Trancik Lab

Morgan NSF Fellowship

morgane — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:05:37 +0000

Morgan Edwards receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Press coverage technology progress

trancik — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:30:39 +0000

Paper on predicting technological progress featured in the press, from Nature to Forbes, among others.

Press coverage

trancik — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:25:30 +0000

Research on technology progress the spotlight feature on the MIT News Homepage.

Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress

trancik — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:20:59 +0000

Paper published in PLoS ONE: Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress.

DOE sunshot grant

trancik — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:47:13 +0000

New grant from the Department of Energy Sunshot Program on ‘Evaluating the Causes of Photovoltaics Cost Reduction: Why is PV Different?’

Hamed faculty

trancik — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:41:43 +0000

Hamed Ghoddusi to join the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology as a tenure-track assistant professor.

Diana Librizzi

goksin — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:09:53 +0000

Diana Librizzi is an administrative assistant II in the Engineering Systems Division Headquarters at MIT. She has previously worked in SHASS, MechE and Resource Development at MIT before moving over to ESD. She has also previously worked with various arts-based non-profits in the fundraising field. She graduated from Florida State University in 2006 with a B.A. in Theatre and received her M.S. in Arts Administration from Boston University in 2009.

Contact: librizzi at mit dot edu

Goksin Kavlak

goksin — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:48:13 +0000

Goksin Kavlak is a graduate student in the ESD doctoral program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her master’s in environmental sciences from Yale University, and her B.S. in industrial engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul. Her research interests are in building frameworks to analyze the availability and scalability of metals used in emerging technologies, especially in photovoltaics. She is the recipient of the UTC-MIT Energy Fellowship for 2012-2013, sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative.

Contact: goksin at mit dot edu

Dr. Mandira Roy

trancik — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:48:04 +0000

Mandira Roy is a fellow in MIT’s Advanced Study Program. She received a Ph.D. and an MBA from the University of British Columbia and M.S. and B.S. in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology. Previously she has taught in the areas of financial and managerial accounting and the economics of information at the University of Southern California, University of California–Los Angeles and Rutgers University. Her past research focused on the valuation and contracting roles of information in economic decisions and their impact on the stakeholder incentives and welfare. Her current research examines the dynamic choice of energy technology portfolios for climate change mitigation.

Contact: mandirar at mit dot edu

Christina Karapataki

trancik — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:53:57 +0000

Christina Karapataki graduated with a master’s degree from the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and worked with the Trancik Lab from 2010-2011. She received her B.A. and M.Eng. in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Scholar of the Cambridge European Trust. She has previously worked with the MIT Energy Initiative on water demand forecasting (2008) and with ExxonMobil as a business analyst for the European natural gas market. She has also worked with Baringa Partners as a consultant for EDF Energy. Christina is the recipient of the Salters’ Graduate Prize 2010 from the Salters’ Institute of Industrial Chemistry, UK.