Heidi Fuchs conducts collaborative research to support energy, water, and climate resilience across multiple subject domains. She helps lead the Industrial Applications team's energy management systems research portfolio, with current projects including:

• Understanding behavioral and organizational change at companies implementing energy management systems and communicating their benefits with the aim of rapidly increasing their uptake;
• Advancing knowledge about the risks and resilience of manufacturing water supplies; and
• Advising colleagues on applying social science research methods to various energy-related research questions.

Heidi earned her M.S. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to investigating the social dimensions of environmental change and adaptation. Before this, she worked for five years in various capacities in the environmental field in California, south India, Washington, DC, Massachusetts, and Texas, gaining experience in energy and environmental research, policy, and advocacy, water resources and access, geographic information systems, and land management.