People
Leadership
Chair
Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer, MIT; Dean, MIT School of Engineering; Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Director
Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Professor in Civil Engineering; Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Director
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Professor of Architecture
Executive Director
Strategic Advisor
Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering; Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Strategic Advisor
Morton and Claire Goulder and Family Professor in Environmental Systems, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Staff
Communications Manager
Program Coordinator
Program Manager for Member Engagement
Industry Advisory Board Members
Executive Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo, Inc.
Director, IBM Research Europa / Ireland and UK
Vice President of Environment and Supply Chain Innovation, Apple
Head of Care for Life and Nature, Inditex
Senior Director, Climate, Cargill
Chief Sustainability Officer, Holcim
Sr. Vice President, Global Supply Chain & Chief Sustainability Officer, Verizon
Chief Sustainability Officer, Amazon
Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Director, Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives/Racial Equity & Justice Initiative, Apple
Chief Sustainability Officer, Inditex
Net Zero Transition Lead for North America, Accenture
Senior Director, Global Sustainability, Verizon
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Dow
Chief Sustainability and Energy Officer, Prologis, Inc.
Vice President of Corporate Development, Rand-Whitney
Chief Scientist, Amazon
Faculty Steering Committee
The MCSC Faculty Steering Committee (FSC) is a group of interdisciplinary MIT faculty working together to help shape the MCSC’s vision and work, while also helping the MCSC remain deeply connected to MIT’s broader faculty community. The committee’s diverse perspectives, paired with each faculty member’s expertise and passion for climate and sustainability, are what make it so unique and valuable.
Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; MIT School of Engineering
Associate Professor of History; MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; MIT School of Engineering
Professor, Chemistry; MIT School of Science
Associate Professor, Urban and Environmental Planning; MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering; MIT School of Engineering
Associate Professor, Science, Technology, and Society; MIT School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Associate Professor, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; MIT School of Science
Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical Engineering; MIT School of Engineering
Society of Sloan Fellows Professor Professor, Applied Economics; MIT Sloan School of Management
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Projects: Improving additionality assessment in voluntary carbon markets (2024); Gaining green premiums from decarbonizing the built environment: A holistic evaluation approach for low-carbon investments (2024)
Associate Dean, MIT School of Engineering Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor Professor, Mechanical Engineering MacVicar Faculty Fellow; MIT School of Engineering
Samuel Tak Lee Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability; MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Projects: The costs and benefits of circularity in building construction (2022); Gaining green premiums from decarbonizing the built environment: A holistic evaluation approach for low-carbon investments (2024)
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management Associate Professor, Operations Management; MIT Sloan School of Management
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Carbon sequestration through sustainable practices by smallholder farmers
Affiliated Faculty & Researchers
These interdisciplinary MIT faculty and researchers are currently working with the MCSC through the consortium’s Seed Awards program and directed studies funding.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Colorimetric sulfidation for aluminum recycling
Research Scientist
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Optimization and collaboration toward a scalable charging infrastructure in logistics
Supporting Researcher
Research Program Director at MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Supporting Researcher; Research Scientist in the Sea Grant College Program
Research Scientist
Professor in the Anthropology Section
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Anthro-engineering decarbonization at the million-person scale
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Powertrain and system design for LOHC-powered long-haul trucking
Lecturer of Climate, Sustainability, and Negotiation
Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Engineering of a microbial consortium to degrade and valorize plastic waste
Research Scientist
Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Emissions reductions and productivity in U.S. manufacturing
Principle Research Scientist
Principal Research Scientist and Associate Director at the MIT Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment
Professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science; Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Chair
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Global mapping of groundwater recharge and sustainable aquifer water withdrawals using satellite observations
Professor of Building Technology in the Department of Architecture and director of MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: ECO-LENS: Mainstreaming biodiversity data through AI
Research Scientist
The Raymond A. (1921) And Helen E. St. Laurent Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Coatings to protect and enhance diverse microbes for improved soil health and crop yields
Associate Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Graduate Officer
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Coatings to protect and enhance diverse microbes for improved soil health and crop yields
Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry
The Hoyt Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Postdoctoral Officer
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Powertrain and system design for LOHC-powered long-haul trucking
Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Co-Director of the Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Associate Director of the Center for Exascale Simulation of Materials in Extreme Environments, and Graduate Officer
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Sustainable separations and purification of biochemicals and biofuels using membranes
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Growing season length, productivity, and carbon balance of global ecosystems under climate change
Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: CP4All: Fast and local climate projections with scientific machine learning
Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Toolkit for assessing the vulnerability of industry infrastructure siting to climate change
The 1942 Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics in the MIT Sloan School of Management
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Projects: Logistics electrification through scalable and inter-operable charging infrastructure: operations, planning, and policy (2022); Optimization and collaboration toward a scalable charging infrastructure in logistics (2024)
Supporting Researcher
Research Scientist in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and Lead Researcher for the MIT CTL Supply Chain Design Initiative
Associate Professor and Director of the Resilient Communities Lab, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Sustainable solutions for climate change adaptation: weaving traditional ecological knowledge and STEAM
Principal Research Scientist
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Reducing embodied carbon @ work: Low-carbon cement-based product strategies for data centers, warehouses, and industry (2024)
Assistant Professor and William Barton Rogers Career Development Chair of Energy Economics in the MIT Sloan School of Management
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Emissions reductions and productivity in U.S. manufacturing
The Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab, and Director of the Rohsenow Kendall Heat Transfer Laboratory
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Sustainable separations and purification of biochemicals and biofuels using membranes
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism in the Department of Architecture; Director of the Urban Risk Lab; Research Lead on Climate Grand Challenges flagship project
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Collaborative community mapping toolkit for resilience planning; Sustainable solutions for climate change adaptation: weaving traditional ecological knowledge and STEAM
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Optimizing biological nitrification inhibitors for the suppression of N₂O emissions from agricultural soils
Professor and Department Head in the Department of Architecture
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Collaborative community mapping toolkit for resilience planning
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of the MIT Media Lab and the Apollo Program Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: CP4All: Fast and local climate projections with scientific machine learning
The Alexander and I. Michael Kasser (1960) Professor and Graduate Admissions Co-Chair in the Department of Chemical Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Projects: Double loop circularity in materials design demonstrated on polyurethanes; High throughput screening of sustainable polyesters for fibers (2022); Employing AI to sort plastic Waste by manufacturer (2024)
John C Head III Dean (Interim) MIT Sloan School of Management
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: The impact of weather on the retail industry: long and short-term impacts
The Arthur Dehon Little Professor and Department Executive Officer in the Department of Chemical Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Double loop circularity in materials design demonstrated on polyurethanes
The Lammot du Pont Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: High throughput screening of sustainable polyesters for fibers
Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Director of MIT's Technology and Policy Program
The Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the Center for Transportation and Logistics
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Short-term and long-term efficiency gains in reverse supply chains
The Class of ’42 Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Anthro-engineering decarbonization at the million-person scale
Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: The impact of weather on the retail industry: long and short-term impacts
Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Growing season length, productivity, and carbon balance of global ecosystems under climate change
Supporting Researcher
Research Scientist in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, Director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab, and Director of MIT CAVE Lab
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Fruit-peel-inspired, biodegradable packaging platform with multifunctional barrier properties
Supporting Researcher on the Senior Technical Staff in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory
d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering; Institute for Data, Systems, & Society (IDSS); and Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS); and principal investigator of the Earth Intelligence Lab.
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Hyperspectral remote sensing of soil organic carbon using machine learning
The Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the MIT Sloan School of Management
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Carbon sequestration through sustainable practices by smallholder farmers
Samuel Tak Lee Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability; MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Projects: The costs and benefits of circularity in building construction (2022); Gaining green premiums from decarbonizing the built environment: A holistic evaluation approach for low-carbon investments (2024)
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management Associate Professor, Operations Management; MIT Sloan School of Management
Leading MCSC Seed Awards Project: Carbon sequestration through sustainable practices by smallholder farmers
Impact Fellows
MCSC Impact Fellow
MCSC Impact Fellow
MCSC Impact Fellow
MCSC Impact Fellow
MCSC Impact Fellow
MCSC Impact Fellow
MCSC Impact Fellow
MCSC Impact Fellow
Postdocs and Research Assistants
These postdoctoral researchers and research assistants are currently working with the MCSC through the consortium’s Seed Awards program and directed studies funding.
Ph.D. Candidate
Supporting Student Researcher
Master’s of Science in Building Technology Student
Graduate Student
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Candidate
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Associate
Graduate Student
Postdoctoral Associate
Postdoctoral Associate
Graduate Student Researcher
Ph.D. Candidate
Supporting Researcher, Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Candidate
Supporting Student Researcher
Research Associate
Postdoctoral Associate
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Assistant
Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Candidate
Postdoctoral Associate
Graduate Student
Past Affiliates
Schmidt Science Fellow, MIT
Research Scientist, MIT
Research Scientist, MIT
CEO of Hera Materials, formerly Atacama Biomaterials; MIT Research Affiliate; Dassault Systemes Accelerator Startup
Program Manager, Public Sector, Sublime Systems
Program Scientist - Climate, Schmidt Sciences
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer @ Databricks; Lecturer @ Dartmouth College; Research Affiliate @ MIT
Research Scientist, Amazon Robotics
Director, Company Network - Financial Services, Ceres; MIT Research Affiliate
Postdoctoral Researcher
CEO, Ivu Biologics