Core Faculty

The faculty of ERG currently consists of 9 core professors of Energy and Resources and nearly 200 affiliated faculty and researchers holding appointments in a wide range of departments across the Berkeley campus.

List of ERG Affiliated Faculty
List of ERG Faculty by Areas of Primary Interest 

Please note that due to the high volume of requests ERG core faculty members receive, they are rarely able to accept short-term visiting students and may not respond to inquiries. If you have questions about ERG admissions, please refer to the ERG Admissions webpages or contact erggrad@berkeley.edu.

Faculty

David Anthoff

Associate Professor
David Anthoff is an environmental economist who studies climate change and environmental policy. He co-develops the integrated assessment models GIVE and FUND that are used widely in academic research and in policy analysis.Read more about David Anthoff

Duncan Callaway

ERG Chair, Professor
Dr. Callaway’s teaching focuses on power systems and data science. His research can be categorized in three areas: modeling and control of aggregated storage devices; power management; and system analysis of energy technologies and their impact.Read more about Duncan Callaway

Youjin Chung

Assistant Professor
Youjin Chung is Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Equity with a joint appointment in the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.Read more about Youjin Chung

Andrew D. Jones

Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr. Jones is an Earth scientist who works at the interface of human and environmental systems. His research uses quantitative models and data analysis to understand climate change and human-Earth system interactions at decision-relevant scales. He also collaborates with social scientists and...Read more about Andrew D. Jones

Lara Kueppers

Associate Professor
Lara Kueppers is an Associate Professor in the Energy and Resources Group, with a Faculty Scientist appointment at Berkeley Lab. She is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist, whose research focuses on ecological responses and feedbacks to climate change.Read more about Lara Kueppers

Meg Mills-Novoa

Assistant Professor
Meg Mills-Novoa is a human-environment geographer who researches the enduring impacts of climate change adaptation projects. She is jointly appointed to the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.Read more about Meg Mills-Novoa

Isha Ray

Professor
Professor Ray’s research interests are water and development; technology and development; common property resources; and social science research methods. Her research projects focus on access to water and sanitation for the rural and urban poor, and on the role of technology in improving...Read more about Isha Ray

Margaret Torn

Adjunct Professor
The focus of my work is carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems and trace-gas flux between soil and atmosphere. I conduct research on soil carbon, global change, and the impacts of human activities on ecosystem processes.Read more about Margaret Torn

Paige Weber

Assistant Professor
Weber is an environmental economist who studies questions in energy, equity, and environmental policy. A primary goal of her research is to understand the determinants and solutions to environmental inequality, with other work that studies emerging trends in energy markets.Read more about Paige Weber

Emeriti

John Harte

Professor of the Graduate School
John Harte is a physicist turned ecologist. His research interests span ecological field research, the theory of complex systems, and policy analysis.Read more about John Harte

John P. Holdren

Professor Emeritus
John Holdren is Research Professor in Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program in the School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 2009 to 2017, Dr. Holdren was President Obama’s Science Advisor and...Read more about John P. Holdren

Daniel M. Kammen

Professor Emeritus
Daniel Kammen is an expert in renewable energy, climate policy, and sustainable development. Kammen joined Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2025 from the University of California, Berkeley.Read more about Daniel M. Kammen

Catherine Koshland

Professor Emeritus
Dr. Koshland’s research is at the intersection of energy, air pollution and environmental (human) health emphasizing mechanistic approaches as well as a systems perspective.Read more about Catherine Koshland

Richard Norgaard

Professor Emeritus
Among the founders of the field of ecological economics, Dr. Norgaard's recent research addresses how environmental problems challenge scientific understanding and the policy process, how ecologists and economists understand systems differently, and how globalization affects environmental...Read more about Richard Norgaard