IACOPO SAVELLI

Dr Savelli is a postdoctoral researcher (RTDa) in Applied Economics at the GREEN centre since January 2023. He is PI of the peer-reviewed 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. Previously, 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.