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Dr. Colin Cunliff is a senior policy analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. He previously worked at the US Department of Energy Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis as an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, with a portfolio focused on energy sector resilience and emissions mitigation. Prior to that, he was the American Institute of Physics/American Association for the Advancement of Science (AIP/AAAS) Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein, where he served as a staff science adviser on energy, climate, and transportation. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin.
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