Dr. Samuel Stolper

Biography

Samuel Stolper is an environmental energy economist at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS). His research focuses on designing equitable and efficient environmental, energy, and climate policies. Stolper teaches courses on these subjects to graduate and undergraduate students, including those in the Program in the Environment (PitE). He is a member of Governor Michigan's Council on Climate Solutions. Prior to his role at SEAS, Stolper was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his Ph.D. in public policy in 2016 from Harvard University and holds a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering from Brown University awarded in 2006. Stolper's work includes significant contributions to the field, addressing issues such as household energy use, transportation decarbonization, carbon neutrality goals, and systemic racism in environmental resource economics.

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