Emily Grubert
Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy

1010 Jenkins Nanovic Halls
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-5911
egrubert@nd.edu
Emily Grubert
Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy
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
In the Media
- Podcast: Overcoming obstacles in the mid-transition to clean energy (Resources Radio)
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.