Jesse Anttila-Hughes

Jesse Anttila-Hughes is an Associate Professor and the current Chair of Economics at the University of San Francisco. His research combines physical and statistical approaches to economic, health, and social problems, illuminating the dynamics of coupled human-environmental systems ranging from climate change to planetary public health. His research has been published in leading journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and the European Physical Review, and his work has appeared in news outlets such as Physics Today, The Wall Street Journal, and the NY Times. He has been the 2015 recipient of USF's Mentor of the Year Award in recognition for his work advising graduate students, as well as the 2023 USF Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award for his work on introducing students to AI and LLM methods in econometrics. He has served as a research advisor for institutions such as the World Bank, DFID, and World Food Programme, and previously worked in the private sector as an investment banker. He received his A.B. in Physics from Harvard in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Sustainable Development from Columbia in 2012.

• Climate impacts on society
• Coupled human-natural systems
• Evolution of cooperation
• Child health and nutrition
• Physical approaches to economics

• Columbia University, PhD in Sustainable Development, 2012
• Harvard University, AB in Physics, 2002