Fellows
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Faculty Fellows
The Payne Faculty Fellows are drawn from across Colorado School of Mines. From science, math, and engineering, to the social sciences, they are some of the finest researchers in the world.
DISCLAIMER: The opinions, beliefs, and viewpoints expressed are those of the Fellows alone, and do not reflect the opinions, beliefs, viewpoints, or official policies of the Payne Institute or Colorado School of Mines.
Peter Aaen
Department Head and Professor, Electrical Engineering
Angel Abbud-Madrid
Director, Center for Space Resources; Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Linda Ann Battalora
Teaching Professor,
Petroleum Engineering
Ebru Bozdag
Assistant Professor Geophysics
Robert Braun
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Lincoln Carr
Professor, Physics
James Crompton
Professor of Practice, Petroleum Engineering
Carol Dahl
Research Professor and Professor Emeritus,
Economics and Business
Graham A. Davis
Professor Emeritus
Economics and Business
Raphael Deberdt
Post Doctorate Fellow,
Department of Mining Engineering
Steven C. DeCaluwe
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mark Deinert
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
H. Sebnem Duzgun
Roderick Eggert
Professor & Viola Vestal Coulter Chair in Mineral Economics, Deputy Director of Critical Materials Institute
Ben Gilbert
Assistant Professor,
Economics and Business
Marte Gutierrez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dorit Hammerling
Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Kathleen Hancock
Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
John Heilbrunn
Emeritus Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Chris Higgins
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Elizabeth Holley
Assistant Professor,
Mining Engineering
Qiuhua Huang
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering
Greg Jackson
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Zane Jobe
Research Associate Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering;
Director, Chevron Center of Research Excellence
Eliot Kapit
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
Rennie Kaunda
Assistant Professor, Mining Engineering
Jihye Kim
Assistant Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Philip S. (Flip) Koch
Rock Mechanics, Structural Analysis, Economic Development, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering
Carolyn Koh
William K. Coors Distinguished Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ian Lange
Program Director,
Mineral and Energy Economics;
Assistant Professor,
Economics and Business
NATHAN LENSSEN
ADRIENNE MARSHALL
Mike McGuirk
Jennifer Miskimins
Department Head and Professor
Petroleum Engineering
Aashutosh Mistry
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Salman Mohagheghi
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering
Priscilla Nelson
Professor,
Mining Engineering
Alexandra Newman
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Dag Nummedal
Former Director, Colorado Energy Research Institute (retired)
PIRET PLINK-BJÖRKLUND
Associate Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
John Poate
Emeritus Senior Vice-President of Research
Svitlana Pylypenko
Ryan M. Richards
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Director, Joint Mines/NREL NEXUS Center
Paul Santi
Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering
Amy Schweikert
Research Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alan Sellinger
Associate Professor,
Chemistry
JENIFER C. SHAFER
Nuclear Science & Engineering Program
MATTHEW SIEGFRIED
Geophysics
Kamini Singha
Professor and Ben Fryrear Endowed Chair for Innovation and Excellence; Associate Department Head, Geology and Geological Engineering; Interim Director, Hydrologic Science and Engineering
Jessica Smith
Co-Director, Humanitarian Engineering; Associate Professor, Engineering,
Design & Society
Nicole Smith
Mining Engineering
Steven M. Smith
Economics and Business
Stephen A. Sonnenberg
George Sowers
John Speer
Erik Spiller
Brennan Sprinkle
Neal Sullivan
Kenneth (Xerxes) Steirer
Paulo Cesar Tebares-Velasco
Mechanical Engineering
JOHN TILTON
Economics and Business
ERIC TOBERER
Fryrear Chair for Innovation and Excellence
LORI E. TUNSTALL
Civil and Environmental Engineering
RYAN VENTURELLI
Geology and Geological Engineering
Non-resident Fellows
Our non-resident Fellows bring a wealth of insights to the work of the Institute. Together, they comprise one of the finest set of energy, environment, and natural resources experts in the world.
DISCLAIMER: The opinions, beliefs, and viewpoints expressed are those of the Fellows alone, and do not reflect the opinions, beliefs, viewpoints, or official policies of the Payne Institute or Colorado School of Mines.
Peri-Khan
Aqrawi-Whitcomb
Sustainable Development and Policy Consultant
Benjamin Attia
Principal Research Analyst,
Wood Mackenzie
Michael Baskin
Strategic Partnerships Manager for the Department of Defense, NREL
Will Blyth
Director, Oxford Energy Associates
Joshua Busby
Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin
Ben Caldecott
Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme
James Cameron
Partner, SystemiQ
Chairman, Overseas Development Institute
Todd Chapman
Former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and Ecuador
Bhargavi (Bhar) Chekuri, MD
Climate & Health Science Policy Fellow,
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Siew Chiang
Knowledge Analyst (Low-Carbon Solutions), Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Kipp Coddington
Director, Energy Policy and Economics
School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming
Michael Cohen
Chief U.S. Economist and Head of Oil Analysis at BP
Jeff D. Colgan
Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science, Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs, Brown University
CHRIS CONLEY
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard (retired)
W. Grover Coors
Phillip Cornell
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Trisha Curtis
President and Co-Founder of Petronerds
Jim Cust
Economist, World Bank
David Daniels
Division of Physical Resource Theory, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology
Paul Deane
Research Fellow, Energy and Climate Policy, MaREI Centre, University College Cork
Liam Denning
Bloomberg Opinion, Energy Columnist
Eleanor Denny
Associate Professor, Economics, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin
Bassam Fattouh
Director, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Francesco Fuso-Nerini
Assistant Professor, Division of Energy Systems Analysis,
Royal Institute of Technology
Alex Gilbert
Director of Space & Planetary Regulation, Zeno Power
Andreas Goldthau
Professor, International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
Greer Gosnell
Senior Environmental Economist, Rethink Priorities, Affiliate Faculty in Division of Economics and Business, Colorado School of Mines
Steven Griffiths
Senior Vice President, Research and Development; Professor of Practice, Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Samantha Gross
Fellow in Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution; Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate
Thomas Hale
Associate Professor, Global Public Policy; Director for China Engagement, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Bjorn Hamso
Program Manager, Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, World Bank Group
Brad Handler
Principal, Energy Transitions Research, LLC
Arthur Hanna
Senior Managing Director, Energy, Accenture Strategy, Accenture
Sara Hastings-Simon
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
Charles Heaps
Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute-U.S.
Cullen Hendrix
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Emily Sarah Hersh
Managing Partner, DCDB Group
Gavin Hilson
Chair of Sustainability in Business, University of Surrey
Paulina Jaramillo
Associate Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert Johnston
Chief Executive Officer,
Eurasia Group
Rory Johnston
Commodity Economist, Scotiabank
George Kararach
Lead Economist, African Development Bank
Thomas Kenyon
Senior Economist,
World Bank
Carolyn Kissane
Academic Director and Clinical Associate Professor,
School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs,
New York University
Karen Lechtenberg
Director of Geoscience, Carbon America
Jay Lemery, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Gregory Leng
Director, RETScreen International
David Livingston
Deputy Director, Climate
and Advanced Energy,
Atlantic Council
Richard Luarkie
Tribal Member, Pueblo of Laguna Tribe
Iain MacGill
Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications,
UNSW Sydney
Paasha Mahdavi
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California Santa Barbara
Mike Matson
Associate Director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Alex McLean
Partner, Head of Infrastructure, Construction and Utilities, Arthur Cox
Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
Professor and Interim Director, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
Scott Moskowitz
Director of Strategy and Market Intelligence at Hanwha Q CELLS America, Inc.
Todd Moss
Executive Director,
Energy for Growth Hub
Dustin Mulvaney
Professor, Environmental Studies Department
San José State University
Julia Nesheiwat
Chief Resilience Officer,
State of Florida
William J. Nuttall
Professor of Energy,
The Open University
Joseph Nyangon
Power and Energy Systems Engineering Economist, SAS Institute
Nadia Ouedraogo
Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Ian Parry
Principal Environmental Fiscal Policy Expert, Fiscal Affairs, International Monetary Fund
Michael Pollitt
Professor of Business Economics, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Arvind Ravikumar
Research Associate Professor, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas Austin
Edmund Rawle
Chief Economist, ADNOC
Jun Rentschler
Economist, World Bank
Keywan Riahi
Director, IIASA Energy Program
Luis Rodriguez
Founder and CEO, Raisa Energy
JAMAL SAGHIR
Professor of Practice, Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University
Patricia Schouker
Energy Analyst; Founder and CEO, Energy Bridge Consulting; Associate Member, New College, Oxford University
Sridhar Seetharaman
Professor Vice Dean for Research and Innovation,
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering,
Arizona State University
David Shrier
Founder and CEO,
Distilled Analytics
Kartikeya Singh
Deputy Director, Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Barbara Smith
Principal and Founder, Mountain Time Development
Jon Sohn
Director, U.S. Government Relations, Capital Power
Simone Tagliapietra
Energy and Climate Fellow, Bruegel; Senior Researcher, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Griffin Thompson
Director, Office of Electricity and Energy Efficiency, U.S. Department of State
Richard Tol
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Sussex
Michael Toman
Research Manager, Sustainable Development, Development Research Group, World Bank
Johannes Urpelainen
Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Thijs Van de Graaf
Assistant Professor, International Politics,
Ghent University, Belgium
Eirik Wærness
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Equinor
CHRIS WEIBLE
Co-director, Workshop on Policy Process Research; Director, University of CO Denver School of Public Affairs, PhD Program
MANUEL WELSCH
Energy Planner and Economist, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Cyril Widdershoven
Founder, Verocy
Global Energy Market Expert
Gregory Wischer
Principal
Dei Gratia Minerals
Frank Wouters
Director, EU GCC Clean Energy Technology Network
Sonia Yeh
Professor, Transport and Energy Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Michael Young
Arctic Security and Policy Consultant
Hisham Zerriffi
Associate Professor, Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia