Former Fellows
Elsa Ordway
elsaordway@ucla.eduHUCE Environmental Fellow: 2018-2020
PhD Earth System Science, Stanford University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Elsa Ordway is an Earth system scientist studying the interactions between ecological processes, human transformation of the land, and climate change in tropical forests. Elsa earned her BA in environmental science and African studies from New York...
Gillian Osborne
gosborne@fas.harvard.eduZiff Environmental Fellow: 2015-2017
PhD English, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Lecturer, Harvard Extension School and Senior Curriculum Specialist, Poetry in America
Gillian Osborne is a literary scholar whose research interests include American and Romantic literature, poetry and poetics, and the environmental humanities. Gillian holds a BA in comparative literature from Columbia University (2006), and a PhD in...
Abigail Ostriker
Environmental Fellow: 2023-2025
PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abigail (Abby) Ostriker is an economist studying how individuals, firms, and governments both influence and are affected by environmental risk. Abby earned her BS in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with minors in Economics and...
Jisung Park
rjpark@upenn.eduZiff Environmental Fellow: 2017-2019
PhD Economics, Harvard University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Jisung Park is an economist studying how climate change impacts economic productivity and human health. Jisung earned a BA in economics and political science from Columbia University, an MSc degrees in development economics and environmental policy from...
Fabien Paulot
fabien.paulot@noaa.govZiff Environmental Fellow: 2011-2013
PhD Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Current Position: Associate Research Scholar, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University
Fabien Paulot is an atmospheric chemist who is interested in the interplay between the biosphere and the composition of the atmosphere. Fabien received an MS from Ecole Polytechnique (France) and a PhD in environmental science and engineering from the...
John Philbin
jphilbin@fas.harvard.eduEnvironmental Fellow: 2020-2022
PhD, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Narang Lab, UCLA
John Philbin works at the intersection of theoretical chemistry, condensed matter physics, and computational material science to understand and develop the next generation of nanomaterial-based technologies. John earned a BA and MS in Biochemistry and...
Jon Proctor
jon.proctor@ubc.caFrench Environmental Fellow: 2019-2021
PhD, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Assistant Professor in Food and Resource Economics, University of British Columbia
Jon Proctor develops and pairs methods in econometrics, spatial statistics and machine learning with global socio-environmental datasets to empirically estimate the relationships that govern our climate and agricultural systems. For example, in recent...
Frances B. Roberts-Gregory
frobertsgregory@fas.harvard.eduEnvironmental Fellow: 2023-2025
PhD, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley.
Frances Roberts-Gregory is a feminist political ecologist and environmental anthropologist, researching the role of U.S. Afrodiasporic communities and women of color in UNFCCC climate negotiations and feminist climate policy. Frances earned a BA in...
David Romps
romps@berkeley.eduZiff Environmental Fellow: 2006-2008
PhD Physics, Harvard University, 2005
Current Position: Goldman Distinguished Chair in the Physical Sciences; Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science; and Director, Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center, UC Berkeley
David Romps is a string theorist with a deeper interest in global climate change. He will focus his attention on "a study of moist convection in a warming world." In four years at Yale, David earned a BS in mathematics and both a BS and an MS in physics...
Kelsey Sakimoto
sakimoto@kulabio.comZiff Environmental Fellow: 2016-2018
PhD Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Founder and Director, Biko Biolabs
Kelsey Sakimoto is a chemist interested in the sustainable production of fertilizer and beneficial soil microorganisms through solar energy for use in modern agriculture. Kelsey earned his BS in chemical engineering from Yale University in 2012 while...
Mauricio Santillana
msantill@fas.harvard.eduHenson Environmental Fellow: 2008-2010
PhD Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas-Austin, 2008
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Faculty member, Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children's Hospital; Associate, Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science
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. He has a...
Jake Seeley
jacob_seeley@fas.harvard.eduEnvironmental Fellow: 2018-2021
PhD Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Jake Seeley is an atmospheric physicist who studies the interactions between convection, clouds, radiation, and climate. Jake received his BS in physics from Haverford College in 2012 and graduated with a PhD in Earth and planetary sciences from UC...
