David B. Lobell is an agricultural ecologist. He is currently the Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment and Professor of Earth System Science at
Stanford University. He is additionally a William Wrigley Fellow at the
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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and a Senior Fellow at Stanford's
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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. Lobell was awarded a
MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2013 for "unearthing richly informative, but often underutilized, sources of data to investigate the impact of climate change on crop production and global food security."
Education
Lobell earned a Bachelor of Science in
applied mathematics
Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathemati ...
from
Brown University in 2000. He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford University's Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Lawrence Fellow at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Work
Lobell's work deals primarily with food security. He also investigates the impact of climate change on crop yields.
Honors and awards
* MacArthur Fellow, 2013
* Honorary Doctor of Science,
Brown University, 2021
*
NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences (2022)
References
External links
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MacArthur Fellows
Stanford University staff
Brown University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Stanford, California
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