Director, Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives, Williams College
Dr. Tanja Srebotnjak is the director of the Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives at Williams College. Prior to that, she was the inaugural director of the Hixon Center for Sustainable Environmental Design at Harvey Mudd College. Her research interests focus on the development and application of statistical methods for describing and analyzing a range of environmental issues, including the environmental and health risks associated with oil and gas development in California, the spatial analysis of ecosystem service hotspots, mapping sustainability networks, and designing effective urban green infrastructure. Trained as a statistician, she began her professional career at the United Nations Statistics Division in New York where she developed indicators and methods for official environmental statistics and later completed her doctoral research in environmental statistics and policy at the Yale School of the Environment in 2007.
Srebotnjak has also worked for the German environmental think tank Ecologic Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She serves as associate editor for Environmetrics and Population Health Metrics. She was a visiting scholar with Prof. Ardoin’s Social Ecology Lab in the 2017-18 academic year.