Postdocs, Visiting Scholars and Researchers
Postdoctoral Scholars
Rayna Benzeev
Rayna is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow studying tropical forests, socio-environmental systems, forest landscape restoration, and geospatial modeling of land use change. She applies spatial approaches to analyze ... Continue Reading »
- Brazil
- Data analytics
- Forest landscape restoration
- Geospatial modeling
- Interdisciplinary science
- Land use change
- political ecology
- socio-environmental systems
- Tropical forests
Visiting Scholars
Valeriya Azarova
Dr. Valeriya Azarova is an Economist at ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Center for Energy, Climate and Resources since 2020. Before joining ifo Institute, she has been ... Continue Reading »
- distributional impacts of climate change
- ecology / environmental science
- economics
- energy
- Energy System Modeling
- energy transition
- Environmental / Climate Equity
- health impacts of climate change
Martha Hoffmann
In her doctoral studies, Martha is working on the realization of a socially just and accepted energy transition. For this, she plans to add social and ecological aspects to the ... Continue Reading »
Anyuat John Arou
Anyuat John Arou, is a lecturer of Electrical Engineering at the University of Juba in Juba, South Sudan. He is also the CEO of the Renewable Energy Council of South ... Continue Reading »
- climate
- development
- ecology / environmental science
- energy
- energy policy
- Environmental / Climate Equity
- low carbon technologies
- power quality control
- Power system studies
- VRE-based microgrids
- water
Guangyu Qin
Guangyu Qin joins RAEL for a year from North China Electric Power University as a PhD student, where he has already worked on integrated energy system planning and optimization. At ... Continue Reading »
Nadhilah Reyseliani
Nadhilah Reyseliani is a doctoral student in Chemical Engineering Department, Universitas Indonesia. She joins RAEL as a visiting scholar for one year. Her research interests are energy modelling, energy transition, ... Continue Reading »
Researchers
Polly Buotte
Polly Buotte currently works on modeling the effects of climate on vegetation productivity, mortality, and distribution. She has a BS in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State, an MS in Wildlife ... Continue Reading »
- climate
- Climate influences on vegetation distribution and productivity
- ecology
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling
Christopher Jones
MS, PhD
Chris Jones is Director of the CoolClimate Network, a university-government-industry partnership at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lecturer at the Haas School of Business. His primary research interests are ... Continue Reading »
- behavioral psychology
- Carbon footprint analysis
- economics
- energy
- Environmental / Climate Equity
- Environmental Policy
- Environmental Psychology
- RAEL
- transportation
- urban planning
Past Postdocs, Visiting Scholars, and Researchers
Anthony Edwin Nahas
Tony is managing the Oakland EcoBlock project, an urban sustainability experiment that brings together over 100 residents of a local Oakland neighborhood block and an inter-disciplinary team of urban designers, ... Continue Reading »
Susana Arrechea
Fulbright Visiting Scholar
Dr. Susana Arrechea holds a PhD and masters degree in Nano-science and Nanotechnology from the University of Castilla—La Mancha (UCLM), Toledo, Spain, and a bachelors in chemical engineering from the ... Continue Reading »
Hélène Benveniste
Hélène is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She is visiting Professor Anthoff’s ... Continue Reading »
Samuel Carrara
MS, PhD
Samuel Carrara holds a Bachelor Degree and a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Major: Energy and Mechanical Plants) and a PhD in Energy and Environmental Technologies, all from the University ... Continue Reading »
Christoph Clar
Fulbright Visiting Scholar
Christoph Clar is a political scientist whose work combines approaches from political and environmental science, social geography and natural resource governance. After his graduation from the University of Vienna (Doctoral ... Continue Reading »
Alasdair Cohen
Alasdair Cohen is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Environmental Health Scientist with over 10 years of water and development related work and research experience. He completed his PhD in Environmental Science, ... Continue Reading »
Francesco Pietro Colelli
PhD candidate in climate change economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, focusing on the costs and benefits of adaptation in the energy sector. Research Group(s) Society, Environment and Economics ... Continue Reading »
- Agriculture
- climate
- development
- ecology / environmental science
- economics
- energy
- Environmental / Climate Equity
- sanitation
- transportation
- water
Deborah Sunter
Deborah Sunter received a B.S in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. There she developed a nanosatellite mission that was successfully launched into orbit. Although fascinated by aerospace applications, ... Continue Reading »
Alessandra Drigo
PhD Student in Science and Management of Climate Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Visiting Research Scholar at UC Berkeley, Energy and Resource Group. She is currently working on ... Continue Reading »
Cauvery Ganapathy
Fulbright Visiting Scholar
Cauvery is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar working on her doctoral dissertation on "The politics of energy security: India's foreign and domestic policy imperatives." Currently, Cauvery is a Research Fellow at Global India Foundation and a Doctoral student at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
Wolfgang Habla
Wolfgang works at the intersection of political economy and environmental economics. His current research focuses on how national politics form international policies; on the political economy of environmental tax reforms, and on the strategic interaction of governments facing mobile factors of production such as capital and energy.
Rebecca R. Hernandez
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow
Rebecca's work examines processes where human and natural systems interact and those that elucidate the functioning of the Earth system. Her research quantifies and informs a broad range of topics from global environmental change to renewable energy systems.
- Agriculture
- aridland ecosystems
- climate
- Climate & Carbon Sciences Program
- data-intensive science
- ecology
- energy
- global ecology
- Harte Lab
Josiah Johnston
MS, PhD
Josiah Johnston grew up in a rural part of the Ozark Mountains. He is great at construction and swinging a pick. Between college and grad school he lived in Baltimore ... Continue Reading »
- Design and invention
- Planning electric power systems
- Scientific computing
- Sustainable Community Development
Bala Kameshwar Poolla
BS, MS, PhD
Bala Kameshwar Poolla received his B.Tech. (H) degree in Electrical Engineering, M.Tech. degree in Control System Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India in 2013 and the Ph. D. degree in Electrical ... Continue Reading »
Stavros Karagiannopoulos
Stavros is a PhD student in the power systems laboratory of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received his diploma in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and his ... Continue Reading »
Kevin R. Kaushal
Kevin is currently a PhD student, who works with environmental and energy economic modeling. His current research focuses on; optimal unilateral climate polices in the presence of carbon leakage, and ... Continue Reading »
Antoine Lesage-Landry
B.Eng, PhD
Antoine Lesage-Landry is a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Energy & Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he received the B.Eng. degree in Engineering ... Continue Reading »
Mingxi Liu
Mingxi Liu is currently an NSERC Postdoc Fellow working at the Energy Modeling, Analysis & Control Group (EMAC) in Energy & Resources Group (ERG) with Dr. Duncan Callaway. He is ... Continue Reading »
David 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 ... Continue Reading »
Shuba Raghavan
Shuba Raghavan is interested in the assessment of renewable energy technologies and policies to promote a low carbon economy. Her current research involves evaluating life cycle costs and emissions of ... Continue Reading »
James Rising
Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow
James received his PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. He previously taught assorted seminars at MIT's Experimental Study Group and electrical engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Until recently, he worked as a software developer, working with over a dozen companies on signal processing, social networks, and artificial intelligence. He hopes to use new technologies to help communities act on modeling insights to mitigate climate change, promote social justice, and pursue ecocentric world changing.
Rebekah Shirley
MS, PhD
Rebekah Shirley believes that there is more than one path to a bright, energy secure future. Developing nations strive to connect more and more of their communities to energy. Many have emulated the fossil fuel intensive model of developed nations, but Rebekah believes that this is not necessarily the only way.
Kaito Umemura
Kaito's research focuses on the dynamics of stochastic variables and probability distribution functions, which describe the behavior of macroscopic environments, such as ecological systems, climate systems and human social systems.