Deputy Director and Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), Research Associate 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 Associate in the Department of Land Economy, and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Sergey is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of science, technology and innovation studies and public policy with a background in physical sciences and technology-based economic development. At CEENRG, he applies his multidisciplinary expertise in public policy analysis, social science research methodologies, physical sciences, technology forecasting, and innovation management to understand how energy, climate and innovation policies сan support and accelerate net zero transition. Recently he has been involved in the EEIST project, analysing how decarbonisation policies, innovation, technological change, and economic competitiveness are represented in the energy-economy-climate models used to inform policy and investment decisions in the UK, EU, China, India and Brazil.

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 U.S. 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. As part of the team that developed a community of practice for science communicators, he was a recipient of two In2 SABRE awards, and several Gold Quill awards from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 2015.