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Jennifer A. Burney

Assistant Professor

jburney@ucsd.edu

Phone: (858) 534-4154
Fax: (858) 534-3939


Personal Website

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007 (physics)
A.B., Harvard College, 1999 (history and science)

Biography

Jennifer is a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. She is also an affiliate of Stanford University's Program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE), where she was previously a postdoctoral researcher. Jennifer is a physicist by training whose research focuses on simultaneously achieving global food security and mitigating climate change. She designs, implements, and evaluates technologies for poverty alleviation and agricultural adaptation, and she studies the links between energy poverty and food and nutrition security, the mechanisms by which energy services can help alleviate poverty, and the environmental impacts of food production and consumption. Much of Jennifer's current research focuses on the developing world.

Publications of Note

Please see Jennifer's personal website for a list of current publications.
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