Michael Mastrandrea, PhD

Michael D. Mastrandrea, is the first graduate of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources (IPER) at Stanford University (Sept 2004), where he was a Department of Energy Global Change Education Program Fellow.

Mastrandrea is a research associate at the Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment and a lecturer in IPER, and his research focuses on the physical, biological, and societal impacts of climate change, policy strategies for reducing climate risks, and their accurate and effective translation for the general public, policy makers, and the business community.

His research interests include integrated assessment modeling of the climate and economy as a tool for international and domestic climate policy analysis; assessment of potentially "dangerous" climate impacts and probabilistic analysis of the potential for "dangerous" climate change; development of conceptual frameworks for risk management of climate change; risk perception of climate change and climate impacts; and the impacts of climate change and climate variability on world agriculture and food security.

His work has been published in several journals, including Science Magazine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a co-author of chapters on key vulnerabilities and climate risks, and long-term mitigation strategies for the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report.  He also serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Climatic Change. For more information, please visit: http://www.stanford.edu/~mikemas