Ludovic Gaudard is Research Associate at the University of Geneva. He holds a PhD ès sciences in interdisciplinary studies (economics and environmental sciences), a master’s degree in environmental sciences and a bachelor’s degree in physics. His PhD thesis on “the impact of climate change and market liberalisation on hydropower” won the 2014 Swiss Association for Energy Economics Student Award’s first prize (www.saee.ethz.ch). At present, he is involved in the Swiss National Research Program “Energy turnaround” (www.nfp70.ch), as well as in two Competence Centres for Energy Research (www.sccer-crest.ch and www.sccer-soe.ch).

Research interests

• Energy Economics
• Hydropower and storage technologies
• Risk and uncertainty management
• Real options analysis
• Natural hazard management