Environment Experts

Experts are listed alphabetically.


Paul T. Anastas Ph.D.

Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment


Field & Expertise

Environment

Green chemistry, climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, sustainability

Kai Chen Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
  • Director of Research, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
  • Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Field & Expertise

Environment, Health & Medicine

Environment, Health & Medicine

Daniel C. Esty J.D.
  • Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy
  • Director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy

Field & Expertise

Environment

Climate change policy, green chemistry

Justin Farrell Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology


Field & Expertise

Environment

Environmental politics, data science, sociology of religion, American West

Kenneth Gillingham Ph.D.

Professor of Economics, Yale School of the Environment


Field & Expertise

Environment

Green infrastructure, energy consumption, electric grid, electric vehicles

 

J. Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment


Field & Expertise

Environment

Climate, agriculture, smallholders, coffee, forest

Matthew Kotchen Ph.D.

Professor of Economics


Field & Expertise

Environment, Social Sciences/Politics

Social Costs of Carbon, Carbon Pricing, Fossil Fuel Company Subsidies, Natural Resource Policy

Anthony Leiserowitz Ph.D.
  • Senior Research Scientist
  • Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
  • Lecturer

Field & Expertise

Environment

Climate change, public opinion on global warming

Reid J. Lifset M.S.
  • Research Scholar, Yale School of the Environment
  • Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology
  • Associate Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program
  • Founding Editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology

Field & Expertise

Environment

Recycling, waste management, circular economy, extended producer responsibility

Narasimha Rao Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Energy Systems, Yale School of the Environment
  • Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
  • Adjunct Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment in Bangalore, India

Field & Expertise

Environment

The effects of climate change policies on vulnerable and low-income communities; Raising standards of living while also addressing environmental issues; Equity in energy transitions; Cooling the planet while not heating the planet