Aleh Cherp has worked in CEU from 2000. His research interests include environmental assessment, strategic environmental assessment, sustainable development strategies, sustainability and transition to market economies, energy and environmental security. He is the Rapporteur of the Advisory Working Group on the Environment (including Climate Change) of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission and a Coordinating Lead Analyst (Energy Security) in the Global Energy Assessment.
Jessica Jewell is a PhD student at CEU interested in national energy security strategies, risk and uncertainty analysis of future energy systems, and mitigating risk in energy system transitions. In addition to her studies, she is a contributing author to the Global Energy Assessment. Prior to coming to CEU she completed the Erasmus Mundus program Masters program in Environmental Sciences Policy and Management during which time she studied at CEU, Lund University, and University of the Aegean. Before her current work in Energy and the Environment, she studied graduate from Brown University with a degree in Geology and worked as a geologist at a consulting engineering firm.
Ph.D. (UC Berkeley and UCLA), MSc (ELTE, Budapest): Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; energy policies for economies in transition; CO2 emission mitigation; climate change policy; EU enlargement and sustainable energy policy.
Ph.D. (Moscow State University): Head of Department, Director of UNEP GEO Collaborating Center: State of the environment and pollution problems in the countries of the region; environmental policy; global environmental issues, sources of environmental information.
Julia Leventon is a PhD candidate interested in the interactions between science, society and governance. Her position at CEU is supported by AquaTRAIN, a Marie Curie Research Training Network) under the 6th Framework Programme of the EU.
Through her PhD, Julia is examining implementation gaps in EU policy. The work draws on evidence from a case study of the management of groundwater with high levels of geogenic arsenic in Hungary.
Sergio Tirado Herrero (Spain, 1978) holds a BSc in Environmental Science and an MSc in Global Change and Sustainable Development from the University of Alcala (Madrid). His experience in Central and Eastern Europe dates back to 2001, when he joined the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) as a project assistant. Between 2002 and 2008 he has been researcher in the Environmental Economics Research Group at the University of Alcala, in projects ranging from the cost-benefit analysis of strategic energy programmes act to the economic valuation of Spain’s ecosystem services. Since September 2008, he is a PhD student at Central European University (CEU) and a member of 3CSEP. The preliminary title of his PhD dissertation is “Fuel poverty in Hungary. An assessment from the perspective of the residential sector”.
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