Research Scientist , Energy Institute
+1 512 471 5468, careyking@mail.utexas.edu

Dr. Carey W King performs interdisciplinary research related to how energy systems interact within the economy and environment as well as how our policy and social systems can make decisions and tradeoffs among these often competing factors. Carey’s research goals center on rigorous interpretations of the past to determine the most probable future energy pathways. He reaches these goals by bridging the gaps between economic and biophysical (or ecological) worldviews of economic growth and structural change. Please visit Dr. King's webpages: [/link] http://careyking.com (Personal Research Page) [/link] http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/careyking/ (Jackson School Research Page:)

Media Contact: Kathleen Harrison, ksharrison@utexas.edu, 512-232-3723

Associate Professor , Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
+1 512 475 9550, bleibowicz@utexas.edu

Research Associate , Energy Institute
+1 512 796 9771, dptuttle@energy.utexas.edu

Media Contact: Kathleen Harrison, ksharrison@utexas.edu, 512-232-3723

John J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair, Professor , Mechanical Engineering , Cockrell School of Engineering
+1 512 475 6867, webber@mail.utexas.edu

Michael Webber is the Deputy Director of the Energy Institute, Josey Centennial Fellow in Energy Resources, Co-Director of the Clean Energy Incubator at the Austin Technology Incubator, and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he trains a new generation of energy leaders through research and education at the intersection of engineering, policy, and commercialization.

Media Contact: Nat Levy, nat.levy@utexas.edu, 512-471-2129

Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
+1 512 471 8946, busbyj@utexas.edu

Joshua Busby is a Professor of Public Affairs and a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. He originally joined the LBJ School faculty in fall 2006 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer. Busby is also a nonresident fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a senior research fellow at the Center for Climate & Security. His teaching areas include Environmental and Energy Policy and Policy Process and Institutions.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
+1 512 471 4697, +1 512 471 5057, rai@austin.utexas.edu

Varun Rai earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2008 with specialization in energy systems and technologies. Before joining the University of Texas at Austin in July 2010 he was a research fellow at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) at Stanford University from 2008-2010. He holds a M.S. from Stanford and a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. His principal research interests are in technological change, innovation and diffusion; economics of climate change/integrated assessment models; and energy and development. His research combines energy systems modeling with the political economy of energy markets to understand how changes in energy technologies, market conditions, policies and regulation, and environment could impact energy generation. The emphasis of his research is on interdisciplinary and integrative research in engineering and policy to ensure that the insights from his policy research are rooted in the underlying technical realties. His past research has concentrated on three problems in particular: incentive policies and rates of technological diffusion for carbon capture and storage (CCS); performance and behavior of national oil companies; and strategies for engaging developing countries in global climate change policy.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Assistant Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
, awaxman@utexas.edu

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054