Biography
Dr. Shahzeen Attari (Shaz) received her joint Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in Civil and Environmental Engineering and in Engineering and Public Policy in May 2009. Her dissertation investigated ways to encourage individuals to reduce their energy use and facilitate a decrease in carbon dioxide emissions per capita. She has designed and conducted intervention experiments to reduce individual energy consumption, used surveys to understand when and why individuals will accept hard regulations to curb energy consumption, researched climate change adaptation options for the United States, and investigated lay perceptions of the energy consumed by different daily behaviors.

Her current research interests are focused on psychological triggers and public policy options to decrease an individual’s energy consumption and thereby their carbon dioxide emissions. Research areas include: energy and climate change policy, quantitative policy analysis, benefit cost analysis, environmental science, conservation psychology, and behavioral economics.

Last Updated: October 5, 2009