tHE Epicenter team
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EPIcenter
The EPIcenter leadership team is committed to energy innovation and is working to help Georgia Tech lead the Southeast toward a resilient and reliable energy future.
Laura Taylor
Director
EPIcenter
Gilbert X. Gonzalez
Program Support Coordinator
EPIcenter
Yang You
Research Associate II
EPIcenter
Richard Simmons
Director of Research & Studies
Strategic Energy Institute
Trisha Sisk
Director of Activities & Engagement
Strategic Energy Institute
Priya Devarajan
Research Communications Manager
Strategic Energy Institute
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External Fellows
External Fellows are energy industry experts who work closely with EPICenter to ensure that EPICenter stays abreast of current industry trends and issues.
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Initiative Leads
Initiate Leads are Georgia Tech faculty who lead campus efforts to promote multi-disciplinary research across campus and nurture industry and non-profit partnerships within their respective domains.
Joe F. Bozeman III
Assistant Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Health Equity & Energy Transitions Lead
Research Interests: Socio-demographic impacts of the food-energy-water nexus; energy and environmental systems equity; urban carbon management.
Jennifer Hirsch
Senior Director, SCoRE
Sustainable Communities Lead
Research Interests: Equity and sustainable built environments; grassroots sustainability innovation; community leadership in energy equity.
Debra Lam
Principal Researcher, Managing Director, Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation
Smart Cities & Inclusive Communities Lead
Research Interests: Inclusive Innovation; Smart cities; Urban Innovation.
Dan Molzahn
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Energy Club Lead
Research Interests: Power systems optimization; Non-linearities resulting from power flow equations; uncertainties related to renewable energy generation.
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Faculty Affiliates
(Economics & Policy)
Faculty Affiliates are an informal advisory committee that helps advise EPICenter and who also work to connect Georgia Tech energy researchers across campus to policy and decision-makers throughout the Southeast.
Brian An
Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy
Research Interests: Urban innovation; Climate change and natural disasters; Emergency management; Power outage; Grid and community resilience; Nuclear energy; Smart cities
Omar Asensio
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy
Research Interests: Energy efficiency, markets, and policy; Market-based incentives; Smart grid and transportation; Sustainability policy.
Dylan Brewer
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
Research Interests: Energy economics; Environmental economics; Industrial organization.
Marilyn Brown
Regents’ Professor, School of Public Policy
Research Interests: Clean energy policy; Energy markets and efficiency; Regulations and standards; Financing and subsidies; Climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Tony Harding
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
Research Interests: Energy and environmental economics; Intersections between energy policy and economics.
Matthew Oliver
Associate Professor, School of Economics
Research Interests: Energy infrastructure; International development; Energy and environment.
Paige Clayton
Assistant Professor, School of City & Regional Planning
Research Interests: Regional patterns of technological and entrepreneurial development; Economic development; the role of incubators; Science and technology policy.
Bobby Harris
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
Research Interests: Public economics; Climate policy and the energy transition; Applied microeconomics.
Casey Wichman
Associate Professor, School of Economics
Research Interests: Applied econometrics; Environmental economics; Public economics.
Gaurav Doshi
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
Research Interests: Energy Economics; Environmental economics; Industrial organization – firms responses to energy policy changes in energy markets.
Daniel Matisoff
Professor, School of Public Policy
Research Interests: Policy on energy innovation and diffusion; market-based incentives; Corporate Sustainability; Climate and environmental policy.
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Faculty Affiliates
(Engineering)
Joe F. Bozeman III
Assistant Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Impacts of the food-energy-water nexus; Equity in energy and environmental systems; Urban carbon management systems.
Constance Crozier
Assistant Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research Interests: Low carbon power systems; Power systems and electric vehicles; Control and operation of decarbonized power systems.
Santiago Carlos Grijalva
Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Machine Learning and AI; Cyber-physical security; Electricity markets design; power system economics.
Dan Molzahn
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Power systems optimization; Non-linearities from power flow equations; Uncertainties related to energy generation.
Valorie Thomas
Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems, Professor, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Research Interests: Energy and materials efficiency; Industrial ecology; International security; Carbon capture; Electricity system development.
Micah Ziegler
Assistant Professor and John Woody Faculty Fellow, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Sustainable energy and chemical technologies; Energy storage; Innovation and technology deployment.
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