Student

Catherine U. Acosta

MS
Driven by a strong commitment to environmental stewardship, I bring a multidisciplinary background in environmental regulation, chemistry, soil carbon sequestration, and water quality.

Lauren Aguilar

MS
Broadly, my research interests focus on designing electricity infrastructure systems that promote equitable socioeconomic outcomes.

Sol Alvarez-Taubin

MS, PhD
Sol Alvarez-Taubin (she/ella) is a first year PhD student in the Energy & Resources Group at UC Berkeley.

Ari Ball-Burack

PhD
Ari Ball-Burack is a third year PhD student in the Energy & Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Dr. Dan Kammen.

Xander Bartone

MS
My research interests are broadly related to distributed energy resources — I hope to investigate pragmatic regulatory and policy methods to ensure that vulnerable populations are able to access these resources and their benefits.

Colette Brown

MS, PhD
Colette Brown is a PhD student at the Energy and Resources Group.

Nica Campbell

MS, PhD
Nica Campbell is an PhD candidate at the Energy and Resources Group. Her research interests include corporate sustainability, environmental justice and policy making mechanisms.

Nabig Chaudhry

MS, PhD
Nabig Chaudhry is an MS/PhD student at UC Berkeley. His research lies at the intersection of climate and data science and focuses on building tech and data-enabled climate adaptation solutions.

Emilia Chojkiewicz

PhD
Emilia is a PhD student at ERG. Her research focuses on grid planning to accelerate power system decarbonization by leveraging the existing system, such as reconductoring and surplus interconnection.

Alix Blair Darling

PhD
Alix is an award-winning documentary maker, both in film and audio, and has been working in nonfiction storytelling for over a decade, as a creator and as a teacher, focusing on stories of human rights, women’s voices, environmental justice and trauma-awareness.