For the month of May, we welcome André Alves, a PhD student at IGOT University of Lisbon, in the LUIRET team to work on his final chapter for his PhD.
André Alves is a PhD candidate at IGOT-ULisboa, funded by the MIT Portugal Programme. His research focuses on solar energy expansion and its implications for land use, particularly in Portugal. In recent years, he has examined land-use change associated with utility-scale solar power plants, as well as the spatial, policy, and governance dimensions of the energy transition. He is currently a visiting researcher at UCLouvain, collaborating with the LUIRET project team on developing future land-use scenarios for solar energy expansion.
See his latest work on the land use implications of Solar deployment in Portugal here and on stakeholder views of land conflicts in solar energy here
