André Neto-Bradley & Rishika Rangarajan
André is part of the Future Infrastructure and Built Environment Centre for Doctoral Training (FIBE CDT), and holds an MRes from the FIBE-CDT, as well as an MEng in Mechanical Engineering and Renewable Energy from the University of Edinburgh.
André's PhD project looks into the Social Logic of Energy Transitions in Indian households. He aims to quantify the impact of socio-economic and cultural factors on energy transitions in low to mid income households in the often unequal urban landscapes of Indian cities. He has collected quantitative and quantitative data on energy use practices across southern India and uses unsupervised machine learning methods and mixture modelling to identify the energy use narratives at play in these urban landscapes. The findings from this project will offer engineers and policy makers with valuable insights into the variety of barriers to overcome in delivering clean and reliable energy in Indian cities.
Rishika is a lawyer with four years of experience in academic research and policy with strong focus on sustainability and governance. She is currently working with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, where she is researching the legal, regulatory and institutional landscape of energy provision, distribution and consumption across the ‘urban’ in general and its larger impact on climate change.
After completing her legal studies at National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata in 2016, she worked at Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition where she was the primary researcher on an empirical study seeking to identify legal and policy reforms to facilitate a sustainable open science movement in India. Subsequently, she worked at Trilegal in the government advisory practice, where she worked with NITI Aayog on identifying suitable reforms to introduce shared mobility in India. Through law school, she was actively involved in various human rights programmes and related research activities. She ultimately aims through her research to help shape government legislation and policy.
