Jennifer Dunn studies emerging technologies, their energy and environmental impacts, and their potential to influence air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, and energy consumption at the economy-wide level. Particular technologies of interest include biofuels and bioproducts, automotive lithium-ion batteries, fuels and chemicals made from carbon capture and utilization technologies and from natural gas liquids. She applies life cycle analysis as a key tool to evaluate emerging technologies. Furthermore, she characterizes land use and land use change through collaborations with economic modelers and computer vision experts.
Jennifer is the Director of Research for the Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE) and in that role works with faculty at Northwestern and scientists and engineers at Argonne in many areas including the energy-water nexus, materials science, high-performance computing, and synthetic biology. She is especially interested in connecting Northwestern graduate and undergraduate students with research opportunities at Argonne – through federal agency- and Northwestern-sponsored opportunities - to expose them to the exciting national laboratory research environment.
