Email: cxl63@psu.edu Phone: (814) 865-0982 Office Address: Title: Associate Professor Website: http://www.eme.psu.edu/faculty/lo-prete Research Areas: Education Background: |
About:Lo Prete is an assistant professor of energy economics at Penn State. Her research integrates economics, optimization, and statistics to examine market structures that provide incentives for efficient operation and investment decisions in the electric power sector. Lo Prete and her research group have focused on the development of mathematical models and application of empirical methods to study cross-product manipulation, emission leakage, market structures to integrate variable energy resources, and resilience of interdependent natural gas and electric power systems.Lo Prete received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation and an Early Career Researcher Award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She earned a B.A. in economics (summa cum laude), an M.A. in energy economics, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Penn State in July 2014, Lo Prete was a Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard University. Research Interests:• Applied econometrics• Electricity market design • Energy economics and policy • Modeling of electricity and natural gas systems Memberships & Committees:• Member, International Association of Energy Economists (IAEE) • Member, American Economic Association (AEA)• Member, INFORMS • 2014: Academic Advisor Search Committee, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering • 2013: Technical Program Committee: Symposium on Smart Grid Services and Management Mod- els, Fourth IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications Honors & Awards:• Wilson Research Initiation Award, 2015• Ziff Environmental Fellowship, Harvard University , 2012-2014 • Abel Wolman Fellowship, 2007-2008 • Heath Fellowship, 2007-2008 • Scuola Enrico Mattei Graduation Award, 2004 Teaching:• Introduction to Energy and Environmental Economics (undergraduate)• Econometrics II (graduate) • Corporate Finance (undergraduate) Publications:Elsevier: https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/chiara-lo-prete/publications/
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