Cheryl L. Weyant, Postdoctoral Researcher

CHERYL WEYANT, University of Michigan

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Abstract
Cheryl is an interdisciplinary air pollution scientist and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Her research centers around combustion technologies for household and industrial energy. For her PhD, she conducted field studies to characterize aerosol emissions and their climate effects, focusing on household biomass cooking, kerosene lighting, industrial brick-making, and gas flaring. When she stepped back from these smoky plumes, she could see that there was a complicated human landscape connected to each of these technologies. So, now she is delving into the field of economics to research how combustion technologies are being used by people, what drives change, and how these transitions impact pollutant exposure. In her future research, she hopes to use her interdisciplinary background to study the intersection between energy transitions and climate change; how does a changing climate constrain energy transitions and how do these transitions impact emissions that cause climate change? How is pollution exposure impacted by these dynamics? She’s interested in growing her range of research tools to include satellite image analysis and modeling. She’s looking for an academic research position, postdoc, or other research-centered positions outside of the academy.