Dr. Swaroop RAO
Tel : (+49) 0721 6809 365 (office)
Email : swaroop.rao (at) isi.fraunhofer.de
Linkedin : https://de.linkedin.com/in/swarooprao7
Age : 30
Nationality : French
Work experience
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany (July 2022 - present)
Senior researcher in the Energy Policy business unit
Member of the scientific team of the German Expert Council on Climate Change (Expertenrat für Klimafragen)
Project leader for the evaluation of the electric car subsidy programme (Umweltbonus) in Germany, a project of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs (BMWK)
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France (September 2017 - June 2022)
Ph.D Candidate (research and pedagogical assistant)
European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) EWIV, Karlsruhe, Germany (June 2017 - September 2017)
Researcher
KIC InnoEnergy Germany GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany (October 2016 - January 2017)
Developer
Forschungsstelle für Energiewirtschaft e.V., Munich, Germany (February 2016 - September 2016)
Master thesis student
Education
IREGE, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
Doctorate in Economics
Thesis: "Sustainable development investment in Brazil and socio-economic externalities: three empirical essays" (Supervisor: Dr Dorothée Charlier)
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France
Ph.D. in Business Administration (2017-2022)
Thesis: "Sustainable development investment in Brazil and socio-economic externalities: three empirical essays" (Supervisor: Dr David Grover)
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
MSc. in Energy Engineering and Management (2015 - 2016)
Thesis: "Supply and Demand of Flexibility in European Electricity Systems" (Supervisor : Dr Paulo Manuel Cadete Ferrão)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
MSc. in Energy Technologies (2014 - 2016)
Teaching
As teacher :
Statistical techniques for decision making (bachelor), 24h - 2020/2021
Excellence in MS Excel (bachelor), 24h - 2020/2021
Advanced quantitative methods in marketing (bachelor), 18h - 2019/2020
Ethical dimensions in international business (bachelor), 9h - 2019/2020
Ethical perspectives on nuclear energy (master), 3h - 2018/2019
Social science perspectives on energy innovation (master), 12h - 2018/2019, 3h - 2017/2018
As tutor/teaching assistant :
Tutor of 6 courses between 2017 and 2019 in various roles (quantitative methods/business ethics/climate justice)
As supervisor :
Supervision of master's degree theses/projects (Grand Mémoire/Final Management Project)
Languages
English (native/C2)
French (fluent/C1) - 78,5/100 on the DALF C1 exam
German (fluent/C2) - Score of 940/990 (C2) on the WiDaF test
Kannada (native/B2-C1)
Spanish (intermediate/B1)
Portuguese (intermediate/B1)
Hindi (intermediate/B1)
Publications
Bagheri, M., Kochanski, M., Rao, S., Kranzl, L., Korczak, K., Mayrhofer, L., Müller, A., Özer, E., "Reduction of gas demand through changes in heating behaviour in households: novel insights from modelling and empirical evidence", Energy and Buildings (under review, major revisions), 2024
Grover, D., Rao, S. (2020) “Inequality, unemployment, and poverty impacts of mitigation investment: evidence from the CDM in Brazil and implications for a post-2020 mechanism”, Climate Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2020.1760773, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 609-625
Rao, S. and Gopal, L. (2015), “Lighting a Billion Lives: Social Impact in Karnataka,” The International Journal on Green Growth and Development, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 155–164
Conference Presentations
Rao, S., Grover, D., Charlier, D. "Local economic development through clean electricity generation – an analysis for Brazil and a staggered difference-in-difference approach"., 18th IAEE European Conference, Bocconi University, Milan, 2023
Rao, S., Charlier, D., Grover, D. (2021) "Can you have your growth and eat it too ? : Tradeoffs between green growth and pro-poor growth in Brazil, 26th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), TU Berlin (en ligne)
Grover, D., Rao, S. (2019) “Distributive impacts of clean energy financing in Brazil : Evidence from the CDM”, 42nd IAEE International conference, HEC Montréal
John, J., Srinivas, B., Giridhar, M.S., Ashwini, J., Islam, R.,Rao, S., Suhas, E. and Pai, R. (2014). “Design and Fabrication of a Silicon MEMS Microstructure for Seismometer Applications,” ISSS International Conference - Indian Institute of Science
Working papers
Rao, S., Grover, D., Charlier, D. "Local economic development through clean electricity generation – an analysis for Brazil and a staggered difference-in-difference approach". Article submitted to journal World Development.
Rao, S., “An inquiry into the wage impacts of development bank projects in Brazil–a study from São Paulo state using unconditional quantile regression”
Rao, S., Blauert, M., Schlomann, B., Stede, J., Schaper, J., "Greening the Drive: Unpacking the Impact and Equity aspects of Germany's EV Subsidy Programme"
Other Activities
Mandate as Young Ambassador for the French-German Youth Office (OFAJ/DFJW), for the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes since November 2019 (2019-2022)
Vice-president of the Steering Committee (2021-2024)
Steering committee member of the Energy Policies Programme of the CommUnity by Innoenergy (2016-2018)
Former administrator on the English and Sanskrit language Wikipedia (2011-2016)