Former Graduate Students Receiving PhD

• Rachel Baker (STEP 2018)  Assistant Professor of Climate Health and Assistant Professor of Environment, Society and Epidemiology, Brown University
• Thomas Bearpark (STEP 2025) Postdoctoral researcher, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
• Hélène Benveniste (STEP 2021) Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Social Science, Stanford University
• Maya Buchanan (STEP 2017) Assistant Vice President, Climate, Resilience and Sustainability, WSP USA
• Nicolas Choquette-Levy (STEP 2022) Assistant Professor of Climate Risk and Decision-Making, Penn State 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 Project Director, Janus Research Group, Boston, MA
• Paul Nix (STEP 2024)
• D.J. Rasmussen (STEP 2020) Applied Climate Scientist/ Analytics
• Chi-Jen Yang (STEP 2008) Independent Energy Consultant, formerly Research Scientist – Climate Change Policy Partnership, Duke University
• Rachel Young (STEP 2024) Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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
• Lucas Frye (HMEI-STEP Fellow, Chemistry PhD*26)  Facilities Technician , Verizon
• 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
• Mathieu Poupon - (HMEI-STEP Fellow, AOS PhD*26)
• 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