Research
Interests
Energy Policy; Energy Justice; Climate Change; Environmental Policy; Sustainability
Energy justice advocacy program: The administrative burden of applying for energy assistance programs, Spring 2022
Lawrence, United States
Grant: Sierra Club Kansas Chapter, $5,000
Principal Investigator: S. Mohsen Fatemi
Advisor: Ty Gorman, Sierra Club
Interns: Katia Rivera-Cobian, Sophia Pascente
Activities: Educating and engaging undergraduate students, at the University of Kansas, in energy justice scholarship and advocacy, conducting qualitative interviews
Dealing with Disruption: Investigating the Micro-level Underpinnings of City Response to the Climate Crisis, 2021-Present
Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR), University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States
Grant: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Principal Investigators: Dr. Rachel M. Krause, Dr. Gwen Arnold
Role: Graduate Research Assistant
Activities: Data collection, survey instrument development, survey modeling in Qualtrics, managing dissemination of surveys, building and analyzing statistical models, writing literature reviews and conference papers, presenting at conferences
Master's Capstone Project: Developing a Climate Action Plan for Illinois State Parks, the Rock Cut State Park, 2020
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign-Urbana, United States
Client: Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Supervisor: Dr. Brian Deal, Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (SEDAC)
Advisor: Dr. Sean Kennedy
Research Assistant, Spring 2019
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Assistant to Professor Asef Bayat
Developing a personal website
Master's Thesis: Developing a Sustainability Rating System for School Buildings by Analytical Network Process (ANP) analysis (in Farsi), 2017
School of Architecture, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Advisor: Dr. Ali Vakili Ardebili