Pavitra Srinivasan

Pavitra Srinivasan leads research and analysis on emerging technologies, programs and policies to facilitate the adoption of next gen manufacturing and energy processes and advance innovation, resilience, and cost competitiveness in the industrial sector. At ACEEE, she leads the Innovative Technologies in Buildings and Infrastructure Initiative to promote advanced building materials like cement, concrete, and steel in the U.S She also co-leads research on building and industrial technology and policy in emerging economies. She joined ACEEE in 2021.

Prior to ACEEE, Pavitra worked on an interdisciplinary team at the George Washington University, supported by the National Science Foundation, to better understand the technical, economic and behavioral decisions around adopting novel electrochemical cement processes, nanomaterials, electrification, thermal energy storage, CCUS and renewable energy technologies in the United States, India, and China to reduce energy use and emissions and support tech transfer negotiations. As a public health scientist and consultant, she has worked with U.S. government and private industrial clients from the U.S., Japan, Caribbean and the World Bank-IMF Group to address environmental health, occupational risks and industrial hygiene through research, policy and rule-making support and stakeholder engagement.

She earned her doctor of public health and master’s in public health in Environmental and Occupational Health from The George Washington University, United States, and her bachelor’s of science in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University, Canada.  

Areas of Expertise:

1. Emerging technologies and renewable energy
2. Lifecycle and techno-economic assessment
3. Decision sciences and uncertainty
4. Socio-behavioral aspects of technology adoption