Colin is the Co-Director of the Energy Futures Research Program
at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, where he is also Co-Director
of the Low-Carbon Fuel Policy Research Initiative and Director of the Biofuel
Land Use Change program. He is among the foremost academic experts on policies
like the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, with more than a dozen peer-reviewed journal
articles and technical reports on the topic since 2020. He has a decade of
experience at the nexus of science and public policy as a researcher, advocate
and speaker; with expertise in low carbon fuel policy and technology,
sustainable transportation, climate policy, and scientist engagement with
public policy. Previously, he worked on climate and transportation policy for
the NextGen Policy Center and was a CCST Science Policy Fellow in the
California Legislature. He holds a B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering from
UC Daivs, a M.S. in Science, Technology and Public Policy from the Rochester
Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Transportation Technology and Policy
from UC Davis.