The Global Phosphorus Research Initiative is an international collaboration between 5 independent research institutes: 

1. Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia www.isf.uts.edu.au

2. Department of Thematic Studies - Water & Environmental, Linköping University, Sweden www.tema.liu.se/tema-v

3. Civil Engineering Department, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada www.civil.ubc.ca

4. Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden www.sei-international.org

5. Wageningen University, The Netherlands http://www.wur.nl/UK/

GPRI team bios and contact details: 

Dr Dana Cordell 

Research Principal
Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 AUSTRALIA

Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Thematic Studies - Water & Environmental Studies, Linköping University
SE-581 83 Linköping, SWEDEN

Dr Dana Cordell recently completed her doctoral research on 'the sustainability implications of global phosphorus scarcity for food security' which she undertook jointly at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, in Australia, and, Linköping University’s Department for Water and Environmental Studies in Sweden. As an outcome of her research on sustainable phosphorus futures, Dana co-founded the Global Phosphorus Research Initiative. Dana is currently a core member of the international consortium of researchers working on the Sustainable Use of Phosphorus project for the EU (D.G. Environment), in addition to Securing the Phosphorus Future of Australia collaborative project with CSIRO. She also has 10 years of sustainability research experience leading and undertaking interdisciplinary sustainable water, sanitation and waste management projects many of which involved high-level stakeholder engagement.

See:

http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/isf/staff/details.cfm?StaffId=2446

http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-v/medarbetare/cordell-dana?l=en 

Dr Tina Schmid Neset

Postdoctoral researcher
Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research (CSPR)

Department of Thematic Studies - Water & Environmental Studies, Linköping University

SE-581 83 Linköping, SWEDEN

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Dr Tina Schmid Neset is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Water and Environmental Studies at Linköping University. Her research areas include Material and Substance Flow Analysis studies and Ecological Footprint studies with a particular focus on resource flows and emissions linked to food production and consumption. Tina is currently the head of Climate Visualization at CSPR and co-founder of the Global Phosphorus Research Initiative. She has mainly worked in interdisciplinary environmental projects and is responsible for courses on Sustainable Development and Education for Sustainable Development at LiU.

See:

http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-v/medarbetare/tina-schmid-neset?l=en

Professor Stuart White

Director
Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA

Professor Stuart White is Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures where he leads a team of researchers who create change towards sustainable futures through independent, project-based research. With over twenty years experience in sustainability research, Professor White’s work focuses on achieving sustainability outcomes at least cost for a range of government, industry and community clients across Australia and internationally. This includes both the design and evaluation of programs for improving resource use efficiency and an assessment of their impact. Professor White has written and presented widely on sustainable futures and is a regular commentator on sustainability issues in the media.

See:

http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/isf/staff/details.cfm?StaffId=2309

Assoc Prof Jan-Olof Drangert 

Senior Researcher
Dept of Water & Environmental Studies, Linköping University 

SE-581 83 Linköping SWEDEN
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Assoc Prof Jan-Olof Drangert is a senior researcher at the Department of Water and Environmental Studies at Linköping University. He focuses his interdisciplinary research and consultancy work on sanitation and water issues in urban settings, both historically and in various parts of the world. He combines management and socio-cultural aspects with technical and health issues. He also coordinates research groups and conducts international training activities in ecological and sustainable sanitation.

Professor Donald Mavinic

Professor, Associate Head of the Department

UBC Civil Engineering

University of British Columbia, CANADA

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Professor Don Mavinic's research interests cover many different aspects of environmental engineering. Topics include: phosphorus removal and recovery, nitrification and denitrification processes, landfill leachate management, biological waste treatment processes, wastewater residuals treatment, diffused aeration studies, drinking water pipe corrosion studies and disinfection by-products in drinking water.

Dr Ken Ashley

Adjunct Professor, Civil Engineering, UBC

Instructor, BC Institute of Technology

1957 Westview Drive, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 3B1, CANADA

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Dr. Ashley was a limnologist with the British Columbia Fisheries Research and Development Section at UBC from 1979 to 2005, then was Senior Engineer in Environmental Management at the Greater Vancouver Regional District from 2005 to 2007.  He currently is an Adjunct Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at UBC and Instructor in the Batchelor of Technology Program in Ecological Restoration at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.  His areas of interest include artificial circulation of lakes and reservoirs, design of oxygenation technology, and the role of nutrients in maintaining productivity in coastal and interior streams, lakes and reservoirs.  He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Zoology and an M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from UBC.

Dr Arno Rosemarin

Research and Communications Manager

EcoSanRes Programme, Stockholm Environment Institute

Kraftriket 2B, 106 91 Stockholm, SWEDEN

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Dr Arno Rosemarin is Senior Research Fellow and currently Research and Communications Manager within the EcoSanRes Programme at Stockholm Environment Institute. Arno is an aquatic biologist with a research background in eutrophication, ecotoxicology and ecological sanitation. Arno has been researching the topic of global phosphorus reserves and methods to close the phosphorus nutrient loop in urban sanitation systems since 2003. 

See: http://www.sei-international.org/staff?staffid=40

Ian Caldwell

Communications Assistant

Research and Communications

EcoSanRes, Stockholm Environment Institute

Kräftriket 2B, 106 91 Stockholm, SWEDEN

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Between working at SEI, he worked as a research analyst for Jantzi Research in Toronto, Canada. Jantzi Research provides ethical investment research and his focus was on special projects to provide environmental, social and governance screening of investment portfolios. He co-authored the report on the Millennium Development Goals entitled "Sustainable Pathways to Attain the Millennium Development Goals - Assessing the Role of Water, Energy and Sanitation". He has a Bachelor’s degree in Geography from Queen’s University, Canada, and a Master of Science in Geography from the University of Toronto. His graduate research was focused on carbon sequestration capacity enhancement and its economic policy implications at a study site in Guizhou Province, China.

See: http://www.sei-international.org/staff?staffid=124

Dr Bert Smit 

Senior researcher

Plant Research International (Wageningen UR),

Agrosystems Research

P.O. Box 616, 6700 AP Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Dr Bert Smit is a senior researcher at the Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR). He works at the unit Agrosystems Research of Plant Research International (PRI) on the development of sustainable agricultural systems thereby focusing on nutrients. For phosphorus he works on a more efficient use in agriculture (e.g. by placement techniques) and works together with other institutes to quantify the P-flows in the Netherlands. He is also a member of the Nutrient Flow Task Group (NFTG), a Dutch initiative to draw attention to the depletion of phosphorus.

See: http://www.wewur.wur.nl/popups/vcard.aspx?id=SMIT028&lang=uk