Luís Fazendeiro

PhD Candidate

Luis is a PhD student at the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies Program from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade de Lisboa. His research focuses on energy systems modeling, with a major emphasis on a speedy transition to renewable energy, in the context of Portuguese and EU public policies. In particular, he is interested in the role that social dynamics may play in this transition and how they might be included in energy-environment-economic optimization models, such as TIMES. He has an MSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of Coimbra and worked for several years in academic research in topics related to fluid turbulence, dynamical systems, plasma physics and computer science, in Portugal, the U.K. and Sweden.