Edward (Ned) Wellman's research investigates leadership and teams. His passion is in understanding the personal journey involved in becoming a leader and how leaders can inspire positive change in others.

Sha's research concerns ethico-aesthetic improvisation, and a topological approach to morphogenesis and process philosophy.

Georgescu's interests are on human-environment interactions, with research aimed to improve understanding of phenomena related to urbanization-induced landscape change. He is a member of the Urban Climate Research Center.

Sterner uses methods from philosophy and social science to investigate how knowledge systems can better address wicked problems. His current projects focus on biodiversity data, modeling, governance, and philosophy.

Dr. Dina Ziganshina Lienhard received her PhD in Biology (Biology & Society) from ASU in 2023 and currently works as the Senior Program Manager at the School of Complex Adaptive Systems at ASU.

Dr. Shutters fuses evolutionary ecology and economics to better understand complex social systems and to create evidence-based decision support tools for planners facing economic transformations.

Yan is a second year evolutionary anthropology PhD student in SHESC. She works with Robert Boyd and Sarah Mathew on human evolution and human cultural transmission.