Bio

Ken Caldeira is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He is the Coordinator of the Conceptual Investigations Unit of Steve Davis’s Sustainable Solutions Lab. Caldeira is also a Senior Scientist at Gates Ventures.

Prior to working at Gates Ventures, Ken was Senior Scientist at Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology. Preceding that he was in the Energy and Environment Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He did a postdoc in the Department of Geosciences at Penn State University. He has a PhD and MS from New York University in Atmospheric Sciences, and a BA from Rutgers University where he majored in Philosophy.