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Energy

Faculty | Programs

FACULTY
Frederick H. Abernathy	Environment and manufacturing channel, especially textile industry.
Graham Allison	U.S. national security and defense policy; security aspects of energy and environmental issues.
Alán Aspuru-Guzik	Theoretical physical chemistry, particularly quantum computation, electronic structure and renewable energy materials.
Michael J. Aziz	Synthesis and properties of novel semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures using energetic beams; nanoscale morphology evolution in ion sputter erosion; nanoporous materials; electrochemical processes for energy technology and mitigating global climate change; materials for imaging extrasolar planets.
George M. Church	New genomic & proteomic measurement and modeling methods for biomedical & ecological systems.
Majid Ezzati	Energy, air pollution, and health in developing countries; major health risk factors and their role in current and future disease burden globally or in specific countries and regions.
Kelly Sims Gallagher	Energy technology innovation; international energy cooperation; energy policy; climate change policy, international environmental policy.
Jerry R. Green	Economics of incentives, principles of equity for use in collective decision making and the use of data on choice to evaluate economic well-being.
James K. Hammitt	The development and application of quantitative methods--including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis--to health and environmental policy.
William Hogan	Designing the market structures and market rules by which regional transmission organizations, in various forms, coordinate bid-based markets for energy, ancillary services, and financial transmission rights.
John Holdren	Energy and resource options in industrial and developing countries, global environmental problems, impacts of population growth, and international security and arms control.
Sheila Jasanoff	Science and the courts; environmental regulation and risk management; comparative public policy; social studies of science and technology; and science and technology policy.
Dale W. Jorgenson	Information technology and economic growth, energy and environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics.
Niall G. Kirkwood	Technology and its relationship to design in the built environment; landscape detail technologies, the durability of built landscapes, and the reuse of former industrial or disturbed land.
Henry Lee	Electricity and water privatization, environmental management, global climate change, and the political economy of energy.
Scot T. Martin	Atmospheric particles, cloud formation, and climate change; energy, pollution, and climate; mineral origins of life; energy technology; biosphere-atmosphere feedback.
Michael B. McElroy	Chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, including interactions with the biosphere, evolution of planetary atmospheres.
Ariel Pakes	Industrial organization, the economics of technological change, econometric theory; equilibrium responses to policy and environmental changes.
Shriram Ramanathan	Oxide thin films and nanostructures; potential applications of which include electronic devices, solar and hydrogen energy conversion, and sensors.
Forest L. Reinhardt	Relationships between market and non-market strategy; the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources; the economics of externalities and public goods.
Daniel P. Schrag	Geochemical oceanography, paleoclimatology, stable isotope geochemistry; climate change.
John H. Shaw	Structure of the Earth's crust, active faulting and folding, earthquake hazards assessment, petroleum exploration methods, and remote sensing.
John Spengler	The assessment of population exposures to contaminants that occur in homes, offices, schools and during transit, as well as in the outdoor environment.
Robert N. Stavins	Environmental economics and public policy; market based strategies for future climate policy.
Richard Vietor	International energy issues, the regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, air pollution and hazardous wastes, and strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications, and financial services.

Energy-Related Programs at Harvard

Center for Business and Government (HKS)
China Project
Energy Technology Innovation Policy (HKS)
Environment and Natural Resources Program (HKS)
Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group (HKS)
Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HKS)
Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HKS)
Program on Technology and Economic Policy (HKS)
Regulatory Policy Program (HKS)
Repsol YPF - Harvard Kennedy School Fellows Program (HKS)
Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program (HKS)