Welcome to the MSD Working Group on Early Career Development
About
The mission of this Working Group is to support the success of early career researchers in fields related to MultiSector Dynamics. We promote early career professional development throughout activities of the MSD Community of Practice. We support the future leaders of the field and the growth of the community of practice, thereby promoting the scientific vision of MSD addressing complex problems across sectors, scales, and human and natural systems.
As the MSD community is formed and begins to grow, this Working Group will seek to expand participation among early career scientists, provide professional development opportunities to graduate students and post-docs, and serve as a contact point for interdisciplinary education activities taking place in the MSD community. We will foster capacity building across institutions and scientific focus areas through hosting professional development workshops and forming a community of practice for MSD researcher-teachers.

Leadership TEAM

Co-chair
Tom Wild
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Co-chair
Julia Szinai
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

Professional Development
Coordinator
Ana Dyreson
Michigan Technological University (MTU)

Research Manager
Matthew Binsted
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Communications Officer
Mengqi Zhao
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
ACTIVE MEMBERS

Flannery Dolan
RAND Corporation

Steven Smith
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Xin Zhao
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Naresh Devineni
The City College of New York – CUNY

Stuart Cohen
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Erwan Monier
University of California, Davis

Alfred Wan
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Activities

Working Group Info Session
Our working group seeks to expand participation among early career scientists, provide professional development opportunities to graduate students and post-docs, and serve as a contact point for interdisciplinary education activities taking place in the MSD community.

Actionable Literature
The summary of actionable literature on professional development for MSD Community of Practice.
Get Involved
The Early Career Development Working Group actively seeks new members from both within and outside the current Multisector Dynamics (MSD) Community of Practice (CoP). The opportunity exists to join a growing team that will help shape the MSD CoP over the next years, enabling it to fill a key ‘translational gap’ identified in MSD Vision Report 2030. Please feel free to reach out to us via the following form.
