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.

Alana Ballagh

MS

Alana Ballagh (she/her) is a second year Master’s student at the Energy and Resources Group. Alana is interested in exploring the role of more participatory decision-making in adaptation to infrastructure-related disasters. Her recent work examines the impacts of the renewable energy transition on water in the Great Basin and the impacts of climate and infrastructure development on fisheries in the Greater Mekong subregion.

Alana holds a BA in Environmental Studies and Political Science from Swarthmore College. Prior to joining ERG, she worked as a Fulbright ETA in Vientiane,...

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.