Former Graduate Students Receiving PhD

• Rachel Baker (STEP 2018)  Assistant Professor of  Climate Health and Assistant Professor of Environment, Society and Epidemiology, Brown University
• Hélène Benveniste (STEP 2021) Environmental Fellow (2021-23), Center for the Environment, Harvard University
• Maya Buchanan (STEP 2017) Assistant Vice President, Climate, Resilience and Sustainability,  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
• Paul Nix (STEP 2024) 
• D.J. Rasmussen (STEP 2020) Applied Climate Scientist,  WSP USA  
• Chi-Jen Yang (STEP 2008) Independent Energy Consultant, formerly Research Scientist – Climate Change Policy Partnership , Duke University
• Rachel Young (STEP 2024) Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Policy Lab, University of California Berkeley

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 and Patent Agent , Fish and Richardson  P.C
• Paris Blaisdell-Pijuan (STEP-HMEI '22) Founder/CEO Xedena Inc  (2024); Founder EQ Energy Inc. (2023) 
• Stephanie Debats ( STEP –PEI ‘17) 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
• Kairui Feng (HMEI- STEP 2022) – Professor, National Key Laboratory of Autonmous Intelligent Unmanned Systems , Tongji University, China 
• 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, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Group,   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
• Joseph Lockwood (HMEI-STEP 2024) Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
• 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), Washington D.C.
• Bryan Mignone ( STEP-PEI ‘07) Corporate Strategic Planning , Exxon Mobil 
• Juan Nogues ( STEP PEI ’12) Project Development Manager, ATOME, Paraguay
• Alexander Ntelekos – Regional Director, Turkey and Greece – Gallagher Re,  London, UK
• Geeta Persad - Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences , UTexas, Austin
• Barclay Satterfield – (STEP PEI ’07) Senior Technology Manager U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. 
• Jane Smyth (HMEI-STEP Fellow '19, AOS PhD '21) Climate Scientist, Responsible Investment, 
• 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 7/15/2024