Kathleen Kennedy is a assistant research professor at the Center for Global Sustainability. She received her PhD in Materials Science from Caltech in 2021. Her graduate research focused on energy systems modeling and analysis of corrosion in solar fuel devices under the supervision of Prof. Nate Lewis. Her work has been published in Nano Letters, The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), The Journal of Physical Chemistry, and Langmuir. She received her undergraduate degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Columbia University in 2016.
- Macro-energy systems; energy transition; energy policy; sustainable development

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