Gregory L Simon
About
I am a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver where I am Co-Director of the Community Collaborative Research Center. I hold several other Affiliated Faculty positions at both CU Denver and CU Boulder. Before moving to Colorado in 2009, I spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University where I was a Principal Investigator in Stanford’s Spatial History Project Lab. I have held subsequent Visiting Scholar positions at UCLA, Stanford and ETH Zurich. I hold a PhD in Geography (University Washington), a MS in Environmental Science and Management (University of California Santa Barbara) and a BA in Economics (University of California Santa Cruz). Among other appointments, I am a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) -- Climate Change Subcommittee. I am also the Environment and Society Section Editor of the journal Geography Compass. I served as Chair of the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and have been a Core Advisor to the United Nations Foundation.
Education and Training
2009 Postdoctoral Fellow
Lane Center for the American West
Stanford University
2007 Doctor of Philosophy in Geography
University of Washington, Seattle
2001 Master of Environmental Science and
Management
Donald Bren School of Environmental Science &
Management, University of California, Santa
Barbara
1997 Bachelor of Arts in Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Academic Positions
2022- Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental
Sciences
University of Colorado Denver
2018-21 Director of Graduate Programs
2024-27 Department of Geography and Environmental
Sciences
University of Colorado Denver
2015-22 Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental
Sciences
University of Colorado Denver
2009-15 Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental
Sciences
University of Colorado Denver
2017- Faculty Affiliate and Adjunct Associate
Professor
Department of Geography
University of Colorado Boulder
2016-20 Faculty Affiliate
Center for Science and Technology Policy
Research
University of Colorado Boulder
2014- Adjunct Faculty
Department of Geography
University of Colorado Boulder
2013- Faculty Affiliate
Urban and Regional Planning
University of Colorado Denver
Other Scholarly Appointments
2024 Visiting Scholar, Geographies of Disasters Group, Institute of Geography, University of Bern
2019 Visiting Scholar, Dept of Humanities, Social and
Political Sciences, Center for Security Studies,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH Zurich)
2016-17 Visiting Researcher, Institute of Environment
and Sustainability and Faculty Visitor,
Department of Geography, University of
California Los Angeles
Sum 2013 Visiting Scholar, Center for Sustainable
Communities University of California Los Angeles
Sum 2013 Visiting Scholar and Principal Investigator, Spatial History Project Stanford University
Sum 2011 Visiting Scholar and Principal Investigator, Spatial History Project Stanford University
Other Leadership Positions
2023- Co-Director
Community Collaborative Research Center (CCRC)
University of Colorado Denver
2022-25 Appointed Member, Board of Scientific
Counselors (Climate Change Sub-committee)
United States Environmental Protection Agency
2020- Co-Founder and Co-Convenor
Political Ecology Remote Collective (PERC)
2016-23 Editor, Human-Environment Section
Geography Compass
2010-13 Core Advisor
United Nations Global Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves