David McCollum
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Sustainable Service Systems Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
David L. McCollum is a Senior Scientist in the Transportation Analytics and Decision Sciences (TADS) Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with expertise spanning energy-economics, engineering, public policy analysis, and corporate advisory services. His research attempts to inform state, national, and global energy and environmental issues on matters related to, among others, deep decarbonization, net-zero emissions pathways, energy-transport-climate policies, electric sector planning, end-use sector electrification (transport, buildings, industry), sustainable development goals (including inter-dependencies), financing needs for the energy system transformation, and human dimensions of climate change. He employs energy-economic systems and integrated assessment models in support of this work (e.g., MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM, TIMES-MARKAL, REGEN).Before joining Oak Ridge National Laboratory, McCollum was a Senior Research Scholar with the Energy Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, and a Principal Technical Leader at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California. He currently holds secondary appointments as Guest Senior Research Scholar at IIASA; Research Fellow in Energy and Environment at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London. The latter is in his capacity with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Technical Support Unit (TSU - Working Group III) for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). He previously led activities within the Global Energy Assessment; IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5 - WG III); IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C; and other international, multi-stakeholder initiatives, such as for the World Bank and International Council for Science (ICSU).
McCollum received a PhD and MS in Transportation Technology and Policy from the University of California, Davis (USA), Institute of Transportation Studies; an MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the same institution; and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee (USA).
Last update: 22 NOV 2021
Publications
Yeh, S., Mishra, G.S., Fulton, L., Kyle, P., McCollum, D.L., Miller, J., Cazzola, P., & Teter, J. (2017). Detailed assessment of global transport-energy models’ structures and projections. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 55 294-307. 10.1016/j.trd.2016.11.001.
van Vuuren, D.P., Edelenbosch, O.Y., McCollum, D., & Riahi, K. (2017). A special issue on model-based long-term transport scenarios: Model comparison and new methodological developments to improve energy and climate policy analysis. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 55 277-280. 10.1016/j.trd.2017.05.003.
McCollum, D., Gomez Echeverri, L., Busch, S., Pachauri, S. , Parkinson, S. , Rogelj, J. , Krey, V. , Riahi, K. , Nilsson, M., & Stevance, A.-S. (2017). Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals by their energy inter-linkages. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-17-006
McCollum, D., Krey, V. , Riahi, K. , Kolp, P., & Makowski, M. (2017). Climate policies can help resolve energy security and air pollution challenges. In: IIASA Institutional Evaluation 2017, 27 February-1 March 2017, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.
Cameron, C., Pachauri, S. , Rao, N. , McCollum, D., Rogelj, J. , & Riahi, K. (2017). Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate Mitigation and Universal Access to Clean Cooking Goals. In: IIASA Institutional Evaluation 2017, 27 February-1 March 2017, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.