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 & Energy Policy Analyst. Program Manager for the STEPS Program is Joshua Cunningham, and Assistant Program Manager is Daniel Mayers.
The core of researchers is composed of senior graduate students, research staff and faculty at UC Davis. Many STEPS graduate students have industrial experience, including professional experience with fuel cells or hydrogen.
Research Advisors
- Dr. Andrew F. Burke, Director, EV Power Systems Laboratory
- Dr. Mark A. Delucchi, Research Scientist
- 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
- Dr. Cynthia Lin, Assistant Professor (Agricultural & Resource Economics)
- Dr. Nic Lutsey, Post Doctoral Researcher
- 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
- Mr. Rob Williams, Associate Development Engineer (Biological & Agricultural Engineering)
- Dr. Christopher Yang, Research Scientist
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Dr. Sonia Yeh, Research Scientist
Graduate Student Researchers
- Jonn Axsen, PhD Student
- Joel Bremson, PhD Student
- Steven Chen, PhD Student
- Abbas Ghandi, PhD Student
- Ryohei Hinokuma, MS Student
- Yongxi (Eric) Huang, PhD Student
- Jonathan Hughes, PhD Student
- Nils Johnson, PhD Student
- Bryan Jungers, MS Student
- Wayne Leighty, PhD Student
- Xuping Li, PhD Student
- David Z. Lin, PhD Student
- Ryan W. McCarthy, PhD Student
- David L. McCollum, PhD Student
- Sinnott Murphy, PhD Student
- Michael A. Nicholas, PhD Student
- Nathan Parker, PhD Student
- Yongling Sun, PhD Student
- Guihua Wang, PhD Student
- Jesse Zheng, PhD Student
- Weiyuan Zhu, PhD Student
Program Alumni
- Anthony Eggert, PhD Student
- Obadiah Bartholomy, MS Student, Working at SMUD in Sacramento, CA.
- Nuno Bento, Visiting Researcher, University Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France.
- Gustavo Collantes, Research Scientist, Working at Harvard University in Boston, Ma.
- Paulo Isabel, Visiting research scholar, Working at Petrobras in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
- Shyam Menon, PhD Student, Working at World Bank in Washington, DC.
- Jason Ni, PhD Student in Shanghai, China.
- Attilio Pigneri, Visiting Researcher, Associate Director at the Energy Research Centre of Massey University, New Zealand.
- Brent Riffel, MS Student
- Antoine Simonnet, Visiting research scholar, Working for Total in Paris, France.
- Brett D. Williams, PhD Student
Collaborating Faculty
- Dr. Paul A. Erickson, Assistant Professor (Mechanical Engineering)
- Dr. Andrew A. Frank, Professor (Mechanical Engineering)
- Dr. Timothy E. Lipman, Research Engineer (ITS-Berkeley and ERG)
- Dr. Marc W. Melaina, Research Scientist
- Dr. Marshall Miller, Research Engineer
STEPS Researchers Participate in Forum on Bioenergy, Sustainability and Lifecycle Analysis