Poster #46 - Safa Motesharrei

University of Maryland, United States

Biography

Currently at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), Dr. Safa Motesharrei is a systems scientist whose focus is on the integration of the human system into the earth system models. He has bachelor›s degrees in electrical engineering and physics, master›s degrees in physics and mathematics, and PhD in applied mathematics / public policy from UMD. He works with a cross-disciplinary team of distinguished scientists, including several members of the US National Academies. Their perspective paper, Modeling Sustainability, was published in 2016 in National Science Review (NSR), and has become the most read paper of NSR. Dr. Motesharrei›s most recent research on renewable solar and wind farms in the Sahara was published in Science on Sep 7, 2018.