​Postdoctoral Researcher

robertfofrich [at] ucla [dot] edu

Robert is an earth system scientist and a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. His research interests are in mitigating global environmental change and adapting vulnerable communities to a changing environment. He is currently researching biomass-sourced climate change mitigation strategies and their effects on global conservation goals and local crop production. He received his Ph.D. in 2022 in earth system science from the University of California, Irvine, where his dissertation focused on the energy-sector challenges of limiting future climate warming at or below 2oC and the impacts on global agricultural systems if international climate targets are surpassed. Robert has also previously served on the Orange County Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology (OCSCB) board, and he is now a part of the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) Postdoctoral Council (PDC). Before entering academia, Robert worked on various environmental issues facing indigenous communities in North America and spearheaded wildlife conservation efforts across Southern California.