Amir M. Gazar
IGC FELLOW | Global Change Center
Ph.D. Student • Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences
Research Interests: Public Health, Environmental Health and Policy Making, Decarbonization, Renewable Energy Systems, Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Dr. Ryan Calder
amirgazar@vt.edu
Amir is a Ph.D. student at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences (BMVS) in Dr. Ryan Calder’s lab. His main areas of interest include public health, environmental health, and policy. Currently, he is a graduate research assistant for Dr. Calder, addressing environmental questions pertaining to the local and global consequences of decarbonization.
He received a first-class honours degree in environmental engineering from the University of Melbourne before joining Dr. Calder’s lab. In his master’s research, he integrated artificial intelligence and machine learning in a virtual energy assessment that yielded promising results. Those results were published in this article.
Amir hopes that by participating in the Interfaces of Global Change IGEP, he will broaden his outreach and network as well as help Virginia Tech to become a more collaborative environment.
The Interfaces of Global Change IGEP provides PhD students with a unique intellectual focus and training.
Each IGC Fellow gains depth in their specific scientific area of expertise (e.g. biology or engineering), while simultaneously gaining breadth in the multifaceted realm of global change and the science-policy interface.
