Dalia Patino-Echeverri

Dalia Patiño-Echeverri is the Gendell Associate Professor of Energy Systems and Public Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University where she explores, assesses, and proposes technological, policy, and market approaches for achieving a balance between environmental sustainability, affordability, and reliability in energy systems.

A focus of her research is on the decisions that policy makers, private companies, and citizens face regarding capital investments in electric power infrastructure, and in the methods available to analyze and improve these decisions in the face of uncertainty. Prof. Patino Echeverri is also part of a multidisciplinary group studying Food Production Systems and the trade-offs implied by choices to meet energy, food and water needs, today and in the future.