RDCEP

Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy

People

Principal Investigators

Ian Foster

Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science
Director, Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago
Associate Director, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Lars Peter Hansen

David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor
Research Director, Becker Friedman Institute
Department of Economics
University of Chicago

Kenneth L. Judd

Paul H. Bauer Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Elisabeth Moyer

Assistant Professor
Department of the Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago

Todd Munson

Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory; Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago

Researchers

William Brock

Vilas Research Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sou-Cheng (Terrya) Choi

Research Scientist
RDCEP
Computational Institute
University of Chicago

Joshua W. Elliott

Research Scientist and Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab

Don Fullerton

Gutgsell Professor, Department of Finance and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Thomas Hertel

Distinguished Professor, Agricultural Economics, Purdue University Executive Director and Founder, Center for Global Trade Analysis

Robert Jacob

Computational Climate Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago

Samuel S. Kortum

Professor of Economics
University of Chicago

V. Rao Kotamarthi

Atmospheric Scientist and Manager of the Climate Research Section, Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

Nirupama Rao

Assistant Professor, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University

Alan Sanstad

Staff Scientist, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Affiliate Researcher, Energy & Resources Group, University of California – Berkeley

Leonard Smith

Professor of Statistics
London School of Economics
Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago

Michael Stein

Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Statistics
University of Chicago

David Weisbach

Walter J. Blum Professor in the Law School; Director, Law & Economics Program, University of Chicago

Postdoctoral Scholars

Yongyang Cai

Research Scientist
NBER
Hoover Institution
Stanford University

Thomas S. Lontzek

Post-doctoral Research Fellow
University of Zurich

Jevgenijs Steinbuks

Research Associate, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University

Shanshan Sun

Postdoctoral Scholar
University of Chicago

Bill Leeds

Postdoctoral Scholar
University of Chicago

Graduate Students

Stefano Castruccio

PhD Candidate
Research Assistant
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago

Aman Chitkara

MPP Candidate
Research Assistant

Matt Gee

Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago

Michael Glotter

Research Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of the Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago

Gita Khun Jush

Department of Economics
University of Chicago

Maggie King

Research Assistant
MPP Candidate
Harris School of Public Policy

Santiago Munoz

Research Assistant
MPP Candidate

Jeremy Klavans

Research Assistant
MPP Candidate

Danielle E. Wrobel

Research Assistant
MPP Candidate
Harris School of Public Policy

Alumni

Michele Davies

Ph.D. Candidate
Research Assistant

Moises D'Orey

Research Assistant
MPP Candidate
Graduate Student

Brittany Gifford

MSESP Graduate
Harris School of Public Policy

Ben Skrainka

Postdoctoral Scholar
Harris School of Public Policy

Alexander Frank

Research Assistant, MPP Candidate
Graduate Student
Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago

Mark Woolley

Graduate Student
Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago

David McInerney

Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of the Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago

Joseph Weston Jr.

Research Assistant
Joint MPP/MBA Candidate
Graduate Student

Summer Interns

Aidan Sadowski

Summer Interns
Computation Institute

Brandon Peralta

Summer Intern

Onintze Contreras

Summer Interns

John Gueringer

Summer Intern
RDCEP

Omobolanle Ajenifuja

Summer Intern

Undergraduate Students

Martha Ferris

Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin

Jeremy Archer

University of Chicago

Federico Simon

Research Assistant
Department of Economics

Grant Wilder

Research Assistant
Department of Statistics

Runnan Yang

Research Assistant
Department of Economics
Department of Computer Science

Staff

Alison Brizius

Executive Director
Computation Institute
RDCEP

Michaela Carey

Research Assistant
RDCEP

Neil Best

Computation Institute
University of Chicago

Meghan Vincent

Education Outreach Director
RDCEP