Eric Larson is a senior research engineer who leads the Energy Systems Analysis Group at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. His research interests intersect technology, environmental science, economics and public policy. He currently spearheads Princeton’s Net-Zero America project that is quantifying with local geographic specificity the amount, cost and pace of energy technology and infrastructure deployments needed across the United States to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. He also is a senior scientist with Climate Central, a nonprofit, non-partisan science and media organization.

• Rapid Switch 
• Andlinger Center Speaks: U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rise by 3.4 percent