Nusrat Molla is currently a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Andlinger Center. Her work focuses on using dynamical systems modeling, both theoretical and coupled with empirical qualitative methods, to understand the social and political dynamics of sustainability transitions in resource extraction and governance. She is particularly interested in how entrenched institutions inhibit sustainability transitions, and the mechanisms at various scales by which they are transformed. Her current project explores narratives and pathways for post-extractive futures in coal mining communities in Central Appalachia.

Nusrat earned her Ph.D. from Land, Air, and Water Resources at UC Davis in 2023, and her B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley.