Expertise

Macro energy systems; socioenvironmental assessment; multicriteria decision support

At the Keough School

Emily Grubert is associate professor of sustainable energy policy in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Research and Publications

Emily Grubert is a civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies how we can make better decisions about large infrastructure systems, particularly related to justice-centering decarbonization of the US energy system. Specifically, she studies life cycle socioenvironmental impacts associated with future policy and infrastructure and how community and societal priorities can be better incorporated into multicriteria policy and project decisions. Her major methods include scenario analysis, life cycle assessment, survey and interview research, and text mining.

Recent Work

• Institute of Physics publishing expands open access environmental portfolio (Research Information)
• Enabling an equitable energy transition through inclusive research (Nature Energy)

In the Media

• Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change? (Los Angeles Times)
• Taking a closer look at carbon capture (Catalyst – podcast)
• Interdisciplinary researcher explores the many facets of decarbonization (Physics World – podcast)
• Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant, and one of its largest polluters, to shut down (NPR-Pennsylvania)
• Overcoming obstacles in the mid-transition to clean energy (Resources Radio podcast)

Biography

Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, Grubert was an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and, by courtesy, public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2019-2022) and the deputy assistant secretary for carbon management at the US Department of Energy (2021-2022). She holds a PhD in environment and resources from Stanford.