Academic Contributions

Publications
Conference Talks
Supervision
Peer Review
Awards

Conference Talks

A Global Inventory of Utility-Scale Solar Photovolataic Generating Units

Global Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment Conference, 3-6 September 2019, Examination Schools, Oxford, UK.

Corporate Governance as a Social Dilemma

8th Sustainable Finance Forum, 14 June 2019, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, UK.

Crude Awakening: Design of and early findings from the 2 Degree Pathways energy-climate scenarios wargame

2nd International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy, 24-25 September 2018, Queen’s College, Oxford, UK.

Power sector asset networks: determinants of the diffusion of renewables 2007 through 2017

ETH Zurich SusTec Academy, 17-22 June 2018, Appenzall, CH.

The role of technology in non-financial information disclosure

7th Sustainable Finance Forum, 7-8 June 2018, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, UK.

Asset-Level Data Initiative

Conservation Spatial Intelligence, 30 November 2017, WWF Living Planet Centre, Woking, UK.

Future Pathways to 1.5/2 degrees-C-compatible oil & Gas Majors: Survey of energy outlooks and key uncertainies

International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy, 26-27 September 2016, Queen’s College, Oxford, UK.

Game Theory and Corporate Governance: Conditions for effective stewardship of companies subject to climate change risks

1st Global Conference on Stranded Assets and the Environment, 24-25 September 2015, Queen’s College, Oxford, UK.

Supervision

Lucas has supervised a number of student theses and projects:

• Climate Change AI Workshop, NeurIPS 2020 Mentor
• Dylan Radovich (2020) The Oil Majors’ Adaptive Capacity to the Energy Transition: Potential Outcomes of Major Oil Companies Making the Low-Carbon Switch, MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures, Imperial College London.
• Aaron Vitarana (2020) Pricing and Interdictyion in the Global Energy Supply Chain, Ogden Research Fellowship.
• Sebastian Ljungwaldh (2016) Environment-related Risk Exposure in the Coal-Fired Power Sector: A Portfolio Optimisation Approach considering Carbon and Water-Related Risks, MSc in Environmental Technology, Imperial College London.

Peer Review

Lucas has been called upon as a peer reviewer for a number of publications in the following journals and workshops:

• Climate Change AI Workshop, ICML 2019
• Joule
• The Energy Journal
• Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Awards

Lucas’s work has been recognised by the following awards:

• Best Paper - Innovative Methods, Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment, 2019
• Best Pedagogical Innovation, UN Principles for Responsible Investment, 2018
• Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2018
• Best MSc Thesis, Sustainable Energy Futures Lab, 2015