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Deborah Sunter is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science at Tufts University's School of Engineering. She holds a BSc from Cornell University (2006), an MSc from UC Berkeley (2008), and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley (2013). Her research focuses on energy policy, renewable energy integration into electrical grids, computational modeling, and the intersection of science and policy across academia, industry, and government. She previously served as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy and conducted postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. Her work emphasizes energy justice and sustainability, leveraging data science to bridge technological innovation and policy outcomes. She has contributed to studies on rooftop solar adoption disparities, offshore renewable energy potential, and grid resilience against environmental risks. Her research has been published in high-impact journals, covering topics from animal-related outages to flood mitigation funding evaluations. She is actively involved in labs and interdisciplinary teams advancing sustainable energy solutions.
