RAEL Alumni

Peter Alstone

Peter’s research focus areas are infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy approaches to energy devel­op­ment, under­stand­ing mar­kets for demand-​​side energy tech­nol­ogy, and energy tech­nol­ogy pol­icy. Out­side of aca­d­e­mics, he con­tributes to the Light­ing Global pro­gram, which sup­ports the mar­ket for mod­ern off-​​grid light­ing in the devel­op­ing world. Peter’s work for Light­ing Global includes tech­ni­cal and engi­neer­ing sup­port, pol­icy devel­op­ment, […]

Nadia Ameli

For my web­site, click here. I am cur­rently work­ing as Senior Researcher Asso­ciate at UCL Insti­tute for Sus­tain­able Resources  where I lead the finance research area of the GREEN-​​WIN project. I focus on cli­mate and sus­tain­abil­ity finance poli­cies and gov­er­nance arrange­ments in order to con­tribute to over­com­ing finan­cial bar­ri­ers to mit­i­ga­tion and adaptation. Before join­ing UCL, I worked for the OECD (Green Growth […]

Marlene Susana Arrechea Alvarado

Susana Arrechea holds a bach­e­lors degree in Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of San Car­los of Guatemala and a mas­ters degree in Mol­e­c­u­lar Nanoscience and Nan­otech­nol­ogy from the Uni­ver­sity of Castilla-​​La Man­cha. Susana is a Pro­fes­sor at the Engi­neer­ing Fac­ulty at the Uni­ver­sity San Car­los of Guatemala. In 2011, she began a doc­tor­ate pro­gram in […]

Solomon Abede 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. Background: Solomon received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia; an M.Sc. degree in Physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; a second M.Sc. and PhD degree specializing in energy system analysis from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer, Israel. He is currently a Philomathia postdoctoral fellow at University of California - Berkeley.

Nkiruka Avila

Nkiruka Avila is a graduate student in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated with Summa cum Laude honors in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. She has worked in various sectors of the energy industry, from engineering design and production to end-use distribution and marketing. Her current research interests include renewable energy integration, sustainable energy development and rural electrification.

Anne-​​Perrine Avrin

Anne-​​Perrine is a PhD stu­dent in the Energy and Resources Group and a research fel­low within the energy com­pany Areva. In the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab­o­ra­tory, her research focuses on long-​​term capac­ity expan­sion plan­ning for the energy mix in China, and quan­ti­ta­tive meth­ods to adjust least-​​cost energy tran­si­tion path­ways by tak­ing uncer­tainty on cost […]

Robert Bailis

Rob is interested in sustainability, resource use, and environmental change in the developing world. He explores these issues principally, though not exclusively, in the context of energy. He became interested in the intersection of energy, society, and environment while working as a teacher in the US Peace Corps in a remote community in northwestern Kenya. He uses an interdisciplinary approach that places equal emphasis on qualitative and quantitative methods across a range of scales, from local to regional and global. Follow this link for more information about his past and current research. https://environment.yale.edu/profile/bailis/

Dennis V. Best

Den­nis has focused his career on tech­nol­ogy and sus­tain­abil­ity pol­icy in emerg­ing and devel­op­ing economies. His research inter­ests include tech­nol­ogy and inno­va­tion pol­icy and impacts to resource and rural devel­op­ment, tech­nol­ogy trans­fer and the polit­i­cal econ­omy of land use man­age­ment. He has led pro­grams with the Paris based Inter­na­tional Energy Agency, as an offi­cial of the […]

Bo Li

Bo is a doc­toral stu­dent in Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing  at Chongqing Uni­ver­sity.  His work is focused on the inte­gra­tion of renew­able energy and of elec­tric vehi­cle fleets into the Chi­nese power grid.

Ian Bolliger

Ian is a National Defense Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Grad­u­ate Fel­low in the Energy and Resources Group and a mem­ber of the inau­gural “Envi­ron­ment and Soci­ety: Data Sci­ence for the 21st Cen­tury” National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion Research Trainee­ship (NRT) cohort. His research inter­ests lie at the inter­sec­tion of energy sys­tems, cli­mate change adap­ta­tion, and global health. He […]

Samuel Carrara

Samuel Car­rara holds a Mas­ter Degree cum laude in Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing (Major: Energy and Mechan­i­cal Plants) and a PhD in Energy and Envi­ron­men­tal Tech­nolo­gies, both from the Uni­ver­sity of Berg­amo. After work­ing as an engi­neer in the gas tur­bine field, he is now junior researcher at FEEM. His main research inter­ests include renew­able ener­gies, sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, […]

Christian Casillas

Chris­t­ian is an inde­pen­dent scholar work­ing on tech­ni­cal and cul­tural dri­vers of sus­tain­able, local energy systems.

Sergio Castellanos

Ser­gio Castel­lanos is a Berke­ley Energy & Cli­mate Insti­tute – Tec­nológico de Mon­ter­rey (BECI–ITESM) Energy Fel­low work­ing at the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab with Prof. Dan Kam­men. His research focuses on expand­ing an opti­miza­tion model –SWITCH– to Mex­ico to deter­mine the opti­mal invest­ments in new gen­er­a­tion and trans­mis­sion assets. Through his research, he also […]

Fernando Castro Alvarez

Is a Doc­tor of Judi­cial Sci­ence Can­di­date at Berke­ley Law, con­duct­ing research on the diver­si­fi­ca­tion of energy sources through law and pol­icy, for which he has received a National Energy Fel­low­ship from the CONACYT-​​SENER Hydro­car­bons Fund of Mexico. Dur­ing his path through grad­u­ate school he has worked as a Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Researcher in the Renew­able […]

Cheng (Andy) Zheng

Andy Zheng grad­u­ated from U.C. Berke­ley in Decem­ber 2014 with a Ph.D. in Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing. Super­vised by Prof. Daniel Kam­men, his main research inter­est is energy pol­icy in the global solar pho­to­voltaic (PV) indus­try, with a focus on the role of R&D fund­ing, inno­va­tion, and deploy­ment incen­tives on cost reduc­tion of the PV tech­nol­ogy. In […]

 Felix Cruetzig

Dr. Felix Creutzig is head of the working group Land Use, Infrastructures and Transport. He is lead author of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report and was lead analyst of the Global Energy Assessment. Felix Creutzig teaches courses about climate change and infrastructures at Technische Universität Berlin. His research focuses on: • Conceptualizing and quantifying GHG emissions of cities world-wide • Assessing opportunities for GHG mitigation of cities world-wide • Building models of sustainable urban form and transport • Land rents as a complement for financing sustainable infrastructures • Analyzing the role of capital stocks and infrastructures for climate change mitigation • Land use-mediated uncertainty in integrated assessments, particularly those related to bioenergy Since 2009 Felix Creutzig is also group leader at the Department of the Economics of Climate Change at Technische Universität Berlin. He was a postdoc fellow at the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, collaborating with Dan Kammen, Lee Schipper and Elizabeth Deakin, and the Energy Foundation China in Beijing. Felix Creutzig received his PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and holds a Master of Advanced Studies (Path III in Mathematics) from Cambridge University, UK.

Deborah Sunter

Before join­ing RAEL in Octo­ber 2015 Dr. Deb­o­rah A. Sunter was a AAAS Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy Pol­icy Fel­low at the Depart­ment of Energy: Advanced Man­u­fac­tur­ing Office. Her inter­ests include renew­able energy sys­tems, advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­niques, and the inter­ac­tion of sci­ence and pol­icy in acad­e­mia, indus­try and government. She received a B.S in Mechan­i­cal and Aero­space Engi­neer­ing at […]

Dongran Liu

Don­gran Liu is a doc­toral stu­dent in the School of Eco­nomic and Man­age­ment at North China Elec­tric Power Uni­ver­sity.  She has research inter­ests in energy mar­kets, opti­miza­tion and risk man­age­ment, and dis­trib­uted energy resource planning. At RAEL she is work­ing on mod­el­ing the future of the Chi­nese elec­tric power sys­tem using SWITCH.  She is part of a […]

Karim El Alami

Karim is a MS stu­dent in Civil and Envi­ron­men­tal Engi­neer­ing at UC Berke­ley. He is cur­rently work­ing in the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab­o­ra­tory of Daniel Kam­men, on the Green Jobs Projects at a fed­eral scale.  The main goal is to eval­u­ate the fed­eral cre­ation of green jobs in the next decades in the US and […]

Majid Ezzati

My research focuses on exposure to, and health effects of, environmental, behavioural, nutritional, and metabolic risk factors and their interventions at the population level. The research activities routinely combine concepts, data, and methods from a range of environmental, health, and quantitative sciences with a systems perspective. We collect and analyze primary field data on environmental risk factors (primarily air pollution). We also develop and apply analytical models to combinations of primary and secondary data to estimate health effects of risk factor exposures and interventions. You can learn about our past and ongoing studies, and see their results and publications, through the Environment and Global Health Research Group page.

Kevin Fingerman

http://www2.humboldt.edu/environment/faculty-and-staff/dr.-kevin-fingerman My research is driven by an interest in the broad-based environmental and social impacts of energy technologies and policies. This work seeks to make explicit the trade-offs that are often present between energy security, climate, and other important social and environmental objectives. In particular, I have worked on issues at the water/energy nexus, evaluating the “water footprints” of a range of energy technologies. Water and energy are inextricably linked, with electricity generation second only to agriculture in total global water withdrawals. This connection is particularly acute for bioenergy, as it is by far the most water-intensive of all energy types. My research has employed life cycle assessment (LCA), agro-climatic modeling, and GIS tools to show that biofuels routinely require several orders of magnitude more water than petroleum fuels while often providing only modest climate benefit. I approach my research with an eye toward implementation. This has led me to work with California regulatory agencies on fuel policy formulation and to serve as vice-chair of the Geneva-based Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels. Prior to coming to HSU, I worked in Rome for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. While there, I provided support to the governments of Indonesia and Colombia in evaluating the environmental and social impacts of their biofuel industries, and in formulating policies to address those impacts.

Dimitry Gershenson

Dim­itry Ger­shen­son is an Energy Access Pro­gram Man­ager at Face­book. Prior to his cur­rent role, Dim­itry com­pleted his MS at UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, where he focused on decen­tral­ized elec­tri­fi­ca­tion in East Africa, finance and invest­ment for energy access, and the second-​​life appli­ca­tions of retired elec­tric vehi­cle bat­ter­ies. He received his Bach­e­lors at […]

Gordon Bauer

Gor­don received his Batchelor’s Degree with High­est Hon­ors in Chem­istry from Williams Col­lege (2013), and then con­ducted research on solar energy in Nicaragua, and then spend­ing time as a Vis­it­ing Scholar at the Uni­ver­sity of Oslo where he con­ducted research on the usage of elec­tric vehi­cles in Nor­way as a fel­low with the Amer­i­can Scan­di­na­vian Foundation. At UC […]

Chris Greacen

Chris Greacen has worked on policy and hands-on implementation of renewable energy from village to government levels. As co-director of the non-profit organization Palang Thai he helped draft Thailand's Very Small Power Producer (VSPP) policies, which account for over 1200 MW of renewable energy on-line and additional 3700 MW with signed PPAs as of March 2012. He conducted dozens of studies on renewable energy and power sector planning and governance in Thailand, including a government-commissioned study that helped shape Thailand’s design of its feed-in tariff program. As a World Bank consultant he has worked since 2008 with the Tanzanian Energy Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) to draft guidelines and rules for Tanzania’s Small Power Producer (SPP) program, which streamlines deployment of renewable energy mini-grids for rural electrification and grid-connected renewable energy to augment Tanzania's national grid. With the Border Green Energy Team (BGET) he has led installation of 13 pico-hydropower projects with remote communities in the Thai-Burma border area, as well as leading the construction of dozens of solar electric systems for remote medical clinics in eastern Burma. His PhD dissertation from the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at the University of California at Berkeley focused on micro-hydroelectricity in rural Thailand. He also has a BA in Physics from Reed College with a thesis on solar photovoltaic semiconductor physics. He has worked on renewable energy projects in Nepal, India, Burma, Cambodia, China, Guatemala, Micronesia, North Korea, Tibet, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and on Native American reservations.

Guangzhi Yin

Guangzhi is a PhD stu­dent in Energy Sys­tems Analy­sis at Tsinghua Uni­ver­sity.  He has bachelor’s degrees in Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing and in Man­age­ment from Tsinghua Uni­ver­sity.  He has been a vis­it­ing stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Bath and at the Israel Insti­tute of Technology. His work is focused on the role of car­bon pric­ing and renew­able […]

Gang He

Gang He is now an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Tech­nol­ogy and Society Stony Brook University E-​​mail: Gang.He [at] stony​brook​.edu While a doc­toral stu­dent in RAEL and ERG, Gang He was also a Vis­it­ing Fac­ulty Affil­i­ate for the China Energy Group, Energy Tech­nolo­gies Area, at Lawrence Berke­ley National Lab­o­ra­tory, as well as an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor […]

Rebecca Hernandez

Cur­rent: Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor, Depart­ment of Land, Air, and Water Resources, UC Davis Uni­ver­sity web­site: http://​lawr​.ucdavis​.edu/​p​e​o​p​l​e​/​f​a​c​u​l​t​y​/​h​e​r​n​a​n​d​e​z​-​r​e​b​e​cca   Rebecca R. Her­nan­dez, Ph.D.UC President’s Post­doc­toral Fel­low Energy and Resources Group, Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­leyCli­mate and Car­bon Sci­ences Pro­gram, Earth Sci­ences Divi­sion, Lawrence Berke­ley National Laboratory Per­sonal web­site: www​.rebec​ca​rher​nan​dez​.com Con­nect with me: Google Scholar, Research­Gate My work exam­ines processes where human and nat­ural […]

Patricia Hildalgo-​​Gonzalez

Patri­cia grad­u­ated as an indus­trial and elec­tri­cal engi­neer in 2012 from Pon­ti­f­i­cia Uni­ver­si­dad Católica de Chile (PUC). Dur­ing her under­grad­u­ate stud­ies she worked as a Lin­ear Alge­bra teach­ing assis­tant for three years, per­formed research in Dr. Daniel Kammen’s Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab­o­ra­tory (RAEL) at UC Berke­ley work­ing on the SWITCH model for the US. She […]

Madison Hoffacker

Madi­son K. Hof­facker is a full-​​time Sus­tain­able Energy Research Spe­cial­ist jointly with the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berke­ley and the Cen­ter for Con­ser­va­tion Biol­ogy at UC River­side. Madi­son grad­u­ated from Chap­man Uni­ver­sity with a degree in Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence and Pol­icy, and pre­vi­ously worked for the Depart­ment of Global Ecol­ogy at the Carnegie Insti­tu­tion […]

Nate Hultman

Prof. Hult­man is cur­rently on leave from the Uni­ver­sity. He is serv­ing as Deputy Asso­ciate Direc­tor for Energy & Cli­mate Change in the White House Coun­cil on Envi­ron­men­tal Qual­ity. After this gov­ern­ment ser­vice, he will return to the School of Pub­lic Pol­icy and the Joint Global Change Research Institute. Prof. Hult­man is Direc­tor of Envi­ron­men­tal Pol­icy pro­gram at the Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land […]

Isa Ferrall

Isa Fer­rall is a MS/Ph.D. stu­dent in the Energy and Resources Group and Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley. She is inter­ested in the impact of renew­able energy on rural elec­tri­fi­ca­tion, global devel­op­ment, and the domes­tic energy sec­tor. Pre­vi­ously, Isa gained expe­ri­ence on both the tech­ni­cal and applied sides of […]

Arne Jacobson

Dr. Jacobson is the SERC Director and an associate professor of Environmental Resources Engineering at Humboldt State University. He is also the coordinator of HSU’s master’s program in Energy Technology and Policy. Dr. Jacboson has a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. in Environmental Systems (engineering option) from Humboldt State. His areas of research interest include renewable energy technology, energy and climate change mitigation policy, and energy access for low income people in developing countries. His work is interdisciplinary, combining renewable energy engineering, energy policy, and a social geography based approach to international development studies. Dr. Jacobson has extensive international work experience in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, including recent work focused on the development of an international program to ensure the quality of affordable LED-based off-grid lighting systems appropriate for use by low income people in developing countries.

Kelly Jiang

As an under­grad­u­ate Kelly was invited to work as a GSR to com­pile data on decen­tral­ized renew­able energy (DRE) in part­ner­ship with Power for All (P4All) as part of a larger effort to research and to build the case for uni­ver­sal elec­tric­ity access by 2025 through dis­trib­uted renew­able energy.  In this project Kelly is work­ing with Dr. […]

Josiah Johnston

I grew up in a rural part of the Ozark Moun­tains. I’m great at con­struc­tion and swing­ing a pick. Between col­lege and grad school I lived in Bal­ti­more for five years. When I left for grad school, I was a tenured researcher in a genet­ics lab and had a seat on the board of a com­mu­nity devel­op­ment cor­po­ra­tion. I came to ERG in attempts to […]

Joyceline Marealle

Joyce­line is a Tan­zan­ian who holds a bachelor’s degree in chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of Rochester. Her research inter­est lies in energy decen­tral­iza­tion, diver­si­fi­ca­tion, eco­nom­ics and pol­icy mak­ing to empower women and improve the stan­dard of liv­ing in East Africa. She cur­rently works at the Renew­able & Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab­o­ra­tory on Off grid sys­tems […]

Joe Kantenbacher

Joe's scholarship in centered on issues of environmental behavior and sustainable consumption. With his research, he explores the connections between energy and goods consumption and happiness, interrogating the theory that reduced consumption can support improvements in quality of life. He is particularly interested in the potential for discussions about time use to support, enhance, and accelerate movement toward a more sustainable and satisfying economy. Joe is currently a PhD Candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, and, before beginning graduate studies, was an assistant gentleman-farmer in British Columbia.

Charles Kirubi

Gathu Kirubi, brings strong ana­lyt­i­cal skills and demon­strated man­age­ment expe­ri­ence cut­ting across renew­able energy, rural devel­op­ment and micro-​​finance. Aside from hold­ing a PhD in Energy & Rural Devel­op­ment from the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia Berke­ley, a pre­mier insti­tu­tion in the field, Kirubi brings to Solar Tran­si­tions over 10 years  expe­ri­ence in inno­va­tion and lead­er­ship in design­ing and […]

Noah Kittner

Noah Kit­tner is now a Pro­fes­sor in both City and Regional Plan­ning, and Global Pub­lic Health at the Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina, Chapel Hill. Noah Kit­tner was a PhD stu­dent in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berke­ley and researcher in the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab­o­ra­tory. After grad­u­at­ing with a BS in Envi­ron­men­tal […]

John Akol Akol Kuan

Akol Kuan is a civil engi­neer­ing major and Maser­Card Foun­da­tion Scholar at UC Berkeley. In RAEL, Akol is focus­ing on the design and oper­a­tion of clean energy mini-​​grids for refugee com­mu­ni­ties, with a project focused on the UNHCR Kakuma Refugee Camp.  Kakuma is a town in north­west­ern Turkana County, Kenya. It is the site of […]

Cathy Kunkel

Kunkel is the co-​​author of Moun­tain State Maneu­ver: AEP and FirstEn­ergy try to stick ratepay­ers with risky coal plants and tes­ti­fied for the West Vir­ginia Cit­i­zen Action Group in recent AEP and FirstEn­ergy cases. She has pub­lished arti­cles regard­ing the design and imple­men­ta­tion of car­bon cap and div­i­dend poli­cies and cre­ated guides for local gov­ern­ments regard­ing energy efficiency. Kunkel […]

Joanna Lewis

Joanna Lewis is an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy and Inter­na­tional Affairs (STIA) at George­town University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of For­eign Ser­vice. Her research focuses on energy, envi­ron­ment and inno­va­tion in China, includ­ing renew­able energy indus­try devel­op­ment and cli­mate change pol­icy. She is cur­rently lead­ing a National Sci­ence Foundation-​​funded project on Inter­na­tional Part­ner­ships and […]

Timothy Lipman

Timothy E. Lipman is an energy and environmental technology, economics, and policy researcher and lecturer with the University of California - Berkeley. He is serving as Co-Director for the campus' Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), based at the Institute of Transportation Studies, and also as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Region Clean Energy Application Center (PCEAC). Tim's research focuses on electric-drive vehicles, fuel cell technology, combined heat and power systems, biofuels, renewable energy, and electricity and hydrogen energy systems infrastructure. Lipman received his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Policy Analysis with the Graduate Group in Ecology at UC Davis (1999). He also has received an M.S. degree in the technology track of the Graduate Group in Transportation Technology and Policy, also at UC Davis (1998), and a B.A. from Stanford University (1990). His Ph.D. dissertation titled "Zero-Emission Vehicle Scenario Cost Analysis Using A Fuzzy Set-Based Framework" received the University of California Transportation Center's 'Charlie Wootan' Ph.D. dissertation award for 1999. He is also a 2005 Climate Change Fellow with the Woods Institute at Stanford University, and he also received a 2004 Institute of Transportation Engineers service award, a 1998 NSF IGERT teaching fellowship, a 1997 University of California Transportation Center Dissertation Grant, a 1996 ENO Foundation Fellowship, a 1995 University of California Transportation Center Dissertation Grant, and a 1994 Chevron Foundation Fellowship. A native of Golden, Colorado, he graduated Cum Laude from Colorado Academy in 1986.

Robert Margolis

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Brooke Maushund

Brooke’s under­grad­u­ate career was pro­filed in the CNR Newslet­ter.

Ana Mileva

Dr. Mileva‘s work focuses on mod­el­ing the oper­a­tions of elec­tric­ity sys­tems with high pen­e­tra­tion lev­els of inter­mit­tent renew­able energy. She joined E3 in 2014 after com­plet­ing her Ph.D. in the Energy and Resources Group at U.C. Berke­ley. Her doc­toral work con­tributed a novel mod­el­ing plat­form to explore the fea­si­bil­ity and cost of deeply decar­bonized power sys­tems. […]

Dave Mozersky

David Moz­er­sky is the Found­ing Direc­tor of the Pro­gram on Con­flict, Cli­mate Change and Green Devel­op­ment. An expert on Sudan and South Sudan, he has been involved in con­flict pre­ven­tion efforts in Africa since 2001, with a spe­cific inter­est in medi­a­tion, nego­ti­a­tion and peace processes. He has worked with the Inter­na­tional Cri­sis Group, the African […]

Anthony Nahas

Tony is directing the EcoBlock project, an urban sustainability experiment in Oakland, CA. The project brings together a multi-disciplinary team of urban designers, engineers, social scientists, and policy experts from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University, as well as local grassroots organizations, non-profits, local utilities PG&E & EBMUD, the City of Oakland and the State of California. The EcoBlock will demonstrate integrated solutions that dramatically reduce home and neighborhood GHG emissions, dramatically cut water consumption, recycle wastewater, enable organic urban food systems, and promote investment in jobs, renewables and green infrastructure. Tony received his undergraduate education at Columbia University and Paris-IV Sorbonne in History and Anthropology. He pursued graduate work in medieval Middle Eastern history at the Sorbonne, the American University of Cairo and Columbia, researching the economic history and administration of the irrigation systems in the agricultural lands between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers during the late Sassanid (5th-7th CE) and Abbasid (8th-11th CE) empires. Tony holds an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and worked in corporate finance in the City of London for JP Morgan, Barclays and ING Barings before transferring to Bryan Garnier in Paris. Thereafter, he established his own Investment Fund specializing in alternative assets. In 2013, he transitioned from Finance to Sustainability with a particular interest in the convergence of economics and the environment. He was a Research Affiliate at the Presidio Graduate School during the 2014 academic year.

Natalie Fedorova

Natalie is an Energy Engi­neer­ing (https://engineeringscience.berke​ley​.edu/​e​n​e​rgy–engineering/​) major at UC Berke­ley. Her stud­ies focus on inte­grat­ing power sys­tem analy­sis with data sci­ence, opti­miz­ing resource use and study­ing the out­look of renew­able tech­nol­ogy adop­tion in var­i­ous parts of the world. In RAEL, Natalie is cur­rently engaged in the SWITCH China project. She works on mod­el­ing grid expan­sion for […]

James H. Nelson

Jimmy Nel­son joined UCS in the fall of 2013 as the Cli­mate and Energy Program’s new Kendall Sci­ence Fel­low and will be work­ing from our Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia office through Novem­ber 2014. Laura Wis­land, senior energy ana­lyst in the Cli­mate and Energy Pro­gram, is his supervisor. As a Kendall sci­ence fel­low, Jimmy will explore sce­nar­ios for […]

Greg Nemet

Gregory Nemet is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Nelson Institute's Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. He is also chair of the Energy Analysis and Policy certificate program His research and teaching focus on improving analysis of the global energy system and, more generally, on understanding how to expand access to energy services while reducing environmental impacts. He teaches courses in energy systems analysis, governance of global energy problems, and international environmental policy. Professor Nemet's research analyzes the process of technological change in energy and its interactions with public policy. These projects fall in two areas: (1) empirical analysis identifying the influences on past technological change and (2) modeling of the effects of policy instruments on future technological outcomes. The first includes assessment of public policy, research and development, learning by doing, and knowledge spillovers. An example of the second is work informing allocation between research and development and demand-side policy instruments to address climate change. In 2015, he received the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, which honors outstanding University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members for their research contributions.He has been a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Global Energy Assessment. He received his doctorate in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley. His A.B. is in geography and economics from Dartmouth College.

Nia Novella Jones

A recent grad­u­ate of North­east­ern Uni­ver­sity with a B.S. in Indus­trial Engi­neer­ing with minor in Law & Pub­lic Policy. I intend to research the inter­sec­tion of renew­able energy tech­nol­ogy, edu­ca­tion, and specif­i­cally prison edu­ca­tion pro­grams focused on STEM. Ulti­mately, my goal is to work with for­mally incar­cer­ated cit­i­zens as they pre­pare for re-​​entry into soci­ety. […]

Serena Patel

Ser­ena is an Energy Engi­neer­ing major at UC Berke­ley, where she is engaged in num­ber of activ­i­ties, including: Work­ing at the Stu­dent Envi­ron­men­tal Resource Cen­ter under the Zero Waste Research Cen­ter to help food ven­dors achieve zero waste goals, cre­at­ing a cul­ture of zero waste within the stu­dent body through edu­ca­tion, and con­duct­ing research on com­postable plas­tics recycling. Dur­ing […]

Carla Peterman

http://​www​.energy​.ca​.gov/​c​o​m​m​i​s​s​i​o​n​e​r​s​/​p​e​t​e​r​m​a​n​.​h​tml Carla Peter­man was appointed by Gov­er­nor Jerry Brown in Jan­u­ary 2011. She filled the Pub­lic Mem­ber posi­tion on the five-​​member Com­mis­sion where four of the five mem­bers by law are required to have pro­fes­sional train­ing in spe­cific areas — engi­neer­ing or phys­i­cal sci­ence, envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, eco­nom­ics, and law. Com­mis­sioner Peter­man is the lead com­mis­sioner […]

 Diego Ponce de Leon

I am work­ing on my  MS/​PhD at the Energy and Resources Group (ERG). My research is in low-​​carbon (low-​​impact) energy sys­tems and eco­nomic devel­op­ment, mod­el­ing high renew­able energy future sce­nar­ios, and deploy­ing sMArt Grid (high-​​tech/​low-​​cost) pilots in the ris­ing south.  I’ve worked in Chi­a­pas (Mex­ico) devel­op­ing regional micro­cre­dit schemes and river sur­vey stud­ies,  designed and built […]

Guangyu Qin

Guangyu joins us for a year from North China Elec­tric Power Uni­ver­sity, where he has already worked on clean energy mar­kets and wind energy forecasting. At RAEL (and LBL) he will be work­ing on aggres­sive decar­boniza­tion path­ways for China, and the expan­sion of clean energy ser­vices in heavy industry. His recent paper on day-​​ahead wind […]

Jessica Reilly-​​Moman

Jes­sica Reilly who is cur­rently sup­ported by a Ful­bright Fel­low­ship to study coastal cli­mate change in Mex­ico, has now also been awarded the Insti­tute of Cur­rent World Affairs Fel­low­ship.  Over the next two years, Jes­sica and her part­ner Josh Moman will sail the Pacific coast of Cen­tral Amer­ica, cross through the Panama canal, and move into the […]

Daniel L. Sanchez

Daniel L. Sanchez is an alumni of the Energy and Resources Group and the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab­o­ra­tory at the Uni­ver­sity of California-​​Berkeley. He is inter­ested in quan­ti­ta­tive analy­sis to inform pub­lic pol­icy, focus­ing on bioen­ergy and cli­mate pol­icy. His cur­rent research focused design, deploy­ment, and com­mer­cial­iza­tion of bioen­ergy with car­bon cap­ture and seques­tra­tion […]

Rebekah Shirley

Rebekah Shirley is ERG alumni and for­mer Post-​​Doctoral Researcher at RAEL. She com­pleted her doc­toral stud­ies in the Energy and Resources Group in 2015. She also pre­vi­ously obtained a MSc. Energy and Resources (2011) and a MSc. Civil Engi­neer­ing at UC Berke­ley (2011). Her doc­toral research focused on decen­tral­ized renew­able energy tech­nolo­gies and design­ing inte­grated […]

Samira Siddique

Samira Sid­dique is an MS/​PhD can­di­date in the Energy and Resources Group. Her stud­ies focus on the inter­con­nected social, eco­nomic, and phys­i­cal processes of urban­iza­tion and cli­mate change in Asia. She was pre­vi­ously an inter­na­tional devel­op­ment researcher at Math­e­mat­ica Pol­icy Research, where her work included an eval­u­a­tion of the Global Pro­to­col for Community-​​scale Green­house Gas […]

Alana (Laney) Siegner

Alana is a first-​​year Master’s stu­dent in the Energy and Resources Group. Prior to arriv­ing at ERG, she received her under­grad­u­ate degree from Tufts Uni­ver­sity (2012) in Envi­ron­men­tal Stud­ies and Inter­na­tional Rela­tions. She served as an Ameri­Corps National Teach­ing Fel­low for two years at the Dever-​​McCormack School in Dorch­ester, MA, teach­ing 8th grade aca­d­e­mic enrich­ment […]

Julia Szinai

Julia stud­ied eco­nom­ics and Span­ish at UC Berke­ley as an under­grad­u­ate, and real­ized her inter­est in energy and envi­ron­men­tal issues while a research assis­tant at the UC Energy Insti­tute. After con­sult­ing in the energy and finance sec­tors, she worked at Pacific Gas & Elec­tric fore­cast­ing elec­tric gen­er­a­tion and its cost for cus­tomer rates. She focused on […]

Xiaoli Zhang

Xiaoli is a PhD stu­dent in the School of Envi­ron­men­tal & Nat­ural Resources, Ren­min Uni­ver­sity of China She has a range of research inter­ests, includ­ing the Low-​​carbon tran­si­tion path­way of China’s power sec­tor, the job cre­ation poten­tial of the new green energy econ­omy, and the role of energy stor­age in decar­boniza­tion in China and Europe. She […]

Yin Hao

Hao is a post­doc­toral researcher in RAEL as well as in the Depart­ment of Earth Sys­tem Sci­ence at Tsinghua Uni­ver­sity. She holds a double-​​degree Ph.D. from Bei­jing Nor­mal Uni­ver­sity and Aal­borg Uni­ver­sity, spe­cial­iz­ing in envi­ron­men­tal eco­nom­ics and envi­ron­men­tal plan­ning respec­tively. Hao’s research applies inter­dis­ci­pli­nary meth­ods to ana­lyze the pol­lu­tion sources, health impacts and exter­nal cost […]

Ziming Ma

马子明  Zim­ing Ma 博士生  Ph.D Student 清华大学电机工程与应用电子技术系 Dept. Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing and Applied Elec­tronic Technology Tsinghua Uni­ver­sity Email: mzm_​thu@​foxmail.​com Zim­ing is a vis­it­ing doc­toral stu­dent who will be work­ing on clean energy sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy, and mar­kets in and for China as part of RAEL’s work with sev­eral part­ner insti­tu­tions in China.

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