HarryKennard
- Clean Energy Technology
Energy systems and their impacts, particularly on health in the context of the built environment.
About
Harry Kennard, PhD. is a research associate in the Webber Energy Group at The University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on energy systems and their impacts, particularly on health in the context of the built environment. Since 2020, he has been a leading contributor to the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, developing research and contributing to global and regional reports.
Before joining the Webber Energy group, he was a senior research associate at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, and prior to that a Research Fellow at University College London. He holds a PhD from the UCL Energy Institute, which examined the health impacts of cold homes. He also holds Masters degrees in Energy Demand, Linguistics, Applied Mathematics, and Physics, as well as an undergraduate degree in Physics.
Educational Qualifications
- BA, Physics, University of Oxford, 2008
- MASt, Physics, University of Cambridge, 2011
- MPhil, Applied Mathematics, The Open University, 2013
- MA, Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London, 2014
- MRes, Energy Demand in the Built Environment, UCL, 2016
- PhD, UCL, 2019
Select Honors & Awards
- National Champion for the United Kingdom, 3rd Edition Frontiers Planet Prize (2025)