Gidon Eshel

Gidon Eshel is a geophysicist whose impactful research focuses on sustainable food systems and environmental science with a unique emphasis on numerical modeling and statistical quantitative rigor. Eshel's key publications include a number of articles on sustainable beef production in such top-tier journals as PNAS, Environmental Science & Technology, PLOS Biology, and Nature Ecology and Evolution,  also discussed in Nature's Research Highlights. Eshel is the author of the technical monographs Spatiotemporal Data Analysis (Princeton 20212) and Planetary Eating (MIT 2025). Recognized for his public leadership, he has received both a Radcliffe Fellowship (2016–17) and a PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellowship (2010–12). His expertise has been featured in public forums, including an appearance in Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2016 documentary Before the Flood, and he has given presentations at institutions such as MIT, Harvard University, Yale School of Forestry, and the Culinary Institute of America. He is currently a Research Professor at Bard College as well as a conceptual environmental consultant to various businesses and NGOs.