Former Graduate Students Receiving PhD

• Rachel Baker (STEP 2018)  Assistant Professor of Environment and Society, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Brown University
• Hélène Benveniste (STEP 2021) Environmental Fellow (2021-23), Center for the Environment, Harvard University
• Maya Buchanan (STEP 2017) Lead Project Director, Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability | Climate Risk Scenario Analysis WSP USA
• Nicolas Choquette-Levy (STEP 2022) Postdoctoral Research Scholar | Climate Resilience | Boston University
• Michael Gillenwater (STEP 2013) Executive Director, Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, Seattle, Washington
• Phillip Hannam (STEP 2016) Senior Energy economist / World Bank Group, Washington, D.C.
• Christopher Little (Geosciences 2012)  Senior Climate Scientist, Oceanography Group, Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER/ Verisk ), Boston, MA
• D.J. Rasmussen (STEP 2020) Climate Science Lead Consultant WSP USA  
• Chi-Jen Yang (STEP 2008), Project Analyst – Climate Change Policy Partnership , Duke University

Former HMEI-STEP Graduate Students

• Jane Baldwin (STEP-PEI '18) - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine
• Alexander Berg (STEP-PEI '19) Technology Specialist  , Fish and Richardson  P.C
• Paris Blaisdell-Pijuan (STEP-HMEI '22) Primary Research Associate, Mercator Partners, NY. NY
• Stephanie Debats ( STEP –PEI ‘17) Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Google
• Hang Deng ( STEP PEI ‘15) Assistant Professor, Peking University
• Andrew Duguid ( STEP PEI ‘06 – Vice President – Advanced Resources International  - oil and gas consulting
• Matthew Escarra ( STEP-PEI ’11) Associate Professor, Tulane university
• Michelle Frazer (HMEI-STEP Fellow '16, AOS PhD '21) Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth Environment and Planetary Science, Rice University
• Aahana Ganguly ( STEP-PEI ’16) Science and education  –Azim Premji University
• Xiaogang He ( STEP-PEI '17) Assistant Professor National University of Singapore
• Dan Li ( STEP PEI ) Associate Professor, Earth and Environment,  Boston University
• Wenying Liao (STEP-HMEI '18), System Thinker, Data Scientist, Ecologist | Evidence and Learning Research Officer @ Sequoia Climate Foundation
• Ning Lin - Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
• Ian Lloyd  ( STEP PEI ’11)- Foreign Affairs Officer US State Department, , Washington DC
• Jenna Losh Jorns (STEP PEI ’13) Co-Director , Great Lakes Integrated Science and Assessment,  U of Michigan
• Joseph Majkut – ( STEP PEI ’14)  Director of Energy Security and Climate Change
• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Bryan Mignone ( STEP-PEI ‘07) Corporate Strategic Planning , Exxon Mobil 
• Juan Nogues ( STEP PEI ’12) Engineering Advisor , ATOME, Paraguay
• Alexander Ntelekos – Regional Director , EMEA – Gallagher,  London, UK
• Geeta Persad - Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences , UTexas, Austin
• Barclay Satterfield – (STEP PEI ’07) University-Industry Strategic Partnerships, Eastman Chemical Company  Raleigh NC
• Jane Smyth (HMEI-STEP Fellow '19, AOS PhD '21) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MIT
• Andrew Tilman (STEP-PEI ‘17) Research Ecological  Economist US Forest Service ,  Northern Research Station, St Paul, Minnesota
• Tiffany Tong ( HMEI STEP 08) Independent design research and startup strategy consultant
• Tao Wang (HMEI STEP ’12) Assistant Professor of Economics  Swarthmore College
• Siyuan Xian (STEP-PEI) Head of Strategy practices for Douyin (Chinese TicTok)

updated 8 /15/2023