Benjamin Sovacool#
| Membership Number: | 5224 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/373957 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4794-9403 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Professor of Energy Policy, Director of the Sussex Energy Group, SPRU, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
- 2015 - 2019 Director of the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED), University of Oxford, University of Manchester, and University of Sussex, United Kingdom
- 2013 - 2019 Professor of Business and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Energy Technologies, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2011 - 2015 Associate Professor of Law, Institute for Energy & the Environment, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT
- 2007 - 2011 Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
- 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Office for the Vice President of Research, Virginia Tech
- 2006 Eugene P. Wigner Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate change mitigation
- Climate change adaptation
- Energy justice
- Energy policy
- Energy security
- Science & technology studies
- Sustainability transitions
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in the category of Social Science, Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics, Philadelphia, United States
- 2019 USERN Prize for Social justice in an era of climate change and energy scarcity, Budapest, Hungary
- 2019 Distinguished Graduate Alumni Achievement Award, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
- 2015 Dedication to Justice Award, American Bar Association, Chicago, IL, USA
- 2014 Distinguished Visiting Energy Professorship, Environmental Law Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT, USA
- 2007 “Outstanding Dissertation” in the Social Sciences and Humanities, awarded by the Graduate School of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
- 2007 Johnson Award for Best Paper in Ethics and Accountability, awarded by the Johnson Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- 2006 Paul T. Hiser Exemplary Publication Award for the “Best Article of the Year,” awarded by the Epsilon Pi Tau Honor Society, USA
