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
Christine Conwell
Interim Executive Director
Strategic Energy Institute
Richard Simmons
Director of Research & Studies
Strategic Energy Institute
Yang You
Research Associate II
EPIcenter
Trisha Sisk
Director of Activities & Engagement
Strategic Energy Institute
Priya Devarajan
Research Communications Program 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.
Miguel Granier
Distinguished External Fellow
Andrea Pinabell
Distinguished External Fellow
Scott McWhorter
Distinguished External Fellow
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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; equity in energy and environmental systems; urban carbon management systems.
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 (small modular reactors); 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.
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 impacts on energy innovation and diffusion, and market-based incentives; Voluntary programs; Energy, climate, and environmental policy.
Tony Harding
Assistant Professor, School of Economics
Research Interests: Energy and environmental economics; Intersections between energy policy and economics.
Matthew OIiver
Associate Professor, School of Economics
Research Interests: International development; Energy infrastructure; Energy and environment.
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Faculty Affiliates
(Engineering)
Joe F. Bozeman III
Assistant Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Socio-demographic 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: Electric Vehicles; Power systems and electric vehicles; Control and operation of decarbonized power systems.
Dan Molzahn
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Power systems optimization; Non-linearities resulting from power flow equations; uncertainties related to renewable energy generation.
Valerie Thomas
Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems, Professor, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Research Interests: Energy and materials efficiency; sustainability; industrial ecology; international security; carbon capture; electricity system development; building construction.
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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