GSPP Faculty
Daniel M. Kammen
Personal Homepage:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kammen/
Other Affiliations:
- Professor of Energy & Society, Energy and Resources Group (ERG);
- Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
Areas of Expertise/Interest:
- Climate Change
- Energy Forecasting
- Engineering
- Health and Environment
- International R & D Policy
- Race and Gender
- Rural Resource Management
Biographical Statement:
Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) and the co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment. Kammen is the Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. Kammen received his undergraduate (Cornell A., B. ’84) and graduate (Harvard M. A. ’86, Ph.D. ’88) training is in physics After postdoctoral work at Caltech and Harvard, Kammen was professor and Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1993 – 1998. He then moved to the University of California, Berkeley. Daniel Kammen is a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He hosted the Discovery Channel series ‘Ecopolis, and had appeared on NOVA, and on ’60 Minutes’ twice.
