Ken Caldeira
Visiting Scholar
Stanford University
Ken Caldeira engages in research involving the geophysical sciences to help inform decisions aimed at improving human welfare while protecting the environment. Past work considered topics such as energy-system transition, geophysics of wind energy, ocean acidification, and solar geoengineering.
He is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and a Senior Scientist at Gates Ventures. Caldeira is the Coordinator of the Conceptual Investigations Unit of Steve Davis’s Sustainable Solutions Lab. Prior to working at Gates Ventures, Ken was Senior Scientist at Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology. Preceding that he was in the Energy and Environment Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He did a postdoc in the Department of Geosciences at Penn State University. He has a PhD and Masters from NYU in Atmospheric Sciences, and a BA from Rutgers University where he majored in Philosophy.
