Dr. Benjamin D. Leibowicz is an Associate Professor at The
University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the endowed Banks McLaurin
Fellowship in Engineering. His primary appointment is in the Operations
Research and Industrial Engineering graduate program, which is administered
through the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Leibowicz also
holds a courtesy appointment at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
and supervises student research in the Energy and Earth Resources graduate program.
Dr. Leibowicz uses methods from operations research, systems analysis, and
economics to improve decision-making in the energy, natural resources, and the
environment domain. Specific application areas that he currently focuses on
include energy and environmental policy analysis, energy markets, electricity
reliability and resilience, energy system planning, and carbon capture,
utilization, and storage. Dr. Leibowicz has published more than 60
peer-reviewed journal articles. His research has been supported by the National
Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of
Homeland Security, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, along with national
laboratories and industrial corporations. His writing and research have been
featured in the Washington Post, Fortune, USA Today, Bloomberg, Scientific
American, The Hill, and other major media outlets. Dr. Leibowicz is the current
President of the INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the
Environment (ENRE). He has served as an elected Board Member of both the
INFORMS ENRE section and the IISE Energy Systems Division. He also serves on
the Editorial Board of Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy
and on the Board of Directors of the Macro-Energy Systems Society. Prior to
joining UT Austin, Dr. Leibowicz received both PhD and MS degrees in Management
Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and earned a BA in Physics
with a minor in Economics from Harvard University.