Benjamin F. Hobbs has been a member of the faculty of Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Environmental Health & Engineering (formerly Geography & Environmental Engineering) since 1995. His research and teaching concerns the application of optimization and decision analysis to the economic regulation, planning, and operation of electric power systems, and to water and ecosystem management. Since 2010, he has been the inaugural Director of the JHU Environment, Energy, Sustainability & Health Institute. He co-directs the Yale-JHU SEARCH (Solutions for Energy, Air, Climate, and Health) Center, sponsored by USEPA. Previously, he was at Brookhaven and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and on the faculty of the departments of Systems Engineering and Civil Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He earned a PhD in Environmental Systems Engineering in 1983 from Cornell University.
Dr. Hobbs has had visiting appointments at the Helsinki University of Technology, University of Washington, ECN (Netherlands Energy Research Center), Churchill College, the University of Cambridge, CalTech, and Comillas Pontifical University. Dr. Hobbs chairs the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator. He is a Fellow of IEEE and INFORMS. He has served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, was Area Editor for Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment for Operations Research, and Deputy Editor for Social Sciences and Policy for Water Resources Research.