Madhur Anand

Dr. Madhur Anand is professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph (Canada).

She an internationally recognized ecologist with research interests ranging from theoretical to empirical studies of natural and human-induced changes in ecosystems at local, regional, and global scales and their implications for sustainability. She has collaborated with mathematicians, theoretical physicists, statisticians, computer scientists, and poets on aspects of ecology and sustainability. Her research program is supported by governmental, industry, national, and international agencies, as well as by a number of awards. Since 2006, she has been based at the University of Guelph and she also was director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation from 2015 to 2018. In 2019, she became the inaugural Director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research (GIER), helping to launch a unique and vital cross-disciplinary program helping to “break down barriers among disciplinary silos and bring the arts, the sciences, the humanities, and the engineering together to tackle complex environmental problems”.

She will be working on ‘Structure, Functionality, and Tipping Points in Socio-ecological Systems‘ at the Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier.