Sofia Hamilton, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, California, United States

Postdoctoral researcher in the Electricity Markets & Policy group working on renewable energy-related projects, previously in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, working on using satellite measurements and Bayesian inversion to improve estimates of California's carbon dioxide emissions.

Berkeley, California, United States

Graduate student instructor for the graduate course on Air Quality Engineering (CE 218A).Selected course evaluation responses:"Sofia is up there as one of the best GSIs I have ever had. She is extremely prepared and knowledgeable as well as being extremely helpful when something isn't understood.""Not even lowkey, iconic GSI!"

Berkeley, California

Worked in the Electricity Markets & Policy group estimating degradation of wind projects with age, published findings in Joule.

San Francisco Bay Area

Graduate student instructor for Air Quality Engineering (CE 218A).Selected course evaluation responses:"The only other person I can think who has more knowledge on this topic is the teacher. She is very helpful in office hours and encourages students to think critically about the subject material.""Sofia was great. Really, incredibly smart. Communicates.

San Francisco Bay Area

Graduate student instructor for Climate Change Mitigation (CE 107).Selected course evaluation responses:"She is an amazing GSI.""Sofia was amazing! Super great at answering questions during office hours and discussion. Discussions were some of the most worthwhile I've had in college, since we went over relevant practice problems and discussed difficult.

Berkeley, California, United States

Graduate student instructor for The Art and Science of Civil Engineering Practice (CE 192).Selected course evaluation responses:"Sofia was awesome. She gave me such great feedback on my resume to the point where after making her suggested corrections, I feel as if my rate of internship offers has elevated. She also would be very nice to everyone in class.

Berkeley, CA

Worked in the Kirchstetter lab analyzing data from the Aerosol Black Carbon Detectors, part of the "100x100" Project developing low cost black carbon sensors.

Houston, Texas

Worked in the Environmental Technology Unit of the Energy Technology Company, Chevron's internal technical consulting division. Specifically worked on the Air Team, but had projects related to three environmental areas: air, water, and waste management.Analyzed air emissions normalized by production from upstream and midstream business units, presented.

Berkeley, CA

Provided the student perspective to faculty members of the curriculum committee, advised on changes to the curriculum, participated in discussions on the state of the department, and offered suggestions for improvements with regard to recruitment and the undergraduate academic experience at Berkeley.

Berkeley, CA

Managed 10 person officer team and all operations of the organization, planned events to recruit and initiate 12 new members, organized resources on campus such as tutoring, professional development seminars, and networking with professors, worked with Civil Engineering Department to offer advising events for underclassman and graduate students, led.

Berkeley

Recorded minutes at all meetings and distributed them to the officer board, updated and maintained chapter membership records, served as a liaison between Chi Epsilon Nationals and the Berkeley chapter. Organized chapter elections and recruited a new officer team.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on the Operational Excellence team of Corporate Health, Environment, and Safety, with projects focused specifically on Process Safety and Risk Management.Created environmental risk curves to help develop quantitative criteria for assessing environmental impacts. Constructed an enterprise risk management tracking tool to manage high level risks.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked with project managers in developing sustainability templates and programs at community colleges in conjunction with funding they received from the California Clean Energy Jobs Act. Helped track program implementation progress and develop materials for presentations on campuses to raise awareness of sustainability efforts.Assisted energy engineers on.

Berkeley, CA

Managed the academic resources available to 130+ chapter members, implemented academic and professional development programs and modules, organized and hosted faculty networking events each semester, served as a resource for academic concerns.

Berkeley, CA

Achieved certification for a student-taught course for freshman engineering students that teaches freshman how to adjust to life in Berkeley engineering and make use of the resources available to them, interviewed and trained instructors, publicized the course, developed lesson plans, and taught one 20-student section of the course.

Hong Kong

Researched the urban heat island effect and its relationship to the solar radiation and energy budget as well as geometry of the urban landscape, developed a program in Matlab to calculate the surface temperature of urban buildings and the effective albedo of an urban area.

San Francisco Bay Area

Assisted in writing a Request for Proposals for a solar panel installation project for the University of Hawaii, assisted in conducting a solar feasibility assessment for installation of solar panels for a client, compiled information from a solar feasibility assessment into a presentation for a client. Compiled and synthesized data using Microsoft Excel.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Civil And Environmental Engineering

Dissertation: High Resolution Modeling and Apportionment of Diesel-Related Contributions to Black Carbon Concentrations

Master Of Science - Ms, Civil And Environmental Engineering (Energy, Civil Infrastructure, And Climate)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Civil And Environmental Engineering, Minor In Energy Engineering

Activities and Societies: Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, CalSol Solar Vehicle Team, Cal Cycling, Alpha Omicron Pi, Regents' and Chancellor's.