Emily Grubert
Program Chair, Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy
Biography
Emily Grubert is associate professor of sustainable energy policy in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is a core faculty affiliate of the Keough School’s Pulte Institute for Global Development.
Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, Grubert was an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and, by courtesy, public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2019-2022) and the deputy assistant secretary for carbon management at the United States Department of Energy (2021-2022). She holds a Ph.D. in environment and resources from Stanford University.
Grubert is a civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies how we can make better decisions about large infrastructure systems, particularly related to justice-centering decarbonization of the U.S. energy system. Specifically, she studies life cycle socioenvironmental impacts associated with future policy and infrastructure and how community and societal priorities can be better incorporated into multicriteria policy and project decisions. Her major methods include scenario analysis, life cycle assessment, survey and interview research, and text mining.