UNIBO regularly invites international professors and incoming lecturers to conduct full lectures or seminars for RESD students.
The international faculty – together with visitng professors who are very active in well-known international research centres in environmental science - is a guarantee of ensuring the highest quality of training.
The international teaching staff gives students a unique opportunity of comparing the different approaches, issues and perspectives in different countries. It aims at enhancing the international perspective and critical attitude and create an international dimension in the addressed topic.
Konstantinos Chalvatzis
Lecturer in Renewable Energy Production
University of East Anglia, Norwich Business School - UK
Short Bio:
Konstantinos Chalvatzis has a diverse interdisciplinary background comprising energy engineering, environmental sciences, negotiations, environmental policy and management. His interest is in breaking disciplinary boundaries to solve real problems. He is a Professor in Sustainable Energy Business (effective August 2017) at Norwich Business School and the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research . In parallel he is visiting at the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences of Piraeus and at the School of Economics, Management and Statistics at the University of Bologna.
Thanasis Stengos
Lecturer in Applied Econometrics
Short Bio:
Thanasis Stengos joined the Department of Economics at the University of Guelph in 1984. He received a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics (1979), an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics (1980) and Ph.D. from Queen's University (1984). His main teaching area is econometrics. His research interests are in nonparametric methods. His research has been published in journals including the Review of Economic Studies, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, The Review of Economic and Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and Journal of Economic Growth.
Alessandro Tavoni
Lecturer in Sustainable Resource Economics and Policy (Module II)
Associate Professor at Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
Short Bio:
Alessandro Tavoni is an environmental and behavioural economist based at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute, where he leads the Changing Behaviour Research Programme. In addition to his Associate Professor position at LSE, he is also an Associate Researcher at FEEM, a member of the LSE Behavioural Science Hub, as well as a member of the Simon Levin Laboratory at Princeton University and an International Fellow of the Sogang Experimental Economics Laboratory in Korea.
Alessandro’s research spans several topics in environmental economics, primarily related to overcoming behavioural and political economy barriers to cooperation in the climate commons. This is tackled through a combination of game theory models, laboratory experiments, surveys and simulations, in an effort to shed light on the potential solutions to environmental dilemmas.
Particular attention is given to the role of tipping points in catalysing cooperation. This work has been published in leading journals in both economics and the natural sciences, such as the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences.
Anastasios Xepapadeas
Lecturer in Economics of Climate Change; Resource Valuation and Decision-Making Methods
University of Bologna; Athens University of Economics and Business
Short Bio:
Anastasios Xepapadeas is currently Professor of Economics at the Department of International and European Economic Studies of Athens University of Economics and Business and the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna (part time). On May 1, 2018 he was elected a foreign associate at the US National Academy of Sciences. He is past president of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics and past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is co-editor of Environmental and Resource Economicsand member of the editorial committee of Annual Review of Resource Economics. He has published more than one hundred and thirty papers in leading journals and collective volumes. He has participated as coordinator or lead researcher in more than 35 funded research programs. His current research interests include Spatiotemporal Analysis in Economics; Economics of Climate Change; Uncertainty, and Robust Control.
You can find here the current and past seminars for RESD students, held by International lecturers.
