Destenie Nock ’19 PhD

Dr. Destenie Nock ’19 PhD is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Public Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Nock is a leader in energy justice, environmental justice, sustainable energy transitions, and the energy-poverty-climate change nexus. In her current work she is developing frameworks for understanding the sustainability and equity trade-offs for different power plant investments across the US. In addition, she has pioneered new measures of energy poverty to help utility companies identify vulnerable populations and energy deficits (i.e., energy limiting behavior and forgone thermal comfort). She has been awarded six National Science Foundation grants, and in addition her research has been funded by the Sloan Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Nock is also the Chief Executive Officer of Peoples Energy Analytics, a data driven company which uses the energy analytics she developed at Carnegie Mellon to identify energy poverty in vulnerable households. Dr. Nock received her PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UMass Amherst, and two BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from North Carolina A&T State University.