Deputy Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), Research Fellow in Cleantech and Industrial Policy in the Department of Land Economy

Dr Sergey Kolesnikov is the Deputy Director and Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), Research Fellow in Cleantech and Industrial Policy in the Department of Land Economy, and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Trinity Hall college in the University of Cambridge.

Sergey is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of engineering, economics, and public policy with a background in physical sciences and technology-based economic development. At CEENRG, he applies his expertise in climate, energy and innovation policy, science and technology studies, physical sciences, and innovation management to understand how public policy сan support and accelerate innovation in net zero technologies and how to improve the representation of technological change in the models used to inform policy and investment decisions related to climate goals and sustainability transitions. As a Research Fellow in Cleantech and Industrial Policy funded by Quadrature Climate Foundation (QCF), Sergey currently investigates the effectiveness of different institutional designs of public policy instruments created to support the commercialisation and deployment of clean technologies in the UK. He is also involved in a Horizon Europe-funded PRISMA project (https://www.net0prisma.eu), where he focuses on improving technology cost forecasting models through better understanding of the factors that affect the rate of progress in different technologies.

Sergey has a Doctoral degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Georgia Institute of Technology in the US. Before coming to Cambridge in 2019, he held various research and teaching positions with Arizona State University, MIPT and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also worked as an academic relations manager in a technology-based economic development agency, providing training programmes in tech entrepreneurship, public engagement and science communication for the academic community.