Inês Azevedo

Professor, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford University

2017 Research Award Winner

Inês M.L. Azevedo is a Professor in Stanford’s Energy Science and Engineering department and, by courtesy, the Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Her 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. Azevedo is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and at Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy In addition, she is leading a DOE funded research consortium of universities, national laboratories, and non-government organizations in a three-year, $20 million research project titled “Equitable, Affordable & Resilient Nationwide Energy System Transition,” or EARNEST.

Azevedo has advised or co-advised numerous PhD students. 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. Azevedo herself has more than 200 publications, including book chapters, technical reports, conference proceedings, and journal articles. She has participated as an author and committee member in several National Research Council reports from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She received the World Economic Forum’s “Young Scientists under 40” award in 2014.

Azevedo earned a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, an MSc in Engineering Policy and Management of Technology from the Technical University of Lisbon (IST-Portugal), and a BSc in Environmental Engineering from IST-Portugal.