David Lobell

David Lobell received a Sc.B. (2000) from Brown University and a Ph.D. (2005) from Stanford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow (2005–2007) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory prior to joining the faculty at Stanford University, where he is currently an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science and associate director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, a joint project of the Freeman Spogli Institute and Woods Institute for the Environment. David Lobell is an agricultural ecologist who unearths and connects richly informative sources of data to investigate the impact of climate change on crop production and food security around the globe. His multidisciplinary background in remote sensing, statistics, ecosystem modeling, land use, and agronomy informs his approach and enables him to draw significant insights from enormous and diverse data sets on weather, agricultural practices, and natural resources such as soil and water.