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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 I am thrilled to share that I recently concluded a series of enlightening conferences, where I had the privilege to present the first chapter of my PhD thesis at Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics titled: "On the subtle role of governmental decentralization on the generation of renewable electricity." In this chapter, I delved into the critical importance of sustainable renewable electricity generation in combating greenhouse gas emissions and addressing climate change. By analyzing various mechanisms, my research hypothesized that greater governmental decentralization significantly enhances the deployment of renewable electricity. Overall, the chapter emphasizes the pivotal role of a regional perspective in shaping effective renewable energy policies, underscoring the active participation of citizens in the ongoing renewable energy transition. I am deeply grateful for the invaluable feedback and suggestions received from the distinguished discussants and participants at each conference: 🔹 Regional Studies Association (RSA) Winter Conference in London (09./10. November 2023) 🔹 70th Annual Meeting of the NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL SCIENCE COUNCIL (NARSC) in San Diego (15.-18. November 2023) 🔹 XII International Academic Symposium organized by IEB - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona, University of Barcelona & Funseam- Foundation for Energy and Environmental Sustainability in Barcelona (06. February 2024) 🔹 ASSOCIATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMISTS (AERE) sponsored Meeting at the 50th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economics Association (EEA) in Boston (01.-03. March 2024) Your insights have been instrumental in refining my research and shaping its trajectory. I am truly appreciative of the collaborative spirit that defines our academic community. Looking forward to further discussions and contributions towards advancing sustainable solutions for our planet's future. 🌍 #RenewableEnergy #Decentralization #ClimateAction #PhDResearch #Gratitude

🌍🔬 EU GREEN is pleased to announce the launch of our 2024 joint procedure for stimulating research collaboration among our 9 partner universities. This initiative, led by the Work Package Research (WP3), invites researchers to submit proposals for seed funding aimed at enhancing cooperation and building strong scientific communities within the EU GREEN alliance. The 2024 call focuses on three pillars: 1️⃣ Incentive for collaborative research activities, offering up to 20,000€ 2️⃣ Researcher mobility program, providing up to 2,000€ per mobility per person 3️⃣ EU GREEN Scientific conferences, with funding of up to 10,000€ Researchers can choose one of these pillars and submit a dedicated application. This is a unique opportunity to strengthen scientific relationships and contribute to the advancement of knowledge across our alliance. 🌟📚 For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/dwjAnBR2 #EUGREEN #ResearchCollaboration #ScientificCommunity #SeedFunding #eugreenalliance Université d'Angers University of Parma Atlantic Technological University University of Évora University of Gävle Universitatea din Oradea Universidad de Extremadura Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Excited to start my PhD journey at University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna) supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship through the C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Network! My research will focus on Renewable Energy Communities and City Governance 🌱 Looking forward to working alongside my fellow C-NEWTRAL candidates and contributing to research for sustainable cities. #PhD #MSCA #Sustainability #ClimateNeutrality #BuildingEnergy #CircularEconomy #CityGovernance #UniversityOfBologna #DecisionMakingSystems

Call for papers: Social studies of energy and the making and unmaking of energy resources Date: October 30th and 31st 2024, welcoming reception October 29th Venue: National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen Keynote speakers: Kristin Asdal, Professor, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo Gavin Bridge, Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University Gisa Weszkalnys, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics and Political Science With the risk of climate catastrophe, energy has rightly become one of the most crucial global matters of collective concern. This, of course, has provoked vast amounts of research, not least from the growing body of literature known as social studies of energy. This main aim of this conference is to gather researchers that take the energy resource as their focal point. There is a need to pay more attention to the making and unmaking of energy resources: to understand how particular materials are made energy commodities, their various forms of economization, assetization, and greening, and the vast array of devices, modes of expertise, materials, stakeholders, social movements, and practices that participate in those processes. With this conference we expect to consolidate a dialogue between the different strands of energy resources studies, and, perhaps more importantly, to generate an empirical research agenda where the increasing variety of energy resources can be seen comparatively. We hope that by bringing together rich case studies from various parts of the world as well as various forms of energy resources, we will be able to generate better conceptualizations of the energy resource as a particular object of inquiry, and provide a different, and hopefully, useful, form of approaching the study of energy transitions and the making of more ecologically balanced economies. See attached Call for Papers for more details!

I am thrilled to announce the publication of my second paper, delving into a techno-economic analysis of self-consumption schemes and energy communities in Italy and Portugal! 🌍 This paper resulted from my Master's Thesis, which I had the privilege to develop during my time at Politecnico di Milano. I want to thank Professor Rui Castro, Professor Giampaolo Manzolini, Valeria Casalicchio, and Tânia Sousa for their invaluable support and dedication in developing this article. For those keen to dive into the details, you can access the article via the following link: https://lnkd.in/dAPfCJrG #research #energyanalysis #publication #PolitecnicodiMilano #selfconsumption #energycommunities #energytransition

As researchers committed to shaping policy and driving positive change, particularly in the realm of energy transition and climate change, we are aware of the key role of interdisciplinary research, integrating insights from various disciplines including the social sciences. Recently, I had the pleasure of going through a paper that beautifully articulates the process underlying an interdisciplinary research project. The paper not only serves as a reminder of the inherent beauty in embarking on interdisciplinary research journeys, but also provides a roadmap for those keen on mainstreaming interdisciplinary research and integrating insights from social sciences. One key takeaway highlighted in the paper is the need for research teams to weave interdisciplinarity right from the planning stages. Only when aligned on shared objectives and understanding of each one's unique role and perspective, coupled with continuous interaction and mutual respect, researchers can pave the way for groundbreaking discoveries that transcend the confines of siloed approaches. Crucially, this interdisciplinary approach isn't just about generating knowledge—it's about translating that knowledge into actionable policy. That is why also effective communication plays a pivotal role in this process, to bridge the gap between research insights and policy implementation. #InterdisciplinaryResearch #SocialSciences #EnergyTransition #ClimateChange #PolicyAction #ScienceforPolicy

PhD position | #Regional #energy #transitions The PhD candidate will work with Dr. Bradley Loewen, Associate Professor and Onsager Fellow in STS and sustainability transitions, in research linking energy transition, planning and notions of ‘desirable’ development, through the investigation of stakeholder networks and collaborations for innovation in the energy transition at socio-spatial scales, e.g. local-regional, urban-rural. According to the interests of the selected candidate, the PhD project may address one or more of the following: - Power, agency and transformative capacities in transitions; - Social innovation; - Constructed local/regional/national capitalist and/or alternative economic relations; - Conflicts and contestations, participation and democratic processes in planning energy transitions. As part of this effort, the PhD project will involve the following research activities: - A mapping of stakeholders, innovation activities and the socio-technical system surrounding energy transition in urban, regional and/or rural settings, e.g. the built environment and/or spatial dimension; - In-depth socio-technical case studies focusing on stakeholder interactions in planning and/or development processes in Norway; - In-depth socio-technical case studies addressing urban and rural (social, technological and/or environmental) innovation in Norway and in international (Nordic-Baltic) comparison. https://lnkd.in/dECMdWAc

Here's a call for 4 PhD positions at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Principal investigator: Alice Vadrot Within framework of the ERC project “Unlocking the full potential of digital twins for sustainable ocean futures” (2024-2029) Application deadline: 24th July 2024 Emerging digital twin technology holds promise in future solutions on governance and the mitigation of urgent environmental challenges. Digital twins are a method for analysing complex systems and developing "what-if" scenarios. The central objective of TwinPolitics is to investigate the development of digital twins as a (geo)political phenomenon that could permanently transform the interface between science and politics. Embedded into a multidisciplinary team, the doctoral students will collaborate and engage with different social science methods to study the role of digital twins in global environmental agreement-making. This includes fieldwork at negotiations related to marine biodiversity, plastic pollution, and deep-seabed mining. The doctoral students are expected to write a doctoral thesis in the rapidly emerging area of marine-policy, politics, and data.

PhD position at University of Padova on the impact of climate change in river discharge regimes within the program “PhD Sustainable Development and Climate Change | PhD SDC” - Open call for applications (Deadline July 26th, 2024) We are looking for a motivated PhD student within the program “PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate Change | PhD SDC” at the Research Center on Climate Change Impacts, University of Padova. The PhD scholarship will focus on the impact of climate change in river discharge regimes. The candidate will work with an active and dynamic research team from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA) and the Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture And Forestry (TESAF) of University of Padua. Moreover, this scholarship will have a period of research abroad of 6 months and a period of internship in a national agency focused in environmental monitoring and protection. The application deadline is on July 26th, 2024. More information about the position and how to apply can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eqdB4tx5 Ideal candidate: The candidate should have a basic background on hydrology, statistics, environmental fluid dynamics, climate change, remote sensing as well a basic knowledge of any programming environment for data analysis and environmental modelling. The candidate should also have soft skills such as flexibility and adaptability in the workplace, ability to address work challenges, interacting with others, working in teams, working in open, multicultural and flexible environments, mastering the tools for communication, dissemination and public speaking Research Focus: This proposed research is aimed to investigate the impact of current and future changes of precipitation regimes and land use on runoff and flow propagation processes at large scale. This broad topic requires investigations on the state of the art of statistical hydrology for extreme events but also how it can be coupled with the current physically based (or physics-informed machine learning) methods for rainfall-runoff and flow propagation models and how these frameworks can be enhanced by the synergistic adoption of in situ measurements and remotely sensed data for large scale (e.g. regional or at multi-basin scale) assessments. The research topic will also adopt a probabilistic framework to investigate on how uncertainties related to statistical hydrology (e.g. synthetic rainfall events changing through time), as respect to other uncertainties related to measurements of the input variables (e.g. uncertainties in rainfall/flow measurements), model parameters and model structure (e.g. simplification of the physical processes) can impact on prediction of variables of interests such as water levels, water extensions, erosion/deposition processes and potential risks and damages on population and assets Feel free to contact with questions about the project: Antonio Annis antonio.annis@unipd.it

Measuring the impact of research From securing grants to demonstrating the societal value of science, measuring impact is crucial https://lnkd.in/dHTv_d9u