Elina Hoffmann

Elina Hoffmann is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on resolving operational realities for different iron and steelmaking processes to better understand the envelope of CO₂ emissions performance and identify actionable pathways for emissions reductions. She explores how policy design, market dynamics, and "green steel" accounting boundaries shape the transition to low-CO₂ steelmaking and the relative attractiveness of plant-level abatement strategies.

Elina earned her Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, Technology, Institutions, and Organizational Performance in Public Health and Climate Change Contexts, investigated the drivers of organizational performance across two domains: the production of high-quality public health data and emissions reductions in steelmaking. She leads the development of decarbSTEEL, an open-source techno-economic evaluation tool designed to support industry and policymakers in assessing the costs and emissions tradeoffs across different steelmaking pathways.

She also holds an M.S. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon (2022) and a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University (2020).

Please contact me at eshoffma@andrew.cmu.edu with questions on decarbSTEEL.