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Dr. Chad Zanocco

Stanford University
Public policy

Former member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS)
2021 – 2023

E-Mail: czanocco@stanford.edu

Last Update: 08.11.2024

Curriculum Vitae

Chad Zanocco is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering where he is a member of the Stanford Sustainable Systems Lab (S3L). He received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, master’s degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics from University of California – Davis, and PhD in Public Policy from Oregon State University, where he also received a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Science. 

His research explores interactions between human, climate, and energy systems with a focus on how opinions and attitudes shape, and are shaped by, public policy. Some of his recent publications have examined how experience with power outages influence decisions to adopt residential solar and storage technologies, how negative experiences with extreme weather events impact public support for climate change mitigation policies, and the role that physical proximity to energy development projects has in forming perceptions about energy resources.

Selected Publications

YAS Project