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Translational researcher with over fifteen years of experience leading or contributing to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of society, environment, risk, infrastructure, and technology. Proven capacity to work quickly, flexibly, and seamlessly, leveraging quantitative (parametric/non-parametric statistics, PCA), qualitative (interviews, focus groups, surveys, thematic/content analysis), stakeholder engagement (outreach, data visualization, science communication), and technology (geospatial/remote sensing, scientific python, web/data dashboards, ML/AI) to innovate analyses, reporting, impact, and decision support. Experienced in all phases of research development and project management, including research design, proposal development, data analysis and synthesis, tracking milestones, managing budgets, reporting, outreach, science communications, and academic publishing.Highlights: Contributed-to or led: Interdisciplinary research on social and environmental vulnerability and resilience; weather and climate risks and impacts; sustainability and climate change adaptation planning; and decision support for policy and governance: and Community based participatory research on social impact of energy industry; climate/weather extremes; energy equity and solar feasibility; and equity and sustainability of hazard mitigating infrastructure. Expanded research portfolio to include carbon/GHG budgets, equitable energy systems and just transitions, community and infrastructure resilience and vulnerability, data aggregation and visualization, user experience/design for climate services, and ML and trustworthy AI.Mentored students and junior colleagues in research design and methods, statistical analyses, data visualization, mapping, and managed project teams in all phases of research.

Listed skills include Gis, Remote Sensing, Ethnography, Anthropology, and 14 others.