Inês M.L. Azevedo 

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Inês M.L. Azevedo is associate professor at Stanford University. She is in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering, in the Global Environmental Policy social science division, and in Civil & Environmental Engineering (courtesy). She also serves as senior fellow for the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University and fellow for the Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) where she also serves as co-director for the Bits&Watts Initiative. Azevedo’s research interests focus on how to transition to a sustainable, low carbon, affordable, and equitable energy system using quantitative systems modeling approaches. She has published 100+ peer-reviewed journal papers. She has participated as an author and committee member in several National Research Council reports from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She served as a lead author for IPCC AR6 report on Climate Mitigation and also as lead author for U.S. National Climate Assessment. Azevedo is also contributing as a chapter author to the upcoming U.S. National Climate Assessment report. Azevedo has received the World Economic Forum’s “Young Scientists under 40” award in 2014, and the C3E Women in Clean Energy Research Award in 2017.