Tiruwork Berhanu Tibebu is an assistant research professor at the Center for Global Sustainability. She earned her PhD in Sustainability from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her doctoral research focused on developing an integrated framework to analyze optimal clean energy technology policies, examining the impacts of diffusion, technological progress, and environmental factors on policy design. Her study informs policymakers through quantitative analysis and analytical tools that account for various factors crucial to designing efficient measures.
Tibebu worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at American University, Department of Environmental Science, contributing to a multiscale sustainable food systems project. Her research centered on modeling wasted food parameters within regional food systems, analyzing and projecting the impact of reducing wasted food, and evaluating responses to policy interventions. She also worked on the integration of sustainability, resilience, and equity metrics in wasted food models.
- Sustainable systems modeling and quantitative analysis;
- Renewable energy technology diffusion;
- Rechno-economic analysis;
- Clean energy technology policy design
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Maria Borrero, Christoph Bertram, Jenna Behrendt, Audrey Rader, Mel George, Jiehong Lou, Andy Miller, Tiruwork Berhanu Tibebu, Kowan O’Keefe, Xinyue Li, Mengye Zhu, Claire Squire, Nathan Hultman, Xiangwen Fu, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Dmitry Churlyaev, Jordan Snarski, Bhavika Buddi, Alexandra Kreis