WICI - Key Persons

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Defence Scientist for the Department of National Defence
Defence Scientist, Department of National Defence, Defence Research and Development Canada

Anthony Masys is a defence scientist for the Department of National Defence, Defence Research and Development Canada, Centre for Security Science. Assigned as scientific advisor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Major Events and Protective Policing Division, Dr. Masys supported both the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and G8/G20 summits. As a result of participation in these events, he has influenced the development of the ‘whole of government' Major Events Security Framework (MESF). In addition to his duties as a defence scientist supporting the safety and security domains, Dr. Masys is also an associate tutor for the distance MSc program on risk crisis and disaster management at the University of Leicester (U.K.), and has been appointed as adjunct professor at York University (Toronto) within the disaster management graduate program and adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa (Telfer School of Management). He is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Springer Publishing book series Lecture Notes in Social Networks, and a member of the editorial board for the new Springer Journal Infrastructure Complexity. A former senior Air Force officer, Dr. Masys has a BSc in physics and an MSc in underwater acoustics and oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada, and a PhD from the University of Leicester (U.K.). He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. His research interests focus on terrorism/counter-terrorism studies, human security, complex socio-technical systems, human error, systems thinking, risk, crisis and disaster management, knowledge management, and organizational learning.

Ashley Ferguson

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HR Coordinator

Benjamin Miller

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HR Systems Analyst

Brad Bass

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Status Professor, School of Environment

Brad Bass is a researcher and member of Environment and Climate Change Canada's Great Lakes Nutrient Initiative team. His research interests include modelling complexity, water quality policy, management alternatives for reducing urban phosphorus loads into the Great Lakes and the economic issues around public policy. He is Associate Executive Director of the Foundation for Student Science and Technology, and Director of the University Research Experience in Complex Systems (URECS), which brings secondary school and university students together to explore the interaction between environmental change and health and also offers workshops on the simulation of environmental change and health, green infrastructure, networking and the Prisoner's Dilemma.

Breanna Michael

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HR Project Coordinator

Brenda Panasiak

br..@uwaterloo.ca

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Administrative Coordinator
Administrative Coordinator, Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience

Caitlyn Rongits

cr..@uwaterloo.ca

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Human Resources Partner

Chantal Moore

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Total Rewards Specialist

Chelsey Heystee

ch..@uwaterloo.ca

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Human Resources Partner

Chris Hall

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Human Resources Partner

Christine Zaza

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Workplace Accessibility Specialist

Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

ch..@uwaterloo.ca

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Associate Director
Associate Director, Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation

Chun Chih Chen

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Online Instructional Designer and Learning Specialist

Dana Evans Laity

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Learning and Development Specialist - Onboarding

Deanna Hope

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Human Resources Partner

Denise Baker

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Workforce Planning Coordinator

Dr. David A. Petrie

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Professor, Department Head, Dalhousie Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr. David A. Petrie, MD, FRCP is a Professor and the head of the Dalhousie Department of Emergency Medicine and the chief of the Central Zone, NSHA. After medical school at Dalhousie and an internship in Ottawa he worked for two years in small towns in Ontario and Nova Scotia. Since his specialty training in emergency medicine at the University of Western Ontario (1992-1996), he has been a faculty physician and trauma team leader at the Halifax infirmary. Petrie has been medical director of the Halifax regional ground EMS system, and medical director of the LifeFlight Critical Care transport program. His academic interests are prehospital and trauma systems research, the impact of critical thinking on clinical decision making, and the implications of complex adaptive systems modelling to health care system reform.

Edward W. Thommes

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Manager at GlaxoSmithKline Canada

Edward W. Thommes is a health outcomes manager at GlaxoSmithKline Canada. In addition, he is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph researching multidisciplinary computational modelling under a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [NSCERC] Discovery Grant. He completed his PhD in astrophysics at Queen's University and was subsequently awarded the J.S. Plaskett Medal of the Canadian Astronomical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society for most outstanding Canadian doctoral thesis in astronomy, 2001-2002. He has held several postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California at Berkley, NASA Ames Research Center, University of Toronto and Northwestern University. He has a wide range of research interests including planetary science, high-performance computing, agent-based models, epidemiological modelling, population behavior and game theory and has contributed numerous publications in journals such as Nature, Science, the Astronomical Journal and the Astrophysical Journal.

Elaine La Chanse

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Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Emma Watson

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HR Coordinator

Eric De Giuli

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Assistant Professor in Physics at Toronto Metropolitan University
Physics

Eric De Giuli is an Assistant Professor in Physics at Toronto Metropolitan University, interested in emergence and self-organization in complex systems. Currently his group is studying the origin of metabolism in chemical reaction networks, learning of syntax in human languages, and the plasticity of amorphous solids. Eric completed a H.BSc in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Toronto in 2006. He continued his studies at the University of British Columbia, obtaining a MSc in Geophysics in 2009, with a thesis on turbulence, and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics in 2013, with a thesis on granular matter. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at New York University and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, with Matthieu Wyart, on the rheology of granular flow and the elasticity of glass. In 2017 he became a Junior Research Associate at the Institut de Physique Théorique Philippe Meyer at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, where he initiated the study of the statistical physics of language syntax. He joined the faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in 2019.