PEOPLE
Current researchers, postdocs, and students — and the alumni now leading their own labs and groups.
CURRENT
CURRENT
Director, Professor of Earth System Science
Studies the unavoidable environmental tradeoffs of energy and food systems.
RECENT WORK
The importance of multiregional accounting for corporate carbon emissions
Nature Communications · 2025
IN THE NEWS
Stanford University · Stanford Sustainability Forum: Realities of B2C in Sustainability
CURRENT
PhD Student
Working on carbon mangement and food waste
NOTABLE WORK
Land · 2022 · 58 citations
CURRENT
PhD Student
NOTABLE WORK
Marine Policy · 2021 · 19 citations
CURRENT
Research Engineer, Technical Director of the Cornerstone Sustainability Data Initiative
NOTABLE WORK
USEEIO: A new and transparent United States environmentally-extended input-output model
Journal of Cleaner Production · 2017 · 156 citations
IN THE NEWS
New York Times · Popular E.P.A. Database Is in Limbo Amid Science Cuts
CURRENT
Postdoctoral Scholar
NOTABLE WORK
Impact of truck electrification on air pollution disparities in the United States
Nature Sustainability · 2025 · 28 citations
RECENT WORK
Human health effects of amine-based carbon capture and storage in the US electricity sector
Nature Sustainability · 2026
CURRENT
Postdoctoral Scholar
NOTABLE WORK
Energy systems in scenarios at net-zero CO₂ emissions
Nature Communications · 2021 · 284 citations
RECENT WORK
Economic and biophysical limits to seaweed farming for climate change mitigation
Nature Plants · 2022 · 108 citations
CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Visiting Scholar, Director of Conceptual Investigations Unit
RECENT WORK
Communications Earth & Environment · 2025 · 5 citations
CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Postdoctoral Scholar
NOTABLE WORK
Renewable Energy · 2020 · 89 citations
RECENT WORK
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells · 2024 · 11 citations
CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Senior Collaborator
NOTABLE WORK
Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 781 citations
RECENT WORK
Earth's Future · 2025
CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Senior Collaborator
NOTABLE WORK
Climate policy under uncertainty: a case for solar geoengineering
Climatic Change · 2013 · 75 citations
RECENT WORK
Microeconomics of the Solar Rebound Under Net Metering
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists · 2025 · 3 citations
CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Senior Collaborator
NOTABLE WORK
ACS Nano · 2013 · 373 citations
CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Senior Collaborator
NOTABLE WORK
The Khazzoom-Brookes Postulate and Neoclassical Growth
The Energy Journal · 1992 · 482 citations
RECENT WORK
Rebound effects could offset more than half of avoided food loss and waste
Nature Food · 2023 · 40 citations
CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Senior Collaborator
NOTABLE WORK
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics · 2011 · 194 citations
RECENT WORK
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics · 2025 · 1 citations
CONCEPTUAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Collaborator
NOTABLE WORK
The cost of day-ahead solar forecasting errors in the United States
Solar Energy · 2022 · 56 citations
RECENT WORK
Nature Communications · 2026 · 1 citations
ALUMNI
Pablo Busch
Postdoctoral Scholar
Yuxin Chen
Visiting PhD Student
Now: Tsinghua U., PhD Student
Koen van Greevenbroek
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dan Tong
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: Tsinghua University, Faculty
Candelaria Bergero
PhD Student
Now: U. Wisconsin, Postdoctoral Scholar
Chaopeng Hong
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: Tsinghua U., Faculty
Christine Shearer
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: Global Energy Monitor
Dongsheng Zheng
Visiting PhD Student
Now: Tsinghua U., PhD Student
Jing Cheng
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: Peking U., Faculty
Robert Navarro-Fofrich
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: Dartmouth College, Postdoctoral Scholar
Yue Qin
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: Peking U., Faculty
Alicia Wongel
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: Deloitte
Jacqueline Dowling
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: U. Iowa, Faculty
Lyssa Freese
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: UC Irvine, Faculty
Shi Chen
Postdoctoral Scholar
Now: HKUST, Faculty