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Current Fellows

Etienne Benson -
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2008-2010
Ph.D. History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society, MIT, 2008
Janet Browne
History of Science

Etienne Benson is a historian of the environmental sciences with a particular interest in the field practices of late twentieth-century conservation biology.

Bill Boos -
French Environmental Fellow: 2008-2010
Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, MIT, 2008
Zhiming Kuang
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Bill Boos is an atmospheric physicist working to understand the fundamental processes responsible for variations in tropical climate over a broad range of time scales.

Susan Cameron -
Kernan Brothers Environmental Fellow: 2008-2010
Ph.D. Ecology, University of California-Davis, 2008
Scott V. Edwards
Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

Susan Cameron is an ecologist and conservation biologist who studies how climate change shapes patterns of biodiversity.

Joseph Cullen -
Morgan Blake Environmental Fellow: 2009-2011
Ph.D. Economics, University of Arizona, 2009
Ariel Pakes
Dept. of Economics

Joseph Cullen is an economist who studies the interaction between government regulation, business decisions, and the environment.

Rafael Jaramillo -
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2009-2011
Ph.D. Experimental Physics, University of Chicago, 2008
Shriram Ramanathan
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Rafael Jaramillo is a solid state physicist who feels an imperative to work to develop sources of energy for our economy that are sufficient, safe, and renewable.

Christopher Jones -
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2009-2011
Ph.D. History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennyslvania, 2009
Sheila Jasanoff
Harvard Kennedy School

Christopher Jones is a historian interested in the intersections between energy, technology, and the environment.

Jacob Krich -
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2009-2011
Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 2009
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Jacob Krich is a theoretical condensed matter physicist interested in the quantum mechanical properties of materials at the nanoscale, and especially on applications of these properties to clean energy science.

Mauricio Santillana -
Henson Environmental Fellow: 2008-2010
Ph.D. Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas-Austin, 2008
Eli Tziperman
Daniel Jacob
Michael P. Brenner
Earth and Planetary Sciences; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Mauricio Santillana is an applied mathematician and physicist with a passion for getting involved in multi-disciplinary research projects aimed at understanding the impact of human activities on our environment as well as global climate change.

Alex Wissner-Gross -
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2008-2010
Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 2007
Matt Welsh
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Alex Wissner-Gross is a condensed matter physicist whose broad research interests concern the science and technology of programmable media, with a recent focus on the intersection of computation, energy, and the environment.

Ling Zhang -
Ziff Environmental Fellow: 2009-2011
Ph.D. Chinese Studies, University of Cambridge (UK), 2008
Peter K. Bol
East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Ling Zhang is a historian studying the environmental and economic history of medieval northern China, with particular emphasis on the environmental problems associated with natural disasters and economic decline in traditional agricultural society.

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