Our Team
Michael Oristaglio
Michael L. Oristaglio is co-founder and inaugural director of the Energy Studies Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Yale College and a founding faculty member of the program in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy at Yale School of the Environment. Since 2009, he has been a senior research scientist and lecturer in energy geoscience in the Yale Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and, from 2012 to 2016, was executive director of Yale Climate & Energy Institute. Dr Oristaglio also works as a manager for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) on collaborative industry research projects intended to further applied Earth science for industry and public benefit. Before coming to Yale in 2009, he spent 25+ years as a scientist and research manager in the geophysical services industry with Schlumberger, the leading supplier of technology and services to the global energy industry. In 2020, he gave the opening keynote address at the 90th Anniversary Meeting of the SEG. Dr. Oristaglio has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Earth Science from Yale and Oxford.
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Thorkild Hansen
Thorkild B. Hansen has over 30 years of experience developing theories, algorithms, and software in the areas of radar, imaging, acoustics and electromagnetics, field measurements, RFID and wireless communications, CTIA and 3GPP standards, hardware defect predictions, global asset allocation, and quantitative equity strategy development and risk management. He received the R.W.P. King Prize in 1992 and the S.A. Schelkunoff Prize in 1995 from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his research and publications on electromagnetic wave propagation. He was part of the team that won the 2004 Technology Innovation Award in Software from the Wall Street Journal and the 2002 NOVA Award from the Construction Innovation Forum for work on ground penetrating imaging radar. He is co-author of Plane-Wave Theory of Time-Domain Fields, a featured book of IEEE Press in 1999. Dr. Hansen has a PhD in Electromagnetics from Technical University of Denmark.
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