Emily Grubert studies how we can make better decisions about large infrastructure systems and their impacts on society.
Why you should listen
An associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, Emily Grubert is working on enacting a just energy transition, including researching ways to make decision-making more just, effective and informed. Specifically, she studies decarbonization and how community and societal priorities can be better incorporated into policy and project decisions, mainly related to energy, water and infrastructure systems. She is particularly interested in understanding how infrastructure decisions can be used to embed and enact structural justice.Before joining Notre Dame, Grubert was an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She did postdoctoral work in CEE at University of California, Berkeley, and completed her PhD in environment and resources at Stanford University in 2017. She also spent some time at the US Department of Energy and McKinsey & Company.
