Joy Adul

Joy Adul is a PhD student in Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State University, where she is also an EESI Environmental Scholar. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Moi University in Kenya and a master’s degree in Sustainable Energy from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where she was a Chevening Scholar. Her career includes ten years of industrial experience in the energy sector, with a focus on renewables. Currently, her primary field of research is data science for energy transition. Joy is being co-advised by Dr. Obringer and Dr. Dzade in EME.

Joy is enthusiastic about working in multidisciplinary areas that cut across SDGs, data science and engineering.

About Dr. Obringer

Dr. Obringer is an assistant professor in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State University. Her research aims to better understand the impact of climate change on water and energy systems by leveraging data analytics and other computational techniques. She is also affiliated with the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. She also holds a courtesy affiliation with the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health, where she is a Research Fellow of Urban and Interdependent Infrastructure Systems.

Prior to working at Penn State, Dr. Obringer was a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). Through this fellowship, she sought to better understand the connection between water conservation attitudes and anthropogenic droughts in the Colorado River Basin.

Dr. Obringer obtained her PhD from Purdue University in environmental and ecological engineering. Her dissertation focused on evaluating the impact of climate change on urban water resources. She was also affiliated with the Ecological Science and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program while at Purdue. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from Ohio State University.

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