Dr. Granger Morgan

Biography

M. Granger Morgan holds the position of Hamerschlag University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is engaged with the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and H. John Heinz III College. His research primarily addresses the intersection of science, technology, and public policy, focusing particularly on energy, electric power, environmental systems, climate change, and the adoption of new technologies. Morgan has been instrumental in developing and demonstrating methods to characterize and treat uncertainty in quantitative policy analysis. Additionally, he co-directs the NSF Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making at Carnegie Mellon, collaborating with Inês Azevedo and Jay Apt. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he served as co-chair of the Report Review Committee for the National Academies. His past roles include Chair of the Science Advisory Board at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Chair of the Advisory Council for the Electric Power Research Institute. Morgan is a Fellow of the AAAS, IEEE, and the Society for Risk Analysis. He received his B.A. in Physics from Harvard College in 1963, an M.S. in Astronomy and Space Science from Cornell University in 1965, and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Information Sciences from the University of California at San Diego in 1969.

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