Core Faculty
Core Faculty
Faculty
David Anthoff
David Anthoff is an environmental economist who studies climate change and environmental policy. He co-develops the integrated assessment model FUND that is used widely in academic research and in policy analysis. His research has appeared in Nature, Science, the American Economic Review, Nature...
Paul Burow
Paul Berne Burow is incoming Assistant Professor in the Energy and Resources Group, joining the faculty in July 2027.
An environmental anthropologist by training, his research develops moral ecology as a framework for understanding how cultural values shape environmental governance, climate...
Duncan Callaway
Duncan Callaway is a Professor of Energy and Resources with an affiliate appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also ERG’s Chair. He received his PhD from Cornell University and subsequently worked in the...
Youjin Chung
Youjin B. Chung is Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (Division of Society and Environment).
Rural sociologist and human-environment geographer by training, her research lies at the...
Andrew D. Jones
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...
Lara Kueppers
Lara Kueppers is a climate and ecosystem scientist whose research focuses on ecological responses and feedbacks to climate change. She uses field experiments and observations, as well as computational models to understand climate-ecosystem interactions in the Western U.S. and tropics. Professor...
Meg Mills-Novoa
Meg Mills-Novoa is an assistant professor with a joint appointment to the Division of Society and Environment in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and the Energy and Resources Group. Meg is the director of the Climate Futures Lab, a hub for social science research on the...
Margaret Torn
Margaret S. Torn is co-head of the Climate and Carbon Sciences Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor in Energy and Resources at U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Torn is an ecologist and biogeochemist who studies the natural carbon cycle and anthropogenic influence on the carbon...
Paige Weber
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.
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John Harte
John Harte is a physicist turned ecologist. His research interests span ecological field research, the theory of complex systems, and policy analysis. Current interests include applying insights from information theory to the analysis of complex ecosystems and empirical investigation of climate...
John P. Holdren
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...
Daniel M. Kammen
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. He is lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
Catherine Koshland
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. It is conducted at multiple scales, from mechanistic analyses of combustion products in flow reactors to control strategies in...
Richard Norgaard
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 governance...
Isha Ray
Isha Ray joined the faculty of the Energy and Resources Group in 2002. She has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Somerville College, Oxford University, and a PhD in Applied Economics from the Food Research Institute at Stanford University. She is the Co-Director of the Berkeley Water...