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Lab members Shiny Choudhury and Jenny Nicolas presented their research at the 2024 Doctoral Student Participatory Workshop on Climate and Energy Decision-Making (CEDM) on May 15-16. This event, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is funded by the National Science Foundation. It attracts doctoral students working in the intersecti...

UCSD graduate students Jenny Nicolas, Zhenhua Zhang, Manh Tri Dao, and Shiny Choudhury secured Second Place (and $6,000) at the U.S. Department of Energy 2023 Geothermal Collegiate Competition in the Policy Track. The Geothermal Collegiate Competition annually challenges college students to develop real-world geothermal solutions, offering cash...

Page updated Feb 1, 2024 with new application link. The UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) is hiring one or more postdoctoral researchers to conduct open modeling studies of accelerated decarbonization, with a particular focus on China. The postdoc will join the lab of the PI, Michael Davidson, Assistant Professor in GPS an...

Against the backdrop of the 2023 APEC Leaders Week Summit in San Francisco and tense national geopolitics, hear about what’s next for collaboration and competition between California and China as we surge toward a green energy future. Read more and view the video: https://worldaffairs.org/programs/green-transition/

The Power Transformation Lab and the Regulatory Assistance Project have launched a new open data and model platform researching China’s electricity market and policies. Electricity Market Tracker (EMT) is a multidimensional open data and model platform that supports in-depth research on China’s electricity market and policies. EMT tracks and ana...

Lab members Manh Tri Dao, Jenny Nicolas, Shiny Choudhury, and Zhenhua Zhang win gold at the case competition hosted by the US Association for Energy Economics. This year’s competition involved the evaluation of geothermal projects for the hypothetical Energy Oversight Board (EOB), experienced in regulating conventional oil and gas but new to geo...

DESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW: The University of California’s only school of international affairs, the School of Global Policy & Strategy (GPS) provides a unique resource for training leaders, creating ideas, and building networks for the governance of globalization and its local impacts. GPS is internationally renowned for its innovativ...

China has the largest power grid in the world, and it is rapidly changing to accommodate to low-carbon goals. The Research Assistant will join a dynamic team modeling the engineering implications of large amounts of renewable energy and the effects of different electricity market designs on carbon emissions in China. Specifically, the Research A...

This post has already been filled. This project hosted at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (co-led by Profs Davidson and Garg) will look at the global trade in clean energy technologies with a focus on the China-India bilateral relationship. Trade can help spur climate mitigation but is also a source of geopolitical tension due to who c...

ARCHIVED These positions are no longer open. JOB OPENINGS: CHINA ELECTRICITY MARKETS MODELING AND ANALYSIS University of California San Diego June 2022 The UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) is hiring two research positions related to analyzing China’s electricity market developments and aligning market reforms with carb...

Prof. Michael Davidson in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) at UC San Diego is seeking to recruit an MAE PhD student to join the Davidson Lab to model China’s decarbonization pathways starting in Fall 2022. The interdisciplinary Davidson Lab applies methods from power...

This course will teach students constrained optimization problems and associated solution methods, how to implement and apply linear and mixed integer linear programs to solve such problems using Julia/JuMP, and the practical application of such techniques in energy systems engineering. The course will first introduce students to the theory and...

(Archived) Postdoctoral Researcher, Flexible Thermo-Electric Systems Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Salary: Commensurate with experience Appointment: 12 months (extendable based on mutual agreement and available funding) Start Date: Flexible The UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) is hiring...

(Archived) Postdoctoral Scholar Employee Appointment, Political Economy of Power Grid Management Department: School of Global Policy and Strategy Salary: Commensurate with experience Appointment: 12 months (extendable based on mutual agreement and available funding) Start Date: Flexible The UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (...