Julia Lukens is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and is currently pursuing an S.M. in Technology and Policy at MIT. Her research with Christopher Knittel focuses on developing new methods for estimating the social cost of carbon, focused on extreme weather events. Before coming to MIT, Julia worked at Regrow Ag building a digital platform to accelerate the decarbonization of agriculture and at Industrial Economics, Inc. supporting environmental policy development, implementation, and evaluation. Julia holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with a minor in economics from Wellesley College.
