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University of California, Berkeley

Engineering Physics Political Science Geoscience Renewable Energy Nuclear Engineering Energy Technology Environmental Engineering Transportation Engineering Environmental Science Energy Economics Public Policy

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Daniel M. Kammen served as the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, holding parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He was the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. Kammen earned his A.B. in Physics from Cornell University in 1984, followed by an M.A. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1988 from Harvard University in Physics. He conducted postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard before joining Princeton University as an assistant professor and chair of the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Program in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1993 to 1998. In 1999, he moved to UC Berkeley, where he directed research on energy supply, transmission, smart grids, low-carbon energy systems, life-cycle impacts of transportation, and energy for community development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.