{"id":23210,"date":"2026-09-03T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/?p=23210"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:28:28","slug":"park-yuha-3-3-2-3-6-3-4-3-2-2-6-2-3-2-3-2-5-2-4-3-5-2-2-2-3-4-2-2-3-4-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2026\/09\/03\/23210\/","title":{"rendered":"ELLIS, Naoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Name<\/h5>\n<p>ELLIS, Naoko<\/p>\n<h5>Position and Affiliated Institution<\/h5>\n<p>Full Professor, The University of British Columbia<\/p>\n<h5>Degree<\/h5>\n<p>Ph.D in Chemical Engineering<\/p>\n<h5>Education and Academic Employment<\/h5>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-colored-tbhd\" style=\"height: 356px; width: 99.355%; border-collapse: collapse;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%; height: 24px;\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 24px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%; height: 22px;\">1986 \u2013 1990<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 22px;\" width=\"543\">B.Sc., Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%; height: 10px;\">1991 \u2013 1993<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 10px;\">M.A.Sc., Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 47px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%; height: 47px;\">1998 \u2013 2003<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 47px;\">Ph.D., Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%; height: 27px;\"><strong>Academic Employment<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 27px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%;\">2003-2009<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 24px;\">Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%;\">2009-2014<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 24px;\">Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%; height: 24px;\">2014-2016<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 10px;\">Associate Head for Graduate Programs, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%;\">2020-2025<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 48px;\">Associate Director of Research, Clean Energy Research Centre, The University of British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%;\">2014-Present<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 48px;\">Faculty Associate, Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability, The University of British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.2033%; height: 24px;\">2020-Present<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.7968%; height: 48px;\">Full Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>Research Topic<\/h5>\n<p>Systems Approaches to Complex Societal Challenges, Community-based Energy Transitions<\/p>\n<h5>Fields of Research Interest<\/h5>\n<p>Systems change; energy transitions; transdisciplinarity; engineering education; transformative learning<\/p>\n<h5>Academic Publications<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Gladwin, D., &amp; Ellis, N. (2025). Storying Systems Change: Learning and Living with Complexity. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 38(3), 23.<\/li>\n<li>McGookin, C., Aghdam, N. C., Mendon\u00e7a, A., Berretta, S., &amp; Ellis, N. (2025). Green waste, an untapped energy source? Reviewing the prospect of green waste as a biomass energy source. Cleaner Waste Systems, 11, 100273.<\/li>\n<li>Gladwin, D., &amp; Ellis, N. (2024). Systems beings: Educating for a complex world. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 56(7), 683-695.<\/li>\n<li>Gladwin, D., &amp; Ellis, N. (2023). Energy literacy: towards a conceptual framework for energy transition. Environmental Education Research, 29(10), 1515-1529<\/li>\n<li>Tembrevilla, G., Nesbit, S., Ellis, N., &amp; Ostafichuk, P. (2023). Developing transdisciplinarity in first\u2010year engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 112(1), 43-63.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span class=\"TextRun SCXW39633066 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW39633066 BCX8\">PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Professional Engineer, Engineering and Geoscientists BC, Canada Member<\/li>\n<li>Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span class=\"TextRun SCXW135475377 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW135475377 BCX8\">HONORS<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Killam Teaching Award, 2025<\/li>\n<li>American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE) Particle Technology Forum, PSRI Lectureship Award in Fluidization, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) University Faculty Award, 2003- 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Other Interests<\/h5>\n<p>Cycling, hiking, pottery, cooking, rock climbing, music<\/p>\n<h5>HP<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chbe.ubc.ca\/naoko-ellis\/\">https:\/\/chbe.ubc.ca\/naoko-ellis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/systemsbeingslab.ubc.ca\/\"> https:\/\/systemsbeingslab.ubc.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dneducationdesign.ca\/\"> https:\/\/dneducationdesign.ca\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name ELLIS, Naoko Position and Affiliated Institution Full Professor, The University of British Columbia Degre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23338,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions\/23338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}