Jessica Jewell

Professor of Technology and Society, Chalmers University of Technology

Jessica Jewell is a Professor of Technology and Society at Chalmers University. Her research focuses on the speed and mechanisms of energy transitions with a particular interest in developing probabilistic projections of technological change and the role of policy in shaping energy transitions. She is the Principal Investigator of an ERC Starting Grant on the feasibility of climate action and participates in collaborative projects from Swedish and EU funders. Before coming to Sweden in 2019, she worked for nine years in Austria and France at an international think tank. She holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University (Hungary), a joint Erasmus Mundus Masters from Lund, University of Manchester, and Central European University, and a Bachelors in Geology from Brown University in the US.