Dr. Lyssa Freese - coming soon!

Incoming Assistant Professor of Earth System Science (Summer, 2025, currently a postdoc at the Carnegie Institution for Science). PhD Atmospheric Chemistry, MIT (2023). 

Dr. Freese will join UCI's Earth System Science faculty in July 2025.  In the meantime she will be forming collaborations with AirUCI researchers as she finisher her postdoc position at the Carnegie Institution for Science over the coming year.  She will be remotely working from either Croul Hall or ISEB.  Although her formal appointment doesn't start until 2025, she will be participating in AirUCI events and interacting with the AirUCI community.

Dr. Freese researches the fundamentals, impacts, and mitigation of climate change and air pollution. Specifically, she focuses on the intersection between the transition to a zero-emissions energy system, air pollution, and mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Much of her work is policy-oriented. She uses a combination of climate and chemical transport models, energy system modeling, health impact assessments, and socio-economic data. 

She previously worked on environmental policy and community science at the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum (Washington, DC), the Rock Environment and Energy Institute (Beijing, China), and Green Camel Bell (Lanzhou, China).