Erlinde Cornelis

Erlinde Cornelis

Associate Professor

Academic Affairs
Fowler College of Business
Marketing Department

San Diego

Phone
619-594-4713
Location
SSE-3137
Mail Code
8239

Bio

Erlinde Cornelis (Ph.D. 2013 Ghent University, Belgium, BAEF grant) is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Senate Distinguished Professor at the Fowler College of Business. She also serves as the Chair of SDSU's Senate Sustainability Committee and as a co-prime investigator for SCEIN, a Cleantech SD incubator funded by the California Energy Commission. In 2017 and 2018, Cornelis was named the Most Influential Professor in Marketing in the Fowler College of Business.

Cornelis developed new curriculum on sustainability in business, including the Undergrad Sustainable Business Consulting Program. Her research focuses on persuasion, consumer psychology, and economic, social, and environmental sustainability in business. Her research was published in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, International Journal of Research in Marketing, International Journal of Advertising, Journal of Business Research, and European Journal of Marketing, amongst others.

Her most recent project maps resilience and solutions for public safety power shutoffs in underserved communities, funded by a Department of Energy grant.

Grants

USD $7,000 - Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) grant for project: “California Utilities Public Safety Power Shutoffs’ Impact on Disadvantaged Communities”, Role: Co-Principal Investigator, May - August 2022.

USD $400,000 - Department of Energy - Solar Energy Technology Office, MSRDC grant for project: “California Public Utilities Public Safety Power Shutoffs’ Impact on Disadvantaged Communities”, Role: Co-Principal Investigator, October 2022 - 24.

USD $1 million - SDSURF Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN), CleanTech SD, funded by a $5million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Role: Co-Principal Investigator, July 2021- 26.

USD $1,035,279 - SDSURF Southern California Energy Innovation Network (SCEIN), CleanTech SD, funded by a total $5million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Role: Co-Principal Investigator July 2016 - March 2022.

USD $15,500 - SDSU Fowler College of Business Graduate Fee Grant, Role: Co-Principal Investigator, February 2016 - June 2019.
USD $35,000 - BAEF (Belgian American Educational Foundation) Francqui fellowship - Postdoctoral Research, October 2013 - August 2014.

EUR €96,000 - BOF (Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds) Competitive Research Grant of Ghent University, Doctoral research, October 2009 - October 2013.