Alison Farmer
Vice President at I2SL: International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlison Farmer is a physicist-turned-energy-engineering leader with eight years of focused experience advancing energy efficiency and decarbonization in laboratory and research facilities. Based in Berkeley, she currently serves as Vice President of I2SL and leads the Labs2Zero program, where she directs major software and engineering initiatives and chairs multiple technical advisory committees. Previously she ran global engineering for Vertex Pharmaceuticals and led control-systems and analytics work at kW Engineering, building deep expertise in HVAC controls, benchmarking, and performance analytics. She designed and launched the lab industry’s benchmark tool (lbt.i2sl.org) and has a track record of creating repeatable programs—commissioning, analytics, and design-review processes—that scale across global portfolios. Trained as a PhD astrophysicist at Caltech with a history of published research, she brings rigorous analytical methods and computational skills to practical decarbonization challenges. Alison combines technical rigor with organizational leadership, often translating complex simulation and controls data into actionable, policy-influencing programs.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA & MSci Natural Sciences (Physics), BA & MSci Natural Sciences (Physics) at University of CambridgeCalifornia Institute of TechnologyGithub contributions (2)
ajfarm/RMP-BBH
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 29 days
ilyamandel/RMP-BBH
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
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