Joan Ogden

Joan Ogden, is Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis and Co- Director of the Hydrogen Pathway Program at the campus' Institute of Transportation Studies. Her primary research interest is technical and economic assessment of new energy technologies, especially in the areas of alternative fuels, fuel cells, renewable energy and energy conservation. Her recent work centers on the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier, hydrogen infrastructure strategies, and applications of fuel cell technology in transportation and stationary power production. She headed the systems integration team for the USDOE National Hydrogen Roadmap in 2002. She is active in the H2A, a group of hydrogen analysts convened by the Department of Energy to develop a consistent framework for analyzing hydrogen systems, and served on the Blueprint Plan advisory panel for the California Hydrogen Highway Network in 2005. She holds BS in Mathematics from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Davis, Ogden was a research scientist at Princeton University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies from 1985-2003.