ESE Seminar - Inês Azevedo

Fireside Chat:

"What is the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment? A journey into the World's most pressing environmental problems"

Bio

Inês M.L. Azevedo is Professor in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment and serves as Senior Fellow for the Precourt Institute for Energy. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, all at Stanford University. She is also an Invited Professor with the Nova Business School (Portugal). Prof. Azevedo’s research interests focus on sustainable energy using a systems approach that combines engineering and technology analysis with economic and decision science. She has published 130+ peer-reviewed journal articles and has served as an author on several reports of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She was one of the Lead Authors for the IPCC AR6 report on Climate Mitigation, as well as Lead Author for the 2024 U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA). Prof. 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.