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.
Dr. Farhad Mukhtarov joined the Center for Environment and Security at Central European University in January 2010.
Dr. Mukhtarov has been recently awarded a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University. He holds a MSc degree in Environmental Sciences and Policy from the University of Manchester (Central European University), and a BSc from Azerbaijan State Economic University in Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2007/2008 Dr. Mukhtarov was a Chevening Scholar at Oxford Centre for Water Research.
Dr. Mukhtarov worked as IWRM expert for UNESCO International Hydrological Programme, Paris; a visiting scholar at Oxford University Centre for the Environment; UNDP Researcher in Kazakhstan; and a teaching assistant at CEU. He conducted research on water governance in the UK, Norway, Hungary, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
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.
After having completed my Masters from Stanford University in Energy Systems, Combustion, and Chemical Thermodynamics, I decided to try something new but still related to my original field of research, energy. I have been a visiting researcher at CEU since July studying energy efficiency in buildings and primarily focused on energy efficiency modeling scenarios for UNEP and GEA.
