Current roles
2022 - current: tenured Scientist at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) | RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE)
2021 - current: Research Scholar (part time) at the Energy, Climate and Environment program at IIASA – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
2024 - current: Research Fellow at the Kigali Collaborative Research Centre (KCRC)
2024 - current: Editorial board member, Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (IOP Science)
Previous experience
2022-2023: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
2021-2022: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Economics, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen
2017 - 2021: Researcher at FEEM - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
2017- 2021: PhD at the Department of International Economics, Institutions and Development, Catholic University of Milan
2016 - 2017: Master of Science in Environmental Economics and Climate Change, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
2012 - 2015: Bachelor of Science in Economics and Social Sciences, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen
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
Peer reviewer activity:
Expert Reviewer of the Second Order Draft of the IPCC's WGII and WGIII contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6); First Order Draft of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities
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)
Theses (co)supervision:
Emily Wilkens, Emily (MSc. dissertation in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Vienna (WU)). November 2025
Anna Pistorio, (MSc. dissertation in Global Change, Ca' Foscari University). Systemic Cooling Poverty at the urban scale: evidence from Venice Provincial Area. July 2025
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
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