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Behnam Zakeri

Senior Research Scholar

Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group

Energy, Climate, and Environment Program

Biography

Behnam Zakeri first joined IIASA in 2017 and is currently a senior research scholar in the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Program. He is also an assistant professor and the deputy head of the Institute for Data, Energy, and Sustainability (IDEaS) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and a visiting lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien), where he teaches the course on Global Energy Transitions and Climate Policy. He holds a PhD in energy systems analysis from Aalto University, Finland.

Zakeri's research revolves around the modeling and analysis of energy transitions and the broader impact of such transitions on the Sustainable Development Goals. He investigates market mechanisms, systems designs, emerging technologies, and policies that enable a low-carbon energy system. He is interested in systems integration of renewable energy, flexibility solutions such as energy storage, digitalization and decentralization of energy, and international energy markets.

At IIASA, he is involved in the modeling and study of energy pathways and their broader economic and environmental impacts in different regions of the world. He acted as the alternate leader of Sustainable Energy as part of the IIASA International Science Council (ISC) initiative on Transformations within Reach. He established and was the co-investigator of the research theme Modeling for National Transformations in the ECE program.

Together with his coauthors, his research on the value of energy storage has led to several best paper awards including one from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 11th International Conference on European Energy Markets (2014) and another from the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems (2014). His work on the economics of energy storage systems has been among the most cited articles in the journal Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Last update: 21 AUG 2024

Publications

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Hunt, J. , Nascimento, A., Zakeri, B. , Barbosa, P., & Costalonga, L. (2022). Seawater air-conditioning and ammonia district cooling: A solution for warm coastal regions. Energy 254 e124359. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124359.

Zakeri, B. , Paulavets, K., Barreto-Gomez, L., Gomez Echeverri, L., Pachauri, S. , Boza-Kiss, B. , Zimm, C. , Rogelj, J. , Creutzig, F., Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Victor, D., Bazilian, M., Fritz, S. , Gielen, D., McCollum, D., Srivastava, L., Hunt, J. , & Pouya, S. (2022). Pandemic, War, and Global Energy Transitions. Energies 15 (17) e6114. 10.3390/en15176114.

Shepard, J., van Ruijven, B. , & Zakeri, B. (2022). Impacts of Trade Friction and Climate Policy on Global Energy Trade Network. Energies 15 (17) e6171. 10.3390/en15176171.

Hunt, J. , Nascimento, A., Zakeri, B. , & Barbosa, P.S.F. (2022). Hydrogen Deep Ocean Link: a global sustainable interconnected energy grid. Energy 249 e123660. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.123660.

Hunt, J. , Jurasz, J., Zakeri, B. , Nascimento, A., Cross, S., Caten, C.S.t., de Jesus Pacheco, D.A., Pongpairoj, P., Filho, W.L., Tomé, F.M.C., Senne, R., & van Ruijven, B. (2022). Electric Truck Hydropower, a flexible solution to hydropower in mountainous regions. Energy 248 e123495. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.123495.