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Nicholas Goedeking is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Energy and Environment Policy Lab at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.
Nicholas studies energy and climate policy, with a focus on mobility transitions. At heart he is an academic practitioner. His work combines scholarship and practice, and aims to drive policy change with applied policy research. His dissertation project examines how to enable and accelerate the deployment of low-carbon transit systems in cities. He developed the project in close collaboration with urban transport experts at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Resources Institute. Nicholas has received multiple awards, including a Young Scientist Summer Program Fellowship from the US National Academy of Sciences, and an ERP Fellowship from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
Before joining Berkeley, Nicholas worked on climate and energy policy in Berlin and Brussels, including for the Directorate-General for Energy at the European Commission. He holds an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford and a BA Hons in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Durham.
University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, May 2022 (expected)
Advisor: Prof. Jonas Meckling
University of Oxford
MSc, Comparative Social Policy, 2014
University of Durham
BA Hons, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, 2013
Climate policy, energy policy, political economy, climate change, cities, mobility transitions, energy transitions, low-carbon infrastructure, public investment
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Journal Articles in Preparation / Working Papers"When Do Cities Deploy Low-Carbon Infrastructure? Evidence from the Global South"
Goedeking, N. E., currently under peer review."Coalition Cascades: Transformative Policy Change Across Subsystems"
Meckling, J., N. E. Goedeking, and I. Vormedal, prepared for 5th International Conference on Public Policy, Barcelona, 2021."Deployment and Durability of Low-Carbon Urban Transit: Politics and Institutions"
Goedeking, N. E., prepared for 12th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Karlsruhe, 2021.---
Op-Eds and Book Reviews"Ist die Klimapolitik blind?"
Goedeking, N. E. (2017). Tagesspiegel."Politische Kurzschlüsse im europäischen Stromnetz"
Goedeking, N. E. (2016). WeltTrends 120: 14-16."The Realist Case for Global Reform – By William E. Scheuerman"
Goedeking, N. E. (2012). Political Studies Review 10 (3): 423–424.---
Policy Papers as Lead Author"Public Consultation for the Review of Directive 2012/27/EU on Energy Efficiency: Final Synthesis Report"
European Commission (2016). Directorate-General for Energy, Brussels.Nicholas has also served as expert reviewer for policy papers from the IPCC, IDB, OECD, IRENA, and ICLEI, including “Chapter 8: Urban Systems and Other Settlements” of the IPCC’s forthcoming Sixths Assessment Report (Working Group III).
Young Scientist Summer Program Fellowship, 2021
Bryan Wilson Grant, 2020
ERP Fellowship, 2017-2019
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2018
German Academic Scholarship Foundation, 2011-14 and 2017-19
At Berkeley, Nicholas has served as Graduate Student Instructor for the following courses:
- ESPM 102D Climate and Energy Policy (spring ‘17 and spring ‘20)
- ESPM 60 Environmental Policy, Administration, and Law (fall ‘19)
For his delivery of ESPM 102D in spring ‘17, he was awarded an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. He has also mentored undergraduates through Berkeley’s Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) program (fall ‘18 and spring ‘20). Nicholas is particularly excited to offer courses on energy and climate policy, the political economy of climate change, and social science methods.