Lab Members

Lab Members

Postdoctoral Fellows

Solomon Abebe Asfaw

Research Interests:

Solomon's current research interests include: grid integration of intermittent renewable energy resources (PV and Wind); storage requirements for very high grid penetration of Renewable; load-side management analysis for high grid penetration; employment of SWITCH for the East African Power Pool consortium of utilities.

Ph.D. Students

Amber Kerr

Research Interests:

Renewable energy; sustainable development; climate change; ecology and biogeochemistry; agroforestry.

Anand Gopal

Research Interests:

Bioenergy technology and policy, focus on the sugarcane sector

Barbara Haya

Research Interests:

Equity within international efforts to mitigate climate change, the Clean Development Mechanism, international finance institutions, power sector restructuring in South East Asia.

Christian E. Casillas

Research Interests:

Christian’s research focuses on understanding the role of energy systems in rural community development. He also studies how lack of information impacts community perceptions of development interventions, and ultimately their efficacy.

Christopher M. Jones

Research Interests:

Modeling household and city-level environmental impacts; lifecycle assessment; rural and urban development; climate change; sustainable forestry; sustainable behavior; environmental psychology

Derek Lemoine

Research Interests:

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

Research Interests:

Rural energy; water purification systems; cookstoves; energy policy in developing countries; migration; renewable energy; appropriate technologies; Latin America.

Fredrich Kahrl

Research Interests:

Energy/water infrastructure in developing countries amidst rapid urbanization.

Gang He

Research Interests:

Gang He's work focuses on China’s energy and climate change policy, energy economics and energy modeling, integrating renewable energy, and cleaner utilization of coal.