Emma Velterop

Biography

As a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, I am primarily involved in an international collaboration with researchers in Chile and Norway assessing the potential of low-power energy harvesters for off-grid energy access and exploring their social implementation within rural communities in Chile’s Atacama Desert. I am also involved in a project investigating alternative forest management practices in Sweden, where I focus on the integration of survey and geospatial data.

I received my PhD and MS from Stanford University, where I focused on assessing household climate vulnerability through behavioral decision science and remote sensing. Prior to that, I worked for a couple of years in satellite remote sensing at the European Space Agency and ETH Zürich and received my MEng in Civil Engineering from UCL.