Ari Raphael Ball-Burack

Ari Ball-Burack is a third year PhD student in the Energy & Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Dr. Dan Kammen. His research works to incorporate key complexities, such as technological innovation and consumer adoption behavior, in energy system models and climate policy decision support tools. His current projects investigate decarbonization policy interactions at the national and global levels, distributional equity in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, representations of consumer adoption in multi-sector energy system models, and granular adoption modeling for low-carbon technologies. Ari graduated from Williams College, where he studied Computer Science and Physics, and received MPhil degrees in Advanced Computer Science and Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, he worked as a researcher at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Concurrently with his PhD, he has worked for the World Bank, the County of Napa, and Evolved Energy Research and was a visiting researcher at the University of Chicago's Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation.