Research at the Environmental Resilience Institute involves more than 100 faculty, postdocs, students, and organizations partnering with businesses, organizations, and government entities across the state. This is a list of those Indiana University faculty and postdoctoral researchers from several campuses who are collaborating on research.
Grand Challenge Sponsored Faculty
Nathan Cook
Urban Policy
Cook is an assistant professor at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Ash Enrici
Environmental Philanthropy
Enrici is an assistant professor in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Ben Kravitz
Global Climate Modeling
Kravitz is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Jennifer Lau
Invasive Species and Landscape Ecology
Lau is an associate professor in the Department of Biology.
Natasha MacBean
Functional Vegetation Modeling
MacBean is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography.
Travis O'Brien
Regional Climate Modeling
O'Brien is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Landon Yoder
Human Ecology
Yoder is an assistant professor at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Jason Bertram
Theoretical Biology
With a recent focus on how and to what extent human-caused environmental change differs from the continual shifts the Earth has always experienced, Bertram builds models to show how complex biological systems respond to, interact with, and change their environments.
Elizabeth Grennan Browning
Midwestern/Indiana Community History
Browning studies how people in the Midwest have thought about environmental issues over time, how attitudes about the environment have formed and changed among different groups, and how evolving ideas about social justice have influenced these opinions.
Lingxi Chenyang
Environmental Law
With a focus on agricultural systems, Chenyang aims to identify and promote legal concepts that can help policymakers grapple with the realities of climate change and the risks that it poses to human populations.
Adam Fudickar
Migration Mechanisms
In addition to designing tailor-made tracking solutions, Fudickar studies the timing of animals’ migration and reproduction to help determine which species may be more vulnerable to climate change and what threats migratory populations might pose to humans.
Matthew Houser
Midwestern/Indiana Community Studies
Houser examines how people are responding to climate change through survey research on flooding preparedness among farmers, Hoosier attitudes towards environmental threats, and more.
Alex Jahn
Migration Patterns
Through the lens of bird migratory patterns, Jahn investigates how ecosystems are changing because of environmental change and what that means for human health, food security, and environmental resilience.
Ranjan Muthukrishnan
Invasive Species Ecology
Through biological and community-focused perspectives, Muthukrishnan conducts research to understand, predict, and help control and prevent the spread of invasive species in Indiana and beyond.
Maria Whiteman
Artistic Social Practice
Engaging with animals, landscapes, and most recently fungi, Whiteman uses multiple media including photography and video to convey the deep and intrinsic ties between humans and other living things.
Postdoctoral Researchers
- John Baeten
Spatial Analysis of Environmental Change - Daniel Becker
Infectious Disease Dynamics - Analena Bruce
Agriculture and Food Systems - Bo Chen
- Samantha Hamlin
Urban Green Infrastructure - Quinn Lewis
Rivers and Landscapes - Susan Magnoli
- Kashif Mahmud
Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation System - Katerina Mazari
Water Contamination - Devraj Singh
Migratory Behavior and Physiology of Birds
Research Associates
- Allison Byrd
- Lei Gong
- Carolyn Kalinowski
- Thomas Thrasher
- Sarah Wanamaker
- Christopher Wojan
Research Assistants
- Lana Bolin
- Asrah Heintzelman
- Brianna Crawley
- Kushal Keshavamurthy Raviprakesh
- Marika Latham
- Danielle Peltier-Thompson
- Elizabeth Sherrill
- Leah Wood
- Yilun Zhang
- The Anh Vu
Institute Alumni
- Kaitlin Alford, former Research Associate
- Jennifer Brand, former Postdoctoral Researcher
- Dustin Brewer, former Research Associate
- Allie Downs, former Research Assistant
- Luis Inaraja Vera, former Fellow
- Tara Smiley, former Fellow
- Abigail Sullivan, former Fellow
- Bhuwan Thapa, former Postdoctoral Researcher
- Pascal Title, former Fellow
- Joon Woo Sohn, former Fellow
