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Zach Pirtle

Research Intern, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes

Zach is a first year MS student in civil and environmental engineering, working with the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University. From ASU, he recently received a BS in mechanical engineering and a BA in philosophy at ASU. As an undergraduate, Zach worked with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU, the Center for Biology and Socety, and interned with the stress engineering group at Honeywell Aerospace in Tempe. Zach's current interests focus on conceptual independence and agreement claims between models in engineering and climate science, and he intends to complete a PhD in philosophy of science after his current program.