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
John Pickering
Andlinger Center Non-Resident Fellow
Chief Executive Officer, Evidn.
Location:
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