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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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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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Yi Cui is harnessing the power of nanoscience to grow extremely small structures—which play a huge role in the clean energy transition.
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Ching-Yao Lai combines her passion for physics with climate science to better understand Earth’s polar ice sheets and how they contribute to climate change.
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Associate Professor Jane Willenbring brings her passion for people and surface processes to understand how environmental changes impact life on Earth, and how life impacts the planet.
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Hunt Allcott explores how new environmental solutions can be made as effective, sustainable, and equitable as possible.
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Yuan Wang seeks to understand how particle pollution from vehicles, industry, and wildfires affects our future climate and extreme weather events like hurricanes.
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"As a kid I would go to construction sites with my dad, a civil engineer, and he’d show me plans for putting reinforcement inside concrete columns. Together, we would count that the right amount of steel was there to protect a structure."
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For Aditi Sheshadri, an assistant professor of Earth system science, a career studying atmospheric dynamics launched from an early interest in space propulsion.
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Stanford scientist Tiziana Vanorio learned the value of public service from growing up in a family with a calling for ethics and justice. Now, she sees her work developing a low-carbon cement as her way of giving back.
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"I mostly study earthquakes and wave loading conditions, but climate change is driving more disastrous hurricanes, increased flooding, and catastrophic wildfires, all of which increase the risk to our civil infrastructure."
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As a young adult, Ayla Pamukçu found herself at a crossroads between college and culinary school. Thanks in part to an influential box of rocks, she chose a research path that eventually led to a career studying the inner workings of the Earth.
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"Life has taken me on a long journey. My family fled Somalia and ended up in a refugee camp in Mombasa, Kenya, where we spent four years. I was born there, and two years later we were granted asylum and came to the States."
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Years after Hurricane Katrina altered his life’s course, Elliott White Jr. set out to understand what drives coastal wetland loss as a way to help lessen harm from future climate impacts for vulnerable coastal communities.
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Geomicrobiologist Paula Welander has come to see microbes as a system for grappling with complex questions about life, evolution and ancient Earth.
