Meet the Research Team
Get to know the faces behind our mission and explore their contributions to a more sustainable tomorrow.
ADVISORY BOARD
ARTHUR TREMBANIS
Professor, School of Marine Science & Policy.
Director, Coastal Sediments, Hydrodynamics and Engineering Lab (CSHEL).
art@udel.edu
DAYAN KNOX
dayank@udel.edu
SALEEM ALI
Director, Minerals, Materials and Society Program.
saleem@udel.edu
YVETTE JACKSON
Senior Researcher, UD Advance Institute.
Former Pro-Vice-Chacellor, Gradaute Studies, The University of West Indies (UWI).
yvette@udel.edu
FACULTY
ARIETA GONELEVU RAKAI
International Renewable Energy Agency.
Programme Officer and Team Lead for the SIDS Lighthouses Initiative.
arakai@irena.org
DINESH SURROOP
University of Mauritius.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering.
d.surroop@uom.ac.mu
GODFREY BALDACCHINO
Professor of Sociology, University of Malta and Ambassador-at-Large for Islands and Small States.
godfrey.baldacchino@um.edu.mt
JULES BRUCK
Director, School of Lanscape Architecture and Planning; Chair Department of Landscape Architecture.
jbruck@ufl.edu
SAI NAVOTI
Chief of SIDS Units, Division for Sustainable Development Goals, UN DESA.
GREGORY GUANNEL
Director, Caribbean Green Technology Center, University of the Virgin Islands.
gregory.guannel@uvi.edu
FRANZISKA WOLF
Deputy Director, Research & Transfer Centre Sustainability and Climate Change Management, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.
Franziska.Wolf@haw-hamburg.de
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
ARTHUR TREMBANIS
Professor, School of Marine Science & Policy.
Director, Coastal Sediments, Hydrodynamics and Engineering Lab (CSHEL).
art@udel.edu
DAYAN KNOX
dayank@udel.edu
SALEEM ALI
Director, Minerals, Materials and Society Program.
saleem@udel.edu
YVETTE JACKSON
Senior Researcher, UD Advance Institute.
Former Pro-Vice-Chacellor, Gradaute Studies, The University of West Indies (UWI).
yvette@udel.edu
MASTERS STUDENT
ARIETA GONELEVU RAKAI
International Renewable Energy Agency.
Programme Officer and Team Lead for the SIDS Lighthouses Initiative.
arakai@irena.org
DINESH SURROOP
University of Mauritius.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering.
d.surroop@uom.ac.mu
GODFREY BALDACCHINO
Professor of Sociology, University of Malta and Ambassador-at-Large for Islands and Small States.
godfrey.baldacchino@um.edu.mt
JULES BRUCK
Director, School of Lanscape Architecture and Planning; Chair Department of Landscape Architecture.
jbruck@ufl.edu
AFFLIATES
Pravesh Raghoo
Project Coordinator
Etchu Tabenyang
Research Fellow
Michael Poosikian
Project Assistant
Pravesh Raghoo
Project Assistant
Pravesh Raghoo
Project Assistant
Atoofa Zainab
Project Assistant
Isaiah Gangadeen
Project Assistant
Idowu Kunlere
Project Assistant
Kirsten McGregor
Affiliate
Erica Chiorazzi
Affiliate
Shelly-Ann Cox
Affiliate