He is currently the Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment and Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford University.

He is additionally a William Wrigley Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Lobell was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2013 for "unearthing richly informative, but often underutilized, sources of data to investigate the impact of climate change on crop production and global food security.

"[1][2] Lobell earned a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics from Brown University in 2000.

He received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford University's Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences.