Eric Masanet

Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Eric Masanet is Professor and Mellichamp Chair of Sustainability Science for Emerging Technologies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he leads the Industrial Sustainability Analysis Laboratory. He is also a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has been researching the energy and sustainability impacts of data centers and digitalization for nearly 20 years and has published widely on these topics. His public service includes as a Lead Author in the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Cycle, an author of the Fifth and Sixth U.S. National Climate Assessments, Head of the Energy Demand Technology Unit at the International Energy Agency in Paris, Senior Industrial Advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Consultant at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is also the former Editor in Chief of Resources, Conservation and Recycling, the leading scientific journal on sustainable resource systems. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, with a specialization in sustainable design and manufacturing.