Associate Professor of Practice, M.S. in Sustainability Management, Columbia Climate School
Principal Investigator, Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management (SPM)
Academic Director, M.S. Information & Knowledge Strategy Affiliate, Data Science Institute
BIOGRAPHY:
Christoph Meinrenken is Associate Professor of Practice in Columbia's Faculty of Professional Studies, Principal Investigator at the Climate School, Academic Director of the M.S. degree in Information & Knowledge Strategy, and Affilate of the Foundations of Data Science Center at the Data Science Institute. Meinrenken also co-chairs the Columbia University Seminar on Complexity Science, Modeling and Sustainability.
His research focuses on computer modeling to elucidate and improve the techno-economic performance of low carbon energy systems. Recent and current research projects include electricity arbitrage in smart buildings (DoE, NSF, NYSERDA, NIST), electrification of the transportation sector, synthetic fuels (ABB, Electricity de France), and automated product carbon footprinting (PepsiCo Inc., IBM). An expert in Life Cycle Assessment and enterprise-scale product analytics, he has worked with the World Resources Institute, Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), and The Sustainability Consortium, and consulted several globally operating consumer goods manufacturers.
Before joining Columbia, Meinrenken worked on modeling molecular spectra (MSE, Princeton University, 1996) and computational neuroscience (PhD Physics, Max Planck Institute, 2001). In addition to academic research and teaching, Meinrenken spent several years in the private sector, specializing in financial engineering and risk management.
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cjm2177@columbia.edu
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EDUCATION PhD Physics, University of Heidelberg/Max Planck Institute (2001) M.S.E. Applied Physics, Princeton University (1996) B.S. Mathematics and Physics, University of Heidelberg (1994)