Lab Members
Ph.D. Students
Bioenergy, with a focus on the economic and environmental aspects of liquid biofuels; climate change mitigation.
Lab Director
Renewable energy and development; R&D policy; climate change; decarbonization and dramatic reductions in resource consumption; energy-health and energy-food linkages; energy and gender; national and multinational energy policy; rural development; risk assessment. Particular geographic interests in Africa, Central America/Mexico, E and SE Asia
Alumni
Green building, grassroot efforts, public outreach and education.
Renewable energy; biomass; energy & sustainable livelihoods in rural Africa; climate change.
Community scale renewable energy and energy efficiency, rural electrification, energy and the environment in Asia; electricity restructuring and civil society.
Cyrus has spent the last five years at U.C. Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) in pursuit of a new low cost photovoltaic technology using metal sulfides. Leveraging his knowledge in both the natural and social sciences, Cyrus' research covers both exhaustible resource economics and the aqueous chemistry of nanoparticles. Presently he continues his work in this area of photovoltaic materials but is also collaborating with other LBNL scientists to leverage his approach to explore new and innovative materials for battery storage.