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)

News

• Researcher makes case for regulating carbon removal

In the Media

• Why concerns over the sustainability of carbon removal are growing (MIT Technology Review)
• The new hydrogen rules risk opening the door to methane offsets (Heatmap)
• Biden’s ‘hard look’ at liquefied natural gas exports raises a critical question: How does natural gas fit with US climate goals? (The Conversation/Yahoo! News)
• The World’s Next Big Carbon Capture Challenge? Figuring Out How to Use It (Bloomberg)
• Two former Department of Energy staffers warn we’re doing carbon removal all wrong (MIT Technology Review)
• DOE docs: Carbon removal proposal bets on rare nuclear reactors (ClimateWire)
• The World’s Leader in Carbon Capture Shows Why It’s a Long Shot (Bloomberg)
• Carbon capture subsidies may worsen emissions: professor (BNN Bloomberg)
• In a US first, a commercial plant starts pulling carbon from the air (The New York Times)
• Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change? (The Los Angeles Times)
• Taking a closer look at carbon capture (Catalyst – 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.