Darshan Karwat

Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society

I am an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School at ASU, where I run re-Engineered, an interdisciplinary group that embeds environmental protection, social justice, and peace in engineering.  Current areas of work and teaching include:

• creating structures to mobilize engineers and scientists to collaborate with community groups addressing environmental, climate, and energy justice challenges
• understanding participation in just energy transitions
• infusing principles of justice into energy technology design
• reimagining the future of environmental governance
• activist engineering and environmentally-responsible engineering
• fluid/gas dynamics
• use-inspired design
• space systems

I am originally from Mumbai, India, but feel equally at home in Michigan or Washington, D.C. (and now, the Valley!). I studied aerospace engineering (specializing in gas dynamics and combustion) and sustainability ethics at the University of Michigan. I then spent three years as a AAAS Fellow in Washington, D.C., first at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the Innovation Team, where I worked on climate change resilience and low-cost air pollution sensors; and then at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Water Power Technologies Office, helping design and run the Wave Energy Prize.  I also work as co-founder of the Constellation Prize.

You can read more about what we do on our group website here, and at our group blog here.