I am a Research Scholar at the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Program at IIASA, mainly affiliated with Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS) and Sustainable Service Systems (S3) Research Group. I joined IIASA in September 2015 and have broad research interests in the linkage between energy use, inequality, and development. I devoted my initial years at IIASA to the project Decent Living Energy (DLE), where I investigated the implications of accomplishing decent living standards in developing countries on the global energy/emissions pathways. I am currently working on upscaling findings from the DLE project and incorporating them in the IIASA’s integrated assessment model, MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM.

Main research area

• Energy Inequality, Energy and Human Wellbeing
• Energy and Development
• Energy Demand and Efficiency
• Consumer Choice and Behavior

Analytical toolbox

• Multiregional input-output analysis
• Integrated assessment modeling (MESSAGEix)
• Statistical analysis & Econometric modeling
• Conjoint experiment & Discrete choice modeling
• GIS
• Building energy analysis

Background

I received my doctorate in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University (USA), where I investigated the behavioral aspects of the limited adoption of efficient technologies. I hold an MESc from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (USA) and an MS in electrical engineering from Seoul National University (Korea).