Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Eocnomics
Aaron grew up in Oregon, where he also received his undergraduate degree in physics and masters degree in Applied Economics. His research focuses on using ancillary datasets to estimate uncertainty and incorporating that information into economic analyses of pollution regulation. In his spare time, Aaron likes to hike, play board games, and work on home improvement projects.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Abdou is a 3rd year PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. He is interested in development economics with a focus on agriculture and energy in Sub-Saharan Africa. He completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University with a major in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. He is a native of Senegal.
Ph.D., Economics
Alice is a PhD student in the Economics department at UC Berkeley. Her research interests lie at the intersection of environment and economic geography. She is particularly interested in using spatial equilibrium models to understand changes in land use. Before starting at Berkeley, Alice worked as a research assistant at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Ari Ball-Burack is a PhD student in the Energy and Resources Group, advised by Dr. Dan Kammen. His research focuses on decarbonization policy; specifically, he is interested in incorporating key complexities such as technological innovation, human behavior, and political economy into data-driven policy decision support tools. His current projects investigate the employment and macroeconomic impacts of the green energy transition, decarbonization policy interactions at the national and global levels, distributional equity in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and representations of consumer adoption in multi-sector energy system models.
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Cristina is a PhD student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, studying urban energy transitions, electrification policies, and technology uptake in the backdrop of an increasingly disrupted grid. She is a Fulbright scholar and a Research Affiliate in the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she works on modeling hybrid energy plants and battery degradation. She holds a Dual Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering in Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) and École Centrale Paris (France).
Ph.D., Economics
Daniela is a Ph.D. student in Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are broad and include a variety of topics related to applied microeconomics. She’s passionate about food economics and how private and non-private-led initiatives can address certain food waste inefficiencies.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Elena is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department. Her research focuses on the intersection between climate change and development. She is particularly interested in climate change adaptation and mitigation as it relates to natural disasters, extreme weather events, and temperature changes.
Ph.D., Economics
Elena is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics with a focus on macroeconomics and economic history. Her research interests can be broadly divided into three categories: understanding the macroeconomic consequences of changing U.S. demographics, exploring the role of monetary policy pass-through in shaping female and minoritized community outcomes in the United States, and investigating the effects of lifetime experiences of climate disasters on home ownership and wealth accumulation.
Ph.D., Economics
Emily Martell is a second year economics PhD student with interests at the intersection of macroeconomics and environmental/energy economics. Previously, she worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and obtained her bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary.
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Hikari Murayama is a PhD Candidate in the Energy and Resources Group. Her research combines remote sensing and machine learning to understand the carbon budget. This work spans the past and present: she is quantifying land cover changes in Africa using historical aerial photos and using modern-day satellites to study emissions from power plants.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Jesse Buchsbaum is a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He studies energy and environmental economics, with a focus on energy bill affordability, consumer decision-making, energy poverty, and equity.
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Jesse Strecker completed his MPP at the Goldman School for Public Policy, and is currently a PhD student at the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) where he studies the political economy of sustainability transitions with a focus on the role of unions and social movements in the politics of climate change, energy, and decarbonization. He has worked in climate and labor advocacy for nearly fifteen years, serving as the Executive Director of Rhode Island Jobs with Justice, a Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator Ed Markey, and a Senior Fellow at Data For Progress. Jesse is the great-grandson of coal miners and a proud, resilient river rat, having grown up by the Russian River in Sonoma County, near the site of some of the most destructive wildfires in California's history.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Kaleb is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department, a Filipino American, and a first generation college student. His research explores how firm and consumer behavior is adapting to climate change.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Kendra is a PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests focus on the intersection of environmental economics and political economy. Kendra is particularly interested in understanding how political institutions affect the advancement of environmental policy.
Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics
Max Snyder is a PhD student at UC Berkeley ARE interested in energy and environmental economics, climate adaptation, and inequality. His research explores how public policy can reduce climate risk and promote a clean energy transition.
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Ruth Kravis received her B.S degree in Systems Engineering from the Australian National University in 2021. She commenced her PhD in EECS at UC Berkeley in 2022. Ruth is interested in how the integration of renewable resources affects everything from grid stability to market operations and long-planning.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Sayantan (Sunny) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, with research interests that lie at the intersection of development, environmental and agricultural economics. Previously, Sunny worked as a Research Associate in India for Evidence for Policy Design at Harvard Kennedy School and received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the College of Wooster.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Shuo Yu is a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics. Her research focuses on agricultural policy and environmental economics, employing innovative econometric analysis and satellite-derived data.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Sheah is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department at UC Berkeley. Her primary interests are in political economy and development, with a focus on how institutions shape the long-run outcomes of vulnerable populations.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Shreya is a graduate student at Berkeley's ARE program, studying development, labor and public economics. Her research interests center around how policies, institutions and social norms affect access to economic opportunity in developing countries.
