Ph.D. Students
Amber Kerr
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
M.S. Stanford University
Research Interests:
Renewable energy; sustainable development; climate change; ecology and biogeochemistry; agroforestry.
Barbara Haya
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
M.S. (2002) Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Research Interests:
Equity within international efforts to mitigate climate change, the Clean Development Mechanism, international finance institutions, power sector restructuring in South East Asia.
Cyrus Wadia
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
M.S. (2006) Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
M.S. (1997) Chemical Engineering, MIT
S.B. (1996) Chemical Engineering, MIT
Daniel Prull
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
M.S. (2005) University of California, Berkeley (Mechanical Engineering)
B.S. (2003) University of Colorado (Mechanical Engineering)
Research Interests:
microgrid design, wind energy (design, testing and implementation), photovoltiacs, control of biofuels in IC and diesel engines, GIS energy mapping, aerodynamics, control, digital logic design
Projects:
Design and Implementation of Low-carbon Microgrids in the British Virgin Islands (thesis)
Deepak Rajagopal
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Research Interests:
Biomass and bio-diesel for power generation and rural development in India; distributed generation, cogeneration; energy policy.
Derek Lemoine
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
2nd year ERG Master's Student
BA 2003 Philosophy, Integrative Environmental Solutions from The University of the South
Research Interests:
Recent research projects:
Remotely sensing compliance of riparian buffers with forestry Best Management Practices and sustainable forestry standards
Geographic dispersion of wind power
The impacts of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on California energy markets
Game-theoretic models of unilateral greenhouse gas policy
Fermin Reygadas
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
M.S. (2006) Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Research Interests:
Rural energy; water purification systems; cookstoves; energy policy in developing countries; migration; renewable energy; appropriate technologies; Latin America.
Projects:
UV-Tube
Gregory Nemet
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Research Interests:
Energy policy, technological change, carbon-free energy systems, climate science, R&D, experience curves, patents, institutional innovation, energy systems modeling.
Kamal Kapadia
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
M.A. (2003) Energy and Resources Group, U.C. Berkeley (Energy and Resources)
M.Sc. (1998) University of Oxford, U.K. (Environmental Change and Management)
B. Sc. (1996) St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, India (Life Sciences)
Naïm Richard Dargouth
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
Degrees:
MS (2006) Energy and Resources, UC Berkeley
MS (2004), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
BS (high honors, 2002), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
Research Interests:
Bioenergy, sub-Saharan Africa, rural energy and development, electrification policy.
Projects:
Current Project:
Biofuels resource assessment for sub-Saharan Africa, in collaboration with Energy Branch, Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics, United Nations Environment Programme, Paris, France ( http://www.unep.fr/energy/).
Past Projects:
MOT-UNIDO Research Program 2005. See:
http://bridge.berkeley.edu/Research/Research.htm#2005005.
Rebecca Ghanadan
Description:
Ph.D. candidate, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
M.A. (2002) University of California, Berkeley (Energy and Resources Group)
B.S. (1996) Oregon State University (Chemistry)
Last Name:
Ghanadan
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Research Interests:
Energy and development pathways, Renewable energy, energy efficiency & appropriate technologies, local-national-international linkages of policy and technology choices, Small and medium scale enterprises, Geographic interest in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Richard Plevin
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
M.S. (2006) Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
M.S. (1982) Computer Science, Yale University
B.S. (1981) Computer Science and Applied Math, SUNY Albany
Sintana Vergara
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
B.S. Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2004
Research Interests:
Drinking water treatment in the developing world; solid waste engineering; consumption; development
Zack Norwood
Position:
Ph.D. Students
Description:
PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2002), University of Michigan
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2001), Rice University
Research Interests:
Solar concentration and solar-thermal-electric systems for CHP, including Low-temperature Stirling engine generators, and Rankine cycles for electrical generation (www-power.eecs.berkeley.edu). Biofuels emission characterization and vehicle conversion experience with ethanol, biodiesel, and SVO. Urban waste to liquid fuel and electricity. Affordable cooperative housing.