Jennifer Burney
Jennifer Burney, Phd
- Professor, Earth System Science
- Professor, Environmental Social Sciences
- Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Biography
Jennifer Burney is deputy director of the Center on Food Security & the Environment at Stanford University and member of the National Geographic Explorers family. Burney is a physicist by training whose research focuses on simultaneously achieving global food security and mitigating climate change. Her research interests center on the creation, implementation, and rigorous evaluation of technologies that impact human health and welfare. Jen earned her PhD in physics from Stanford.