A Trio of Women Appointed to Endowed Faculty Roles

Joule Bergerson is the new faculty director of ND Energy at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She will also serve as the inaugural Richard and Ellen Stanley Professor of Energy Systems Engineering in the university’s department of chemical and biomolecular engineering. A leading authority in energy technology assessment, she most recently served as a professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Calgary in Canada.

Dr. Bergerson earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Western Ontario, her master’s degree from the University of Toronto, and her doctorate in the joint programs of civil and environmental engineering and engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Anika Walke has joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University as the Askwith Family Chair of Holocaust Studies and the Jack Buncher Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies in the department of history. She comes to her new role from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was an associate professor of history and of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. A scholar on the history and memory of war and genocide, she is the author of Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Dr. Walke received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Greeshma Gadikota is the new Lenfest Earth Institute Professor of Climate Change at Columbia Climate School. She will also hold a joint appointment in Columbia University’s department of earth and environmental engineering. Previously, she taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research centers on sustainable energy and metal recovery, as well as sustainable subsurface energy.

Dr. Gadikota received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and economics from Michigan State University. She holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering and operations research and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Columbia University.