Emily Grubert
Associate Professor
Current Position
Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy, Keough School of Global Affairs
Concurrent Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Education
Ph.D., Environment and Resources, Stanford University, 2017
M.S., Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2011
M.A., Energy and Earth Resources, University of Texas at Austin, 2010
B.S., Mathematics, Atmosphere/Energy Engineering, Stanford University, 2009
Research
Prof. Grubert is a civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies how we can make better decisions about large infrastructure systems, particularly related to justice-centering decarbonization of the US energy system. Specifically, she studies life cycle socioenvironmental impacts associated with future policy and infrastructure and how community and societal priorities can be better incorporated into multicriteria policy and project decisions. Her major methods include scenario analysis, life cycle assessment, survey and interview research, and text mining.
Research Interests
Decarbonization, Just Transition, Life Cycle Assessment, Macro-Energy Systems, Multicriteria Decision Support, Building Efficiency, Energy-Water Nexus, Socioenvironmental Assessment, Carbon Management, Mid-transition, Energy Conversion and Efficiency
Relevant Energy Publications
- Grubert, Emily. "Fossil electricity retirement deadlines for a just transition." Science 370, no. 6521 (2020): 1171-1173
- Grubert, Emily. "Emissions projections for US utilities through 2050." Environmental Research Letters 16, no. 8 (2021): 084049.
- Grubert, Emily, and Sara Hastings‐Simon. "Designing the mid‐transition: A review of medium‐term challenges for coordinated decarbonization in the United States." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (2022): e768.
- Grubert, E., and M. Zacarias. "Paradigm shifts for environmental assessment of decarbonizing energy systems: Emerging dominance of embodied impacts and design-oriented decision support needs." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 159 (2022): 112208.
- Grubert, Emily, and Kelly T. Sanders. "Water use in the United States energy system: a national assessment and unit process inventory of water consumption and withdrawals." Environmental science & technology 52, no. 11 (2018): 6695-6703.