Morgan Edwards
Morgan Edwards

Assistant Professor

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Morgan Edwards is an assistant professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and affiliated faculty with the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. Her research focuses on just energy responses to the climate crisis across policymaking scales. She draws on mixed quantitative and qualitative methods, combining large datasets and community knowledge with systems modeling. Current projects focus on designing policy solutions for equitable building electrification and modeling climate-tech innovation and job transitions. Prior to coming to Madison, she was a president’s postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland. Edwards holds a Ph.D. in data, systems, and society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in technology and policy from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in environmental science and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  

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