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Scientific Committee

The Population-Environment Research Network seeks to advance academic research on population and the environment by promoting online scientific exchange among researchers from social and natural science disciplines worldwide.

• Hany M. Ayad, Professor of Urban Planning, Alexandria University, Egypt
• Ingrid Boas, Associate Professor, Wageningen University, Netherlands
• Marion Borderon, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria
• Kaderi Bukari, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
• Ruishan Chen, Professor, School of Design, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
• Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, Professor, Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), College of Humanities, University of Ghana, Ghana
• Kathleen Hermans, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany
• Roman Hoffmann, Research Group Leader and Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
• Khandaker Jafor Ahmed, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• Lena Reimann, Research Associate, Faculty of Science, Water and Climate Risk, Instituut voor Milieuvraagstukken (IVM) – Institute for Environmental Studies
• Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Head of Climate Science and Impacts and a Scientific Advisor, Climate Analytics, USA
• Jacob Schewe, Senior Scientist, Transformation Pathways, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
• Elizabeth Tellman, Assistant Professor, School of Geography, Development & Environment, University of Arizona, USA
• Jamon Van Den Hoek, Associate Professor of Geography, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS), Oregon State University, USA
• Robbin Jan van Duijne, CIESIN-Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, USA; Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Netherlands

Ex-Officio Members:

• Géraldine Duthé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) (IUSSP Liaison)
• TBC (Future Earth Liaison)

Former members of the scientific committee: Roberto Ariel Abeldaño (University of Sierra Sur, Mexico), Rimjhim Aggarwal (Arizona State University, USA), Alisson Barbieri* (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Simon Batterbury (University of Melbourne, Australia), Richard Bilsborrow (University of North Carolina, USA), Jason Bremner (Population Reference Bureau, USA), Sara Curran (Univ. of Washington, USA), César Augusto Marques da Silva (Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas - ENCE), IBGE, Brazil), Roberto do Carmo (University of Campinas, Brazil), Stephanie Dos Santos (Institute for Development Research, France), Kathryn Grace* (University of Minnesota, USA), Christophe Guilmoto (CICRED, France), Sabine Henry (University of Namur, Belgium), Daniel Hogan (NEPO, Univ. of Campinas, Brazil), Diana Hummel* (Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Germany), Lori Hunter* (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Andres Ignacio (Planning and Geomatics, Environmental Science for Social Change (non-profit), Philippines), Haydea Izazola* (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico), Leiwen Jiang (Population Council; and Shanghai University, USA/China), Bryan Jones (CUNY Baruch, USA), Dominic Kniveton (University of Sussex, UK),  Samir K.C. (Shanghai University, China; and IIASA, Austria), Jack Liu (Michigan State Univ., USA), David Lopez-Carr (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA), Wolfgang Lutz (IIASA, Austria), Landis MacKellar* (Vienna Demographic Institute and IIASA, Austria), Karen McNamara (University of Queensland, Australia), Robin Marsh (University of California at Berkeley, USA), Vinod Mishra* (Demographic and Health Survey, Macro Inc., USA), Elma Montaña (Institute of Human, Social and Environmental Sciences (INCIHUSA), CONICET, Argentina), Raya Muttarak* (University of East Anglia, UK; IIASA, Austria), Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah (Sunyani Polytechnic, Ghana), Brian O'Neill (IIASA, Austria, and Brown University, USA), Landy Lizbeth Sanchez Peña* (El Colegio de México, Mexico), Maano Ramutsindela (University of Cape Town, South Africa), William Pan (Duke University, USA), Xizhe Peng (Fudan Univ., China), Atiqur Rahman (Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India), David Rain (George Washington University, USA), Ronald Rindfuss* (Univ. of North Carolina and Carolina Population Center, USA), Yan Tan* (University of Adelaide, Australia), Michael Teitelbaum (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA), Wayne Twine (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Hamdou-Rabby Wane (UN Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia), Brooke Wilmsen (La Trobe University, Australia), David Wrathall (Oregon State University, USA), Yongyuan Yin (Adaptation and Impacts Research Group, Environment Canada and the UBC School of Forestry, Canada), and Leo C. Zulu (Department of Geography, Michigan State University, USA).

*Former chair persons of the SC.

Former Coordinators:

• Alex de Sherbinin (co-Coordinator 2003-2023)
• Catherine Marquette (co-Coordinator 2000-2002)
• Laura Murphy (co-Coordinator 2000-2002)
• Annababette Wils (Coordinator 2002-2003)