Ari Ball-Burack is a first year PhD stu­dent in the Ener­gy & Resources Group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley, advised by Dr. Dan Kam­men. He stud­ies data and com­pu­ta­tion­al tools to inform effec­tive decar­boniza­tion pol­i­cy. Specif­i­cal­ly, he is inter­est­ed in incor­po­rat­ing key com­plex­i­ties such as jus­tice and equi­ty, behav­ioral­ly real­is­tic deci­sion-mak­ing, and tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion in ener­gy pol­i­cy deci­sion sup­port tools. His cur­rent research inves­ti­gates decar­boniza­tion pol­i­cy inter­ac­tions at the nation­al and glob­al lev­els, dis­tri­b­u­tion­al equi­ty in elec­tric vehi­cle charg­ing infra­struc­ture, and rep­re­sen­ta­tions of con­sumer adop­tion in mul­ti-sec­tor ener­gy sys­tem models.

Ari grad­u­at­ed from Williams Col­lege, where he stud­ied Com­put­er Sci­ence and Physics, and received MPhil degrees in Advanced Com­put­er Sci­ence and Envi­ron­men­tal Pol­i­cy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge. Pri­or to join­ing ERG, he worked as a researcher at the Cam­bridge Insti­tute for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Lead­er­ship. Ari enjoys run­ning, play­ing music, and qual­i­ty time with loved ones (ide­al­ly in nature).