Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton
Nonresident Junior Research Fellow
Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton is a PhD candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. His research centers on the role of critical minerals in energy transitions. He also conducts related research as a non-residential Junior Research Fellow with the Climate Policy Lab. He completed master’s studies as a Marshall Scholar at the universities of Cambridge (MPhil Geographical Research) and Oxford (MSt Critical Translation), and undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley (BS Environmental Science, Policy, and Management). In 2023, he served as an Assistant Researcher for the Climate Policy Lab. From 2021–2022, he served as a Blakemore Freeman Fellow in National Taiwan University’s International Chinese Language Program. Other relevant experiences include collaboration with Dr. Elia Apostolopoulou, Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellow at the University of Cambridge, on an edited volume on the social and environmental impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative; research assistance at the California-China Climate Institute; coding for the Oxford Coronavirus Government Response Tracker; and work as an environmental journalist. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Rural Studies, Land Use Policy, Orion, and elsewhere.
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