Xander Huggins is an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) of Global Terrestrial Water at the University of Glasgow. He joined the Levin Lab at Princeton in the fall of 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher and continues as a visiting research collaborator and leader of the ERSI seminars. His PhD research (co-advised by Tom Gleeson, University of Victoria, and Jay Famiglietti, Arizona State University) advanced theory and methods to understand global groundwater systems as social-ecological systems. His PhD was recognized as the top dissertation at the University of Victoria (Governor General's Gold Medal) and as the top dissertation in Canada (CAGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award). He participated in the Young Scientist Summer Programme at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, where he received the Mikhalevich Award. He is a Centre Associate of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, a member of the Society for Social-Ecological Systems' working group on Regime Shifts and Tipping Points in Social-Ecological Systems and co-leads the Global Freshwater Systems Science Workshop.