Sabine Chavin

Sabine Chavin joined Synapse in 2022. She performs research and analysis on energy sector issues including resource planning, federal energy legislation, tracking utility performance, building decarbonization policies, and energy storage. She has worked on incorporating tax credit updates from the Inflation Reduction Act into power system modeling; assisted in testimony development focused on power plant economics in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona; and co-authored comments on the importance of considering Inflation Reduction Act provisions in resource planning.

Prior to joining Synapse, Ms. Chavin worked in biophysics research at the University of Pennsylvania. She used Python to model neural navigation processes in Professor Vijay Balasubramanian’s neuroscience lab and analyzed structures of parasites using cryo-electron microscopy techniques in Dr. Yi-Wei Chang’s structural biology lab.  

Ms. Chavin holds a BA in Physics with a concentration in Computer Techniques and an MS in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania.