About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis with extensive training in environmental and natural resource economics, structural econometrics, and development economics. My research focuses on viable control, which applies to a variety of policy objectives that face deep uncertainty or have benefits that are difficult to estimate. I am currently developing new techniques to address this important class of problems.

Before UC Davis, I studied physics at Rochester Institute of Technology. In my capstone project, I examined how some relatively simple math models of climate could approximate several of the results from larger numerical simulations.

My office is 2160 Social Sciences and Humanitites at UC Davis (see map icon). You can contact me by email at donovan@ucdavis.edu.