Anna Jacobson is a graduate student with the program in Quantitative and Computational Biology.  She joined the Levin Lab in 2020.  A New York native, Anna attended Tufts University for her undergraduate degree, where she got a joint B.S. in Computer Science and Biology.

Anna’s primary research interests involve climate and environmental policy.  How can scientists perform meaningful work that maximally supports decisionmakers in D.C. and beyond?  The start of her thesis work involved using mathematical decomposition to improve the runtime and accuracy of models used to inform capacity expansion decisions for energy systems in the continental United States.  For the remainder of her work, she aims to study how abstraction and model design decisions impact real-world investment decisions and policy recommendations.