Junior Scientist from India at the Wuppertal Institute

Currently, the Wuppertal Institute hosts a junior scientist who has been awarded the International Climate Protection Scholarship for Young Management Professionals from Developing and Emerging Countries. Aniruddh Mohan is an energy and climate policy researcher from India and will conduct research on the Social Dimensions of Energy Transitions due to the 2017/18 fellowship. The scholarship was awarded within the International Climate Initiative (IKI) programme by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, comissioned and funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

"The current discourse on energy transitions is very much steeped in techno-economic narratives of technological innovation and market dynamics. However, production and use of energy is also a social process. Structural changes in the energy system will require significant changes in consumer behaviour, land use patterns, labour markets, and risk perceptions of certain types of technology," explains Aniruddh. "Germany's Energiewende has been a bottom up, citizen led process and I'm here to analyse what India can learn from that."

Aniruddh Mohan was a Junior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in New Delhi prior to his arrival in Germany, and is currently also affiliated with Tandem Research, a multi-disciplinary research collective located in Goa, India.