Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability


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  • Elizabeth Hadly

    Elizabeth Hadly

    Paul S. and Billie Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology and Professor of Earth System Science, Emerita

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsElizabeth Hadly and her lab probe how perturbations such as climatic change and human modification of the environment influence the evolution and ecology of animals.

  • Sebastian Heilpern

    Sebastian Heilpern

    Assistant Professor

    BioSebastian is an ecologist and sustainability scientist studying the causes of biodiversity change and its consequences for ecosystems and human well-being, with a particular emphasis on aquatic ecosystems. In linking causes to consequences, his research also seeks to identify opportunities to align biodiversity conservation with societal objectives around public health, food systems, and renewable energy. His research integrates field work, data science and synthesis, and spans scales from local and regional studies in tropical river basins such as the Amazon to global analyses. He is an incoming Assistant Professor in Earth System Science, starting in January, 2026. Prior to joining Stanford, he was an Eric & Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University.

  • Natalie Herbert

    Natalie Herbert

    Social Science Research Scholar

    BioNATALIE HERBERT is a Research Scientist in the Department of Earth Systems Science at the Doerr School of Sustainability. Her research investigates decision-making in the face of environmental risk. She completed her Ph.D. in 2020 at the Annenberg School for Communication, where she researched health and science communication with a focus on communicating scientific uncertainty. Natalie was a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

  • Alison Hoyt

    Alison Hoyt

    Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment

    BioAlison Hoyt is an Assistant Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford. Her work focuses on understanding how biogeochemical cycles respond to human impacts, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable and least understood carbon stocks in the tropics and the Arctic. For more information, please visit her group website here: https://carboncycle.stanford.edu/