He has a bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a nuclear engineer onboard a submarine. After that, Alex worked for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Alex received his Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and then worked as a research fellow at Harvard, and a research engineer at Carnegie Mellon University before taking a position at UC Berkeley, where he teaches courses on energy systems and energy/environmental policy. For the last decade Alex has conducted research on energy and environmental policy and has published over two dozen peer-reviewed papers on these topics in journals such as Science, Environmental Science & Technology, and Energy Policy.