Rees Kassen is Academic Director of the McGill Sustainability Park and an internationally recognized researcher, educator, and author in evolutionary biology at McGill University, Canada. His research focuses on the origins and fate of biodiversity, studied by real-time tracking of microbial populations evolving in the laboratory, a technique called experimental evolution. He helped launch the Coronavirus in the Urban Built Environment (CUBE) initiative, a multi-centre collaboration on built environment surveillance for microbial pathogens. Rees is active at the interface between science, society and policy, serving as Director of the Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy. He is a long-time hockey player, enthusiastic skier, passable tennis player, and struggling surfer.
In 2015, the United Nations identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. Since then, the SDGs have been woven into research programs, national and internatio...
The pandemic has taught us the importance of scientific collaboration. When the first reports of severe respiratory disease broke late in 2019, the international research community came t...
The world has not known, in living memory, a pandemic on the scale of what we are experiencing with COVID-19. Nor has the world had access to data and analysis, much of it being generated...
