People

Director

 

Paasha Mahdavi

Paasha Mahdavi is Director of the EGAPE Lab, Associate Professor of Political Science, Vice Chair of the Political Science Department, affiliated faculty at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, and co-founding member of The 2035 Initiative at UCSB.

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 Team

  • Zhai Gen Tan

    Zhai Gen Tan is a Ph.D. student in political science researching climate politics and policy in the Global South.

  • Denis Lomov

    Denis Lomov is a political science PhD student working on corporate climate policy.

  • Saber Khani

    Saber Khani is a Ph.D. student at Boston College, writing a dissertation on unarmed protests in oil-producing countries.

  • Marcus Ortiz

    Marcus Ortiz is a fourth-year undergraduate interested in law and data science.

  • Hunter Smith

    Hunter Smith is a PhD student in political science interested in carbon pricing, international environmental governance, natural climate solutions implementation, and causal inference methods.

  • Noosha Uddin

    Noosha Uddin is a political science Ph.D student focusing on citizenship, labor migration, and energy transition in the Middle East and North Africa.

  • Corah Walker

    Corah Walker is a Political Science PhD student working on access to drinking water/water infrastructures, parties and elections, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and spatial data and causal inference methods.

  • Jack Seevers

    Jack Seevers is a fourth-year undergraduate writing an honors thesis on the political economy of corporate biodiversity commitments.

Lab Alumni

  • Gabriela Alberola

  • Sonya Akhgar

  • Ellen Burrell

  • Jenna Cameron

  • Ariana Salas Castillo

  • Jeff Feng

  • Khobaib Ossailan

  • Mia Reines

  • Faiz Siddiqi

  • Mohammed Sulaimani

  • Annjulie Vester

  • Navid Yousefian