Tiruwork Berhanu Tibebu

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.