I am an applied environmental economist with research interests at the intersection of environment, energy, and development. I am an Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics and Ad Astra Fellow in Behavioural Economics and Sustainability at University College Dublin (UCD) School of Economics and a Research Fellow of the Geary Institute for Public Policy, the Earth Institute, and the Energy Institute.
I completed my PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE) in May 2020, and was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale School of the Environment (YSE) until 2022 and an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam until 2023.
At the moment, I am working on:
The uptake and use of EVs, heat pumps, PVs and battery storage;
Effectiveness of energy decarbonization policies;
Energy access: electrification, street lights, and clean cooking;
Solar-powered irrigation and agricultural adaptation to climate change;
The value of weather forecasts and climate services;
Forced displacement.
Find out more about my research and CV. You can contact me at marta.talevi@ucd.ie.
I am a member of the Grantham Research Institute at LSE, of EfD Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) and EfD Women in Environmental Economics for Development (WinEED), and a Fellow of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP).
