Kammen received his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in physics at Cornell and then Harvard. While a post-doctoral fellow at Caltech and then back at Harvard he worked on renewable energy technologies and environmental resource management, as well as risk analysis. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University where he helped to develop and then chair the interdisciplinary Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) Program. At Berkeley he is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL). His work is highly interdisciplinary, and includes technical, economic, social, policy, and environmental analysis and activism of energy production and use. His focus is on renewable energy, energy policy, and development. His field projects are focused in Africa.

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