IACOPO SAVELLI

Dr Savelli is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the GREEN centre, where he is the PI of the project "Navigating energy storage challenges: profitability and net zero goals in Europe's energy transition". Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Applied Economics, still at the GREEN centre, where he was the PI of the project “GREENER: Decarbonising the energy system by incentivising energy storages in the right places” funded with €150,000 (PNRR funds for young researchers), aiming at investigating the role of grid-scale energy storage in decarbonising the Italian energy system. Before he was a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof Cameron Hepburn and Dr Thomas Morstyn, working on Energy Market Design. He holds a PhD in Engineering, an MS in Finance, and a BS in Economics. He taught Energy Market at both the University of Oxford and the University of Siena. He presented his works in several forums, including the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra. He received the 1st Prize Best Conference Paper award at the 17th European Energy Market conference in 2020.