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Research Team

Research is the backbone of Drawdown Georgia. The Research Team continues to provide best-in-class work to help us all understand where emissions in Georgia come from and how we can reduce them.

Marilyn A. Brown, PhD, CEM, NAE, NAS

Interim Chair, School of Public Policy
Regents and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology

Emily Burchfield, Ph.D

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University

William J. Drummond, PhD

Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Geographic Information Science and Technology Degree Program
Georgia Institute of Technology

David S. Eady

Senior Manager, Industry Engagement
Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Georgia Institute of Technology

Rebecca Watts Hull, Ph.D.

Service Learning and Partnerships Specialist, Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain
Georgia Institute of Technology

David M. Iwaniec, PhD

Assistant Professor, Urban Sustainability
Urban Studies Institute, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University

Daniel Matisoff, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology

Jacqueline E. Mohan, M.E.M., PhD

Associate Professor, Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology & Biogeochemistry Odum School of Ecology
University of Georgia

Jeffrey D. Mullen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics University of Georgia

Michael Oxman

Managing Director, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Professor of the Practice, Sustainable Business
Scheller College of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology

Michael O. Rodgers, Ph.D.

Regents’ Researcher and Adjunct Regents’ Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering & School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Deputy Director
Georgia Transportation Institute

Richard A. Simmons, PhD, PE

Director, Energy, Policy, and Innovation Center
Strategic Energy Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology

Laura Taylor, PhD

Professor and Chair, School of Economics
Georgia Institute of Technology

Beril Toktay, PhD

Professor and Brady Family Chair
Faculty Director, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Scheller College of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology