{"id":834,"date":"2026-05-26T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/?page_id=834"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:26:44","slug":"research-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/research-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendall Research Team Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Kendall Research Team Members<\/strong><\/h2>

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Prosper Ogbonna<\/h3>
Degree Objectives: MS Transportation Technology and Policy & Energy<\/em> Systems.<\/em><\/div>
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Areas of Interest: Sustainable Transportation and Energy Systems, with research focused on Critical Mineral Supply Chains, battery materials, Energy transition modeling, and decarbonization pathways<\/div>

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Meena Pandey<\/h3>

Degree Objectives:\u00a0\u00a0PhD in Horticulture and Agronomy<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: Life Cycle Assessment, Geospatial analysis, \u00a0Circular Economy, Net-Zero and Decarbonization Strategies, Biogeochemical modeling<\/p>

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Elias Marvinney<\/h3>
Degree Objectives: MS in International Agriculture Development, PhD in Horticulture and Agronomy.<\/em><\/div>
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Areas of Interest: agricultural life cycle assessment, perennial crop systems modeling, agroecology, and biomass utilization<\/div>

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Simon Duex<\/h3>

Degree Objectives: PhD in Energy Systems<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: Industrial Ecology, Electric Vehicles, Road Transport Decarbonization, Critical Minerals, System Modeling<\/div>

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Vedika Iyer<\/h3>

Degree Objectives: B. Eng Civil Engineering.<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: agricultural life cycle assessment and sustainable transportation<\/p>

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Gordon M. Magne<\/h3>

Degree Objectives: Master of Science, Energy Systems, 2027.<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: geopolitics and global mineral markets; California’s implementation of the critical mineral and battery supply chain.<\/p>

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Israel Okeyinka<\/h3>

Degree Objectives: Master of Science in Environmental Policy and Management.<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: Sustainable waste management, Circular Economy, producer responsibility, and decarbonization strategies<\/p>

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Ashley DePew<\/h3>

Degree Objective: Ph.D., Energy Systems.<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: \u00a0Life Cycle Assessment, Climate Policy, Renewable Energy, Net Zero Energy, Behavioral Decision Making.<\/p>

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Lucas Salgado<\/h3>

Degree Objectives: Master’s and PhD in Transportation Technology and Policy.<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: Alternative fuel policies, Biofuel LCA, Advancing clean energy, Fleet Electrification Transition.<\/p>

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Alijoharah Alhobayshi<\/h3>

Degree Objective: \u00a0Master of Environmental Engineering.<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: \u00a0Water and wastewater treatment and conveyance systems<\/p>

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Laura Restrepo<\/h3>

Degree Objective: PhD student in Energy Systems.<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: Transportation decarbonization, zero-emission vehicle adoption, freight electrification, and clean mobility across diverse geographic contexts.<\/p>

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Lauren Mizerak-Mohun<\/h3>

Degree Objective: B.S. in Environmental Engineering.<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: life-cycle assessments to better understand how to reduce the environmental impacts of different types of EV batteries.<\/p>

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Yunzhu Chen<\/h3>

Degree Objectives: Ph.D. student in Energy Systems.<\/em><\/p>

Areas of Interest: industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, and sustainable transportation.<\/p>

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Keolohi Sabate<\/h3>

Degree Objective: Ph.D Candidate in Environmental Engineering.<\/em><\/p>

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Kendall Research Team Members Prosper Ogbonna Degree Objectives: MS Transportation Technology and Policy & Energy Systems. Areas of Interest: Sustainable Transportation and Energy Systems, with research focused on Critical Mineral Supply Chains, battery materials, Energy transition modeling, and decarbonization pathways Meena Pandey Degree Objectives:\u00a0\u00a0PhD in Horticulture and Agronomy Areas of Interest: Life Cycle Assessment, Geospatial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-834","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/834\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/kendall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}