Roel Hammerschlag
Staff Scientist
Roel works in the Climate and Energy Program of SEI. His work has focused on life-cycle assessments of fuels, greenhouse gas inventories, and greenhouse gas regulatory mechanisms. From 2000-2005 he was the executive director of ILEA, the Institute for Lifecycle Environmental Assessment, a nonprofit organization that interpreted academic life-cycle assessment research for the general public. In 2002 he was a co-recipient, together with Patrick Mazza, of a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant, to critically assess the impacts of the proposed hydrogen economy.
Roel received a Bachelor of Science in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988. In 2007 he received a Master of Public Administration degree from the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, where he was honored with a fellowship from the University of Washington Program on Climate Change and induction into the National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration.