Ned is a researcher working on political economy and decarbonization pathways in China and India. He came to Princeton after his appointment as a non-resident fellow at the Columbia University SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy studying Chinese decarbonization target-setting among provinces and businesses. He previously worked at the economic consultancy Analysis Group in Boston within the energy and finance practice areas. He hopes to build a career as a policy researcher and practitioner supporting decarbonization policy in Asia.

Catrina is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Security Studies cluster focusing on irregular warfare, counterterrorism, and quantitative methods. She is also an associate fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and a member of the editorial board for the Irregular Warfare Initiative. She was the 2021 counterterrorism fellow at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. Catrina has previously conducted research at the Migration Policy Institute, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Middle East and North Africa Office, and the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins. She also served for two years in AmeriCorps as a refugee resettlement caseworker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Catrina holds a B.A. with honors in history, with a concentration in military history, from the University of Chicago and an M.A. with honors in strategic studies and international economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Evan is an incoming Ph.D. student in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program. He previously completed his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a second major in environmental studies, where he engaged in research through the university’s Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the intersection of modeling and emerging technologies for waste valorization in complex chemical processes and supply chains. He later had the opportunity to complete a policy-focused research internship in Washington, D.C., through the Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) program. He is driven toward science policy questions surrounding the roles of emerging technologies in broader societal challenges, and is interested in how researchers can use large scale, integrated modeling frameworks to study the economic, environmental, and social implications of the technology’s adoption and its place within existing policy environments. Outside of his primary research interests, Evan is a cellist and also enjoys movies and exploring new places.

Sabrina is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) program focusing on emerging energy technologies and risk perception. Prior to Princeton, she worked as a research assistant to Dr. Robert Rosner and as a liaison to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Her previous research has included cost models of decarbonizing heavy duty commercial truck transit and the economics of nuclear energy in Europe. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Science, Technology, and International Affairs from Georgetown University and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago.

Togbedji comes to Princeton from the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) where he worked as a Predoctoral Research Coordinator. Before joining UPenn, he served as a Research Assistant for two institutes: first, the Institute of Educational Science, and second, the Africa Institute for Research in Economic and Social Sciences, both in Morocco. He completed a master's degree in economic analysis and public policy at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco, with an exchange semester at the University of Paris-Dauphine, and earned his bachelor's degree in applied statistics in Benin. His primary focus lies in the areas of violence/conflict analysis, as well as migration and education in developing countries. Togbedji is also interested in the application of causal inference and impact evaluation methods to assess the effectiveness of public policies.