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Mapping emissions from cars and lorries

Energy researcher Jessika Trancik has designed an app that helps users choose vehicles with low environmental impacts.
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Jessika Trancik uses the CarbonCounter app on a tablet on the street in Cambridge

Jessika Trancik is an energy-systems researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Credit: Kayana Szymczak for Nature

I’ve been an energy-systems researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge for ten years. My research helped to guide US government strategy ahead of the Paris climate-change negotiations, and has been presented to the International Energy Agency in Paris, which helps nations to shape their energy policies.

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Nature 581, 232 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01370-0

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  • Correction 28 May 2020: An earlier version of this profile misstated the role of the engineers who benefit from an app Jessika Trancik developed.

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