Jimmy O’Dea is a Senior Vehicles Analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Oakland, California. O’Dea was the 2014-2015 MRS/OSA Science and Engineering Congressional Fellow and served in the office of Senator Brian Schatz (Hawaii), focusing on energy and climate change policy. O’Dea earned a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara and did postdoctoral research at Cornell University.