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Additional Areas of Expertise:

Wind, Nuclear, Energy Economics, Clean Energy

Daniel (Dan) S. Zachary, has been developing energy infrastructure and climate impact models for policy support over the past two decades. He holds a BSc in Physics – Gravity Waves (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a MSc in Space/Atmospheric Physics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and a PhD in Nuclear Physics, Energy-Density (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). From 1995 to 1997 he was a Post-doc at the European Center for High Energy Physics (CERN, Switzerland) and then lectured mathematics (statistics) at the University of Geneva. From 2002 to 2006 he was Assistant Professor at the American University of Sharjah (UAE) and was nominated Associate Professor of Research with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Luxembourg), working closely with the CRP Henri Tudor. Along with his academic position, he served as Research and Development Manager at the CRP Henri Tudor and lectured at the University of Luxembourg. Dr. Zachary is author/co-author of over 75+ scientific publications including more than 50 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and over 25 symposium papers, some chosen for international research awards. He is associate editor of the Journal of Aerospace Operations and guest editor/reviewer of several high ranking environmental modeling journals. He has an H-factor of 19 (>1400 citations). His current research interest is in mathematical and physical modelling, geo-statistics, and earth-atmosphere systems and the connections with anthropogenic emissions. He has developed a mathematical forecasting method with colleagues from Australia (University of South Australia and Finders University) for global oscillations (El Nino) and recently has re-developed the technique for short term air pollution forecasting to be used with ground, airborne and space measurements. In 2014, he has published a general mathematical framework for planetary sustainability (Nature, Scientific Reports). Dr. Zachary is the Associate Program Director of the Energy Policy and Climate Program and is currently developing several graduate courses (energy, environment, climate, modeling) at Johns Hopkins University.