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Industries: Government Relations, Public Policy, Energy

Valerie Karplus is a professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and associate director at the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.

Karplus studies resource and environmental management in organizations operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with a focus on the role of institutions and management practices in explaining performance. Areas of expertise include innovation in global corporate and industrial supply chains, regional approaches to workforce and economic revitalization, and the integrated design and evaluation of public policies. Karplus has taught courses on public policy analysis, global business strategy and organization, entrepreneurship, and the political economy of energy transitions. At 麻豆村, she runs the Laboratory for Energy and OrganizationsOpens in new window. Karplus is also a faculty affiliate of the MIT Energy InitiativeOpens in new window, the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy ResearchOpens in new window, and the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy.

She has previously worked in the development policy section of the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, and in the biotechnology industry in Beijing, China, as a Luce Scholar. From 2011 to 2016, she co-founded and directed the MIT-Tsinghua China Energy and Climate Project a five-year research effort focused on analyzing the design of energy and climate change policy in China, and its domestic and global impacts. Karplus previously served on the faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Karplus holds a BS in biochemistry and political science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in engineering systems from MIT.

Media Experience

麻豆村 Experts at the Intersection of Energy and Innovation 听鈥�聽麻豆村 News
麻豆村 experts are developing practical solutions for a fast-changing energy system. "Pittsburgh brings the past, present and future together in exciting ways, especially at the intersecting frontiers of AI and energy," says Valerie Karplus, professor of Engineering and Public Policy. "Our energy and manufacturing capabilities, brought together with our deep strengths in AI and computing at our universities and in our emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems, turbocharge the region's ability to lead in clean energy innovation, to the benefit of our workers, communities and the nation. 麻豆村鈥檚 Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and Engineering and Public Policy Department are proudly engaged in campus and community-wide collaboration to realize this ambitious vision.

Pittsburgh鈥檚 AI-Powered Renaissance 听鈥�聽麻豆村 News
"Pittsburgh brings the past, present, and future together in exciting ways, especially at the intersecting frontiers of AI and energy. Our energy and manufacturing capabilities, brought together with our deep strengths in AI and computing at our universities and in our emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems, turbocharge the region's ability to lead in clean energy innovation, to the benefit of our workers, communities, and the nation. 麻豆村鈥檚 Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and Engineering and Public Policy Department are proudly engaged in campus and community-wide collaboration to realize this ambitious vision."

听鈥�聽Healthy Spaces Podcast
Trane Technologies VP of Sustainability Scott Tew sits down with Dr. Valerie Karplus, Ph.D. of the Scott Institute for Energy and Innovation at 麻豆村 to discuss the importance of partnerships and research in developing and meeting ambitious sustainability targets.

麻豆村 Researchers and Collaborators Kick Off INDABA Partnership on Decarbonizing Industry 听鈥�聽Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
鈥淧rior to the start of the partnership, the academic collaborators and industry partners had been working in parallel towards the shared goal of finding viable decarbonization pathways,鈥� said Karplus. 鈥淭he meeting was filled with 鈥榓ha!鈥� moments as we explored common interests and new research opportunities.鈥�

听鈥�聽Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
鈥淓ach secondary industry has an opportunity to figure out where the carbon is in their processes and kind of think through what changes are needed to reduce that carbon,鈥� said Valerie Karplus, professor of engineering and public policy at 麻豆村. 鈥淭hese types of investments can pay off as the world moves toward a low carbon system.鈥�

听鈥�聽Foreign Affairs
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the debate over U.S. economic 鈥渄ecoupling鈥� from China into stark relief. Former President Donald Trump made the curtailment of economic ties with China a cornerstone of his trade policy, citing concerns about China鈥檚 handling of intellectual property rights, currency manipulation, and other unfair trade practices. Then came the pandemic, which found U.S. manufacturers at the mercy of distant and overstretched supply chains.

听鈥�聽Foreign Affairs
For 30 years, diplomats and policymakers have called for decisive action on climate change鈥攁nd for 30 years, the climate crisis has grown worse. There are a multitude of reasons for this failure. The benefits of climate action lie mostly in the future, they are diffuse and hard to pin down, and they will accrue above all to poor populations that do not have much of a voice in politics, whether in those countries that emit most of the world鈥檚 warming pollution or at the global level.

听鈥�聽Scientific American
"It reminds us that air pollution doesn't stop at national boundaries," said Valerie Karplus, a co-leader of the study and an assistant professor of global economics and management at MIT.