Her research focuses on climate mitigation and sustainable energy transitions, with particular expertise in energy systems and dynamic modelling, data-driven analytical methods, hydrogen and ammonia innovation, the intergrated just transition solutions and the strategic alignment of critical mineral supply chains. Her work combines energy systems, human geography and environmental science to examine how energy, technology, and infrastructure transitions affect people, communities, and regions. She investigates integrated energy, environmental, human-geographical, health, and social impacts, with particular emphasis on infrastructure risks, societal consequences, and just transitions. She is deeply committed to evaluating the systemic impacts and risks associated with climate mitigation measures at both the national level across Europe and the global level, including the United States, Latin America, and Africa.
She is highly active in securing and managing academic and industrial projects in various energy sectors and regions. At Harvard University, she led projects focused on deep decarbonization solutions and the public responses to low-carbon transitions in hard-to-abate sectors. She contributed to the EC Horizon 2020 Project ParisReinforce, where she focused on integrated assessment modeling and stakeholder engagement for new scenarios development, with a specific emphasis on green hydrogen applications and environmental-social impacts. Additionally, she serves as a principal investigator on various projects spanning multiple sectors and regions, including power sector analysis with high temporal and spatial resolution, the environmental benefits and risks of transport sector decarbonization, and the strategic alignment of critical minerals with future technology transitions. She conducts interdisciplinary research on the environmental, social, and resource dimensions of energy transitions, with expertise in energy storage systems, critical mineral supply chains, and the environmental and societal dimensions of energy infrastructure development. Her work examines how resource constraints, environmental pressures, and societal factors shape resilient, sustainable, and equitable transition pathways.
Passionate and interested in interdisciplinary studies, she has dedicated the past 16 years to investigating the integration of energy systems with environmental, health, and social impacts at both sectoral and technological levels. Her research has been recognized and cited in the IPCC AR6 WGIII report and published in academic journals such as Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal of Cleaner Production, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, International Journal of Environmental Health Research, and Climate Policy. Her studies span multiple disciplines, including environment, engineering, human geography, public health, and governance. Additionally, she has taught interdisciplinary courses covering energy systems, environmental economics, renewable energy, and the realities of climate change.
Beyond her academic endeavours, she has served as an external modeling expert at the World Bank Group in Washington DC, specializing in the integration of global technology and investment feasibility models. She is also actively involved in capacity-building training programs and open science initiatives for non-academic stakeholders. Her contributions include lecturing in decision-making theory training programs for industrial entrepreneurs and policymakers. She also organizes open science days focused on climate change observation for the public.