Biography

Bas van Ruijven is a Senior Research Scholar with the Energy (ENE) program at IIASA and co-chair of the International Committee On New Integrated Climate change assessment Scenarios (ICONICS). Between 2011 and 2017, Dr. van Ruijven worked as Project Scientist with the Integrated Assessment Modeling group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO, USA and was Research Scientist at Boston University. Before 2011, Dr. van Ruijven was Policy Researcher with the IMAGE IAM group at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). Dr. van Ruijven’s research interests cover a wide range of topics, from energy and technology scenarios to energy transitions in developing countries and the impacts of climate change. Current projects include a global analysis of the role of electricity interconnections in greenhouse gas mitigation and guidance of mitigation scenarios for financial sector analysts.