Sarah Jordaan’s research is aimed at uncovering the environmental and economic trade-offs related to energy decisions. Her publications focus on not only life cycle assessment of energy technologies but also more broadly on environmental science, technology innovation and energy policy. Her collaborations have been published in numerous journals, such as Science Magazine, Nature Energy, Environmental Science & Technology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Prior to Johns Hopkins University, she was an Assistant Professor of Energy Policy and Politics at the University of Calgary from 2013-2016. She held a joint postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University between the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. She has also held positions at the Electric Power Research Institute, Shell Canada, and the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the University of California, San Diego. She earned her doctorate in Environmental Design from the University of Calgary in 2010 and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics with a minor in Computer Science from Memorial University in 2003.