The new academic year begins with unprecedented growth in the Nelson Institute’s core faculty, thanks to the recent hiring of four tenure-track assistant professors with impressive credentials – two of them as a result of the university’s ongoing faculty cluster hire initiative.
With much enthusiasm, we welcome:
Gregory Nemet, a new member of the faculty cluster in energy systems and policy who recently completed his Ph.D. in energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley. His interests include energy policy, technological change, and climate change. Professor Nemet’s addition to the faculty will strengthen our Energy Analysis & Policy Program. His appointment is split between the Nelson Institute and the La Follette School of Public Affairs.
Mutlu Ozdogan, previously a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. He studies land-use/land-cover conversion and climate change impacts on the global water and energy cycles and how they interact with ecosystem goods and services important to human well being. Professor Ozdogan has a Ph.D. in geography and environment from Boston University. He divides his time between the Nelson Institute and the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.
Annemarie Schneider, also part of the international environmental affairs and global security cluster, formerly was an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Institute for Computational Earth System Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Schneider is interested in land cover change, urban geography, the urban environment, and the human dimensions of global environmental change. She earned her B.S. in geography from UW-Madison and her M.A. and Ph.D. in geography and environmental science from Boston University.
Adrian Treves, who focuses on the human dimensions of wildlife management and conservation. He has collaborated with the Wildlife Conservation Society and co-founded a non-profit research and consulting organization, COEX: Sharing the Land with Wildlife, Inc., to promote the coexistence of people and wild animals. Professor Treves earned a B.A. in biology and anthropology from Rice University and a Ph.D. in behavioral ecology/anthropology from Harvard University.
