Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology

Professor Grubler’s research and teaching interests focus on the interplay between energy and technology systems and their implications on the environment, in particular on climate change. Both his research and teaching embrace a truly long-term view. He has studied major transitions in energy and technology systems that occurred during the last 300 years and is also an energy/environment futurist developing long-term (100 year) prospective scenarios for energy and climate policy analyses. He welcomes discussions on the role of entrepreneurship in technology innovation and diffusion as well as on formal analyses tools for the development of technology innovation strategies and portfolios in the areas of energy systems and climate protection. Professor Grubler is a resident faculty member every fall term. The remainder of the year he is senior research scholar at IIASA, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria.

Selected Books
Technology and Global Change, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Technological Change and the Environment, (with N. Nakicenovic and W.D. Nordhaus, eds.), Resources for the Future Press, 2002

Emissions Scenarios, Special Report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (with N. Nakicenovic, J. Alcamo, G. Davis, B. deVries, J. Fenhann, S. Gaffin and K. Gregory), Cambridge University Press, 2000

Selected Articles
"Modeling Technology Adoption for Sustainable Development
Under Increasing Returns, Uncertainty, and Heterogeneous Agents" (with T. Ma and Y. Nakamori), European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 95, No. 1, 296–306, 2009

"The Evolution of Technological Complexity: An Agent–Based Simulation Model of the Global Energy System" (with T. Ma), in A. Golub and A. Markandya, eds., Modeling Environment–
Improving Technological Innovations under Uncertainty, Routledge, 205–244, 2008

"Energy Transitions" in C.J. Cleveland, ed., Encyclopedia of Earth, Environmental Informat, August 29, 2006

"Integrating Socio–Environmental Interactions over Centennial Timescales: Needs and Issues" (with J.A. Dearing, L.J. Graumlich, R.H. Grove, H. Haberl, F. Hole, C. Pfister and S. van der Leeuw), in R. Constanza, L.J. Graumlich and W. Steffen, eds., Sustainability or Collapse: An Integ Rated History and Future of People on Earth, Dahlem University and MIT Press, 243–274, 2007

"Introduction and Overview" (with N. Nakicenovic, K. Riahi and F. Wagner), in K. Riahi and N. Nakicenovic, eds., Greenhouse Gases - Integrated Assessment, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Special Issue, Vol. 74, No. 7, 873–886, September, 2007

Education
PhD Technical University of Vienna
MS Technical University of Vienna

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