

Maya Willard-Stepan (Undergrad, McGill, 2021-2023)

Shirley Xu (Undergrad, McGill, 2020-2023)

Tanya Matitia (MSc, McGill 2020-2022)

Sara Miñarro (Postdoc, Barcelona 2017-2021)

Kim Scherrer (PhD / Postdoc, Barcelona, 2016-2021)

Ella Kantor (Undergrad, McGill, 2020-2021)

Nuria Galiana (Postdoc, Barcelona, 2020-2021)

Xinbei Wan (Undergrad, McGill, 2020-2021)

Dan Zhu (Postdoc, Barcelona, 2019-2020)

Ryan Heneghan (Postdoc, Barcelona 2018-2020)

Priscilla LeMezo (Postdoc, Barcelona 2017-2020)

Jérôme Guiet (Postdoc, Barcelona 2016-2018)

Sarah Eggleston (Postdoc, Barcelona 2015-2017)

Mariona Claret (Postdoc, McGill 2013-2015)

David Carozza (PhD, McGill 2010-2015)

Genevieve Elsworth (MSc, McGill 2012-2014)

Olivier Cartapanis (Postdoc, McGill 2012-2014)

Aryeh Feinberg (Undergrad, McGill 2014)

Daniele Bianchi (Postdoc, McGill 2011-2014)

Nicolas Brown (Undergrad, McGill 2013-2014)

Lucas Kavanagh (MSc, McGill 2013-2015)

Alexa Haughan (Undergrad, McGill 2013-2014)

Casimir de Lavergne (MSc, McGill 2012-2013)

Julia Stepanuk (Undergrad, McGill 2012-2013)

Simon Yang (MSc, McGill 2011-2012)

Jan-Erik Tesdal (Undergrad, McGill 2010-2011)