Group Members
We are looking for new Postdocs and Master students to join the team (see openings) !
Jump to staff, master and bachelor students, alumni, administrative support, lab visitors.
Current Members

Luke C Sanford
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance
email: luke.sanford@yale.edu
Personal Website
- BA Politics, Whitman College 2009
- MA School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD 2017
- PhD Political Science and International Affairs, UCSD 2021

Sarah Castle
Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of the Environment
email: sarah.castle@yale.edu
Personal Website
- M.Sc. Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2019
- PhD Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024

Megan Ayers
PhD Candidate in Statistics & Data Science
email: m.ayers@yale.edu
- BA Math and Physics, Lewis & Clark College 2019

Reid Lewis
PhD Candidate at Yale School of the Environment
email: reid.lewis@yale.edu
- B.Sc. Biology, Westminster College, 2014
- Master of Forestry, Yale Forest School, 2020

Lauren Oliver
PhD Student at Yale School of the Environment, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Group
email: lauren.oliver@yale.edu
- B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Santa Clara University, 2018
- MA Global Affairs, Concentration in Sustainable Development, University of Notre Dame, 2022

Eliana Stone
PhD Student at Yale School of the Environment, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Group
email: eliana.stone@yale.edu
- BA Economics and Environmental Studies, UCSB, 2022
- Master of Environmental Science, Yale School of the Environment, 2024

Maike Pfeiffer
PhD Student at Yale School of the Environment, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Group
email: maike.pfeiffer@yale.edu
- B.Sc. Data Science & Statistics and Policy, Minerva University, 2020

Gracia Hadiwidjaja (Grace)
PhD Student at Yale School of the Environment
email: gracia.hadiwidjaja@yale.edu
- B.A. Mathematics and Religious Studies, University of Virginia
- M.Sc. Policy Analysis, KU Leuven

Apurva Duddu
PhD Student at Yale School of the Environment
email: apurva.duddu@yale.edu
- B.Sc. Economics, Symbiosis School of Economics
- M.A. Natural Resources and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Mariam Gedenidze
Master of Environmental Science Student
email: mariam.gedenidze@yale.edu
- B.Sc. Mathematics and Economics, Ecole Polytechnique, 2023
- M.Sc. Applied Mathematics and Statistics, IP Paris, 2024

Izzi Hu
Lab dog
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- Sophomore status at CCL at Yale

Tala
Lab dog
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Affiliates
Kathryn Baragwanath
Research Professor at ACU
Alumni

Owen Cortner
Role: Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of the Environment
- B.Sc. Environmental Science, New Mexico State University, 2011
- M.S. International Agricultural Development, UC Davis, 2016
- Dr. sc. Environmental Policy, ETH Zürich, 2023

Albert Garcia
Role: Postdoctoral Associate | Assistant Professor (University of Utah)
- BA Math and Economics, Willamette University 2016
- PhD Environmental Science and Management, UCSB 2023

Cesar B Martinez-Alvarez
Role: Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate | Assistant Professor of Political Science (UCSB)
- BA International Relations, El Colegio de Mexico 2013
- MA International Policy, Stanford University 2016
- PhD Political Science, UCLA 2022

Matthew Gordon
Role: Assistant professor at Paris School of Economics
- PhD in Environmental Economics
- Msc Economic Geography from London School of Economics

Allie Garrett
Role: Master of Environmental Management Student, started August 2022
- B.S. Sustainable Development, Concentration in Community, Regional and Global Development, 2015

Gabe Snashall
Role: Master of Environmental Science Student, started August 2021
- BA Political Science and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University, 2021

Eliot Carlson
Role: Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Statistics & Data Science, Yale University 2023

Annie Ulichney
Role: Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Applied Math & Mechanical Engineering, Yale University 2022.5

Jackson Pullman
Role: Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Statistics & Data Science, Yale University 2023

Lauren Salzman
Role: Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Statistics & Data Science, Yale University 2023

Charles Xu
Role: Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Applied Math & Chemistry, Yale University 2023

Katy Sun
Role: Undergraduate Research Assistant

Ruolin “Eudora” Miao
In the SPIRES Lab for the 2021-2022 school year, now Forest Carbon Manager at a Timber Investment Management Organization
Role: MFS Student
- BS Duke University (2019)
Administrative Support
Timothy White is helping us (and other groups) with administration.