Dan Sambor is a post-doctoral scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he is the project manager of a collaboration between the US Army Corps of Engineers and Stanford to build an islanded microgrid research station. The goal of the project is to demonstrate modular and transportable renewable energy and storage technologies for improving resilience of military forward operating bases. Prior to this current role, he earned his PhD and MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford. His PhD dissertation, entitled “Optimization of Food-Energy-Water Systems in Remote Microgrids,” analyzed how communities in Alaska and the Yukon, Canada, can shift from diesel fuel to renewables like solar and wind for electricity generation while utilizing demand-side management. In addition to working in the sub-Arctic, Dan has also designed and installed microgrid systems in Malaysia and California. Prior to Stanford, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in Rhode Island.

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