Prof. Selin Yilmaz - Governance of energy transformations

Selin Yilmaz obtained her PhD (2017) in philosophy at London-Loughborough (LoLo) Center for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand (Loughborough University and University College London) in the United Kingdom. She then joined the University of Geneva as a post-doc and assistant professor. After 6 years at UNIGE, she was appointed assistant professor as tenure track to the Institute of Geography and Sustainability (IGD) of the Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment (FGSE).

Selin Yilmaz's research during her thesis focused on the socio-technical modeling of household energy demand using quantitative methods, and resulted in a thesis entitled "Stochastic bottom-up modeling of household appliance usage to quantify the demand response potential in UK residential sector" bottom-up stochastic analysis of household appliance use to quantify demand response potential in the UK residential sector). She then broadened her scope to include the dynamics of supply and demand, measures of efficiency and sufficiency, as well as the notion of sustainability in the broad sense. She draws on a range of disciplines and approaches, including the sociology of energy, science and technology studies (STS), and institutional and policy studies. Her background allows her to link micro and macro processes in order to understand energy transformation on several scales. She applies interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches and actively focuses on methods such as participatory methods, co-design and joint governance methods within the framework of Living Labs ecosystems in order to conceptually and empirically improve sustainability experimentation to address social change towards sustainability and develop understanding of transition phenomena in diverse contexts and fields of study.