Rate My Professor Jessika Trancik

Trancik received her B.S. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Before joining MIT in 2010, she worked at the United Nations office in Geneva with WSP International/UNOPS (now Interpeace), at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and as an Omidyar Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, where she remains an external professor. Her highly cited publications include "Net-zero emissions energy systems" in Science (2018), "Re-examining rates of lithium-ion battery technology improvement and cost decline" in Energy & Environmental Science (2021), "Evaluating the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules" in Energy Policy (2018), "Storage requirements and costs of shaping renewable energy toward grid decarbonization" in Joule (2019), "Value of storage technologies for wind and solar energy" in Nature Climate Change (2016), and "Statistical basis for predicting technological progress" in PLOS ONE (2013). With over 8,700 citations on Google Scholar, her work influences energy technology evaluation and pathways to decarbonization. She was named a 2011 PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellow.