Carlos David Gaete Morales, Ph.D.
Research Associate of the
Energy, Transportation, Environment Department
Carlos Gaete is a Research Associate in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department at the DIW Berlin. He received his PhD in July 2019 from The University of Manchester. His dissertation consisted of sustainability assessment of electricity generation by using mathematical optimization and life cycle assessment (LCA). He is also Associate Member at the Sustainable Industrial System group (SIS) at The University of Manchester. He holds a BEng degree in Industrial Engineering. Carlos has about seven years of experience into economic, social and environmental projects. He has worked as an investment analyst for the Regional Government in Chile and previously on soil remediation projects for an energy and petroleum company. His research has been published in Applied Energy, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Science of the Total Environment. His research interests include sustainable energy, energy transition and transformation, energy storage, e-mobility and sector coupling by using tools such as life cycle assessment, mathematical optimization and machine learning techniques.