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Registry 01 · Researcher
Dr. Constantine Samaras
Seventy-five years of patient work, and a door held open for you.
Energy systems and climate technology.
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Research lineage
Introductions by invitation
Director · Pittsburgh Center
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Context record
Dr. Constantine Samaras is a researcher in Futurecraft's RAND Network, the world's most trusted intellectual access layer, anchored in 75 years of RAND policy methodology and continuously verified against primary sources (last verified 2026-06-05).
Director of the RAND Pittsburgh office; researcher on energy systems, climate technology, and the engineering economics of decarbonization. Former Assistant Director for Energy at the White House OSTP.
Their work spans 1 research domain on Futurecraft, Energy, and connects to live Question Networks, Strategic Salons, and Research-to-Reality opportunities organized around those domains.
Biography
Director of the RAND Pittsburgh office; researcher on energy systems, climate technology, and the engineering economics of decarbonization. Former Assistant Director for Energy at the White House OSTP.
Research Domains
Key Work
- , RAND analyses of clean-energy technology deployment
- , Studies on transportation decarbonization
- , Federal-level energy and climate technology policy work
Suggested Collaboration Questions
- Which decarbonization pathways are robust across political administrations, and which are only robust in one?
- Where are clean-energy supply chains most vulnerable to deliberate disruption?
- What does an industrial policy for climate technology look like that survives its own success?
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