Michael Ford
Associate Laboratory Director for Engineering, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Location: PPPL, MS-38, LSB 380
Phone Number: 609-243-2866
Email Address: mjford@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Technology development and engineering risk; assessment of complex technologies that may support decarbonization of the energy system. Fission and fusion systems R&D; reactor safeguards, regulatory policy and proliferation risk; Research employs process modeling, systems engineering, engineering economics, and quantitative risk and decision analysis.
Research Areas: Behavior, Economics, Policy, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Christopher Greig
Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Senior Research Scientist at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow in Energy and the Environment (2018-2020)
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location:
Phone Number: 609-258-7833
Email Address: cgreig@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Chris Greig is the Theodora D. and William H. Walton III Senior Research Scientist at Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), and holds an adjunct professorial appointment at the University of Queensland in Australia.
His ten-year academic career follows almost three decades of international experience in the private sector, firstly as a company founder, and then in senior executive and non-executive director roles in major engineering, energy, and resources companies. These included the CEO of ZeroGen (one of the early CCS ventures), the Deputy Chair of Gladstone Ports Corp, and the Non-Executive Director of several listed engineering firms.
At Princeton, Chris initiated the Rapid Switch Initiative at the Andlinger Center and is an Affiliated Faculty member of Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute. His research combines, engineering, business, and social sciences to explore the challenges of rapid decarbonization for different regions and sectors. He is particularly focused on how to bridge modeled energy scenarios and real-world implementation. He co-led Princeton’s influential Net-Zero America (2020) study which describes five net-zero emissions pathways for the United States at an unprecedented level of detail. Chris is also leading Princeton’s efforts on similar collaborative studies with universities in Australia, and Asia.
Research Areas: Batteries, Behavior, Carbon Capture & Storage, Climate Change, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Energy Systems Analysis, Fuels, Industrial Processes, Nuclear Energy, Policy, Renewable Energy, Social Science of Energy & Environment, Solar, Transmission, Waste Heat Recovery, Wind
John Pickering
Andlinger Center Non-Resident Fellow
Chief Executive Officer, Evidn.
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Phone Number:
Email Address: jpickering@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Specializes in the design and delivery of population-level behavior change programs
Research Areas: Behavior
Eldar Shafir
Class of 1987 Professor in Behavioral Science and Public Policy
Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Inaugural Director, Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy
Andlinger Center Associated Faculty
Location: 531 Peretsman Scully Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-5624
Email Address: shafir@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Behavioral interventions; reasoning, judgment, and decision-making, and issues related to behavioral economics, with an emphasis on descriptive studies of how people make judgments and decisions in situations of conflict and uncertainty
Research Areas: Behavior, Social Science of Energy & Environment
Elke U. Weber
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Associate Director for Education, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Andlinger Center Executive Committee
Location: 86 Olden Street
Phone Number: 646-896-9410
Email Address: eweber@princeton.edu
Research Description:
Questions at the intersection of psychology, economics, engineering, and policy that address the importance and role of descriptive/behavioral models of judgment and decision-making under risk and uncertainty and for decisions with long time horizons in environmental and energy-related decision making and policy. Psychologically appropriate ways to measure and model individual, group, or cultural differences in risk taking and time discounting across domains.
Research Areas: Behavior, Climate Change, Economics, Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Social Science of Energy & Environment