Principal Fellow- Transport & Urban Infrastructure Rubal is a principal fellow at KAPSARC focused on understanding consumer decision making, in particular, consumer choice of energy-efficient technologies…

Rubal is a principal fellow at KAPSARC focused on understanding consumer decision making, in particular, consumer choice of energy-efficient technologies and mobility options under alternative technology and policy scenarios. Before joining KAPSARC, Rubal gained a Ph.D. at KAUST designing advanced carbon materials for energy and environmental applications, with a particular focus on energy storage, carbon capture, waste-water treatment, and hydrogen generation via solar water splitting. Prior to that, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania on a semiconductor industry-funded project, developing a continuum modeling framework for simulating the physics of micro defect formation in silicon crystals.

Expertise

• Behavorial decision science
• Consumer adoption
• Energy-efficient mobility and shared autonomous mobility-on-demand

Fellow- Transport & Infrastructure Yagyavalk Bhatt is an energy professional with more than seven years of experience in the transportation and electricity domain. Yagyavalk…

Yagyavalk Bhatt is an energy professional with more than seven years of experience in the transportation and electricity domain. Yagyavalk leads “The Role of Clean Energy Policies: Trends in India’s Transport Sector” project, aimed at estimating India’s transport energy demand and potential impact on crude oil supply chain.

His expertise covers energy policy, energy economics, transport modeling, the impact analysis of transport policies, emerging economies energy transition, renewable energy, and cost-benefit analysis of the transport and electricity sector. He has authored and contributed to numerous research papers and studies related to the transportation and electricity sector.

 

Expertise

• Policy Analysis
• Transport Demand Modeling
• Sustainable Transport
• Clean Energy Transition
• Renewable Energy
• Climate Change

Visiting Researcher Dimpy is a visiting researcher at KAPSARC and is currently working as a consultant at Rocky Mountain Institute and the…

Dimpy is a visiting researcher at KAPSARC and is currently working as a consultant at Rocky Mountain Institute and the Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC) of Delhi. His research interests include sustainable transportation, electric mobility, resource management and public policy discourse. He holds a Master of Science degree from TERI School of Advanced Studies, India.