DrMiriam Aczel

Miriam is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE) at University of California, Berkeley, working on the Oakland EcoBlock pilot project. She is also an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP) at Imperial College London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Miriam is Research Fellow, Sustainability Transition and Justice at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.

Miriam's research areas include low-carbon energy transformation; renewable energy generation; electric grid technologies; energy justice and resilience; greenhouse gas removal technologies and policy; international energy and environmental law and policy; global environmental change and climate science; human rights and environmental justice; environmental and public health; and citizen science.

Miriam was previously a President's PhD Scholar (2016 - 2020) at Imperial College London's Center for Environmental Policy. Miriam's doctoral research, supervised by Karen E. Makuch, was on international regulation of hydraulic fracturing to extract shale gas in the UK, USA, France, China, and Algeria.

Miriam received her MSc in Environmental Technology (with Distinction) from Imperial College London and BA in Geography and Earth Science (with Distinction), with minor degrees in Italian Language & Literature; and Geology & Geophysics from McGill University in Montreal. She has spent semesters studying at Sciences Politiques, Paris, at the University of Florence, and at the University of Maryland.

She is co-founder and current co-director of the 501-c3 educational non-profit Amir D. Aczel Foundation for Education and Research in Science and Mathematics.

She speaks fluent French, Italian, and Hebrew and is studying Spanish.

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MSc Thesis Co-Supervision

Lissia, R. (2018). The role of Strategic Narratives for the development of UK clean tech startups. (co-supervised with Karen Makuch & Mark Workman)

Battersby, F. (2019) Investigating potential governance frameworks for greenhouse gas removal in the United Kingdom. (co-supervised with Karen Makuch & Mark Workman)

Cao, D. (2019). Environmental protection in China: An exploration into the role of citizen science. (co-supervised with Karen Makuch & Mark Workman)

Fung, N. (2019). BECSS & Land Use Trade-offs: Closing the Gaps from Policy & Legal Frameworks. (co-supervised with Karen Makuch & Mark Workman)

Mallett, A. (2019). A Scenario-Based Exploration into Barriers Preventing the Scale up of Negative Emissions Technologies in the UK: An Insight into Intergenerational Social Legitimacy. (co-supervised with Karen Makuch & Mark Workman)

O’Beirne, P. (2019). What socio-legal aspects of GGR as outlined by the CCC net zero report (2019) ought to be considered and why? (co-supervised with Karen Makuch & Mark Workman)

Ramon Guillena, A. (2020, expected). BECCS considerations and U.K. agricultural policy. (co-supervised with Karen Makuch)

Rumin, S. (2020, expected). Development of an impact forecasting tool for start-ups focusing on sustainable packaging (collaboration with Envsight; co-supervised with Karen Makuch, Zen Makuch & Mark Workman).