Wei Peng

Wei Peng is an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. She is a climate policy researcher and an integrated assessment modeler of energy, climate, and health. Her work focuses on modeling human-centered decarbonization pathways to inform energy strategies that are realistically implementable and politically durable. Her research has been published in Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, PNAS among others, and was featured in national and local media such as PBS and NPR. She also served as a contributing author of the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment. Peng received her PhD degree in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy from Princeton University and her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences from Peking University. She was a faculty member at the Penn State University and a postdoc fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.