Nakeyah Giroux-Works completed her PhD in anthropology at Université Laval. Her work focuses on the future of degraded rural and peri-urban environmental spaces, and socio-ecological enhancement strategies based on collective action and the practice of revegetation. During her postdoctoral fellowship at the Research Centre on the future of cities, she will carry out theoretical and empirical research on biodiversity in cemeteries, the phenomenon of revegetation in funeral practices, urban forests and the urban Anthropocene.
ngirouxw@uottawa.ca 

Emil Aliyev is currently pursuing a PhD in Environmental Sustainability at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the experiences and perspectives of various communities, government officials, and public and private stakeholders concerning community participation in Ottawa's ongoing urban energy transition plan. His study aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how different groups engage with and influence the city's efforts to achieve sustainable energy solutions.
ealiy030@uottawa.ca

Cristian Maximiliano Cabrera Van Cauwlaert completed his master's degree in anthropology at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the analysis of the creation, circulation, and appropriation of "knowledge" in maker production spaces, known as fab labs.
ccabr078@uOttawa.ca

Nicolas Cadieux is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Ottawa and coordinator at the HumAnimaLab. His research focuses on energy infrastructures in (post)colonial and (post)industrial contexts. More specifically, he is interested in (hydraulic, hydroelectric and nuclear) energy production systems and distribution networks powered by the waters of the Ottawa River (Kitchissippi), in Canada's Capital Region.
ncadieu2@uOttawa.ca

David Carpentier is a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa's School of Political Studies, where he specializes in Canadian and Quebec politics. His research focuses on immigration and citizenship; nationalism and multinationalism; and on the impact of public policies developed by cities on intercommunity rapprochement and inclusion.
dcarp075@uOttawa.ca

Jean Clarck Marc Charles is a doctoral student in International Development at the School of International Development and Globalization at the University of Ottawa. He is working on the health vulnerability of people with disabilities in Haiti in the post-earthquake and post-cholera context from 2012 to 2025. He is interested in how development programs infantilize the knowledge, efforts and experiences of people with disabilities while lacking emancipatory strategies. His research statement is entitled: Right to health and human development: Between structural and cultural obstacles in Haiti from 2012 to 2025. The case of people with disabilities.  
cchar233@uottawa.ca

Michaël Châteauneuf is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the return of populations to accessible areas near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, in a post-disaster context.
mchat012@uOttawa.ca

Gustavo Denani completed his master's degree in Audiovisual Media and Processes at the University of São Paulo. His current research focuses on the relationship between technology and the environment in the Brazilian data center market. In particular, his research aims to understand how the idea of the environment is conceptualized and put into practice by the actors who participate in this context.
gsoar036@uOttawa.ca

Fèmy A.D.D. Fagla is a doctoral student in urban studies at UQAM's School of Management Sciences (ESG). He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in urban planning from EAMAU, an African interstate school and member of APERAU. He is also a research professional affiliated with the Centre d'expertise sur le bien-être et l'état de santé physique des réfugiés et des demandeurs d'asile (CERDA). His research interests focus on the nexus: urban phenomenology and complex adaptive systems. A nexus that questions urban transformation, resilience, migration and urban adaptation to accelerated change (climatic, demographic, socio-ecological). 
Femy.Fagla.ccomtl@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis completed her master’s student in anthropology at the University of Ottawa. Her current research focused on sea urchin fishing in Eastern Quebec and the Lower St. Lawrence region. She seeks to understand how this practice fits within the agro-industrial system and in a redefinition of the contribution of the local and the global in food supply.
cgagn047@uottawa.ca

Louise Hirao-Vermare is a doctoral student in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Ottawa. She holds a double master's degree in engineering from INSA Lyon (France) and Tohoku University (Japan), and was trained in civil engineering and urban planning, with a specialization in natural disaster modeling. Her current research focuses on the development of bio-sourced materials adapted to the Canadian climate. 
lverm041@uottawa.ca

Marie-Dominik Langlois is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Ottawa and in social anthropology and ethnology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Her research focuses on the Xinka people's reaffirmation of their Indigenous identity, their resistance to mining, and their defense of the right to consultation and consent in Southeast Guatemala. 
mlang089@uOttawa.ca

Ha Pham earned her PhD in Geography from the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at University of Ottawa in 2024. Her research interests are inclusiveness, equity, and governance perspectives of human responses to environmental changes. Her doctoral dissertation integrated an array of methods including ethical analyses, policy analyses, and empirical inquiry (interviews) to develop a framework and indicators for the evaluation of inclusiveness in climate change adaptation policies. She is passionate about translating her research findings into practical solutions to foster resilient cities.
hpham048@uottawa.ca

Dominira Saul is a doctoral student at the uOttawa Faculty Engineering, researching the intersection between User experience (UX) and innovation. Looking at user-centered design methodologies and whether they are leveraged in innovation labs, and at co-design/ co-creation activities aimed at prototyping some ideas around the future of cities.
dsaul2@uOttawa.ca

Josée Vaillancourt is a master's student in anthropology at the University of Ottawa. Their research focuses on the reappropriation and transformation of capitalist post-industrial ruin landscapes in Japan's Setouchi region in the context of ongoing trends of depopulation and aging of the local population.
jvail031@uottawa.ca