Lindsay Anderson
Professor: Biological and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Catherine (Lindsay) Anderson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. Her research advances energy system decarbonization at the intersection of environmental and systems engineering, electric power systems, optimization, and decision science. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and has held leadership roles as Faculty Director for Energy at Cornell Atkinson and interim Director of the Cornell Energy Systems Institute.
Her work has been recognized with awards including the Energy Systems Integration Group Award of Excellence, Cornell’s Award for Research Excellence, and an NSF CAREER Award. The National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, US Department of Agriculture, PSERC, and the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada have supported her work. She also contributes research-informed expertise to New York’s clean energy policy as a member of the New York Independent System Operator’s environmental advisory committee.
Beyond her scholarship, Dr. Anderson has helped build scholarly communities, co-leading the Electric Energy Systems track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. She was selected as an Ivy+ Provost Leadership Fellow and holds degrees in environmental engineering from the University of Guelph and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Western University in Canada.