Hannah Williams

Hannah Williams

Industrial Decarbonization Research Associate

Circular Economy + Biofuel + Geospatial Analysis + Climate-smart Agriculture

As a Research Associate on the Industrial Decarbonization Team at Carbon Direct, Hannah uses her experience in applied economics to offer an interdisciplinary approach to the environmental-social-economic nexus.

Hannah Williams is an economist with a background in sustainability, agriculture, and natural resource management. She has a wide range of research experience that includes utilizing algae-based fertilizers in agricultural operations, managing risk in federal subsidy programs for wastewater infrastructure, and optimizing sustainable aviation fuel supply chains.

Prior to joining Carbon Direct, Hannah was a Research Associate in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In that role, she optimized sustainable aviation fuel supply chains in the Southeastern United States to estimate costs, maximize profitability, and manage risk with a stochastic mixed-integer linear programming model. She also developed spatial regression models to determine the impact of weather and soil erosion on corn and soybean yields in the United States. 

Education

M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

B.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student
University of Tennessee Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

James Greever Agricultural Development and Enrichment Award
University of Tennessee Herbert College of Agriculture