Miriam Aczel joined the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE) in 2021 as the inaugural McQuown Postdoctoral Fellow and is now a CIEE affiliate. She is currently a researcher at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
Aczel earned her doctorate at Imperial College London in 2020, where she was a President’s PhD Scholar. Her doctoral research was on environmental and community impacts of “fracking” to extract shale gas in the United Kingdom, United States, France, China and Algeria. Other research areas include greenhouse gas removal technologies, climate science and policy, international energy law and policy, human rights and environmental justice, environmental health, and citizen science.
Aczel holds an master’s degree in environmental technology from Imperial College London and a bachelor’s degree in geography and earth systems science with minors in Italian and geology and geophysics from McGill University in Montreal. She is the co-founder of the nonprofit Amir D. Aczel Foundation for STEM Education. Aczel loves exploring new places and learning languages. She speaks fluent French, Italian and Hebrew, and is proficient in Spanish.