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Edgar Virgüez
Research Engineer, Energy Science & Engineering
BioEdgar Virgüez is an energy systems engineer and geographer who investigates net-zero emissions energy systems. Currently, he works as a Research Engineer at the Energy Science & Engineering Department at Stanford University. His research findings (>20 papers) have been published in top-tier journals like Energy & Environmental Science and Environmental Science & Technology, obtaining >600 citations. He has participated in nineteen research/consultancy projects with a total budget of USD >25 million, working with organizations such as the U.S. Department of Energy and the World Bank. As part of these projects, he has directed life-cycle assessments and cost-benefit analyses of integrating new fuels into energy markets and designed mitigation strategies for local governments.
His solid knowledge base arises from his academic formation. At Duke University, he completed a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Policy (’22) with a Certificate in College Teaching and an M.A. in Environment (’18) with a Geospatial Analysis Certificate. At Universidad de los Andes, he obtained an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering (’10), a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (’09), and a B.Sc. Environmental Engineering (’09). Additionally, he has strengthened his transferable skills by participating in professional certificate programs in Australia, the United States, and Colombia. Acknowledging his academic excellence and research contributions, he has been awarded scholarships and fellowships for more than USD 795,000 from competitive national and international programs sponsored by institutions such as the Sloan Foundation and Procter & Gamble (P&G).
Edgar has been recognized as a global expert in energy systems, appointed to the Expert Advisory Panel of the Earthshot Prize (led by Prince William of Gales, awarding more than 6.25 million USD annually), as an Expert Reviewer of the Schmidt Sciences Decarbonization and Energy Virtual Institute program (awarding grants up to 10 million USD for five years), and as an Executive Editorial Board Member of the Environmental Research: Energy journal.
Concurrently with his energy transition interests, Edgar is passionate about improving higher education. He has held several academic administration positions where he has enhanced academic, administrative, and financial processes by applying optimization and data analytics methods. Simillarly, he has developed as a next-generation pedagogue, teaching 16 courses, serving 560 students, and achieving high student ratings.
For his contributions and exemplary promise as a higher education leader, he has received several professional honors. In 2020, he was honored as a K. Patricia Cross Future Leader awardee by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, identified as a higher ed rising star. At Duke University, he received several of the most prestigious awards, including the Grad School Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (<0.1% of doctoral students at Duke University) and the 2021 Forever Duke Student Leadership Award (<0.5% of Duke Class 2021). In 2022, he was selected as a board member of Duke’s highest governing body, the Board of Trustees, appointed from 2022 to 2025. His columns describing advocacy efforts for a renewed educational model that promotes a global energy transition have appeared in high-circulation media like Science, Nature Cities, and Inside Higher Ed. -
Peter Vitousek
Clifford G. Morrison Professor of Population and Resource Studies and Professor of Earth System Science, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsVitousek's research interests include: evaluating the global cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, and how they are altered by human activity; understanding how the interaction of land and culture contributed to the sustainability of Hawaiian (and other Pacific) agriculture and society before European contact; and working to make fertilizer applications more efficient and less environmentally damaging (especially in rapidly growing economies)
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Madalina Vlasceanu
Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Sciences
BioMadalina Vlasceanu is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Behavioral Sciences in the Environmental Social Sciences Department of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and the director of the Stanford Climate Cognition Lab. Professor Vlasceanu is also a committee member of the Psychology Coalition at the United Nations, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology United Nations, and the International Panel on the Information Environment. She obtained a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from Princeton University in 2021 and a BA in Psychology and Economics from the University of Rochester in 2016. Prior to Stanford, she was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on the cognitive and social processes that give rise to emergent phenomena such as collective beliefs, collective decision-making, and collective action, with direct applications to climate policy. Guided by a theoretical framework of investigation, her research employs a large array of methods including behavioral laboratory experiments, social network analysis, field studies, randomized controlled trials, megastudies, and international many-lab collaborations, with the goal of understanding the processes underlying climate awareness and action at the individual, collective, and system level. Professor Vlasceanu's research is theoretically grounded and focused on applications for practice, incorporates an interdisciplinary perspective, and directly informs policies and practices relevant to climate mitigation and adaptation.
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Katie Vogelheim
Education Advisor, Human and Planetary Health
Staff, Human and Planetary HealthBioKatie Vogelheim is currently an Education Advisor to the Human and Planetary Health Initiative at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. She is also a member of the teaching team for Hacking for Climate Change, serves as an Innovation Coach for the Stanford Ecopreneurship program, and helped develop the Human and Planetary Action Lab series of project-based classes. In these capacities, Katie contributes to educating and mentoring students in addressing climate change challenges through innovative solutions.
Katie had a 30 year business career spanning several industries. Since 2010, she has directed funding to global nature based solution projects and early stage companies committed to a sustainable mission. From 2020-22, she joined Stanford as a Distinguished Career Institute Fellow, focused on Sustainability, Climate and Energy.
Katie works across campus developing curriculum and convening resources to advance human and planetary health efforts. She supplements this work with additional affiliations: serving on the Board of Dean’s Advisers at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, and Conservation International's Science and Leadership Councils.
