Lab Members

Ph.D. Students

Amber Kerr

Renewable energy; sustainable development; climate change; ecology and biogeochemistry; agroforestry.

Barbara Haya

Equity within international efforts to mitigate climate change, the Clean Development Mechanism, international finance institutions, power sector restructuring in South East Asia.

Christian E. Casillas

Rural electrification, local manufacture of small wind systems, design and management of hybrid renewable energy/diesel minigrids. Social and economic impacts of electrification on rural communities.

Derek Lemoine
Fermin Reygadas

Rural energy; water purification systems; cookstoves; energy policy in developing countries; migration; renewable energy; appropriate technologies; Latin America.

Fredrich Kahrl

Energy/water infrastructure in developing countries amidst rapid urbanization.

Josiah Johnston

Poverty alleviation via product design and sustainable community development.
Climate Change mitigation via electric grid planning

Malini Ranganathan
Naïm Richard Dargouth
Rebecca Ghanadan

Energy and development pathways, Renewable energy, energy efficiency & appropriate technologies, local-national-international linkages of policy and technology choices, Small and medium scale enterprises, Geographic interest in Sub-Saharan Africa.