Omkar Patange
Research Scholar
Economic Frontiers Research Group
Biography
Omkar Patange is a research scholar associated with the IIASA Economic Frontiers Research Group. His research interests include mitigation strategies for deep decarbonization of energy and allied systems, their social and environmental implications, and the institutional and governance challenges emerging from energy system transitions.Patange is the principal investigator for a project titled Modelling the Regional Welfare Impacts of Coal Transitions (JUSTCOAL). He is also involved in the Just Transitions to Net-zero Carbon Emissions for All (JustTrans4ALL) project, focusing on the empirical analysis of drivers of just energy transitions and resulting implications for wellbeing using household-level data and econometric methods.
He received his PhD in Public Systems from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India. He also holds a master’s degree in environmental management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal, India, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, India.
He was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in Working Group III (Mitigation). In the past, he worked on clean energy access with rural communities in northern India, focusing on indoor air quality assessment and the adoption of clean cooking stoves and fuels.
Last update: 19 MAR 2026
Publications
Grass, D., Kuhn, M., Patange, O. , Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., & Wrzaczek, S. (2025). Out of the black into the green? Modeling the pathways for regional coal transitions. European Journal of Operational Research 10.1016/j.ejor.2025.12.045. (In Press)
Grass, D., Kuhn, M., Patange, O. , Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., & Wrzaczek, S. (2025). Out of the black into the green? Modeling the pathways for regional coal transitions. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-25-002
Vishwanathan, S.S., Bataille, C., Nogueira, E.C., McCall, B., Siangian, U.W.R., Cunha, S., La Rovere, E.L., Trollip, H., Garg, A., Patange, O. , Burton, J., & Gunfaus, M.T. (2025). Towards net-zero electricity sector in emerging economies – Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa. Climate Policy 1-18. 10.1080/14693062.2025.2550588.
Hoffmann, R., Patange, O. , Zimm, C. , Pachauri, S. , Belmin, C. , Pelz, S. , Brutschin, E. , Kikstra, J. , Kuhn, M., Min, J. , Muttarak, R. , Riahi, K. , Schinko, T. , & Mintz-Woo, K. (2025). Subnational survey data reveal persistent gaps in living standards across 75 low and middle-income countries. Nature Communications 16 (1) e4986. 10.1038/s41467-025-60195-5.
Agula, C., Kulikova, Y. , Patange, O. , Biney, A., Kuhn, M., Kyei, P., Asuming, P., & Bawah, A.A. (2025). Who pays more? Exploring cost disparities in medication abortion access across socio-demographic groups in Ghana. International Journal for Equity in Health 24 (1) e144. 10.1186/s12939-025-02500-8.