Teaching experience:

• Adjunct Professor in Data Analysis, Foundation Year, A.Y. 2023/2024, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

• Adjunct Professor in Cities and Territories in the Ecological Transition, BSc. Urban Planning, A.Y. 2023/2024, IUAV University of Venice

• TA for MSc. course in Econometrics (Prof.Erika Uberti). Winter semester A.Y. 2019/2020, Catholic University of Milan

• TA for BSc. course in Spatial Statistics (Prof. Erika Uberti). Spring semester A.Y. 2018/2019, Catholic University of Milan

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Theses (co)supervision:

• Fhazhil Wamalwa (PhD dissertation in Sustainability, Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology). Sustainable energy access and irrigation planning in Sub Saharan Africa. June 2024

• Giammauro Soriano (Master’s Degree Programme In Comparative International Relations – Global Studies, Ca' Foscari University). The role of hydropower in the broader context of climate change and sustainable development. Evidence from East Africa. 2022

• Su-Min Choi (MSc. Sustainable Energy Systems, Utrecht University), Developing a Bottom-Up Methodology to Project Electricity Demand for Productive Uses in sub-Saharan Africa in 2030 in IMAGE. October 2020

• Paolo Cornali (MSc. Energy Engineering, Politecnico di Milano), Integrating agricultural uses of water in geospatial electrification planning. The case study of Kenya. April 2020

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Editorial board membership:

• Editorial board member, Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (IOP Science), May 2024-  current

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Peer reviewer activity:

• Expert Reviewer of the Second Order Draft of the IPCC's WGII and WGIII contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)

•  Referee for Science (AAAS); Nature (Nature); Nature Climate Change (Nature)  Nature Energy (Nature) Nature Communications (Nature) Scientific Data (Nature) Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change (Elsevier) Energy Economics (Elsevier) Energy Policy (Elsvier) The Energy Journal (IAEE) Energy Research and Social Science (Elsevier) Energy Strategy Reviews (Elsevier) Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy (Taylor & Francis) African Geographical Review (Taylor & Francis) Advances in Geosciences (Copernicus) Resources, Environment and Sustainability (Elsevier) F1000Research, and others

• Reviewer for a STEREO IV programme funding proposal submitted to the Belspo (Federal Public Planning Service Science Policy)

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International conferences:

•  International Energy Workshop 2024, Bonn, June 2024

•  European Geoscience Union 2024: Vienna, April 2024

•  European Geoscience Union 2023: Vienna, April 2023

•  IAMC Conference 2022: Maryland, December 2022

•  European Geoscience Union 2022: Quantifying the economic feasibility of solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa. Online. 23rd May 2022. Oral presentation.

• AMENET: Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe in the era of global integration 2021. Private investment in decentralised energy access: towards new financing strategies? October 2021, online.   

•  Night lights workshop 2021. Satellite observations reveal inequalities in the progress and effectiveness of recent electrification in sub-Saharan Africa. February 2021, online.  

• AGU Fall Meeting 2020: M-LED: a Multi-sectoral Latent Electricity Demand Assessment Platform for Energy Access Planning and Nexus Implications Evaluation. Online. December 2020. Poster  

• European Geoscience Union 2020: Energy and environmental implications of meat consumption pathways in sub-Saharan Africa. Online. 7th May 2020. Oral presentation.  

• International Energy Workshop 2019: A high-resolution gridded dataset to assess electrification in sub-Saharan Africa. Paris, 4th June 2019. Oral presentation.  

• European Geoscience Union 2019: Monitoring Climate Impact on Hydropower and Electricity Consumption with Satellite Data: Preliminary Evidence from Malawi. Vienna, 8th April 2019. Oral presentation. 

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My dissertations:

• Falchetta, G. (expected defense 2021). Essays on energy in sub-Saharan Africa - Energy access, climate change, and the Nexus . PhD thesis. Cattolica University of Milan. Co-supervised by Dr. Shonali Pachauri and Prof. Roberto Zoboli.

• Falchetta, G. (2017). Ecosystem Services, Land Use Change, and Economic Growth: The long-run trends in the significance and in the value of natural capital.  MSc. dissertation in Environmental Economics. London School of Economics. Supervised by Dr. Roger Fouquet. Download

• Falchetta, G. (2015) The Sunk Cost Fallacy: A Literature Review and an Empirical Test. BSc. dissertation in Behavioural Economics. Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. Supervised by Prof. Alessandro Fedele. Download