Malini is a Ph.D. student in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) program at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. Malini grew up in Frederick, Maryland, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental engineering from Columbia University. Prior to Princeton, Malini was based in San Francisco, where she was a senior consultant at Ramboll, specializing in air quality modeling, climate change mitigation, and human health risk assessment. Her research is focused on the deep decarbonization of the power sector in India, and she uses the tools of power system modeling and air quality modeling to understand the air-climate-health tradeoffs of electricity policy choices.