Meet the EPIC Predoctoral Fellows

The highly competitive fellowship program provides young researchers who have completed their bachelor’s or master’s degrees the opportunity to gain hands-on research experience and new skills in a full-time work environment under the guidance of EPIC-affiliated faculty and researchers.

EPIC’s outstanding pre-doctoral fellows have gone on to some of the country’s top PhD programs, securing places in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; Urban Planning at the University of California at Berkeley; and more. Five pre-doctoral fellows have won prestigious and highly-competitive National Science Foundation grants.

“I have grown so much as both a thinker and researcher since I started working for Ryan. I am now more confident than ever that I will be pursuing a PhD in Economics. Ryan has always been approachable and has taken the time to ensure I understand how to perform sound economics research. The community surrounding EPIC is so friendly and supportive that even a young researcher like me feels as if I have a voice and important ideas to contribute to the energy policy world.”

-Nadia Lucas, Class of ’19