Tracey Holloway

Jeff Rudd and Jeanne Bissell Professor of Energy Analysis and Policy

University of Wisconsin—Madison

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Dr. Tracey Holloway is the Jeff Rudd and Jeanne Bissell Professor of Energy Analysis and Policy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. For over 20 years, Holloway has worked with students, scientists, and outreach staff to understand the air we breathe. Using satellite data, computer models, and ground-based measurements, the Holloway Group advances research to inform science and policy. Partnering with policy organizations and private companies, they advance and apply data to real-world information needs.

Holloway is the two-time Team Lead of the NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team (HAQAST), the national team funded by NASA to connect satellite data with health and air quality decision-making and applications. In this role, she coordinates a team of researchers spanning from leading universities and research centers to support the data utilization of government agencies, non-profits, and companies across the U.S. and around the world. As an example of this work, Holloway works with the American Lung Association using satellite-based estimates of near-surface fine particulate matter, with the goal of informing air quality in U.S. counties that lack ground monitors.

Based at the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Holloway actively connects her cutting-edge research with the education and training mission of the university.  She is appointed in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and teaches air quality classes to undergraduate and graduate students. Holloway also chairs the Energy Analysis and Policy program, the largest and fastest-growing in-person graduate certificate at UW-Madison.

Holloway has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine, awarded the Ascent Award from the American Geophysical Union, is a founding member Science Moms, and holds a wide range of awards for science outreach, diversity, and mentoring. She serves as an Advisory Board member for the Outrider Foundation, is a member of the U.S. Committee on International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and is on the Board of Trustee for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. 

Prior to joining the UW–Madison faculty, Dr. Holloway earned her Sc.B. with honors in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University, with a graduate certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Following graduate school, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Columbia University Earth Institute, working with the Mailman School of Public Health.