Alexander Rees

Alex Rees is an ORISE Science, Technology, and Policy Fellow in the US Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office. He supports the Residential Buildings Integration program in justly transitioning the U.S. building stock toward a sustainable future through the demonstration and deployment of new technologies and the creation of strategic partnerships with key stakeholders in the buildings space. This includes managing projects ranging from accelerating the deployment of heat pumps across the U.S. through field validation in cold climates, to helping utilities evaluate emerging incentive structures for their energy-efficiency programs, to ensuring that the embodied emissions in the materials that make up buildings are being considered in the decision-making process. Alex holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in mechanical engineering with a focus in sustainability from the University of Michigan, where he did research with the Global CO2 Initiative on carbon utilization policy, both locally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and internationally.