Djokic, Denia

Denia Djokić is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Fastest Path to Zero Initiative in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. Her research engages with the social, political, environmental, and equity aspects of advanced nuclear energy technology and nuclear waste management. She holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Graduate Student Fellow. She has been a Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainability Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Project on Managing the Atom and Program for Science, Technology, and Society, and a science policy advisor for the Ecuadorian government.