Charlie Wilson
Senior Research Scholar
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Senior Research Scholar
Sustainable Service Systems Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Charlie Wilson is a visiting research scholar in the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Program, working on a range of energy, innovation, and climate change mitigation projects. His work focuses on the dynamics and patterns of technological and social change, both historically and under future scenarios towards climate stabilization and sustainability goals. This work includes analysis of the energy and climate impacts of digitalization in daily life; the economic and human benefits of small-scale or granular technologies; and low-carbon lifestyle change. His work has fed into the Global Energy Assessment (2012), been published in a Cambridge University Press book (2014), as well as various journal publications and IIASA working papers (2009-present). He is also a professor of Energy and Climate Change in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, UK.Last update: 16 MAR 2023
Publications
Arvanitopoulos, T., Wilson, C. , & Morton, C. (2025). Decarbonising residential heating: local conditions and spatial spillovers driving heat pump uptake. Energy Policy 206 e114787. 10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114787.
Fan, Y.V., Wilson, C. , Andrijevic, M. , Carlsen, H., & Joshi, S. (2025). Digital transformation in the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. npj Climate Action 4 e79. 10.1038/s44168-025-00283-w.
Seger, M., Brand, C., Clement, C., Dixon, J., & Wilson, C. (2025). Firm level optimisation strategies for sustainable and cost effective electric vehicle workplace charging. npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport 2 (1) 10.1038/s44333-025-00032-w.
Wilson, C. , Verdolini, E., Kumar, P., & Eker, S. (2025). Expert Workshop on Digitalisation Narratives and Climate Change Mitigation: Synthesis Report. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA 10.5281/zenodo.15024068.
van Heerden, R., Edelenbosch, O.Y., Daioglou, V., Le Gallic, T., Baptista, L.B., Di Bella, A., Colelli, F.P., Emmerling, J., Fragkos, P., Hasse, R., Hoppe, J., Kishimoto, P. , Leblanc, F., Lefèvre, J., Luderer, G., Marangoni, G., Mastrucci, A. , Pettifor, H., Pietzcker, R., Rochedo, P., van Ruijven, B. , Schaeffer, R., Wilson, C. , Yeh, S., Zisarou, E., & van Vuuren, D. (2025). Demand-side strategies enable rapid and deep cuts in buildings and transport emissions to 2050. Nature Energy 10 380-394. 10.1038/s41560-025-01703-1.