Jesse Jenkins
· Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the EnvironmentPrinceton University · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Active 1976–2026
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About
Jesse Jenkins is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the ZERO Lab (Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory) at Princeton University. His research focuses on accelerating rapid, affordable, and effective transitions to net-zero carbon energy systems. The ZERO Lab improves and applies optimization-based macro-energy systems models to evaluate low-carbon energy technologies, guide investment and research in innovative decarbonization solutions, and generate insights to improve energy and climate policy and planning. Professor Jenkins admits approximately two graduate students each year to pursue doctoral degrees in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-supervises students in the School of Public and International Affairs’ Program in Science, Technology & Environmental Policy. He also supports undergraduate research opportunities, including summer internships, independent study, junior paper opportunities, and senior thesis research.
Research topics
- Engineering
- Economics
- Business
- Environmental science
- Environmental economics
- Computer Science
- Computer Security
- Electrical engineering
- Political Science
- Physics
Selected publications
The design space for long-duration energy storage in decarbonized power systems
Nature Energy · 2021 · 573 citations
Emissions and energy impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act
Science · 2023 · 254 citations
Economy-wide emissions drop 43 to 48% below 2005 levels by 2035 with accelerated clean energy deployment.
Applied Energy · 2020 · 183 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingEnergy storage solutions to decarbonize electricity through enhanced capacity expansion modelling
Nature Energy · 2023 · 162 citations
Leveraging Open-Source Tools for Collaborative Macro-energy System Modeling Efforts
Joule · 2020 · 34 citations
Frequent coauthors
- 31 shared
Carlos Rodríguez‐Galindo
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- 30 shared
Neha Patankar
- 29 shared
Raul C. Ribeiro
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- 28 shared
Bonald C. Figueiredo
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
- 26 shared
Mara Albonei Dudeque Pianovski
Universidade Federal do Paraná
- 26 shared
Wilson Ricks
Princeton University
- 25 shared
R Sandrini
- 25 shared
Lílian Maria Cristófani
Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo
Labs
ZERO LabPI
Education
- 2018
Ph.D. in Engineering Systems, Institute for Data, Systems, & Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2014
S.M. in Technology & Policy, Technology & Policy Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2006
B.S. (magna cum laude, departmental honors) in Computer & Information Science and Philosophy, Robert D. Clark Honors College; Department of Computer & Information Science; Department of Philosophy
University of Oregon
Awards & honors
- Gabe Mantegna earns 2025 Maeder Fellowship to tackle energy-…
- Jesse Jenkins receives junior faculty award for outstanding…
- Jesse Jenkins named as top 100 climate leader, receiving a s…
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