Liyang is a PhD student in the Energy & Resources Group and a Senior Research Associate at Berkeley Lab. Her research interest is at the intersection of decision science, climate science, and infrastructure planning.
Kelsey is a PhD candidate, focusing on qualitative research spanning the fields of global climate and environmental politics, political ecology, critical development studies, human and Indigenous rights, and environmental conflict.
Dawson is a Master’s student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. His interests lie at the intersection of data science and sustainable development, with a focus on climate adaptation, agriculture, and natural resource economics. He’s currently studying weatherization policies in Europe and the domestic political economy of climate finance in Latin America. Before joining ERG, Dawson worked on natural resources policy in Alaska’s state legislature. He grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, and holds a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.
Lily is a Master’s student in the Energy and Resources Group. Her research focuses on expanding utility access for medically vulnerable and low-income American communities.
Sean Brown is a first year Master’s student interested in using the framework of complex systems to better understand natural and human subsystems as parts of a larger, integrated system, and to identify interactions and feedbacks between these domains in order to effectively address major environmental issues.
Dr. Nan Zhou is a Senior Scientist at the College of Natural Resources , UC Berkeley, Co-Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the California-China Climate Institute, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a global expert in energy efficiency, greenhouse gas mitigation, and sustainable energy systems.
Dr. Zhou has held multiple leadership roles at Berkeley Lab, including Head of the International Energy Analysis Department (2017–2021) and China Energy Group Leader (2017–2019). Dr....
Policies for an Ecological Civilization: China, Carbon, and Economic Reform (PhD ’19) Cecilia is a PhD candidate at ERG. Her dissertation uses economic modeling and social science to critically analyze several of China’s flagship energy and climate policies. She is a research affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s China Energy Group, where she works on industrial energy efficiency. Previously, Cecilia worked in Washington, DC on international climate, energy, and development policy at Climate Advisers. She is on the Cal Wushu team, where she studies her...
