Prof. Dr. Uğur Soytaş Technical University of Denmark | Head of the Climate Economics and Risk Management
Professor Uğur SOYTAŞ is the Head of the Climate Economics and Risk Management Section at the Technical University of Denmark. He holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in Economics from Texas Tech University. He is the co-editor of Energy Economics and subject editor of Sustainable Production and Consumption journals, and the lead editor of handbook of Energy Economics. He has influential research output in two multidisciplinary areas: energy-economy-environment-society nexus and commodity-financial market links.
He published several papers in high impact peer reviewed journals such as Ecological Economics, Energy, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of Banking and Finance, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics among others. His citations exceed 11 thousand, his h-score is 38, and i10-index is 62 (according to Google Scholar, Nov. 2022). He is currently involved in BIFROST and PV4Plants projects at DTU. In BIFROST, he is leading the economic impact assessment and supporting the social acceptance of carbon storage work packages. In PV4Plants, he is working to identify barriers to and acceptance of transparent solar panels over farmlands.