Rate My Professor Michael Craig

Michael Craig is an Associate Professor jointly appointed between the School for Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. His ASSET Lab researches how to decarbonize energy systems while making those systems robust to climate change. He has received funding from several federal agencies, including an NSF CAREER Award. He serves on the advisory committees of several climate adaptation initiatives led by industry and national labs. His lab’s research has been published in Nature Energy, Nature Climate Change, Joule, and other leading journals. Prior to his current position, he worked as a Research Engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He received his PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017, an MS from the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, and a BA in Environmental Studies (Ecology) from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010.

Craig researches how to equitably reduce global and local environmental impacts of energy systems while making those systems robust to future climate change. His research advances energy system models to address new challenges driven by decarbonization, climate adaptation and equity objectives. He applies these models to real-world systems to generate decision-relevant insights that account for engineering, economic, climatic, and policy features. His current interdisciplinary collaborations include climate scientists, hydrologists, economists, urban planners, epidemiologists and diverse engineers. He is a Contributing Author to Chapter 10 of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report. He has received a Young Investigator Award from the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Energy Systems Division. He is Program Faculty at the Institute of Public Utilities, Faculty Affiliate of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Certificate Program, and Steering Committee Member of the University of Michigan College of Engineering Institute for Energy Solutions.