Inês Azevedo

Associate Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University

2017 Research Award Winner

Inês M.L. Azevedo is an Associate Professor in Stanford’s Energy Resources Engineering department, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Co-Principal Investigator and Co-Director for the Climate and Energy Decision Making Center at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a Full Professor before joining the Stanford faculty. Azevedo’s research interests focus on how to transition to a sustainable, low-carbon, affordable, and equitable energy system. She combines engineering and technology analysis with economic and decision science approaches. She has published more than 57 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Applied Energy, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Research Letters, Energy Policy, and Energy Economics. She has participated as an author and committee member in several National Research Council reports from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (Assessment of Solid State Lighting, 2013; Assessment of Technologies for Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Phase II, First Report, 2014 and Phase II, Final Report). She has graduated 19 PhD students and currently advises or co-advises 11 PhD students. She received the World Economic Forum’s “Young Scientists under 40” award in 2014. Papers from her research team received awards in 2012, 2013, and 2014 at the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems & Technology, the best poster award at the 2015 U.S. Association for Energy Economics conference, and two awards at the 2014 Pike Powers competition. She earned a BSc in Environmental Engineering (2004) and an MSc in Engineering Policy and Management of Technology, both from the Technical University of Lisbon (IST-Portugal), and a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University (2009).