B.Sovacool@sussex.ac.uk

Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the School of Business Management and Economics part of the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. There he serves as Director of the Sussex Energy Group and Director of the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand which involves the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester. He is also Director of the Center for Energy Technologies and Professor of Business and Social Sciences in the Department of Business Development and Technology at Aarhus University in Denmark. He held previous positions at the Vermont Law School National University of Singapore and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Professor Sovacool works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to energy policy energy security climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation. More specifically his research focuses on renewable energy and energy efficiency the politics of large-scale energy infrastructure designing public policy to improve energy security and access to electricity and building adaptive capacity to the consequences of climate change. Professor Sovacool is the founding Editor-in-Chief for the international peer-reviewed journal Energy Research & Social Science published by Elsevier and he sits on the Editorial Advisory Panel of Nature Energy. Professor Sovacool is the author of more than 300 refereed articles book chapters and reports and the author coauthor editor or coeditor of 18 books on energy and climate change topics including those with MIT Press Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press Johns Hopkins University Press and the Nature Publishing Group/Palgrave. He is the recipient of the 2015 %u201CDedication to Justice Award%u201D given by the American Bar Association and a 2014 %u201CDistinguished Visiting Energy Professorship%u201D at the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School and he has received or managed large competitive grants from the U.S. Department of Energy U.S. National Science Foundation MacArthur Foundation Rockefeller Foundation NordForsk Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program of Denmark and the Danish Council for Independent Research. Professor Sovacool received his PhD in science and technology studies from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg Virginia where he won the %u201COutstanding Dissertation of the Year%u201D award from the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.