Student

Kate Cullen

PhD
Kate Altemus Cullen (she/her) is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Energy & Resources Group and Fulbright-Hays Fellow.

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.

Nat De Jonge

MS
As a pre-med and environmental history student in undergrad I have always been broadly fascinated by the intersection between human and environmental health.

Nathaniel “Nate” Dolton-Thornton

PhD
Nathaniel (Nate) Dolton-Thornton is a PhD candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

MJ Wong Engel

MS, JD
MJ is an MS/JD student with the Energy & Resources Group and the Law school interested in climate displacement, migration, and sanctuary.

Tim Gröschel

MA
Tim Gröschel is a Master’s student in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG). His work explores how renewable energies can be expanded in emerging economies to serve as the foundation of sustainable growth.

Ben Haley

PhD
Ben has unique experience developing energy system models to support energy transformation decision making in his role as Co-Founder of Evolved Energy Research.

Chris Hunter

MA, MPP
Chris is a M.A./M.P.P. student with the Energy & Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy, focused on advancing effective and equitable climate and energy policy at the local level.

Ryan Jones

PhD
Ryan has spent the last decade developing modeling tools to explore technology pathways for deep decarbonization with special focus on electricity systems.

Jessica Katz

MS, PhD
Jessica Katz is a PhD candidate focused on ecological stewardship under deep uncertainty. Her dissertation combines methods from ecology, statistics, and the decision sciences to understand how the diverse forests of the Western U.S. will respond to restoration and fuel reduction treatments under a changing climate.