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Driven by a collaborative community of scholars, Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow Jean-Baptiste Jouffray studies marine social-ecological systems with an interdisciplinary lens.
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Xavier Basurto explores how small-scale fisheries and other communities come to value the future and their environment ahead of short-term personal gain.
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Lauren Dunford, ’09, MBA ’18, is using real-time data to streamline manufacturing.
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For geophysicist Jenny Suckale, helping underserved communities navigate the extremes of climate change requires a new perspective on both.
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Ermakov combines planetary science and exploration to learn new – and often surprising – details about the structure and evolution of planetary bodies.
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From June to September 2024, Benedict Chen, E-IPER MBA-MS ’25, worked at Mitra Chem through the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Summer Internship Program. Mitra Chem is a startup based in Mountain View that innovates in and develops iron-based cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
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A Stanford alumna’s career gave her an inside look at the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and the White House. Today, she guides the scientific agenda for the world’s largest association of Earth and space scientists.
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Deemed both a force of nature and a force for nature, the Stanford energy champion has propelled thousands of students and expanded access to energy education worldwide.
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Stanford Impact Founder Ecopreneurship Fellow Raj Tilwa, MBA ’24 is electrifying personal heating systems for homes and businesses.
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Sarah Johnson, ’16, MBA ’22, sees promise in fixing broken digital devices.
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Assistant Professor of chemical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering William Tarpeh brings his love of problem-solving to his research.
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Steve Davis has taken an unconventional path from philosophy to Earth system science and research showing how decisions related to food, energy, and trade affect climate outcomes.
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When the school was founded in September 2022, it included a commitment to hire as many as 60 new faculty in critical areas of research. This fall, the school welcomed eight new faculty members who research behavioral science, decision-making, oceans, climate science, materials science, and more.
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Solomon Hsiang combines data science, natural science, and social science to answer key policy questions about climate change and other fundamentally global problems.
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Hélène Benveniste investigates how climate change is reshaping global migration patterns, what the future holds, and how countries can work together for solutions.
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A Stanford fraternity is restoring native California coastal habitats and redefining what it means to be part of Greek life, one plant at a time.
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Madalina Vlasceanu studies the cognitive, behavioral, and societal barriers to addressing climate change – and how to overcome them.
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Colin Ophus is an expert in using electron microscopy to understand the atomic structure of promising new materials. He uses that expertise to explore ways to produce energy with less pollution and waste.
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Kristen Davis seeks to understand how physical processes in the ocean shape coastal ecosystems and support climate resilience.
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"I remember daycare trips to coastal parks, and for most of my childhood I fell asleep at night to a sound machine playing the sound of breaking waves. My parents are geologists who really enjoy nature, so we spent a lot of time outdoors. Most families have family portraits hanging on the walls, but we had vials of sand samples clustered along ours."
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PhD student Eeshan Chaturvedi is driven to create meaningful change worldwide. He’s advancing sustainability through both his legal research and global leadership.
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Intent on having a widespread impact, Evelyn Pung focuses on work that simultaneously improves the health of people and the environment.
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For Juan Martín Cevallos López, what started as a sense of wonder for the ocean has flourished into a passion for oceanography and research that bridges disciplines.
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With a natural curiosity and no-nonsense approach, Trent La Sage is pursuing research that brings together physics, Earth science, and materials science.