Mark Z. Jacobson
· Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for EnergyStanford University · Civil and Environmental Engineering
Active 1925–2026
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About
Mark Z. Jacobson is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy. His professional affiliations indicate a focus on environmental and energy-related research within the civil and environmental engineering discipline.
Research topics
- Engineering
- Computer Science
- Geology
- Pathology
- Medicine
- Electrical engineering
- Internal medicine
- Oncology
- Immunology
- Waste management
Selected publications
Energy Science & Engineering · 2021 · 840 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingAbstract Hydrogen is often viewed as an important energy carrier in a future decarbonized world. Currently, most hydrogen is produced by steam reforming of methane in natural gas (“gray hydrogen”), with high carbon dioxide emissions. Increasingly, many propose using carbon capture and storage to reduce these emissions, producing so‐called “blue hydrogen,” frequently promoted as low emissions. We undertake the first effort in a peer‐reviewed paper to examine the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions…
On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research
IEEE Access · 2022 · 524 citations
Research on 100% renewable energy systems is a relatively recent phenomenon. It was initiated in the mid-1970s, catalyzed by skyrocketing oil prices. Since the mid-2000s, it has quickly evolved into a prominent research field encompassing an expansive and growing number of research groups and organizations across the world. The main conclusion of most of these studies is that 100% renewables is feasible worldwide at low cost. Advanced concepts and methods now enable the field to chart realistic…
RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response
Scientific Reports · 2020 · 169 citations
Improved tuberculosis diagnostics and tools for monitoring treatment response are urgently needed. We developed a robust and simple, PCR-based host-blood transcriptomic signature, RISK6, for multiple applications: identifying individuals at risk of incident disease, as a screening test for subclinical or clinical tuberculosis, and for monitoring tuberculosis treatment. RISK6 utility was validated by blind prediction using quantitative real-time (qRT) PCR in seven independent cohorts. Prognostic…
iScience · 2024-01-23 · 34 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingGrids require electricity storage. Two emerging storage technologies are battery storage (BS) and green hydrogen storage (GHS) (hydrogen produced and compressed with clean-renewable electricity, stored, then returned to electricity with a fuel cell). An important question is whether GHS alone decreases system cost versus BS alone or BS + GHS. Here, energy costs are modeled in 145 countries grouped into 24 regions. Existing conventional hydropower (CH) storage is used along with new BS and/or GHS…
Environmental Science & Technology · 2025-02-10 · 24 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingAir pollution, global warming, and energy insecurity are three major problems facing the world. This study first examines whether 149 countries can transition 100% of their business-as-usual (BAU) all-sector energy to electricity and heat obtained from 100% wind-water-solar (WWS) sources to solve these problems. WWS eliminates energy-related air pollution deaths and CO2-equivalent emissions while reducing end-use energy needs by ∼54.4%, annual energy costs by ∼59.6%, and annual social (energy pl…
Recent grants
NIH · $900k · 2005
Modeling Satellite Correlations of Aerosol Optical Depth Versus Cloud Optical Depth Over Megacities
NSF · $460k · 2015–2019
NIH · $638k · 2007
Frequent coauthors
- 325 shared
Richard B. Pollard
- 318 shared
Judith Feinberg
- 272 shared
Gary N. Holland
- 262 shared
Susan Owens
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
- 261 shared
Paul Griffiths
University College London
- 259 shared
William G. Powderly
Washington University in St. Louis
- 258 shared
Fred R. Sattler
University of Southern California
- 258 shared
Maureen Power
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
Education
- 1991
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- 1988
M.S., Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- 1985
B.S., Environmental Engineering
Stanford University
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