Adam Wiechman

I am a Postdoctoral Research Asssociate in the Levin Lab and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. I received my PhD in Sustainability at Arizona State University and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. I have an interdisciplinary background in environmental engineering, public policy, administration, and political economy.

My work centers on how the politics of infrastructure investment shape the resilience and distribution of benefits associated with our critical systems, such as drinking water. My recent PhD work examined urban water systems in the United States to understand the role of institutional design in resilience and distributional equity objectives. My postdoctoral work investigates how environmental, social, and financial uncertainty affect the way infrastructure providers process information, collaborate with other organizations, and make decisions on investments and what this means for the resilience and fairness of the infrastructure systems they govern.

My methodological approaches include agent-based modeling, dynamical systems modeling, institutional analysis, network analysis, and content analysis of interviews and surveys.