Noah Kittner
Biography
Noah Kittner joined the Carolina Sustainability Council in fall 2024. He is an assistant professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Kittner studies energy systems at multiple scales, from regional and international power grids to community-owned micro-grids and household energy dynamics. His most recent work examines the relationship between energy systems, low-carbon development and human health.
Kittner earned his doctorate from University of California, Berkeley, where he studied energy systems engineering, science and policy. His work with the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab (RAEL) appears in leading journals ranging from Nature Energy to Environmental Science and Technology and Ecological Economics. Previously, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment in Bangkok, Thailand and has worked extensively on a Thai Solar PV Roadmap project with colleagues at Chulalongkorn University. He attended UNC-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate student, earning a bachelor of science in environmental science, while also minoring in mathematics and urban planning.