Environment

Fields of Expertise

Environment Experts

  • Paul Anastas, Ph.D.

    Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment
    Expertise: Green chemistry, climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, sustainability

  • Kai Chen, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences); Faculty Director, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
    Expertise: Environment, health and medicine

  • Daniel C. Esty, J.D.

    Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, jointly with Yale Law School; Director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy
    Expertise: Climate change policy, green chemistry

  • Justin Farrell, Ph.D.

    Professor of Sociology
    Expertise: Environmental politics, data science, sociology of religion, American West

  • Kenneth Gillingham, Ph.D.

    Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; Grinstein Class of 1954 Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics
    Expertise: Green infrastructure, energy consumption, electric grid, electric vehicles

  • J. Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera, Ph.D.

    Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment
    Expertise: Climate, agriculture, smallholders, coffee, forest

  • Matthew J. Kotchen, Ph.D.

    Langdon K. Storm Professor of Economics
    Expertise: Social costs of carbon, carbon pricing, fossil fuel company subsidies, natural resource policy

  • Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D.

    JoshAni-TomKat Professor of Climate Communication; Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC)
    Expertise: Climate change, public opinion on global warming

  • Reid J. Lifset, M.S.

    Research Scholar, Yale School of the Environment; Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology; Founding Editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology
    Expertise: Recycling, waste management, circular economy, extended producer responsibility

  • Narasimha Rao, Ph.D.

    Professor of Energy Systems, Yale School of the Environment
    Expertise: 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