Claudia Octaviano

General Coordinator for Climate Change and Low-Carbon Development, Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático, Mexico

Alumna and Former Postdoctoral associate, Joint Program

Bio

Dr. Claudia Octaviano was a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change in 2015. Her research focused on understanding the large-scale integration of renewable energy in future energy systems, and the value of new disruptive technologies such as storage technologies in the changing energy landscape as climate mitigation advances. Prior to MIT she worked on the design and negotiation of new regulations for the power and oil sectors. She has consulted for the World Bank and the UN on energy policy issues in Latin America, as well as for Centro Mario Molina in Mexico City. She held the Molina fellowship, the Fulbright scholarship and the Scholarship of the National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico.

Claudia is also affiliated with the Engineering Systems Division at MIT.

Education & Credentials

B.A., Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico, Economics, 2001

M.S., Yale University, Environmental Science, 2009

Ph. D, MIT, Engineering Systems Division, The Value of Electricity Storage under Large-Scale Penetration of Renewable Energy: a Hybrid Modeling Approach, 2015