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.
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 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
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2012-2014 PhD Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Current Position: Associate Professor of Energy Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
Chiara Lo Prete is an energy economist who studies issues involved in the design and regulation of electricity markets.... Read more about Chiara Lo Prete
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2008-2010 PhD Physics, Harvard University, 2007 Current Position: President and Chief Scientist, Gemedy and Managing Director, Reified
Alex Wissner-Gross is a condensed matter physicist whose broad research interests concern the science and technology of programmable media, with a recent focus on the intersection of computation, energy, and the environment.... Read more about Alex Wissner-Gross
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
Beagle Environmental Fellow: 2006-2008 PhD Environmental Science and Engineering, Cal Tech, 2006 Current Position: Owner and Principal Consultant, Earth System Sciences, LLC
Nicole Smith Downey has examined the uptake of molecular hydrogen by soils and received her PhD in environmental science and engineering from the California Institute of Technology. She worked on an integrated model of the terrestrial biogeochemical cycle of mercury.... Read more about Nicole Smith Downey
Henson Environmental Fellow: 2010-2012 PhD Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, College of the Holy Cross
Beth Landis is a materials chemist who is interested in applying surface chemistry to solar energy collection and storage.... Read more about Elizabeth Landis
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2016-2018 PhD Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley Current Position: Founder and Director, Biko Biolabs
Kelsey Sakimoto is a chemist interested in the sustainable production of fertilizer and beneficial soil microorganisms through solar energy for use in modern agriculture.... Read more about Kelsey Sakimoto
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2016-2017 PhD Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Current Position: Professor of Physical Sciences, UCLA
Prineha Narang is a physicist and material scientist interested in the theoretical fundamentals of nanoscale energy transfer.... Read more about Prineha Narang
NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellow: 2015-2017 PhD Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT Current Position: Research Scientist, Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Sebastian David Eastham is an environmental scientist interested in the transport and impacts of pollutants and trace species over long distances through the atmosphere.... Read more about Sebastian D. Eastham
