Energy

Dimitry Gershenson

MS
Dimitry currently works as a Program Manager on Facebook’s Global Impact Partnerships Team.

Karina Garbesi

MS, PhD

Experiments and Modeling of the Soil-Gas Transport of Volatile Organic Compounds into a Residential Basement (’88 M.S.) Toward Resolving Model-Measurement Discrepancies of Radon Entry into Houses (’93 Ph.D.)

Nancy Freitas

At ERG, Nancy research focuses on identifying existing gaps in climate science and decision-making. In her master’s research, she used a combination of fieldwork, lab work, and data science to determine the potential contribution of greenhouse gases from Arctic lakes to the atmosphere.

Isa Ferrall

MS, PhD
Isa earned an MS/PhD from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. She researches the frontier of solar energy both in the lab and in the communities most in need.

Salma Elmallah

MS, PhD
Salma’s dissertation studies the equity and distributional impacts of residential heating electrification policy and planning, focusing on cities in California.

John Elliott

MA

Lowering Energy Bills in American Indian Households: A Case Study of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (’98 M.A.)

Diana Dombrowski

MA

Research Group(s):

Jones lab

Alex Dolginow

MA, MS
Alex Dolginow is a Master’s degree candidate interested in understanding appropriate design and conditions for ‘environmental markets,’ such as trading of carbon, water, and conserved land.

Hasmik Djoulakian

MS
Hasmik Djoulakian (she/her) is a Master’s student in the Energy Resources Group. Her research interests involve applying frameworks of feminist political ecology, cultural geography, and environmental justice to examine the potential for food sovereignty in California and Armenia.

Ranjit Deshmukh

PhD
India’s Low Carbon Electricity Futures (PhD ’17) Ranjit’s research efforts largely focus on addressing the clean energy and energy access challenges in developing nations. As part of both the International Energy Studies group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and ERG, Ranjit is developing models of the Indian national power system to analyze policies and technical solutions for integrating large amounts of wind and solar resources on the grid. He has also been engaged with energy access issues, especially regarding renewable energy-based mini-grid policies and development of...