Melissa Chan (E 2008)

(she/her)

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About

Melissa Chan received her doctorate in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Her thesis, “The end of coal as we know it? Coal supply and cost under technological and environmental uncertainty,” estimated available coal resources, recoverability, mining costs, environmental impacts, and environmental control costs for the United States under technological and environmental uncertainty. She is currently the Director of Grid Solutions and Strategic Partnerships at Fermata Energy, scaling the deployment of the managed charging and discharging of electric vehicles so that electric vehicles boost electricity infrastructure performance instead of burdening it.

Publications during PhD

Chan, M., Morgan, M.G., & Matthews, H.S. (2010). It Is Time to Clean up Coal Extraction. Environmental Science & Technology, 44(13), 4845-4846. https://doi.org/10.1021/es100534f