Tim Weis is the Senior Director of the Industrial Decarbonization group at the Pembina Institute, having previously worked for over a decade with the Institute starting in 2002. Prior to re-joining the institute, Tim was an industrial professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Alberta for nearly a decade, where he taught courses in energy systems, and supervised graduate student research focussed on renewable technology, market and policy modelling. Tim has worked for NRCan’s Office of Energy Research and Development, as the policy director for the Canadian Wind Energy Association and as a ministerial advisor for the Government of Alberta on climate change.
Tim holds a PhD in environmental sciences from Université du Québec à Rimouski, where he studied wind energy development in remote communities. He also has an M.Sc. (University of Alberta) and a B.A.Sc. (University of Waterloo) in mechanical engineering.
