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C.-Y. Cynthia Lin
Cynthia Lin is an assistant professor at the University of California at Davis, with a joint appointment in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department and the Environmental Science and Policy Department. Professor Lin is also a Research Associate of the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government; a Faculty Affiliate of the UC-Davis Institute of Transportation Studies; the Fossil Fuels Tract Director of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program of the UC-Davis Institute of Transportation Studies; a Faculty Member of the UC-Davis Graduate Group in Transportation Technology and Policy; a Faculty Member of the UC-Davis Graduate Group in Applied Math; a member of the Bioenergy Research Group at UC-Davis; a Faculty Associate of the UC-Davis Air Quality Research Center; and a member of the Giannini Foundation for Agricultural Economics.
Professor Lin’s fields of interest are environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, industrial organization, and applied microeconomics. Among her current areas of research are the petroleum industry, renewable energy, natural resources, environmental regulation, and air quality.
Professor Lin received her bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College in 2000. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year.
Professor Lin received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2006. Her graduate honors include an EPA Science to Achieve Results Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a Repsol YPF – Harvard Kennedy School Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in energy policy, a Rita Ricardo-Campbell Fellowship in Economics, a Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship, the Stone Fellow Award for Best Paper Written by a Doctoral Student in Environmental and Resource Policy, the International Society for New Institutional Economics Award for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation, and Harvard Committee on Undergraduate Education Certificates of Distinction in Teaching for both her semesters of teaching.