Title: Assistant Professor

Institution: University of California, San Diego

Degree: PhD, Physics

Specialty: Designs, implements and evaluates technologies for poverty alleviation and agricultural adaptation, and studies the links between “energy poverty” — the lack of access to modern energy services — and food or nutrition security, the mechanisms by which energy services can help alleviate poverty, the environmental impacts of food production and consumption, and climate impacts on agriculture.

Website: http://gps.ucsd.edu/faculty-directory/jennifer-burney.html