Jeff Liebert

Jeff Liebert is an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) within the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia, co-supervised by Dr. Navin Ramankutty at UBC and Dr. Elena Bennett at McGill University.

His educational background includes:

• PhD from Cornell University
• MSc from Cornell University

Jeff's research integrates natural and social sciences to advance sustainable agri-food systems. His work spans dairy, grain, and fruit/vegetable systems across local to national scales, examining ecological dimensions like weed management and forage quality alongside sociocultural factors including farmer well-being and decision-making barriers. Current projects focus on multifunctional agriculture in Canada using machine learning to model cover cropping co-benefits and mixed-methods analysis of systemic lock-ins in food system transformation.

Scientific recognition:

• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship

His research is supported by the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship grant and conducted within Dr. Ramankutty's Land Use and Global Environment group, where he develops spatially explicit agricultural modeling frameworks to identify pathways for sustainable food system change.