Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Shadi S. Atallah, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Cornell University). Research: Natural Resource Economics, Bioeconomics, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. Email: satallah@illinois.edu. Website: https://ace.illinois.edu/directory/satallah

Diego Cardoso, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Cornell University). Research: Designing and evaluating policies related to the energy transition, climate and the use of natural resources, and the intersection of applied welfare analysis and risk modeling for benefit-cost analysis. Email: dcardoso@illinois.edu. Website: https://www.diegoscardoso.com/

Sandy Dall’erba, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Pau, France). Research: Economic systems, spatial econometrics, interregional input-output, climate change and extreme weather events impact, virtual water flows. Email: dallerba@illinois.edu. Website: https://ace.illinois.edu/directory/dallerba

Gal Hochman, Professor (Ph.D. Columbia University). Research: Circularity, bioeconomy, environmental and energy policy, the transition to a decarbonized energy system, the economics of renewable energy, the political economy of fuel policy, regulating greenhouse gas emissions of fuels, the political economy of agricultural biotechnology. Email: gh141@illinois.edu. Website: https://publish.illinois.edu/gal-hochman/ 

Andy Hultgren, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of California – Berkeley). Research: Economics of environmental regulation, firm behavior under regulatory uncertainty, and quantifying the economic impacts of climate change. Email: ahultgr@illinois.edu. Website: https://www.andrewhultgren.com/

Madhu Khanna, Professor (Ph.D. University of California – Berkeley). Research: Environmental regulation, technology adoption, pollution prevention, bioenergy, economic growth and the environment. Email: khanna1@illinois.edu. Website: https://ace.illinois.edu/directory/khanna1

Becca Taylor, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of California – Berkeley). Research: Intersections of consumer behavior, environmental regulation and food policy. Email: rltaylor@illinois.edu. Website: https://www.rebeccataylor.site/

Affiliated Faculty:

Amy W. Ando (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Research: conservation of species and habitat, stormwater management, valuation of environmental goods.

Kathy Baylis (Ph.D. University of California – Berkeley). Research: international conservation and agri-environmental policies, climate policy and climate resilience.

Peter Christensen (Ph.D. Yale University). Research: energy and transportation policy, environmental regulation in cities, urban growth and urbanization

Benjamin M. Gramig (Ph.D. Michigan State University). Research: agri-environmental policy and economics, water quality, climate change, spatial-dynamic management of natural resources.

Erica Myers (Ph.D. University of California – Berkeley). Research: Demand-side energy economics.

Alex Winter-Nelson (Ph.D. Stanford University). Research: Environmental impacts of development policies, animal disease.

Department of Economics

David Albouy (Ph.D. University of California – Berkeley). Research: Urbanization and quality of life, valuation of climate amenities, land use and population density Email: albouy@illinois.edu

George Deltas, Professor (Ph.D. Yale University). Research: Competitive bidding for natural resources, design and performance of pollution market permits, linking of firm strategies in pollution and output markets, discrete choice models to estimate recreational and amenity values Email: deltas@illinois.edu

Department of Finance

Tatyana Deryugina, Associate Professor (Ph.D. MIT). Research: Economics of natural disasters and climate change, health effects of pollution, belief formation and updating Email: deryugin@illinois.edu.

David Molitor, Associate Professor (Ph.D. MIT). Research: health economics, environmental impacts on health, climate adaptation, social determinants of vulnerability and resilience to health shocks Email: dmolitor@illinois.edu

Julian Reif, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Chicago). Research: value of health, health effects of pollution, effectiveness of social insurance programs. Email: jreif@illinois.edu

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

Richard J. Brazee, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan). Research: Forest resource policy, optimal forest harvesting, dynamic natural resource modeling Email: brazee@illinois.edu

Kaiyu Guan, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Princeton University). Reserach: Global food security, satellite remote sensing, ecohydrology, crop yield forecasting. Email: kaiyug@illinois.edu

Daniel C. Miller, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan).  Research: environmental governance, international conservation finance and policy, social-ecological impacts of forestry and agroforestry E-mail: dcmiller@illinois.edu

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ximing Cai, Professor (Ph.D. University of Michigan). Research: application of systems techniques and economic principles to water resources and environmental management and planning problems such as drought management, ecosystem restoration, and water resources policy Email: xmcai@illinois.edu

Megan Konar, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Princeton University). Research: water-food nexus, water resources sustainability, water footprints, virtual water trade, networks Email: mkonar@illinois.edu

Department of Geography

Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Professor (Ph.D. University of Washington) Research: Urban and regional economic analysis with a focus on the design, implementation and application of regional economic models E-mail: hewings@illinois.edu

Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Atul Jain, Professor (Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India). Research: Global carbon cycle and climate change; ocean general circulations, terrestrial ecosystems, and land cover and land use changes; numerical models of physical and biogeochemical processes Email: jain@atmos.illinois.edu