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The school's leadership team combines unparalleled experience as scholars, researchers, educators, and higher education leaders with a profound commitment to the school’s mission. 

 Dean Arun Majumdar

Arun Majumdar

Arun Majumdar is the Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University, a faculty member of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering (by courtesy) and Senior Fellow and former Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He is also a faculty in Department of Photon Science at SLAC.

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Research

Paula V. Welander

Paula Welander
Senior Associate Dean for Research

 

Faculty affairs

jonathan-payne

Jonathan Payne
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

 

Xiaolin Zheng

Xiaolin Zheng
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

 

Education

Kabir Peay

Kabir Peay
Senior Associate Dean for Education 

Department chairs

William Barnett

William Barnett
Environmental Social Sciences

Jack Baker

Jack Baker
Civil and Environmental Engineering 

David Lobell

David Lobell
Earth System Science 

Paul Segall

Paul Segall
Geophysics 

Kevin Boyce

Kevin Boyce
Earth & Planetary Sciences

 

Hamdi Tchelepi

Hamdi Tchelepi
Energy Science and Engineering 

Interdisciplinary degree program 

Kabir Peay
Earth Systems and Sustainability Science & Practice

Krish Seetah
Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources

Institute directors

William Chueh

William Chueh
Precourt Institute for Energy

Stanford Energy Seminar | Improving Decisions for U.S. Electricity under Policy Uncertainty | Inês Azevedo, Stanford University

Inês Azevedo
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Accelerator directors

Yi Cui
Faculty Director

Charlotte Pera portrait

Charlotte Pera
Executive Director

Staff leadership

Jennifer Calvert
Chief of Staff

Chuck Litchfield

Charles Litchfield
Senior Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer