Eric G. Scheuch

Deputy Director of Experimental Research 

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Welcome! I am the Deputy Director of Experimental Research at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. I earned my PhD in Political Science with Departmental Distinction at Yale in 2026, with a focus on American Politics and Quantitative Research Methods. My research focuses on climate change, public opinion, judicial politics, and the urban-rural political divide. My work has been published or is in press in Urban Affairs Review, Energy Research and Social Science, Journal of Environmental Psychology, American Politics Research, Climatic Change, Nature Social Science Communications, Current Opinion in the Behavioral Sciences, Global Environmental Psychology, and PLOS Climate. Frequent collaborators include Matthew H. Goldberg, Anthony Leiserowitz, Jennifer Marlon, Jacob Hacker, and Lucas Kreuzer. 

Prior to Yale, I worked on solving startup scaling challenges at a startup in NYC. I earned my BA (Cum Laude) in Political Science (Departmental Honors) and Sustainable Development from Columbia University, where I recieved the Charles Beard Prize for top paper in political science. I also hold an M.Phil. and M.A. in Political Science from Yale. I spend my spare time trail running and hiking with my spouse and my dog.