Fellows and Visiting Scholars Working in Areas Related to Energy Policy Throughout Harvard University, 2011-2012
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Ahmed Abdel-Latif
Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Ahmed Abdel-Latif is both a fellow and Senior Programme Manager for Innovation, Technology and Intellectual Property at the Geneva-based International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. His research looks at how Brazil has fostered innovation processes for the production of public goods in the areas of health, energy, and agriculture to achieve greater social welfare and sustainability. Ahmed is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development led by William Clark.
As an Egyptian career diplomat, he worked at the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization in Geneva (2000-2004) where he was a delegate to the TRIPS Council (trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights ) and to the World Intellectual Property Organization. He has taken an active part in international discussions on intellectual property, public policy, and development. He holds a Master of Laws in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the American University in Cairo, and the Diplôme of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris from Sciences Po in Paris. His faculty host is William Clark.
Kathleen Araújo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Kathleen Araújo completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and focuses on national decision-making and innovations associated with the sustainable optimization of energy. She has consulted on aspects of energy technology diffusion, policy, and institutional change for inter-governmental organizations and has contributed to energy-based initiatives with the MIT Energy Initiative's Energy Education Task Force as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Jonathan Baker
Ph.D. Student in Public Policy, HKS
Jonathan Baker is interested in investigating economic institutions for sustainable water use in developing countries and the interrelationships between economic institutions, social institutions, technical systems, the hydrologic system, and climate change. Jonathan’s academic background includes an undergraduate degree in physics and a Masters in mechanical engineering, in which he studied fluid power. He is currently finishing a second Masters in technology policy, in which he has focused on water resources within the context of large scale (CGE) economic models.
Nathan Black
Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Nathan Black is a political scientist interested in the future relationship between climate change and violent civil conflict.
As an Environmental Fellow, Nathan will work with Robert Bates of the Department of Government on the security consequences of climate change in Latin America. Nathan will try to identify best practices for Latin American state governments facing arable land supply shocks of the kind expected as a result of climate change, specifically which responses to these shocks have led to peace in the past, and which have led to violent conflict.
Hanna Breetz
Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Hanna Breetz is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her dissertation explores the interest group politics surrounding alternative fuels in the United States, particularly in the cases of ethanol and coal-to-liquid fuels. She holds a BA in Government with a minor in environmental science from Dartmouth College.
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Gabriel Chan
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Research Assistant, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Gabe Chan’s research focuses on innovation economics and policy in the energy sector using quantitative social science methodology. His interests lie in the interaction of government policy with radical technical change as well as in developing and applying cutting-edge statistical methodology to the classic empirical questions in innovation economics, such as the estimation of cross-industry technological spillovers. Gabe also works as a Research Assistant on the Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Project at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Gabe graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received Bachelor of Science degrees in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science and Political Science (2009). In 2007 and 2009, Gabe worked at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Climate Change Technology Program, an interagency group tasked with prioritizing the federal government’s investments and policies for mitigating climate change through accelerated technology innovation and deployment. Gabe is a recipient of the Vicki-Norberg Bohm Fellowship (2010), a Pre-Doctoral Fellow in the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and a member of the Harvard Graduate Consortium on Energy and the Environment. His faculty hosts at Harvard are William Clark and Venkatesh Narayanamurti.
Rohit Chandra
Ph.D. Student in Public Policy, HKS
Rohit Chandra’s research focuses on the history, evolution and dynamics of energy markets in South Asia, particularly in India. He has looked primarily at coal, electricity and natural gas markets, and their supply chains, governance, and distortions. He is also more generally interested in natural resource economics in developing countries and the economic effects of resource extraction on local communities. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 with a BSc in Electrical Engineering and has worked in New Delhi for two years at the Centre for Policy Research.
Cuicui Chen
Ph.D. Student in Public Policy, HKS
Cuicui Chen is interested in industrial organization and political economy questions in areas of the environment and energy. Her previous research includes evaluation of the general equilibrium effects of biofuel mandates in U.S. and EU, analysis of the role of the automotive industry in increasing the use of alternative fuels in place of traditional ones, in the context of indirect network effects between fuels and vehicles, and exploration of new quantile estimators given measurement errors in the left-handside variable. She graduated from Tsinghua University in 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, and from Massachusetts Institute Technology in 2012 with a Master of Science degree in Technology and Policy.
Xinyu Chen
Visiting Fellow, Harvard China Project
Xinyu Chen is both a visiting fellow, Harvard China Project, and a Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, where he also received his B.S. His research interests are in power system control and optimization. At the China Project he is researching grid integration of wind power in China, including use of electricity load management, and power dispatch strategies using pumped storage.
Hyundo Choi
Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Hyundo Choi was a postdoctoral researcher for Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program (TEMEP) at Seoul National University and a part-time senior researcher for Intergen Consulting Group specializing in public policy development and implementation strategy consulting in Korea since he earned his doctoral degree from Seoul National University. His research is concerned with innovation studies, focusing on the emergence of new industrial sectors and social networks in emerging sectors, particularly alternative energy. He has a strong interest in the emerging process of new sectors and its variations across countries and industrial sectors.
Steve Cicala
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Steve Cicala is a Ph.D. Student in Economics. Steve’s research focuses on the economics of environmental regulation. His current work studies the role that clean firms play in extending more stringent emissions standards to incumbent firms that have historically been exempt from some of the most burdensome environmental regulations. Steve received his A.B. in Economics with Honors--and Political Science-- from The University of Chicago in 2004, followed by two years as a research associate at the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. Before taking up economics, Steve worked as a Protocol Consultant for the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Thom Covert
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Thom Covert’s research interests are environmental economics, energy markets, and technical innovation in energy and health. He is a Ph.D. student in Business Economics.
Previously, he worked for three years as an economics consultant, with a focus on litigation in energy markets.
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Yu Deng
Visiting Fellow, Harvard China Project
Fellow, Environmental Science and Engineering
Yu Deng is a visiting fellow, Harvard China Project, and Ph.D. student, Institute of Geographical Sciences & Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received B.S. from the Department of Resource and Environmental Science of Wuhan University. His research interests include monitoring changes in rural-urban migration in China, changes in land use efficiency in Beijing, and urban spheres of influence in human geography. At the China Project he is working on a study to project population growth at county level in China, for use in estimating health damages of air pollution under future economic and energy scenarios.
Ding Ding
Rajwali Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, HKS
Ding Ding is an associate professor of the Energy Research Institute, and has served at the Academy of Macroeconomic Research of National Development Reform Commission since 2000. She has been involved in many national projects including the National Science and Technology Special Project for the 11th Fifth-Year Plan, the National Energy Development Strategy, and China’s National Climate Change Program. She also has experience in developing GHG inventory for energy activities, policy implementation for the climate change and low carbon economy initiatives, China’s energy conservation technology policies, China’s national plan for coping with climate change project, China’s sustainable energy industry policies in the early 21st century, and China’s provincial plan in addressing climate change. She is coordinator of the Sino-US Clean Energy Forum working group and also the negotiator of the Chinese Government Delegation on Climate Change. She received a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Oslo and Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science of CAS, where she was a QUOTA Foundation Fellow of Norway and the recipient of a CAS Fellowship of China. During her fellowship, she will concentrate on an international regime and mechanism comparison on climate change.
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Nathan Fleming
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Nathan Fleming is a Ph.D. Student in Public Policy. Nathan is interested in natural resource economics and security studies: Specifically, he is interested in understanding how access to natural resources affects national security and potentially drives conflict. He also has a related interest in manufacturing firm strategies for securing critical materials. He is currently a doctoral student in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He began his career as a mechanical engineer; he designed aircraft engines at General Electric for 5 years before returning to school to earn SM degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Technology & Policy at MIT.
Erin Frey
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Erin Frey is a doctoral candidate in the Public Policy Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Erin’s research interests lie at the intersection of environmental policy, political psychology, and behavioral economics. She is particularly interested in using field and laboratory experiments to understand the socio-psychological factors that influence individual and group environmental behaviors, particularly in the developing world. She studies decision processes in simulated and natural participatory environmental management settings so as to understand the role that various cognitive subsystems play in sustainable decision-making. She graduated from Harvard College in 2008 with a B.A. in Environmental Science and Public Policy and a secondary degree in Economics. She has worked as an environmental consultant in Cambridge and as a research assistant at the Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Huiqing Gao
Visiting Scholar, Harvard China Project
Huiqing Gao is a visiting scholar, Harvard China Project, and Director and Senior Economist, Development Strategy Division, State Information Center, National Development and Reform Commission, China. Professor Gao received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include development of the macro energy economy in China and low carbon economic paths. He is a prolific commentator on Chinese economic affairs, having contributed around 500 articles of analysis to such publications as Economic Daily, China Security Journal, China Daily, China Comment, News China, and many others. At the Harvard China Project, Dr. Gao is working with Dr. Min Yan on a study of efficient and equitable frameworks for regional allocation of China’s national energy intensity and carbon intensity targets.
Todd Gerarden
Ph.D. Student in Public Policy, HKS
Todd's interests lie in environmental economics, energy economics, and technology adoption. His previous research includes study of federal regulation of the offshore oil industry, energy efficiency finance and capitalization of green home certifications in sale prices, and employment impacts of investment in alternative energy technologies. Todd graduated from the University of Virginia in 2010 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and was selected as a Truman Scholar. Before beginning doctoral studies, he worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Resources for the Future.
Patricia Guardabassi
Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program and the Energy Technology Innovation Policy project, a joint project of the Science Technology and Public Policy program and the Environment and Natural Resources program
Patricia’s research investigates how the production of ethanol could be sustainably introduced in African countries drawing on the successful Brazilian experience in introducing sugarcane ethanol in its energy matrix. Over the past decade she has been associated with the Brazilian Reference Center on Biomass, developing studies related to biomass-based energy production. Patricia is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Biofuels and Globalization led by Henry Lee. She is a chemical engineer (2001) and holds a PhD in Science (2011) and Master’s degree in Energy (2006) both from the University of São Paulo. Her dissertation analyzes the main barriers to the development of bioethanol industry in developing countries, especially those located in Latin America and Africa. She has published papers and chapters on the sustainability of biofuels production in Brazil. Her faculty host is Henry Lee.
Yue Guo
Pre-doctoral Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group at the Belfer Center
Besides being a pre-doctoral research fellow, Yue Guo is a research fellow in the Center for Science, Technology & Education Policy at Tsinghua University and a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Policy and Management at the Tsinghua University. His chief research interests are science and technology policy, energy policy, and policy process. Yue’s dissertation explores the mechanism of innovation policy experimentation and diffusion in high tech zones in China. Beside of dissertation, Yue has interest in social acceptance of renewable energy innovation in China.
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Ben Heineman
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Mr. Heineman is a graduate of Harvard College (1965), Oxford University (1967 -- graduate degree/political science) and Yale Law School (1971). A former Rhodes Scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, he practiced law in Washington before serving at HEW from 1977-1980, ending his tenure there as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Mr. Heineman was then managing partner of the Washington office of Sidley & Austin, focusing on Supreme Court and test case litigation. He is the author of books on British race relations and the American presidency. In 1987, Mr. Heineman became Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the General Electric Company located in Fairfield, Connecticut. In 2004, he was named GE's Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs. Mr. Heineman is a member of the American Law Institute; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; a member of the Board of Transparency International-USA; a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center; and a member of the Board of Managers and Overseers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In May 2011, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
While at the Belfer Center, he is researching and writing on a wide variety of public and private sector issues, including the global anti-corruption movement, corporate citizenship and social responsibility, the changing role of the corporate general counsel and the inside legal department, the corporate response to terrorism, corporate governance, and corporations and public policy.
Olli Heinonen
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Before joining the Belfer Center as a senior fellow in August 2010, Olli Heinonen spent 27 years at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Heinonen spent the last five years as Deputy Director General of the IAEA, and head of its Department of Safeguards. He led the Agency's efforts to identify and dismantle nuclear proliferation networks, including the one led by Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan, and he oversaw its efforts to monitor and contain Iran's nuclear program. Heinonen led teams of international investigators to examine nuclear programs of concern around the world. He inspected nuclear facilities in South Africa, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Libya, and elsewhere, seeking to ensure that nuclear materials were not diverted for military purposes. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on Iran's nuclear program. He led the Agency's efforts in recent years to implement an analytical culture to guide and complement traditional verification activities.
A native of Finland, Heinonen studied radiochemistry and completed his Ph.D dissertation in nuclear material analysis at the University of Helsinki. Before joining the IAEA in 1983, he was a Senior Research Officer at the Technical Research Centre of Finland Reactor Laboratory, in charge of research and development related to nuclear waste solidification and disposal. He is co-author of several patents on radioactive waste solidification. At the IAEA, from 1999 to 2002, he was Director of Operations A and from 2002-2005, he was the Director of Operations B in the Department of Safeguards.
Mun Ho
Associate, Harvard China Project
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Mun Ho is the lead economist in the Harvard China Project’s integrated framework for assessing total health and economic impacts of emission control options in China.
Ho has a PhD in economics from Harvard University and is a senior researcher at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences and at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C. He and Dale Jorgenson have led The China Project’s economic research for 14 years, working with numerous collaborators to develop, refine, and update a 34-sector general equilibrium model of the Chinese economy with emphasis on energy use and emissions.
Joern Hoppmann
Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Joern Hoppman is a research fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). His research centers on technological innovation and organizational change in the energy sector. Currently, he is investigating the dynamics and effects of deployment policies in the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Joern studied Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration at the Braunschweig University of Technology (Germany), the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Furthermore, Joern gained practical experience as a research associate at IMD Business School (Lausanne, Switzerland) and during several internships, e.g. with The Boston Consulting Group.
Yuji Hosokawa
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Yuji Hosokawa is also the Chief Manger at Saitama Transmission Maintenance Branch Office, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. His research interests lie in the natural gas revolution and energy security in the United States and Japan.
Sabrina Howell
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Sabrina Howell is a PhD student in Political Economy and Government. She is interested in energy policy and economics; particularly the deployment of disruptive energy technologies in China and the U.S. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She holds a B.A. in Economics and East Asian Studies from Yale University. Since graduating in 2008, she has taught sustainable development and energy economics in China and worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) in Washington, D.C.
Junling Huang
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard China Project
Junling Huang is a Ph.D. student, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his undergraduate degree in atmospheric science from the School of Physics, Peking University. His research interests include: wind and solar energy resource assessment; the effects of interconnection of geographically distant wind power bases on the variability of electricity supply; and analysis of contemporary and historical budget of atmospheric CO2.
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Christina Ingersoll
Fellow, Sustainability Science Program.
Christina Ingersoll is also research coordinator for the Sustainability Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and a research analyst at the University of California at Davis’ Agricultural Sustainability Institute where she is leading a corporate sustainability engagement analysis as part of a large scale project on sustainable agricultural raw material sourcing in partnership with the Mars Corporation. Her research focuses on sustainable agriculture, with special attention to climate-agriculture interactions. She is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development led by William Clark. She has worked with Jerry Nelson at the International Food Policy Research Institute in the Environment and Production Technology Group where she contributed as a co-author on the publication Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options, and with Robert Paarlberg on an impact evaluation project, also for IFPRI. She has also been a quantitative specialist and co-developer of a life-cycle assessment tool for farm-level GHG emissions quantification with the Sustainable Food Lab’s Cool Farming Options Program.
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Steffen Jenner
Fellow, Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Steffen is a Ph.D. fellow in the Department of Economics. His research projects assess the efficacy of feed-in tariffs and renewable portfolio standards for solar PV and onshore wind deployment. Steffen holds a Master's degree in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology from Tuebingen University, Germany. He has worked for the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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Arani Kajenthira
Postdoctoral Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Her research interests include: the impact of public policy in facilitating effective technology translation to developing nations; the intersection between environmental science, technology, and public policy; and the role of public policy in the management and distribution of water resources, particularly in light of climate change. A biological engineer, Arani focused on the use of nanotechnology in the remediation of inorganic mercury during her doctoral studies as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford (UK). Prior to her fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, Arani worked as a Social Change Fellow with Engineers Without Borders (Canada), designing a framework and the requisite resources to integrate greater social consciousness into the engineering curriculum.
Shusaku Kichise
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Shusaku is also the Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Division of the Electricity and Gas Industry Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Trade, Economy and Industry. His research interests lie in Japan’s energy security after the Fukushima disaster.
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Jessica LaRocca
Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Jessica LaRocca is an environmental toxicologist interested in how exposures to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy can influence development before and after birth.
As an Environmental Fellow, Jessica will be working with Karin Michels of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health to examine the relationship between epigenetic alterations in the placenta and exposure to toxicants during pregnancy. Her work will compare epigenetic alterations to genes related to steroidogenesis in the placenta to phenol and phthalate urine levels during pregnancy.
Eunjee Lee
Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program and based at Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Eunjee Lee is exploring the sustainability of the hydrologic cycle in the Amazon and surrounding regions with the ongoing expansion of agriculture and changes in climate and increasing carbon dioxide. Eunjee is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Sustainable Development in Amazonia: Land Use and the Hydrologic Cycle led by Professor Paul Moorcroft. Prior to joining Harvard, Eunjee received her Sc.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011 and worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the MIT Center for Global Change Science. Her dissertation investigated the role of meteorology-driven seed dispersal in the plant migration process and the impacts of anticipated climate change on natural biogeography and ecosystems. Eunjee is a recipient of the Martin Fellowship for Sustainability (2008) and the MIT Presidential Fellowship (2005). She also holds a master’s degree in Chemistry from Ohio State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University. Her faculty host is Paul Moorcroft.
Angela Livino
Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program and based at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Fulbright Fellow
Angela Livno is doctoral student in water resources at the Civil Engineering Program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her work assesses the impact of changed Amazon water balances for precipitation and hydrology on the operation of hydropower stations and explores how the design and operation of hydropower plants might be modified to adapt to changed hydrological patterns. Angela is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Sustainable Development in Amazonia: Land Use and the Hydrologic Cycle led by Professor Paul Moorcroft. She was a senior advisor on energy supply at Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica, Brazil’s agency for power planning (2005- 2012). Prior to that she was a senior engineer at Operador Nacional do Sisetma Electicos (1998-2001). She received a Masters of Engineering in water resources (2001) and a Bachelor of Sciences in Civil Engineering (1999) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her masters work developed a stochastic model to forecast daily stream flow in to be used in operating programming of hydropower plants in Brazil. Her faculty host is John Briscoe.
Chiara Lo Prete
Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Chiara Lo Prete is an energy economist who studies the functioning and regulation of electricity and environmental markets. Chiara is interested in the application of econometric models to the study of issues that are relevant in wholesale electricity markets, including price dynamics and firms’ strategic interaction.
As an Environmental Fellow, Chiara will work with William Hogan of the Harvard Kennedy School on the development of energy and ancillary service market models for the integration of distributed generation in liberalized electricity markets.
Nathaniel Logar
Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Dr. Nathaniel Logar studies institutional policies for useable science, policies for integrating user needs into decision processes, and partnerships between federal actors and private entities. His work focuses on policies for usable innovation at both public and private organizations, including the Department of Energy’s national laboratory system and collaborative groups like the Semiconductor Research Corporation and Berkeley’s Energy Biosciences Institute. He conducted his Ph.D. work on mission science at the University of Colorado's Center for Science & Technology Policy Research.
Xi Lu
Research Associate, Harvard China Project
Xi Lu is a post-doctoral associate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard, working in the energy research group of Prof. Michael McElroy and Harvard China Project led by McElroy and Chris Nielsen. His major research involves meteorology-related renewable energy sources including wind and solar power. In his PhD study at Harvard, he has published papers in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), and Energy Policy in topics of technological and economic potentials for wind energy, variation issues of wind-generated electricity, and options to mitigate its impacts on the transmission system. Lu is also exploring general challenges and opportunities in low-carbon energy systems, especially in the electric power sector, in China and the US. He received one of the first fellowships of the Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment at Harvard, and won the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Studying Abroad in 2011.
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Jonathan Markowitz
Doctoral candidate in political science and the University of California, San Diego.
His dissertation research focuses on why leaders choose to project military power and examines the competition for resources in the Arctic and South China Sea. Jonathan was previously a visiting researcher at the Peace Research Institute at Oslo, and a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow at the Global Change, Marine Eco-Systems and Society project at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Meagan Mauter
Visiting Scholar, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Meagan Mauter's research interests lie at the intersection of energy and water. After finishing undergraduate degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering and History at Rice University, Mauter completed a Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering in the laboratories of Menachem Elimelech and Chinedum Osuji at Yale University. During her doctoral studies, Mauter performed research on next-generation membranes to reduce the energy consumption of water desalination processes. Now serving as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School, she is working to define structural barriers to the implementation of energy-saving water technologies.
Scott Moore
Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program/Energy Technology Innovation Policy project, a joint project of the Science Technology and Public Policy Program and the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Scott Moore is a doctoral candidate in Politics at Oxford University. He is a political and environmental scientist and is interested in the political and public policy dimensions of environmental change, particularly energy and climate, water resource, and marine issues. His dissertation is a comparative study of territorial politics and river basin management in the United States, India, China, and France. Scott is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Sustainable Energy Development in China led by Professor Henry Lee. He comes to the Kennedy School from the Brookings Institution, where he researched energy and water policy implementation in China at the Brookings Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing. Scott was an intern with the US Department of Energy China Office, a Global Governance 2020 Fellow, and a youth delegate at several UN climate conferences. He is a recipient of a Truman Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, and Rhodes scholarship. Hereceived a Masters of Science in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University (2008) and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (2008). Scott intends to pursue a career in both academia and public policy. His faculty host is Henry Lee.
Sharmila Murthy
Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Sharmila Murthy’s research focuses on the intersection of human rights, poverty, and the environment. Sharmila’s work explores the theoretical relationship between human rights doctrine and sustainable development theory. Sharmila is contributing to collaborative work with Initiative on Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development led by William Clark. She practiced law with a focus on economic, social and cultural rights, first as a Skadden Fellow with the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, and then as an associate at Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein, LLP. She clerked for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2003-2004). She also worked for an environmental consulting firm and in India in public health and in microfinance. She was a Fulbright Scholar in India (1998). Sharmila received her JD from Harvard Law School (2003), her Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School (2003), and Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources from Cornell University (1997). She is a recipient of the New Advocate of the Year award by the Tennessee Alliance of Legal Services (2006), and has served in leadership roles with numerous civic and nonprofit organizations. She was a Fellow in the Impact Center's Women's Leadership Program (2011) and is currently a member of the Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy Network, which is a joint project of the Atlantic Council and the Ecologic Institute. Her faculty hosts are William Clark and Mathias Risse.
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Janhavi Nilekani
Ph.D. Student in Public Policy, HKS
Janhavi is interested in sustainable development and energy policies in developing countries, particularly India. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics and in International Studies. Her previous research has focused on the impact of political affirmative action for caste and gender in Indian local governments, and on the impact of India's job guarantee scheme (NREGA) on women workers.
Matthew Nisbet
Fellow, Shorenstein Center
Matthew Nisbet is an associate professor of communication and director of the Climate Shift Project at American University. He has written over 50 studies, book chapters and monographs examining the communication dynamics of policymaking and public affairs, focusing on science, the environment and public health. Nisbet has been named a Health Policy Investigator at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is an inaugural member of the Google Science Communication Fellows program. He writes and edits the Age of Engagement blog at Big Think. Nisbet holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Communication from Cornell University. He has an undergraduate degree in government from Dartmouth College. Nisbet’s research project at the Shorenstein Center will focus on “Knowledge Journalism: Storytelling in a Risk Society.”
Pascal Noel
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Pascal Noel is a PhD student in Economics. His research interests include optimal energy taxation, the design and impact of energy investment incentives, and pricing in transportation markets. Pascal received a B.A. in Economics and in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale in 2006 and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2007. He worked for two years as a research assistant on The Hamilton Project at Brookings, where his research focused on climate change, energy security, and per-mile pricing of auto insurance. From 2009 to 2011 he was a senior policy advisor on the National Economic Council at the White House.
David Nusbaum
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
David Nusbaum has seventeen years of professional experience as a chemical engineer in Israel's nuclear industry. Throughout his career, he has tried to combine his technical background and broad knowledge in chemical and nuclear engineering with more practical, policy-oriented work such as the development of methods for enhancing safeguards in different kinds of nuclear facilities.
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Jisung Park
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Jisung's research interests center around the economics of climate change, in particular issues of policy design and valuation of climate damages. He is also interested in payments for ecosystem services, particularly with respect to biodiversity conservation. Jisung graduated from Columbia University in 2009 with a BA in economics and political science, and received a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue graduate study at the University of Oxford. He holds Master's degrees in Environmental Change and Management ('10) and Development Economics (candidate, '11) from Oxford.
Andrew Parker
Fellow, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center, HKS
As a senior policy adviser in the Science Policy Centre, Andy Parker led the Royal Society’s work on geoengineering for four years, including the production of the 2009 report Geoengineering the climate, and the ongoing SRM Governance Initiative (SRMGI). He is a member of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s expert working group on geoengineering. He has also worked on climate change and energy policy for the Royal Society, and previously researched and wrote on human security for the Canadian government.
Laura Pereira
Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program
Gundle South African Public Service Fellow
She uses complex adaptive systems theory to identify areas of adaptive capacity in the food system to climate change and other drivers of global environmental change. Her work has a developing country focus and she has conducted research in South Africa, Mozambique and Brazil. Laura is collaborating with the Initiative on Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development where her host is Prof William Clark. Her project seeks to explore incentives for innovation within the food system in order to achieve food security goals under the added pressure of climate change and her research will be based in Brazil and South Africa. She has a BSc (Hons) with distinction in Ecology and Environmental Science from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa (2007) and received an Master of Science in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford (2008) with the support of an overseas postgraduate merit award from the University of the Witwatersrand. For her Ph.D. studies at the University of Oxford, she was the recipient of an Oppenheimer Memorial Grant, a Clarendon Scholarship and a Commonwealth Scholarship. Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled ‘Private sector adaptive capacity to climate change impacts in the food system: Food security implications for southern Africa and Latin America’ and she is expecting to have her viva in June 2012. Her faculty hosts are William Clark and Calestous Juma.
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Eduardo A. Souza Rodrigues
Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Eduardo Souza Rodrigues is an economist interested in the causes of the deforestation in the Amazon and in the costs and effectiveness of policies that promote conservation.
As an Environmental Fellow, Eduardo will work with Professor Ariel Pakes in the Department of Economics. He will develop and estimate a dynamic model of land use decision for the Brazilian Amazon. The model will serve two purposes: First, it will be used to estimate the elasticity of deforestation (and of emissions of carbon) with respect to commodity prices. Second, it will be used to evaluate the dynamic implications of environmental policies.
Douglas Rogers
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow, the Radcliffe Institute
Douglas Rogers, an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, is a cultural anthropologist specializing in Russia. His research uses the massive changes of the post-Soviet period as a basis for contributions to theoretical conversations in the humanities and social sciences. He has written on topics as varied as religion, ethics, and political and economic transformations.
During his fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute, Rogers will work on “Oil Culture: Producing the New Russia,” a book that charts interactions among oil companies, state agencies, and cultural production in the Perm region of the Russian Urals over the past two decades. On the basis of interviews, archival research, and participant observation, he argues that Russia is a postsocialist petrostate, different in crucial respects from the largely postcolonial petrostates that populate existing scholarship. These differences, Rogers believes, will illuminate important dynamics in contemporary Russia and suggest some modifications in the ways scholars understand the nexus of culture, power, and oil in the modern world.
Rogers received his BA from Middlebury College and his PhD from the University of Michigan. His first book, The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals (Cornell University Press, 2009), received honorable mentions for the Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion and the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies. He has received research grants from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and other organizations.
Olga Rostapshova
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Olga Rostapshova is a Ph.D. Student in Public Policy. Olga's research interests include climate change,
environmental policy in transition economies and firm decision-making under uncertainty. She had previously completed research projects modeling: non-point source pollution; fishery management strategies; energy portfolio optimization; and the effects of uncertainty and irreversibility on the design and timing of environmental policy. Before coming to Harvard she worked as a senior consultant for the Quantitative Economics and Statistics group at Ernst & Young LLP, where she focused on econometric modeling, economic impact and taxation analysis, biotechnology industry strategy, and risk mitigation and consumer regulation compliance for large financial services firms. Olga completed her undergraduate work at Swarthmore College and holds a B.S. in Engineering and B.A. in Economics, with Environmental Studies and Public Policy concentrations. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Morris K. Udall scholarship for the environment, U.S. Army Excellence in Science and Engineering award, National Institutes of Health biomedical fellowship, Sam Hayes III grant for business economics, and the Scheur grant for the environment. In addition, she has served as the U.S. representative to the United Nations Environmental Youth Conference and is a Sigma Xi Research Honor Society associate member.
Cristine Russell
Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Cristine Russell, a Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program, is an award-winning freelance journalist who has written about science, health and the environment for more than three decades. She was a former national science reporter for The Washington Post and The Washington Star and is the current President of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, a group of distinguished journalists and scientists dedicated to improving science news coverage for the general public. Ms. Russell is also a past president of the National Association of Science Writers and a contributor to A Field Guide for Science Writers (2006). She serves on the boards of the USC Annenberg School for Communication, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Commonwealth Fund and Mills College. She is an honorary member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, and has a biology degree from Mills College. She was a Spring 2006 Fellow at the KSG Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Her research focuses on the future of science writing and how to improve news media coverage of controversial scientific issues, from climate change to avian flu. She is organizing workshops for reporters and scientists and planning a book on current controversies in science, health and the environment.
Maive Rute
Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Maive Rute is also the Director for Biotechnology, Food, and Agriculture Research and Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels. Her interests lie in public sector support of enabling technologies such as biotechnology and information and communications technology, and the potential of biotechnology for green growth and tackling climate change.
Nicholas Ryan
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program
Prize Fellow, Economics, History and Politics
Nicholas Ryan’s research interests are in environmental regulation and energy markets in developing countries. He has field experiments underway in India on how regulators the private sector can best abate pollution at low social cost, and a structural study of the determinants of pricing behavior in India's nascent wholesale electricity markets. Nick is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships to Promote Sustainable Development in India led by Professor Rohini Pande. He received his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012) and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelors degree in Economics. He worked as a Research Associate in the Capital Markets group at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. His graduate work has been supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, the Martin Fellowship for Sustainability at MIT, and an Early-Stage Researcher Fellowship from Actors, Markets, and Institutions in Developing Countries. His faculty hosts are Rohini Pande at Harvard and Michael Greenstone at MIT.
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Nidhi Santen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, HKS
Her research focuses on improving numerical modeling methods to study the trade-offs between different types of environmental and technology policies for electric power system air emissions management. Prior to receiving her Ph.D., she worked as an air pollution permitting specialist and federal climate policy associate for a large electric utility in South Texas. She has also held various science and policy intern and staff positions with U.S.-based NGOs in Washington, D.C., and Texas including Environmental Defense Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and the Alliance to Save Energy.
Victor Seow
Graduate Student Associate
Samuel P. Huntington Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History
Victor Seow is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization at Harvard University. His research interests lie in energy in empire and its aftermath, focusing on the rise of the Manchurian fossil fuel industry.
Kotaro Shiojiri
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Kotaro Shiojiri is also the Attaché at the Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC. His research interests lie in international law and Japan’s nuclear future.
Trisha Shrum
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Trisha Shrum is a Ph.D. Student in Public Policy. Trisha's research interests include climate change mitigation and energy policy, as seen through the disciplinary lenses of environmental and behavioral ecomonics. She graduated from the University of Kansas with bachelor's degrees in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Science and with a minor in Economics. She went on to work on climate change and energy policy as a research fellow at the Kansas Energy Council. Last spring, she graduated from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with a Masters in Environmental Science.
Jin Suntivich
Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Jin Suntivich is a material scientist interested in understanding surface-molecule interaction from materials science's structure-property relation principles and how such understanding can lead to a rational design of novel energy conversion and storage materials.
As an Environmental Fellow, Jin will work with Eric Mazur of the Department of Physics and the School of Engineering and Applied Physics to control semiconductor materials for light-to-fuel conversion. His work will also explore the spectroscopies of surface-molecule interaction.
Richard Sweeney
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Richard Sweeney, a Ph.D. Student in Public Policy, Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Rich's interests typically lie at the intersection of environmental economics and energy policy. He graduated from Boston College in 2004 with a B.S. in Economics and Political Science, and then studied post-Communist transition at C.E.R.G.E. in the Czech Republic on a Fulbright scholarship. Rich also spent two years as a research assistant at Resources for the Future, where his research involved electricity regulation, climate policy design and the economics of renewable energy.
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Giuseppe Torri
Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Giuseppe Torri is a theoretical physicist interested in different aspects of atmospheric convection, with particular reference to entrainment and how aerosols are removed from the atmosphere through convective precipitation.
As an Environmental Fellow, Giuseppe will collaborate with Zhiming Kuang and Daniel Jacob of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to investigate how convective processes influence the transport of aerosols in the atmosphere. His work will focus in particular on how the precipitation that originates from convective motions removes aerosols from the troposphere and how this process can be easily represented with climate models.
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Elizabeth Walker
Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, a university-wide program based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, HKS
Elizabeth Walker is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy. She is interested in the provision and valuation of ecosystem goods and services, as well as market design for environmental goods. She is currently involved with research related to the sustainable distribution of clean water in rural Africa. She spent a year in Mozambique with the organization TechnoServe, where she contributed to agriculture-based economic development projects. Prior to this, she spent two years as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Elizabeth obtained her undergraduate degree from MIT, where she studied environmental engineering science.
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Min Yan
Visiting Scholar, Harvard China Project
Min Yan is a visiting scholar, Harvard China Project, and Associate Professor, Department of Macroeconomy, State Information Center, National Development and Reform Commission, China. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Jilin University. Her research interests include development of the macro energy economy in China and low carbon economic paths. At the Harvard China Project, Dr. Yan is working jointly with Professor Huiqing Gao on a study of efficient and equitable frameworks for regional allocation of China’s national energy intensity and carbon intensity targets.
Yvonne Yew
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Yvonne Yew is a Research Fellow with the International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is also affiliated with the Center's Future of Diplomacy Project and was its 2010-2011 Fellow. Her work at the Kennedy School focuses on nuclear non-proliferation issues, the Non-aligned Movement, and on nuclear developments in Southeast Asia. A former Singapore diplomat, Yvonne Yew has worked on regional and multilateral issues in Asia and in Europe. She was last posted in Austria, where she served as the Alternate and Deputy Permanent Representative and Governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency during Singapore's term on the IAEA Board of Governors from 2004–2006. She was also consultant to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization's International Scientific Studies Project.
Jeremy Zallen
Graduate Student Affiliate, Center for History and Economics, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Jeremy Zallen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, Harvard University. His research interests lie in spatial and environmental history of the production and consumption of lights in North America. He received his BA from Stanford University in History in 2007. His undergraduate honors thesis explored how memory, microbes, and humans interacted during the deadly Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. He is currently beginning research on a project that examines the relationship between humans and darkness from an environmental historical perspective. He intends to focus his analysis around practices of illumination in North America in the age of American westward expansion, especially as electrical lighting began to compete with and replace lightways derived from the combustion of animal and plant fats.
Chao Zhang
Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program/Energy Technology Innovation Policy project, a joint project of the Science Technology and Public Policy
Program and the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Chao Zhang’s research focuses on environmental policy assessment and the role of technologies in achieving sustainability, with emphasis on the application of modeling tools and environmental system analysis methods. Chao is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Sustainable Energy Development in China led by Professor Henry Lee. He received both his PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering (2012) and Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental Engineering (2007) from Tsinghua University. For his PhD dissertation he developed a coupled bottom-up and top-down model to evaluate water pollution reduction potentials in China’s key industries and to simulate the economic and social impacts of alternative water pollution control policies. This research was jointly supported by several projects on environmental technology assessment and policy evaluation funded by the National Science Foundation, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, and China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. His faculty host is Henry Lee.
Hui Zhang
Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Hui Zhang is a Senior Research Associate at the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Hui Zhang is leading a research initiative on China's nuclear policies for the Project on Managing the Atom in the Kennedy School of Government. His researches include verification techniques of nuclear arms control, the control of fissile material, nuclear terrorism, China's nuclear policy, nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation, policy of nuclear fuel cycle and reprocessing.
Before coming to the Kennedy School in September 1999, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University from 1997-1999, and in 1998-1999, he received a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, a MacArthur Foundation program on International Peace and Security. From 2002-2003, he received a grant for Research and Writing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Hui Zhang received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics in Beijing in 1996.
Dr. Zhang is the author of several technical reports and book chapters, and dozens of articles in academic journals and the print media including Science and Global Security, Arms Control Today, Bulletin of Atomic Scientist, Disarmament Diplomacy, Disarmament Forum, the Non-proliferation Review, Washington Quarterly, Journal of Nuclear Materials Management, INESAP, and China Security. Dr. Zhang gives many oral presentations and talks in international conferences and organizations.
Yongjiang (John) Zhang
Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program based at Harvard's Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department
Yongjiang Zhang’s research is on plant ecophysiology focusing on water relations and photosynthesis. Yongjiang is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Integrated use of Land and Water Resources for Sustainable Development led by Professor N. Michele Holbrook. He received two PhD degrees: one in Biology from the University of Miami’s Department of Biology (2012) and the other in Ecology from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2011). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Science from Sichuan University in China. He also had a one year’s exchange study at the University of Washington (2002-2003). His CAS dissertation research focused on the coordination of plant water use and carbon balance in Brazil, Argentina, and tropical and subtropical China, to understand the environmental controls on this coordination. For his dissertation at UM, he worked on the water and carbon economies of deciduous and evergreen broadleaf trees from a montane cloud forest in SW China, and tried to explain the ecological phenomenon that evergreen broadleaf trees dominate the high elevation forests in SW China despite a pronounced winter/dry season. He was involved in research projects on biodiversity conservation and global climate change, and in popular science education to primary and high school students. He is the recipient of an Anness Fellowship from UM (2007), and a Libo Graduate Research Award from China (2009). His faculty host is Prof. N. Michele Holbrook.
Yu Zhao
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard China Project
Yu Zhao is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard China Project and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his Ph.D. at the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University. His research interests include: emissions of criteria air pollutants (e.g., SO2, NOX, PM), greenhouse gases (e.g., CO2), and short-lived climate forcers (e.g., black carbon) in China; statistical estimation of uncertainties in emission inventories in China, notably of CO2; impacts of atmospheric emissions on air quality, soil acidification, human health, and climate; and integrated assessment of national emission control policies.
Qiang Zhi
Associate, Energy Technology innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Qiang Zhi is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Policy and Management at the Tsinghua University. His dissertation explores the role of scientists and politicians in the decision-making process of national science and technology programs and renewable energy policy in China.
Yixiao Zhou
Visiting Fellow, Harvard China Project
Yixiao Zhou is a visiting fellow, Harvard China Project, and Ph.D. student, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University. Zhou received a B.S. in atmospheric sciences from the Peking University School of Physics and a B.A. in economics at the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University. Her research interests at the China Project include dynamic general equilibrium modeling of the Chinese economy, with emphasis on energy use and emissions, and econometric modeling of production in China.
Yun Zhou
Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
Yun Zhou is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program. Her current research interests include international security implications under a global nuclear expansion scenario, alternative nuclear technologies such as small reactor designs without on-site refueling for developing countries, and the future of nuclear energy in China. Prior to this appointment, she was a MacArthur science and technology fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, where she examined China's nuclear energy policy and industry and analyzed security implications of China's nuclear energy growth. She received her Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006. She has been a researcher at Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab and at General Atomics and attended the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School in 2004. She has worked on a wide variety of research studies including nuclear material safety under dry storage, health risk assessment associated with the introduction of genetically modified crops, ecosystem dynamics, and biodiversity loss.
Yun Zhou was born in China. She obtained her B.S. in engineering physics from the Tsinghua University, Beijing.
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