Join three Georgia Tech faculty as they talk about alternative energy, environment, and sustainability on a panel hosted by the Honors Program. The panel will be on Wednesday, January 24th, 2024 from 5pm-6pm in the Student Center Rafael Bras Meeting Room (previously Northside room). All students are welcome!

If you would like to submit questions for the panelists prior to the event, use the question submission form via Qualtrics: https://gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0Pa6Vltl3CanNhc. All questions will be asked anonymously. 

Have Questions?
Email Amara Anderson, the Honors Program coordinator, at aanderson75@gatech.edu.

About the Panelists

Dr. Jairo Garcia is an expert in urban sustainability and climate change. Dr. Garcia is the CEO of Urban Climate Nexus, the North America Curator for United Nations Habitat, a Sustainable Development Goals Educator Fellow, and long-term collaborator and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and The Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Garcia is the former Director of Climate Policy with the City of Atlanta and the lead author of Atlanta’s Climate Action Plan. He received the 2017 Individual Climate Leadership Award by the EPA, and the 2021 Green Ring Award by the Climate Reality Project for this demonstrated an exceptional commitment to climate communications and climate action activism. His areas of research are in urban climate vulnerabilities with a focus on urban heat and food security.

Dr. Daniel Matisoff teaches and conducts research in the areas of public policy, energy policy, and corporate sustainability. His research focuses on the effectiveness and efficiency of comparative approaches to addressing environmental problems and the adoption and diffusion of energy technologies and policies. He currently is a fellow with the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainability, and is affiliated with the Strategic Energy Institute and Center for Urban Innovation. He has participated in over $4 million of sponsored research through the National Science Foundation, the European Union Center for Excellence, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Georgia Department of Transportation, and the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center. His recent research has resulted in publications in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental Science and Technology, Energy Policy, and Business Strategy and the Environment, among other outlets. His current research interests include: evaluating the effectiveness of voluntary eco-labeling programs; the effectiveness of incentives for solar electricity; the adoption of smart grid technologies and policies; and the impact of large-scale solar adoption on consumer rates and bills.

Dr. Thomas Orlando is a Regent’s Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech. He received his PhD from the State University of New York-Stony Brook and had postdoctoral appointments at Associated Western Universities, the Solid State Sciences Division of Sandia National Labs, and the Institut fur Physikalische Chemie at Universität Wien. His research focuses on electron- and photon-stimulated interface and surface processes, environmental chemistry and planetary surface science, and biophysical chemistry.