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Special Assistant to the Research Director
Jen Wu is the Special Assistant to the Senior Director of Research at the Center on Global Energy Policy. She joined CGEP after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in Environmental Biology, focusing on Ecology and Evolution. She is currently furthering her education at SIPA, where she is pursuing her Masters in Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy. This past summer, she served as Deputy Manager in her Workshop in Applied Earth Systems Management, producing a final report regarding the Energy Resilient Communities Act.
For her undergraduate senior thesis, Jen studied how remote sensing technology and vegetation indices can help predict groundwater arsenic concentrations in Cambodia. Prior to CGEP, Jen was an Administrative and Research Assistant for the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, researching myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) and long-COVID and bridging policymakers, physicians, researchers, and the patient communities together.
In her free time, she enjoys ballet, trivia, and word games.
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