Solís works at the intersection of academic research, public engagement, participatory spatial technologies in service to resilience, sustainability, and international development and humanitarian challenges.

Parast is an Eminent Scholar at the Del E. Webb School of Construction. His current research is focused on supply chain risk and resilience management, and process and product innovation.

Bate is an international leader in green thinking and applied humanities, with scholarly expertise in sustainability as well as in Shakespeare, life-writing, Romanticism, contemporary poetry, theatre, and visual culture.