Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2016-2018 PhD History of Science, Princeton University Current Position: Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History, Duke University
Evan Hepler-Smith is a historian of science who studies the management of data and information in the chemical sciences and chemical regulation.... Read more about Evan Hepler-Smith
Kernan Brothers Environmental Fellow: 2007-2009 PhD Economics, University of Texas-Austin, 2007 Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, Georgia State University
Garth Heutel is an economist who studies the dynamic interactions between environmental policies and economic issues.... Read more about Garth Heutel
PhD Climate Physics and Chemistry, MIT, 2004 Harvard University Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2006-2007 Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2006-2007 PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, 2006 Current Position: Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Valeriy Ivanov is a hydrologist interested in how climate and topography affect water, energy, and vegetation dynamics in natural landscapes.... Read more about Valeriy Ivanov
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2009-2011 PhD Experimental Physics, University of Chicago, 2008 Current Position: Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
Rafael Jaramillo is a solid state physicist who feels an imperative to work to develop sources of energy for our economy that are sufficient, safe, and renewable. As a physicist with an engineering background he also has deep interests in the science that it will take to achieve this goal.
HUCE Environmental Fellow: 2018-2019 PhD Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Institute for Data Systems and Society Current Position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Jesse Jenkins harnesses optimization methods and empirical data to improve planning, operations, regulation, and policy in the rapidly evolving electricity sector. He focuses in particular on two important trends: the transition to zero-carbon power systems and the proliferation of distributed energy resources.... Read more about Jesse Jenkins
Alex Johnson is a physicist who will use his experimental and theoretical skills to design, build, and test a new generation of fuel cells that might be used to power portable electronics or cars.... Read more about Alex Johnson
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2009-2011 PhD History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennyslvania, 2009 Current Position: Assistant Director of Graduates Studies and Associate Professor, History, Arizona State University
Christopher Jones is a historian interested in the intersections between energy, technology, and the environment.... Read more about Christopher Jones
Environmental Fellow: 2021-2023 PhD, American Politics, University of Wisconsin–Madison Current Position: Assistant Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Devin Judge-Lord is a political scientist working at the intersection of social movements and technocratic policymaking.... Read more about Devin Judge-Lord
National Science Foundation Environmental Fellow: 2015-2017 PhD Biology, Stanford University Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin
Melissa Kemp is an evolutionary biologist who uses the fossil record and historical data to investigate species responses to global change phenomena.... Read more about Melissa E. Kemp
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2009-2011 PhD Physics, Harvard University Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa
Jacob Krich is a theoretical condensed matter physicist interested in the quantum mechanical properties of materials at the nanoscale, and especially on applications of these properties to clean energy science.... Read more about Jacob Krich
