Meet the team

Ariane Millot is currently a Research Associate at Imperial College London, where she supports the Research Workstream 3 on System Design within the Climate Compatible Growth programme. She is also involved in projects related to Kenya and Zambia. Her research interests include energy system modelling and the economic and social impacts of the energy transition. She holds a PhD in energy modelling from Mines Paris – PSL, where she developed pathways for the French energy transition with a bottom-up optimization model (TIMES). She also worked at the International Energy Agency on the buildings sector for the World Energy Outlook, where… [Read more]

James Dixon - co-lead, decarbonising transport Lecturer in Transport - University of Strathclyde James Dixon is lecturer in transport at the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde. James' current research interests are in transport-energy-environment modelling to support policymaking for sustainable transport transitions in data-poor contexts, including in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and in advancing understanding of the potential for e-mobility and renewable energy integration in different contexts. He has also worked as a Civil Servant for UK and Scottish Governments on policy regarding low carbon electricity and transport systems. James is a chartered engineer with the… [Read more]

Dr Elizabeth (Beth) Tennyson is a senior research fellow University of Cambridge’s Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Department and Country Programme Manager at the Centre for Global Equality (CGE) for the Climate Compatible Growth research programme. Her primary role is to develop equitable partnerships and strategies with emerging economy countries (see Country Partnerships Section of this site) to accelerate their growth and uptake of low-carbon energy and transport solutions, such that the ecosystem left behind is sustained. [Read more]

Alycia Leonard is a postdoctoral researcher in the Engineering Science Department at the University of Oxford. She works on the CCG "Advancing GIS Modelling of Integrated Systems Analysis" workstream (WS3a), where she presently focuses on subnational energy systems planning as it relates to social and economic development in Kenya and Zambia. Prior to CCG, Alycia completed her DPhil in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, preceded by her B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering at the Memorial University of Newfoundland under full scholarship. Alycia's research investigates the design of sustainable and inclusive energy access systems which account… [Read more]

Pooya is a researcher at the Sustainable Gas Institute at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on using mathematical optimization and whole system modelling approaches for infrastructure planning, supply chain modelling, and studying the implication of climate change mitigation and development targets on the energy system transition. Pooya is part of the System Design Workstream (WS3) at CCG. She leads the IRENA FlexTool modelling and training and is also part of the National Partnership teams in Viet Nam and Kenya. Pooya completed her PhD at the Centre for Environmental Policy and Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London.… [Read more]