Paulina Jaramillo

Jaramillo is from Medellín.[1][2] She was an undergraduate student at Florida International University, where she majored in civil and environmental engineering.[3] She completed her doctoral degree at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied the life cycle of coal and natural gas for electricity generation.[4]

In 2010, Jaramillo joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.[3] She was made Executive Director of the project RenewElec, a national program that sought to support the United States in its transition to renewable electricity.[5] The program emphasized cost-effective, socially equitable and environmentally benign approaches to reducing carbon dioxide.[6]

Jaramillo focuses on energy access and development in the Global South.[1][7] In countries whose national grid struggles to power the entire population, Jaramillo has studied the impact of generators on air quality. She found that in Nigeria, back-up power supplies generate considerable emissions of carbon dioxide (almost 60% of those produced by the annual electricity sector).[8][9] As the Global South gained access to electricity, Jaramillo questioned whether these gains were being fairly distributed across society. Through an in-depth study in Gujarat, Jaramillo showed that there was a considerable gender electricity use gap.[10] Alongside her work in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jaramillo develops models to allow examination of United States' energy choices and their impact.[11]

Jaramillo was a lead author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.[12] In 2020, she partnered with Albert Presto to develop a series of sensors that could monitor air pollution.[13] Together they established the Clean Air Monitoring and Solutions Network (CAMS-Net), an international team that would establish standards on pollution sensing and data sharing.[13] She was selected as a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, which supported her in identifying energy development opportunities for Sub-Saharan Africa.[14]

• 2019 College of Engineering Faculty Award[15]
• 2019 Fenves Award for Systems Research[16]
• 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow[14]

• Paulina Jaramillo; W. Michael Griffin; H. Scott Matthews (1 September 2007). "Comparative life-cycle air emissions of coal, domestic natural gas, LNG, and SNG for electricity generation". Environmental Science & Technology. 41 (17): 6290–6296. Bibcode:2007EnST...41.6290J. doi:10.1021/ES063031O. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 17937317. Wikidata Q28314808.
• Mohan Jiang; W Michael Griffin; Chris Hendrickson; Paulina Jaramillo; Jeanne VanBriesen; Aranya Venkatesh (1 July 2011). "Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of Marcellus shale gas". Environmental Research Letters. 6 (3): 034014. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034014. ISSN 1748-9326. Wikidata Q21994564.
• Steven J. Davis; Nathan S. Lewis; Matthew Shaner; et al. (1 June 2018). "Net-zero emissions energy systems". Science. 360 (6396): eaas9793. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.AAS9793. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 29954954. Wikidata Q56016878.
• DeCarolis, Joseph F; Jaramillo, Paulina; Johnson, Jeremiah X; McCollum, David L; Trutnevyte, Evelina; Daniels, David C; Akın-Olçum, Gökçe; Bergerson, Joule; Cho, Soolyeon; Choi, Joon-Ho; Craig, Michael T; Queiroz, Anderson R de; Eshraghi, Hadi; Galik, Christopher S; Gutowski, Timothy G; Haapala, Karl R; Hodge, Bri-Mathias; Hoque, Simi; Jenkins, Jesse D; Jenn, Alan; Johansson, Daniel J A; Kaufman, Noah; Kiviluoma, Juha; Lin, Zhenhong; MacLean, Heather L; Masanet, Eric; Masnadi, Mohammad S; McMillan, Colin A; Nock, Destenie S; Patankar, Neha; Patino-Echeverri, Dalia; Schivley, Greg; Siddiqui, Sauleh; Smith, Amanda D; Venkatesh, Aranya; Wagner, Gernot; Yeh, Sonia; Zhou, Yuyu (16 December 2020). "Leveraging open-source tools for collaborative macro-energy system modeling efforts". Joule. 4 (12): 2523–2526. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2020.11.002. ISSN 2542-4785. Retrieved 2021-10-01.