Morgan Edwards

Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin--Madison and Director of the Climate Action Lab

Research Expertise

Climate Policy
Energy Systems
Industrial Ecology
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Geography, Planning and Development
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Atmospheric Science
Global and Planetary Change
Pharmacology (medical)
Complementary and alternative medicine
Pharmaceutical Science
Environmental Chemistry

About

Morgan Edwards is an Assistant Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin--Madison and affiliated faculty with the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Energy Analysis and Policy Program, Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, Institute for Research on Poverty, and Data Science Institute. Her research focuses on modeling the role of technology in addressing the threat of climate change and assessing policies to accelerate equitable energy transitions. Her current projects include modeling the role of climate-tech in meeting net zero targets, evaluating the equity impacts of building electrification policies, and assessing pathways to transition natural gas infrastructure. She holds a PhD in Data, Systems, and Society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a SM in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a BS in Environmental Science and Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to Madison, she was a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland.

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Publications

A plant-by-plant strategy for high-ambition coal power phaseout in China
Nature Communications
2021
Quantifying operational lifetimes for coal power plants under the Paris goals
Nature Communications
2019
Climate impacts of energy technologies depend on emissions timing
Nature Climate Change
2014
Fusing subnational with national climate action is central to decarbonization: the case of the United States
Nature Communications
2020
Quantifying the regional stranded asset risks from new coal plants under 1.5 °C
Environmental Research Letters
2022
Vehicle emissions of short-lived and long-lived climate forcers: trends and tradeoffs
Faraday Discussions
2017
Testing emissions equivalency metrics against climate policy goals
Environmental Science & Policy
2016
Methane mitigation timelines to inform energy technology evaluation
Environmental Research Letters
2015
Research priorities for supporting subnational climate policies
WIREs Climate Change
2020
Satellite Data Applications for Sustainable Energy Transitions
Frontiers in Sustainability
2022
Repair Failures Call for New Policies to Tackle Leaky Natural Gas Distribution Systems
Environmental Science & Technology
2021
The role of corporate investment in start-ups for climate-tech innovation
Joule
2023
Consequences of equivalency metric design for energy transitions and climate change
Climatic Change
2022
The Economic Consequences of Local Gas Leaks: Evidence from Massachusetts Housing Market
SSRN Electronic Journal
2021
Equity and modeling in sustainability science: Examples and opportunities throughout the process
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024
Air quality and health effects of a transition to ammonia–fueled shipping in Singapore
Environmental Research: Health
2023
Support for climate policy researchers
Science
2022

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Data, Systems, and Society / June, 2017

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S.M., Technology and Policy / June, 2013

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

B.S., Environmental Science and Economics / December, 2010

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Experience

University of Wisconsin--Madison

Assistant Professor / August, 2020Present

University of Maryland

President's Postdoctoral Fellow / July, 2018June, 2020

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