STEPS Researchers
The Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program is composed of a multi-disciplinary team of faculty and graduate researchers that are studying a wide variety of topics related to the potential use of alternative transportation fuels.
Directors and Program Management
The program management team consists of co-directors Professor Daniel Sperling, ITS-Davis director, and Dr. Joan M. Ogden, Professor & Environmental Science and Policy Department. Program Manager for the STEPS is Peter Dempster.
Research Leaders
- Dr. Andrew F. Burke, Director, EV Power Systems Laboratory
- Dr. Mark A. Delucchi, Research Scientist (ITS - Davis)
- Dr. Yueyue Fan, Assistant Professor (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- Dr. Bryan Jenkins, Professor (Biological & Agricultural Engineering)
- Dr. Christopher Knittel, Associate Professor (Economics)
- Dr. Kenneth S. Kurani, Research Engineer (ITS - Davis)
- Dr. Cynthia Lin, Assistant Professor (Agricultural & Resource Economics)
- Dr. Nic Lutsey, Post Doctoral Researcher (ITS - Davis)
- Dr. Joan M. Ogden, Professor (Environmental Science and Policy and ITS-Davis)
- Dr. Johan Six, Professor (Department of Plant Sciences)
- Dr. Tom Turrentine, Research Scientist and Director, PHEV Research Center
- Dr. Christopher Yang, Research Scientist (ITS - Davis)
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Dr. Sonia Yeh, Research Scientist (ITS - Davis)
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Mr. Hengbing Zaho, Senior Research Engineer (ITS - Davis)
Graduate Student Researchers
- Sandy Allan, MS Student
- Jonn Axsen, PhD Student
- Joel Bremson, PhD Student
- Steven Chen, PhD Student
- Jamie Davies, PhD Student
- Abbas Ghandi, PhD Student
- Ryohei Hinokuma, MS Student
- Yongxi (Eric) Huang, PhD Student
- Nils Johnson, PhD Student
- Bryan Jungers, MS Student
- Wayne Leighty, PhD Student
- Xuping Li, PhD Student
- Zach McCaffery, PhD Student
- Ryan W. McCarthy, PhD Student
- David L. McCollum, PhD Student
- Gouri Mishra, MS Student
- Geoff Morrison, PhD Student
- Colin Murphy, PhD Student
- Sinnott Murphy, PhD Student
- Michael A. Nicholas, PhD Student
- Nathan Parker, PhD Student
- Yongling Sun, PhD Student
- Jesse Zheng, PhD Student
- Weiyuan Zhu, PhD Student
Program Alumni
- Obadiah Bartholomy MS, Working at SMUD in Sacramento, California.
- Nuno Bento PhD, Visiting Researcher, University Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France.
- Gustavo Collantes PhD, Senior Energy Policy Advisor, State of Washington
- Anthony Eggert MS, Senior Policy Advisor California Air Resources Board
- Barbara Farinelli PhD
- Paulo Isabel PhD, Petrobras in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
- David Z. Lin PhD, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN.
- Shyam Menon MS, World Bank, Washington, DC.
- Jason Ni PhD
- Attilio Pigneri Visiting Researcher, Associate Director at the Energy Research Centre of Massey University, New Zealand.
- Brent Riffel MS, Life Cycle Associates, San Francisco California
- Antoine Simonnet PhD, Visiting research scholar, Working for Total in Paris, France.
- Guihua Wang PhD , California Air Resources Board, Sacramento
- Johnathan X. Weinert PhD, Chevron
- Brett D. Williams, PhD, UC Berkley Research Scientist
Collaborating Faculty
- Dr. Rob Braun, Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines
- Dr. Paul A. Erickson, Assistant Professor (Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering)
- Dr. Andrew A. Frank, Professor (Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering)
- Dr. David Greene, Visiting Scholar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Dr. Alissa Kendall, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
- Dr. Timothy E. Lipman, Research Engineer (ITS-Berkeley and ERG)
- Dr. Marc W. Melaina, Research Scientist, National Renewal Energy Laboratory, Boulder Colorado
- Dr. Alan Meier, Faculty Researcher and Associate Director of Curriculum, Energy Efficiency Center
- Dr. Marshall Miller, Senior Research Engineer (ITS - Davis)
Donald Gautier, USGS geologist, presents on petroleum in the arctic