Anna Michalak

Dr. Anna Michalak is the Founding Director of the Climate and Resilience Hub at the Carnegie Institution for Science and a Professor (by Courtesy) in the Department of Earth System Science in the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University. In her research, she develops tools for quantifying emission and sequestration of greenhouse gases and for characterizing climate change impacts on freshwater and coastal water quality.

Prior to joining Carnegie, she was the Frank and Brooke Transue Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. She is the lead author of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan, co-Chair of the National Academies’ midterm assessment of the Decadal Strategy for Earth observations from Space, and a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the NSF CAREER award, the Leopold Fellowship in environmental leadership, and the American Geophysical Union’s Simpson Medal. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.Sc.(Eng.) in Environmental Engineering from the University of Guelph, Canada.