Faculty
| Name | Title | Current Research | Contact |
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| Nicole Ardoin | Assistant Professor of Education and Center Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Professor Ardoin's research focuses on environmental behavior as influenced by environmental learning and motivated by place-based connections. In particular, she is interested in considerations of geographic scale, which is an understudied yet crucial aspect of people-place relationships in a rapidly globalizing, urbanizing world. |
212 Cubberley (650) 721-2231 nmardoin@stanford.edu |
| Kevin Arrigo | Donald & Donald M. Steel Professor in Earth Sciences; Victoria and Roger Sant Director, Earth Systems Program |
Investigates role of ocean biology in gobal carbon and nutrient cycles. |
Y2E2 Building, Room 141 (650) 723-3599 arrigo@stanford.edu |
| Kenneth Arrow | Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus |
My research interests include the economics of information and organization, environment and growth, collective decision-making, and general equilibrium theory. My current research also integrates networks and markets. |
Department of Economics (650) 327-3957 arrow@stanford.edu |
| Gregory Asner | University Faculty other teaching Environmental Earth System Science Professor (by Courtesy) |
My research centers on how human activities alter the composition and functioning of ecosystems at regional scales. I combine field work, airborne and satellite mapping, and computer simulation modeling to understand the response of ecosystems to land use and climate change. |
260 Panama Street (650) 325-1521 |
| Shilajeet Banny Banerjee | Professor of Practice, E-IPER |
I develop and study radically new ways for design thinking to bring about rapid change and meaningful impact to address the society’s bigger challenges, including environmentally conscious design, design semiotics, ambient media, human-centered design, and other design methodologies. |
banny@stanford.edu |
| William Barnett | Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Business Leadership, Strategy, & Organizations |
I study competition among organizations and how organizations and industries evolve over time, specifically how strategic differences and strategic change among organizations affect their growth, performance, and survival. |
655 Knight Way, room W238 william.barnett@stanford.edu |
| Michele Barry, MD, FACP | Professor of Medicine (General Medical Discipline), Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Operations, Information and Technology in the GSB and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
Areas of research |
SoM Deans Office michele.barry@stanford.edu |
| Sally Benson | Director, Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor of Energy Resources Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy |
My research is focused on reducing the risks of climate change by developing energy supplies with low carbon emissions. Students and post-doctoral fellows in my research group work on carbon dioxide storage, energy systems analysis, and pathways for transitioning to a low-carbon energy system. |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Bldg. (650) 725-0358 smbenson@stanford.edu |
| Sarah Billington | The Milligan Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
My research focuses on sustainable, durable construction materials and their application to structures and construction. |
billington@stanford.edu |
| Barbara Block | Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Professor in Marine Sciences and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Thermal physiology, open ocean predators, ecological physiology and tuna biology |
Pick up (831) 655-6236, (831) 655-6237 bblock@stanford.edu |
| Alexandria Boehm | Clare Booth Luce Associate Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
My primary research area is coastal water quality, and recently I have expanded my research to include activities on sanitation more broadly. |
Y2E2 Room 189 (650) 724-9128 aboehm@stanford.edu |
| Adam Brandt | Assistant Professor of Energy Resources Engineering and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Precourt Institute for Energy |
Greenhouse gas emissions, energy systems optimization, mathematical modeling of resource depletion, life cycle analysis |
066 Green Earth Sciences Building (650) 724-8251 abrandt@stanford.edu |
| Marshall Burke | Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
My research focuses on quantifying the economic and social consequences of environmental change. |
Y2E2 365 (650) 721-2203 mburke@stanford.edu |
| Jef Caers | Professor of Geological Sciences |
My research interest are varied, but a constant is the practical application of data science to address geological science questions as well as other areas of the Earth Sciences. My recent focus involves including physics into stochastic modeling and assessing uncertainty for decision making in geo-engineering applications. |
367 Panama St (650) 723-1774 jcaers@stanford.edu |
| Ken Caldeira | University Faculty other teaching Environmental Earth System Science Professor By Courtesy |
My research strives to improve the science base needed to allow human civilization to develop while protecting our environmental endowment. |
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| Margaret Caldwell | Deputy Director, Oceans; Conservation and Science Program, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation |
My scholarship focuses on the environmental effects of local land use decisions; the use of science in environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation; and the development of private and public incentives for natural resource conservation. |
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| Karen Casciotti | Associate Professor of Earth System Science |
Assistant Professor in EESS, focus on marine chemistry and biogeochemistry. |
kcasciotti@stanford.edu |
| Page Chamberlain | Professor of Earth System Science |
I use stable and radiogenic isotopes to understand Earth system history. These studies examine the link between climate, tectonics, biological, and surface processes. |
Building 320 (650) 725-6835 chamb@stanford.edu |
| Craig Criddle | Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
My research focuses on biotechnology and microbial ecology for clean water, clean energy, and healthy ecosystems. |
Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Energy & Envmnt Bldg Rm 151 criddle@stanford.edu |
| Larry Crowder | Edward Ricketts Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment | Ecology, conservation, fisheries, protected species, ecosystem-based management |
120 Oceanview Blvd (831) 655-6217 Larry.Crowder@stanford.edu |
| Lisa Curran | Roger and Cynthia Lang Professor in Environmental Anthropology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
My research centers on natural resource extraction by transnational firms and the political ecology of land use, primarily in Indonesia and Brazil. My current research group works in Asian, African and Latin American tropical ecosystems to examine the socio-economic and political drivers of agribusiness coupled with community responses and change in livelihoods and land use. |
Serra Mall Building 50 room 52K lmcurran@stanford.edu |
| Gretchen C. Daily | Bing Professor in Environmental Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment | Land use, biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem services |
(650) 723-9452 gdaily@stanford.edu |
| Jenna Davis | Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Professor Davis’ research and teaching is focused at the interface of engineered water supply and sanitation systems and their users in developing countries. |
The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Bu (650) 725-9170 jennadavis@stanford.edu |
| Noah Diffenbaugh | Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
He studies the dynamics and impacts of climate variability and change. Much of his work has focused on the role of fine-scale processes in shaping climate change impacts, including studies of extreme weather, water resources, agriculture, human health, and poverty vulnerability. |
Y2E2 (650) 725-7510 diffenbaugh@stanford.edu |
| Rodolfo Dirzo | Bing Prof in Environmental Science and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Ecological and evolutionary aspects of plant-animal interactions, largely but not exclusively, in tropical forest ecosystems. |
Department of Biological Sciences (650) 736-7643 rdirzo@stanford.edu |
| Rob Dunbar | W.M. Keck Professor in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Ocean processes, biogeochemistry, climatology/paleoclimatology, isotopic chemistry, ocean policy |
Bldg. 320, Rm. 325 (650) 725-6830 |
| William Durham | Bing Professor in Human Biology and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
I study indigenous resource management, human health, and conservation issues in the tropics. My current research focuses on environmental causes of emerging infectious diseases in tropical areas, conservation tradeoffs in the Galapagos Islands, and ecotourism as a means to poverty alleviation and self-determination among indigenous and local peoples. |
BLDG 50, Room 51C (650) 723-0894 EB.WHD@stanford.edu |
| Anne Ehrlich | Senior Research Scientist, Biology |
My research focuses on population biology. I have also written extensively on issues of public concern such as population control, environmental protection, and environmental consequences of nuclear war. |
HERRIN LABS 402 aehrlich@stanford.edu |
| Paul Ehrlich | Bing Professor of Population Studies and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment | The role of the social sciences in dealing with global change |
HERRIN 409 (650) 723-3171 |
| W Gary Ernst | The Benjamin M. Page Professor In Earth Sciences, Emeritus |
Petrology/geochemistry and plate tectonics of Circumpacific and Alpine mobile belts; ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in Eurasia; geology of the California Coast Ranges, the cental Klamath Mountains, and White-Inyo Range; geobotany and remote sensing of the Southwest; mineralogy and human health. |
Mitchell Bldg room B53 (650) 723-0185 wernst@stanford.edu |
| Walter Falcon | Helen C. Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy, Emeritus |
biotechnology; food security; food and agricultural policy in developing countries |
ENCINA HALL, RM 404E (650) 723-6367 wpfalcon@stanford.edu |
| Scott Fendorf | Huffington Family Professor in Earth Sciences and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Soil and environmental biogeochemistry |
Green Rm. 301 (650) 723-5238 fendorf@stanford.edu |
| James Ferguson | Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences |
His research has focused on southern Africa (especially Lesotho, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia), and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues. |
Dept. of Anthropology jgfergus@stanford.edu |
| Chris Field | Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and at the Woods Institute for the Environment | Global ecology, climate change impacts, global carbon cycle, ecosystem ecology |
Carnegie Institution (650) 319-8024 cfield@ciw.edu |
| Martin Fischer | Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science |
Professor Fischer's research goals are to improve the productivity of project teams involved in designing, building, and operating facilities and to enhance the sustainability of the built environment. |
Stanford Univ. - Civ. & Env. Eng. (650) 725-4649 fischer@stanford.edu |
| Zephyr Frank | Professor of History |
My research interests include wealth and inequality, Brazilian social history, Latin American economic history, and spatial history. |
BLDG. 200 zfrank@stanford.edu |
| David Freyberg | Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
A hydrologist and water resources specialist, Freyberg studies reservoir sedimentation and hydrology, hydrologic ecosystem services, summer drying of Pacific coast intermittent streams, tropical rainfall and throughfall, surface water-ground water interactions, especially in reservoir/sediment systems, and scaling and spatial distribution of recycled water systems. |
Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Bldg. (650) 723-3234 freyberg@stanford.edu |
| Oliver Fringer | Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Fringer's research focuses on the development and application of numerical models and high-performance computational techniques to the study of fundamental processes that influence the dynamics of the coastal ocean, rivers, lakes, and estuaries. |
(650) 450-1137 fringer@stanford.edu |
| Tadashi Fukami | Associate Professor of Biology |
Ecological and evolutionary community assembly, with emphasis on understanding historical contingency in community structure, ecosystem functioning, biological invasion and ecological restoration, using experimental, theoretical, and comparative methods involving bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. |
Department of Biology (650) 721-1711 fukamit@stanford.edu |
| Margot Gerritsen | Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, Director of the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, with courtesy appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering |
I specialize in renewable and fossil energy production. I am also active in coastal ocean dynamics and yacht design, as well as several areas in computational mathematics including search algorithm design and matrix computations. |
GESB 088, M10 Huang (650) 725-3542, (650) 725-2727 margot.gerritsen@stanford.edu |
| Steven Gorelick | Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
As a hydrogeologist, my research involves the study of water resources with emphasis on groundwater. Using lab and field data, our aim is to develop an understanding of fundamental aspects of the transport of fluids and contaminants, and to investigate regional water resources systems |
Bldg. 320, Rm. 210 (650) 725-2950 GORELICK@stanford.edu |
| Mark Granovetter | The Joan Butler Ford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences |
Mark Granovetter's main interest is in the way people, social networks and social institutions interact and shape one another. |
Bldg. 120 Room 128 (650) 723-4664 MGranovetter@stanford.edu |
| Elizabeth Hadly | Paul S. and Billie Achilles Professor in Environmental Biology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
The research of Elizabeth Hadly probes how perturbations such as climatic change and human modification of the environment influence the evolution and ecology of vertebrates. |
GILBERT HALL (650) 498-4995 ext. lab, (650) 725-2655 hadly@stanford.edu |
| Dan Andrei Iancu | Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business |
Professor Iancu's research is focused on problems at the interface of finance and operations, typically involving high degrees of risk and uncertainty. Specific application areas include supply chain management, revenue management, supply chain financing, and financial engineering. |
Knight Management Center (650) 724-6642 daniancu@stanford.edu |
| Rob Jackson | Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy |
Rob Jackson studies how people affect the earth, including research on the global carbon and water cycles, biosphere/atmosphere interactions, energy use, and climate change. His group published the first studies examining fracking and drinking water quality and mapped thousands of natural gas leaks across cities such as Boston and Washington, D.C. He is also examining the effects of climate change and droughts on forest mortality and ecosystems. |
Y2E2 Building, 379B (650) 497-5841 rob.jackson@stanford.edu |
| Mark Jacobson | Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy, and at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
The main goal of Jacobson's research is to understand physical, chemical, and dynamical processes in the atmosphere better in order to solve atmospheric problems, such as global warming and urban air pollution, with improved scientific insight and more accurate predictive tools. He also evaluates the atmospheric and health effects of proposed energy- and transportation solutions to global warming and air pollution, maps renewable energy resources, and studies optimal methods of integrating renewable electricity into the grid. |
Yang & Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building (650) 723-6836 jacobson@stanford.edu |
| James Holland Jones | Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
I am a biological anthropologist with research interests in human ecology, demography and life history theory, and the ecology and evolutionary biology of infectious disease. |
Department of Earth Systems Science jhj1@stanford.edu |
| Prof Terry Lynn Karl | Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Political Science |
Professor Karl has published widely on comparative politics and international relations, with special emphasis on the politics of oil-exporting countries, transitions to democracy, problems of inequality, the global politics of human rights, and the resolution of civil wars. |
Department of Political Science (650) 723-5220, (650) 724-4166 tkarl@stanford.edu |
| David Kennedy | Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus |
Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies, which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics, Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history. |
Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2) dmk@stanford.edu |
| Donald Kennedy | President, Emeritus, and Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Emeritus |
Interdisciplinary studies on the development of policies regarding such trans-boundary environmental problems as: major land-use changes; economically-driven alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the development of regulatory policies. |
401 East Encina Hall (650) 725-2745 kennedyd@stanford.edu |
| Julie Kennedy | Professor (Teaching) of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and the Landreth Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education |
I have specific interest in interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and in the effective communication of complex interdisciplinary problem descriptions, analysis methods, and solutions to expert and non-expert audiences. I advise and work on research projects with undergraduate and master's level students whose interests include ecology, energy, land systems management, ocean science and policy, sustainability, environmental education, and science communication. |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (650) 725-4911 juliek@stanford.edu |
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| Brian Knutson | Associate Professor of Psychology |
My lab and I seek to elucidate the neural basis of emotion (affective neuroscience), and explore implications for decision-making (neuroeconomics) and psychopathology (neurophenomics). |
Room 470 knutson@psych.stanford.edu |
| Charles D. Kolstad | Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics |
Most of my current research is on the economic dimensions of climate change, including energy markets. This includes the economics of: mitigation and how the economy responds to climate regulations; adaptation to changes in the climate; and climate damage, including the social cost of carbon. PhD students who work with me train to become environmental economists and should have some preparation in economics and math prior to matriculating at Stanford. |
366 Galvez Street (Room 235) (650) 721-1663 ckolstad@stanford.edu |
| Jeffrey Koseff | William Alden Campbell & Martha Campbell Professor in the School of Engineering and the Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment |
His research focuses on the interaction between physical and biological systems in natural aquatic environments, and in particular on turbulence and internal wave dynamics; transport, mixing, and phytoplankton dynamics in estuarine systems; and coral reef, kelp forest, and sea-grass hydrodynamics. |
Yang and Yamazaki Env & Energy 185 (650) 736-2363 koseff@stanford.edu |
| Anthony Kovscek | Keleen and Carlton Beal Professor in Energy Resources Engineering |
I am interested in the recovery of unconventional hydrocarbon resources and mitigating carbon emissions from fossil fuels via geological sequestration of greenhouse gases. My research group and I examine the physics of flow through porous media at length scales that vary from the pore to the laboratory to the reservoir. |
Department of Energy Resources Engineering (650) 723-1218 kovscek@stanford.edu |
| Angelle Desiree LaBeaud | Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital |
Our laboratory investigates the epidemiology of arboviral infections, focusing on the burden of disease and the long-term complications on human health. |
dlabeaud@stanford.edu |
| Eric Lambin | George and Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
My research is in the area of human-environment interactions in land systems. I develop integrated approaches to study land use change by linking remote sensing, GIS and socio-economic data. I aim at better understanding causes and impacts of changes in tropical forests, drylands, and farming systems. |
Y2E2 371 elambin@stanford.edu |
| Hau L Lee | Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology |
Hau Lee’s research focuses on value chain innovations to develop new business models and networks for value creation through effective management of the value chain. His works spans both global enterprises in developed and emerging countries, as well as entrepreneurs in developing economies. |
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| Michael Lepech | Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Professor Lepech's research focuses on the integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design, ranging from materials design, structural design, system design, to operations management. |
Yang & Yamazaki Energy & Environment Building Room 285B (650) 724-9459 mlepech@stanford.edu |
| Raymond Levitt | Kumagai Professor in the School of Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Dr. Levitt founded and directs Stanford’s Global Projects Center (GPC), which conducts research, education and outreach aimed at delivering more sustainable global building and infrastructure projects. GPC's recent research focuses on developing more sustainable approaches for the financing and governance of infrastructure projects procured via the Private Partnerships (PPP or P3) delivery approach, and financed by institutional investors like pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. |
Yang & Yamazaki Environment and Energy Buiding |
| David Lobell | Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Woods Institute for the Environment |
We study the interactions between food production, food security, and the environment using a range of modern tools. |
dlobell@stanford.edu |
| Stephen Luby | Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute |
Dr. Luby’s research interests include identifying and interrupting pathways of infectious disease transmission in low income countries. He works primarily in Bangladesh. |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (650) 723-4129 sluby@stanford.edu |
| Richard Luthy | Silas H. Palmer Professor of Civil Engineering and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
His area of teaching and research is environmental engineering and water quality with applications to water reuse, stormwater use, and systems-level analysis of our urban water challenges. His research addresses management of persistent organic contaminants and contaminants of emerging concern in natural systems that are engineered to improve water quality and protect the environment and human health. |
Yang & Yamazaki Environment and Energy Bldg. (650) 721-2615 luthy@stanford.edu |
| Janet Martinez | University Academic staff Law Teaching Sr Lecturer |
Janet Martinez focuses her research and consulting on the lawyer’s role in negotiation, domestically and internationally; conflict resolution system design; facilitation of public disputes, particularly in the fields of international trade and the environment; negotiation and consensus-building training; and negotiation curriculum development for clients in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. |
Gould Center (650) 723-4457 janmartinez@law.stanford.edu |
| Gilbert Masters | Professor (Teaching) of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus |
Gil Masters works on energy efficiency and renewable energy systems as keys to slowing global warming, enhancing energy security, and improving conditions in underserved, rural communities. Although officially retired in 2002, he continues to teach CEE 176A: Energy-Efficient Buildings, and CEE 176B: Electric Power: Renewables and Efficiency. |
(650) 725-1049 gmasters@stanford.edu |
| Pamela Matson | Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Environmental Studies and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute |
Her research addresses a range of environment and sustainability issues, including sustainability of agricultural systems; vulnerability of particular people and places to climate change; and global change in the nitrogen and carbon cycles. With multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, managers, and decision makers, she has worked to develop agricultural approaches that reduce environmental impacts while improving livelihoods and human wellbeing. |
Mitchell 101 (650) 723-2750 Pamela.Matson@stanford.edu |
| Douglas McAdam | Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor |
Collective Action/Social Movements, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity |
Bldg. 120 Room 138 (650) 723-9401 mcadam@stanford.edu |
| Daniel A. McFarland | Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology and of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business |
My current areas of research concern social network analysis, organizations, sociology of knowledge/science, computational social science, microsociology, learning analytics, social ecology, and the sociology of education. |
School of Education (650) 723-2109 mcfarland@stanford.edu |
| Michael McGehee | Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Precourt Institute for Energy |
McGehee's research group studies organic semiconductors, nanostructured materials and solar cells. |
476 Lomita Mall mmcgehee@stanford.edu |
| Lynn Meskell | Professor of Anthropology |
Lynn's current research and teaching interests include a broad range of fields, including ethnography in South Africa, Egyptian archaeology, identity and sociopolitics, gender and feminism, and heritage ethics. Lynn views contemporary archaeology as an anthropology of the past, a contextual and nuanced engagement with ancient culture that mirrors the ethnographic project. |
Dept. of Anthropology (650) 724-1751 lmeskell@stanford.edu |
| Anna Marta Michalak | Environmental Earth System Science Associate Professor (by Courtesy) |
Our research interests focus on characterizing complexity and quantifying uncertainty in environmental systems with the goal of improving our understanding of these systems and our ability to forecast their variability. |
michalak@stanford.edu |
| Fiorenza Micheli | David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Her research interests include species interactions and species-habitat relationships in marine communities, the direct and indirect effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances in the coastal marine environment, and the applications of community ecology to the conservation and restoration of marine ecosystems. |
Hopkins Marine Station (831) 655-6251 micheli@stanford.edu |
| Dale T. Miller | University Faculty Graduate School of Business - Faculty Professor |
His research interests include the impact of social norms on behavior, the role that justice considerations play in individual and organizational decisions, and the conditions under which individuals and organizations abandon one course of action to pursue another. |
Knight Management Building (650) 723-8368 dtmiller@stanford.edu |
| Grant Miller | Associate Professor of Medicine (PCOR), Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Economics and of Health Research and Policy |
As a health and development economist based at the Stanford Medical School, my overarching focus is research and teaching aimed at developing more effective health improvement strategies for developing countries. |
ngmiller@stanford.edu |
| Stephen Monismith | Obayashi Professor in the School of Engineering and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Hydrodynamics of lakes, estuaries, coral reefs, kelp forests and the coastal ocean |
Room 313b (650) 723-3921 monismith@stanford.edu |
| Harold Mooney | Paul S. and Billie Achilles Professor in Environmental Biology, Emeritus |
Harold Mooney has demonstrated that convergent evolution takes place in the properties of different ecosystems that are subject to comparable climates, and has pioneered in the study of the allocation of resources in plants. |
HERRIN LABS RM 477 hmooney@stanford.edu |
| Erin Mordecai | Assistant Professor of Biology |
The community ecology of disease. Impacts of pathogens on plant diversity. Maintenance of parasite and pathogen diversity. Consequences of global change for host-parasite interactions. This work combines mathematical modeling and empirical work. |
Department of Biology (650) 497-7447 emordeca@stanford.edu |
| Clayton Nall | University Faculty Political Science Assistant Professor |
His research explains how policies that manipulate geographic space change American elections, issue politics, and public policy. |
nall@stanford.edu |
| Rosamond Naylor | William Wrigley Professor, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics |
My research focuses on the environmental and equity dimensions of intensive food production systems, and the food security dimensions of low-input systems. |
ENCINA 400 East (650) 723-5697 roz@stanford.edu |
| Leonard Ortolano | UPS Foundation Professor of Civil Engineering in Urban and Regional Planning |
Ortolano is concerned with environmental and water resources policy and planning. His research stresses environmental policy implementation in developing countries and the role of non-governmental organizations in environmental management. His recent interests center on corporate environmental management. |
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (650) 723-2937, (650) 723-4662 ortolano@stanford.edu |
| Stephen Palumbi | Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor in Marine Sciences, Director of the Hopkins Marine Station and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
We're interested in ecological, evolutionary, and conservation questions related to marine (and sometimes terrestrial) organisms and ecosystems. We use evolutionary genetics and molecular ecology techniques, and our fieldwork takes us all around the world. Currently, we're studying coral diversity, the adaptive potential of corals in response to climate change, the movement of organisms between marine reserves, genetic changes in abalone in response to environmental. |
Dept. Biological Sciences (831) 655-6210, (831) 655-6214 spalumbi@stanford.edu |
| Kabir Peay | Assistant Professor of Biology |
Our lab studies the ecological processes that structure natural communities and the links between community structure and the cycling of nutrients and energy through ecosystems. We focus primarily on fungi, as these organisms are incredibly diverse and are the primary agents of carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. By working across multiple scales we hope to build a 'roots-to-biomes' understanding of plant-microbe symbiosis. |
371 Serra Mall (650) 723-0552 kpeay@stanford.edu |
| Erica Plambeck | Charles A. Holloway Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Erica Plambeck is an expert in manufacturing operations and supply chain management, and her current research focuses on environmental sustainability. |
Knight Management Center elp@stanford.edu |
| Walter W. Powell | Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Management Science & Engineering, of Communication, of Sociology and of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business |
Powell works in the areas of organization theory, economic sociology, and the sociology of science. He is interested in the processes through which knowledge is transferred across organizations, and the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation, and institutions in codifying ideas. His current work focuses on the emergence of novel organizational forms. |
(650) 725-7391 |
| Dariush Rafinejad | Consulting Associate Professor, Management Science and Engineering |
I teach sustainable product design in the Product Realization Network. I have many years of experience as a senior executive in Silicon Valley high-tech industries, serving Corporate Vice President at both Applied Materials and LAM Research, both semiconductor process equipment manufacturers. I am currently president and founder of Blue Dome Consulting. |
rafineja@stanford.edu |
| Ram Rajagopal | Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering |
Professor Rajogopal works on renewable energy, the smart grid, algorithms for load forecasting, dynamic response, and energy policy. |
(650) 725-4268 ram.rajagopal@stanford.edu |
| Hayagreeva Rao | University Faculty Graduate School of Business - Faculty Professor |
Professor Rao studies collective action within organizations and in markets. His research and by implication, His teaching devolves around scaling up mobilization, innovation, and talent in organizations. |
hrao@stanford.edu |
| Stefan J Reichelstein | William R. Timken Professor in the Graduate School of Business |
He is known internationally for his research on the interface of management accounting and economics. Much of his work has addressed issues in cost- and profitability analysis, decentralization, internal pricing and performance measurement. |
Littlefield 255 (650) 736-1129 sterei@stanford.edu |
| Thomas Robinson | The Irving Schulman, M.D. Endowed Professor in Child Health and Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center) |
Dr. Robinson originated the solution-oriented research paradigm and directs the Stanford Solutions Science Lab. He is known for his pioneering obesity prevention and treatment research, including the concept of stealth interventions. His research applies social cognitive models of behavior change to behavioral, social, environmental and policy interventions for children and families in real world settings, making the results relevant for informing clinical and public health practice and policy. |
Solutions Science Lab (650) 723-5331 tom.robinson@stanford.edu |
| Robert Sapolsky | John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor and Professor of Neurology and of Neurosurgery | Neuron death, stress, gene therapy |
GILBERT HALL (650) 723-2649 sapolsky@stanford.edu |
| Debra Satz | Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities and Arts, The Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science |
I am currently working on two main projects. The first project concerns the basis for and nature of the state's obligation to provide an education to its citizens. The second project concerns the relationship between markets and social equality. I am especially interested in the ways that markets can support, but also undermine, the relationship between citizens as equal members of a democratic society. |
BLDG. 1, room 109 (650) 723-2133, (650) 723-2547 dsatz@stanford.edu |
| Gary Schoolnik | Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Emeritus |
Structure-function analysis of bacterial adhesion proteins and toxins; design and synthesis of synthetic antigens; immunobiology of human papillomaviruses |
Beckman B241 schoolni@cmgm.stanford.edu |
| W Scott | Professor of Sociology, Emeritus |
He is an organizational sociologist who has concentrated his work on the study of professional organizations, including educational, engineering, medical, research, social welfare, and medical systems. |
Bldg. 120 Room 236 (650) 723-3956, (650) 723-3959 scottwr@stanford.edu |
| Baba Shiv | University Faculty Graduate School of Business - Faculty Professor |
Baba Shiv's research expertise is in the area of neuroeconomics, with specific emphasis on the role of neural structures related to emotion and motivation in shaping decisions and experiences. |
655 Knight Way (650) 725-8122 bshiv@stanford.edu |
| Itamar Simonson | University Faculty Graduate School of Business - Faculty Professor |
Itamar Simonson’s research includes consumer decision making, buyer behavior, consumer evaluation of brands and promotional offers, marketing management, and survey methods. Some of Simonson’s studies demonstrate a variety of seemingly irrelevant and irrational influences on consumers' decisions. These studies introduce a new perspective on consumer behavior and suggest more effective approaches to the design of market research investigations and marketing strategies. |
Knight Center (650) 725-8981 itamars@stanford.edu |
| Deborah Sivas | Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law, Director of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment |
Her current research is focused on the interaction of law and science in the arena of climate change and coastal/marine policy and the ability of the public to hold policymakers accountable. |
Environmental Law Clinic dsivas@stanford.edu |
| Sarah Soule | Morgridge Professor in the Graduate School of Business and Professor, by courtesy, of Sociology |
Her research examines state and organizational-level policy change and diffusion, and the role social movements have on these processes. |
Faculty West Building W244 soule@stanford.edu |
| Charles David Sprenger | Assistant Professor of Economics |
Experimental tests of risk and time preferences and their predictive validity. |
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| Stephen J. Stedman | University Faculty FSI Senior Fellow |
international organizations and global security; civil wars; mediation; conflict prevention; peacekeeping |
Encina Hall, 2nd floor (650) 725-2705 sstedman@stanford.edu |
| Jim Francis, Jr Sweeney |
Economic and environmental effects of environmental policies; Implications of environmental policy for technological innovation. |
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| Leon Szeptycki | Professor of the Practice, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment |
Leon is an attorney who specializes in water quality, water use and watershed restoration. His work includes issues related to stream flow restoration in the context of the western appropriative rights system and increasing human demands on water. |
leonsz@stanford.edu |
| Leif Thomas | Associate Professor of Earth System Science |
Physical oceanography; theory and numerical modeling of the ocean circulation; dynamics of ocean fronts and vortices; upper ocean processes; air-sea interaction. |
473 Via Ortega Y2E2 Bldg (650) 721-1140 leift@stanford.edu |
| Barton Thompson | Robert E. Paradise Professor in Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute |
A leading expert in environmental and natural resources law and policy, Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson, Jr. has contributed a large body of scholarship on environmental issues ranging from the future of endangered species and fisheries to the use of economic techniques for regulating the environment. |
CROWN QUAD N343 (650) 723-2518 buzzt@stanford.edu |
| Shripad Tuljapurkar | The Dean and Virginia Morrison Professor of Population Studies |
Stochastic dynamics of human and natural populations; prehistoric societies; probability forecasts including sex ratios, mortality, aging and fiscal balance; life history evolution. |
Herrin Labs 454 (650) 723-6311, (650) 724-4171 tulja@stanford.edu |
| Peter Vitousek | Clifford G. Morrison Professor in Population and Resource Studies, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Earth System Science |
Vitousek's research interests include: evaluating the global cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, and how they are altered by human activity; understanding how the interaction of land and culture contributed to the sustainability of Hawaiian (and other Pacific) agriculture and society before European contact; and working to make fertilizer applications more efficient and less environmentally damaging (especially in rapidly growing economies) |
Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building 375 (650) 725-1866 vitousek@stanford.edu |
| Michael W Wara | University Faculty Law School Assoc Professor |
An expert on energy and environmental law, Michael Wara’s research focuses on climate and electricity policy. His current scholarship lies at the intersection between environmental law, energy law, international relations, atmospheric science, and technology policy. |
michael.wara@stanford.edu |
| Jeremy Weinstein | Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies |
ivil war; ethnic politics; political economy of development; Africa |
jweinst@stanford.edu |
| John Weyant | Professor (Research) of Management Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy |
His current research focuses on analysis of global climate change policy options, energy efficiency analysis, energy technology assessment, and models for strategic planning. |
Huang Engineering Center (650) 723-0645, (650) 723-3506 weyant@stanford.edu |
| Richard White | Margaret Byrne Professor of American History |
Richard White is a Pulitzer-Prize nominated historian specializing in the history of the American west, environmental history and Native American history. |
BLDG. 200 Rm 31 (650) 723-2651 whiter@stanford.edu |
| Jennifer Wilcox | Assistant Professor of Energy Resources Engineering |
Modeling and measurement of trace metal speciation, i.e., mercury, arsenic, and selenium, released from coal combustion or gasification processes; sorbent design for high-temperature mercury capture; catalytic membrane design for CO2/H2 separation; CO2 sequestration; coal-to-liquid catalyst design. |
(650) 724-9449 jen.wilcox@stanford.edu |
| Michael V. Wilcox | University Faculty Anthropology Assoc Professor-Teaching |
Professor Wilcox's main research interests include Native American ethnohistory in the American Southwest; the history of Pueblo Peoples in New Mexico; Indigenous Archaeology; ethnic identity and conflict; DNA, race and cultural identity in archaeology and popular culture; and the political and historical relationships between Native Americans, anthropologists and archaeologists. |
BLDG. 40-41G (650) 736-1255 mwilcox@stanford.edu |
| Mikael Wolfe | Assistant Professor of History |
I am an environmental historian of modern Mexico and Latin America focusing on the history of water control, agrarian reform, hydraulic technology, drought and climate change. |
mikaelw@stanford.edu |
| Mark Zoback | Benjamin M. Page Professor in Earth Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy |
I conduct research on in situ stress, fault mechanics, and reservoir geomechanics with an emphasis on shale gas, tight gas and tight oil production, the feasibility of long-term geologic storage of CO2 and the occurrence of induced and triggered earthquakes. |
MITCHELL 347 (650) 725-9295 zoback@stanford.edu |
