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Brinda Yarlagadda is an Earth Scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute. She holds a joint appointment with the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on modeling resource supply, trade dynamics, and supply chains in the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM). Some of her recent work has included developing bilateral trade representation of liquefied natural gas and other fossil fuels and representation of supply curves for critical minerals and materials. She earned her PhD in public policy from the University of Maryland, and her dissertation focused on the interactions between trade and climate mitigation policies in energy and agricultural sectors.

• Multi-sector dynamics
• Energy system modeling
• Trade
• Critical minerals

• PhD in Environmental Policy, University of Maryland, College Park
• BS in Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2025

Yarlagadda, B., X. Zhao, G. Iyer, T. Wild, N. Hultman, and J. Lamontagne (2025). Emissions leakage and economic losses could limit the effectiveness of deforestation-linked oil crop import restrictions. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56693-1

2024

Yarlagadda, B., G. Iyer, M. Binsted, P. Patel, M. Wise, and J. McLeod (2024). The future evolution of global natural gas trade. iScience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.108902

Qiu, Y., G. Iyer, N. Graham, M. Binsted, M. Wise, P. Patel and B. Yarlagadda (2024). The impacts of material supply availability on a transitioning electric power sector. Cell Reports Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100221

Sampedro, J., D.-J. Van de Ven, R. Horoqitz, C. Rodes-Bachs, N. Frilingou, A. Nikas, M. Binsted, G. Iyer, and B. Yarlagada (2024). Energy system analysis of Russian gas cut-off to the European Union. Energy Strategy Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2024.101450

Nikas, A., N. Frilingou, C. Heussaff, P. Fragkos, S. Mittal, J. Sampedro, S. Giarola, J.-P. Sasse, L. Rinaldi, H. Doukas, A. Gambhir, A. Giannousakis, N. Golinucci, K. Koasidis, M. V. Rocco, E. Trutnevyte, G. Xexakis, G. Zachmann, E. Zisarou, E. Colombo, A. Hawkes, B. Yarlagadda, M. Binsted, G. Iyer, D.-J. Van de Ven (2024). Three different directions in which the European Union could replace Russian natural gas. Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.130254

2023

Yarlagadda, B., T. Wild, X. Zhao, L. Clarke, R. Cui, Z. Khan, A. Birnbaum, and J. Lamontagne (2023). Trade and Climate Mitigation Interactions Create Agro-Economic Opportunities with Social and Environmental Trade-offs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Earth’s Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003063

2022

Yarlagadda, B., S.J. Smith, B.K. Mignone, D. Mallapragada, C.A. Randles, and J. Sampedro (2022). Climate and air pollution implications of potential energy infrastructure and policy measures in India. Energy and Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2021.100067

Birnbaum, A., J. Lamontagne, T. Wild, F. Dolan, and B. Yarlagadda (2022). Identifying Drivers of Future Water Scarcity in Latin America and the Caribbean Using a Scenario Discovery Approach. Earth’s Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002764

Khan, Z., M. Zhao, C.R. Vernon, T. Wild, and B. Yarlagadda. (2022). rmap: An R package to plot and compare tabular data on customizable maps across scenarios and time. Journal of Open Source Software. 7(77), 4015, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04015

Liu, Y., D. Tong, J. Cheng., S.J. Davis, S. Yu, B. Yarlagadda, L.E. Clarke, M. Brauer, A.J. Cohen, H. Kan, T. Xue, Q. Zhang (2022). Role of climate goals and clean-air policies on reducing future air pollution deaths in China: a modelling study.The Lancet Planetary Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00326-0

Yoon, J., P. Romero-Lankao, Y.C.E. Yang, C. Klassert, N. Urban, K. Kaiser, K. Keller, B. Yarlagadda, N. Voisin, P.M. Reed, R. Moss (2022). A Typology for Representing Human Actors in MultiSector Dynamics Models. Earth’s Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002641

2021

Zhao, M., M. Binsted, T. Wild, Z. Khan, B. Yarlagadda, G. Iyer, C.R. Vernon, P. Patel, S.R.S. da Silva, and K.V. Calvin (2021). plutus: An R package to calculate electricity investments and stranded assets from the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM). Journal of Open Source Software, 6(65), 3212, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03212

Bergero, C., M. Binsted, C.W. Chao, K.T. Chou, C.C. Wu, Y. Wei, B. Yarlagadda, and H.C. McJeon (2021). An Integrated Assessment of a Low Coal Low Nuclear Future Energy System for Taiwan. Energy and Climate Change, 2, 100022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2020.100022

Wild. T., Z. Khan, M. Zhao, M. Suriano, J.L. Bereslawski, P. Roberts, J. Cascado, M. Gavino-Novillo, L. Clarke, M. Hejazi, F. Miralles-Wilhelm, R. Munoz-Castillo, C. Vernon, A. Snyder, B. Yarlagadda, A. Birnbaum, J. Lamontagne, D. White, G. Ojeda (2021). Future Socioeconomic, Climate and Policy Change Present Opportunities and Challenges for Managing the Co-Evolution of Argentina’s Energy-Water-Land Systems. Earth’s Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001970

Wild. T., Z. Khan, L. Clarke, M. Hejazi, J.L. Bereslawski, M. Suriano, P. Roberts, J. Cascado, F. Miralles-Wilhelm, M. Gavino-Novillo, R. Munoz-Castillo, F. Moreda, M. Zhao, B. Yarlagadda, J. Lamontagne, and A. Birnbaum (2021). Integrated Energy-Water-Land Nexus Planning in the Colorado River Basin (Argentina). Reg Environ Change, 21, 62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01775-1

2020

Yu, S., B. Yarlagadda, J.E. Siegel, S. Zhou, and S. Kim (2020). The role of nuclear in China’s energy future: insights from integrated assessment.Energy Policy, 139, 111344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111344