Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 13 August, 1986

Nationality/ residence: Ukraine/ Spain

Languages: English, Spanish, Ukrainian

EDUCATION

2011-2014 - PhD in Economics, Quantitative Economics Doctorate, University of Alicante (Spain)

2012-2013 - Academic visitor, Economics Department, University of California Santa Barbara (USA)

2009-2011 - MA in Economics, Quantitative Economics Doctorate, University of Alicante (Spain)

2007-2009 - MA in Economics, joint degree of Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine) and University of Houston (USA)

2003-2007 - BS in Economics, Economic Cybernetics Department, Dnipropetrovsk National University (Ukraine)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021- present - Associate Director, Environmental Policy, Ricardo Energy & Environment (Madrid, Spain)

2021- present - Lecturer, University Carlos III (Madrid, Spain)

2019-2021 - Principal Economist, Environmental Policy, Ricardo Energy & Environment (Madrid, Spain)

2017-2019 - Manager, Economics & Regulation (Energy), KPMG (Madrid, Spain)

2015-2017 - Senior Economist, Unit of Analysis, Department of Energy Prospective and Policy, Ministry of Energy of Chile (Santiago, Chile)

2013-2015 - Analyst, Frontier Economics Ltd. (Madrid, Spain)

2011-2014 - Teaching Assistant, University of Alicante (Spain)

2009-2011 - Research Assistant, University of Alicante (Spain)

2008-2009 - Research Assistant, Kyiv Economic Institute (Ukraine)

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Climate Change, Environment, Circular Economy, Energy,

Policy Analysis, Economic Analysis, Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics

PUBLICATIONS

“The determinants of CO2 prices in the EU ETS system: sVAR approach to modelling energy and carbon markets”, Applied Energy journal (joint work with Y. Lovcha and A. Laborda), Volume 305 (2022).

“Technical analysis of measures to improve consumer awareness of emissions and fuel consumption of vehicles”, Charlotte Brannigan, Sofia Amaral, Iryna Sikora, Micaela Zabalo, Nikolas Hill, Ian Skinner, James Lawrence, James Farrington, Carolin Reiner, Tania Loke (2020), European Commission, Belgium.

“Guía metodológica para el costeo de las medidas de adaptación del NDC de Colombia”, Cristina Caballero, Blanca Fernández, Rosalba Ordóñez, Javier Blanco, Daniel Sáenz, Iryna Sikora (2020), Banco Mundial, EEUU.

"Electrofuels for shipping. How synthetic fuels from renewable electricity could unlock sustainable investment in countries like Chile" (joint work with N. Ash and B. Richelle), Environmental Defense Fund, London (2019).

“Determinants of the Electric Spot Price in the Central Interconnected System of Chile” (joint work with J. Bustos and J. A. Campos), Economic Analysis Review, Vol 32, No. 2 (2017).

"Creative production and exchange of ideas: experimental evidence", Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, Vol. 11, No.5 (2019).

“Balance Nacional De Energia 2015”, : Iryna Sikora, Ruben Guzman, Sergio Caceres, Javier Bustos (2016), Ministerio de Energía, Chile

GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT (IN ENGLISH)

2019-2021 - Market Research (GBSB Business School, Madrid, Spain)

2017-2018 - Spanish Electricity Sector (University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

2013-2014 - Microeconomics III (University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain)

2010-2013 - Mathematics for Economists (University of Alicante Alicante, Spain)

UNDER GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT (IN ENGLISH and SPANISH)

2021-2022 - Industrial Organisation (University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

2016-2017 - Econometrics I (University of Santiago of Chile, Santiago, Chile)

2010-2014 - Intro to Statistics (University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain)

2012-2013 - Intro to Macroeconomics (University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain)

2011-2012 - Mathematics for Economists (University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Stata, E-Views, Mathematica, z-tree, Python