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Dr. Saurabh Biswas

Position
Assistant Professor
Unit
Faculty of Climate Change and Sustainability
Contact Info
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QUALIFICATION
AREA OF EXPERTISE
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS
AWARDS AND HONORS
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
  • PhD in Sustainability, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (USA)
  • Master of Technology in Energy Systems Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun (India)
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Pandit Ravishankar University, Raipur (India)
  • Nexus
  • Justice, equity and well-being in technology transitions
  • Co-production and transformations
  • Behaviors and decision-making
  • Knowledge mobilization and capacity building for sustainable development
  • Grassroots innovation and community-based action research
  1. Armağan, S. H., Biswas, S., Noble, B., & Poelzer, G. (2025). Social costs of coping with energy insecurity at Deschambault Lake, Saskatchewan: a community resilience perspective. Local Environment, 1-21.
  2. Sareen, S., Meelen, T., Haarstad, H., & Biswas, S. (2025). Towards dynamic evaluations: Assessing the politics of Stavanger’s free public transport experiment. PLOS Climate, 4(4), e0000604. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000604
  3. Biswas, S., Fuentes, T. L., McCord, K. H., Rackley, A. L., & Antonopoulos, C. A. (2024). Decisions and decision-makers: Mapping the sociotechnical cognition behind home energy upgrades in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 109, 103411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103411
  4. Kazimierczuk, K., Henderson, C., Duffy, K., Hanif, S., Bhattacharya, S., Biswas, S., … & Tarekegne, B. (2023). A socio-technical assessment of marine renewable energy potential in coastal communities. Energy Research & Social Science, 100, 103098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103098         
  5. Biswas, S., Echevarria, A., Irshad, N. et al. (2022). Ending the energy-poverty nexus: An ethical imperative for just transitions. Sci Eng Ethics28, 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00383-4
  6. Biswas, S., Hussain, F., & Parmentier, M. J. (2022). The Human Development Paradigm and Social Value of Energy. In Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions (pp. 445-464). Routledge.
  7. Biswas S., C.A. Antonopoulos, T.E. Seiple, C. Bakker, M.J. Walsh, and A. Coleman. (2022). Developing a sustainability tracking framework and proposing indicators for modeling sustainable bioenergy projects. In IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2022 (ISTAS22).
  1. Community Energy Planning for four communities in Northwestern Territories, Canada (2024-2025) Sponsor: CASES partnership/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada
  2. Triple bottom line sustainability indicators for waste-to-energy decisions (2022-2023)
    Sponsor: Bioenergy Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy
  3. A user-centered approach to understanding occupant behavior towards home upgrades (2022-2023)
    Sponsor: Building Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy
  4. Let Communities Lead open knowledge platform (https://letcommunitieslead.wordpress.com/) (2021 – ongoing)
    Sponsor: College of Global Futures seed grant, Arizona State University and Institute for Technology Assessments and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  5. Improving social value of energy infrastructure investments in Sierra Leone (2019-2021)
    Sponsor: UK Aid Applied Research Program on Energy for Economic Growth (EEG)
  6. Rio Claro Sustentável 2020, Brazil (https://rioclaro2020.wordpress.com/) (2016 – 2017)
    Sponsor: USAID Research & Innovation fellowship, Messner & Patzer Sustainable Energy Research Grant
  1. Living Skies Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023-2025) – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada and Government of Saskatchewan
  2. Visiting Research Fellowship (2023) – Research Network for Smart and Sustainable Cities (The Research Council of Norway). Host: University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
  3. Outstanding Research Award (2020) – ASU Graduate & Professional Students Association, Arizona, USA
  4. Dissertation Fellowship (2019) – Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, USA
  5. The Messner & Patzer Sustainable Energy Research Award (2017) – Arizona, USA
  6. USAID Research & Innovation Fellowship (2016 – 2017) – United Stated Agency for International Development, USA
  7. Julie Ann Wrigley Graduate Scholarship (Fall 2015 to Spring 2018) – School of Sustainability, ASU, Arizona, USA
  8. I.N. Mehta Memorial Gold Medal for Outstanding Post Graduate Student (2013) – UPES, Dehradun, India

International Sustainable Development Research Society, Member of the Board (2022 – Present)
Affordable Energy for Humanity (AE4H) (2019 – Present)
Certified Energy Auditor (Bureau of Energy Efficiency, India) (2014 – Present)