Prof Charlie Wilson is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is also a visiting research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. Prior to joining ECI, Charlie spent 11 years with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia (UK).
Charlie’s research lie at the intersection between innovation, people, and policy in the field of energy and climate change mitigation. He works at a systems level on scenarios and modelling of net-zero transformations, looking particularly at the role of lifestyle change and digitalisation as a transformative force. He also works at the micro level on innovation processes, technology adoption, and pro-environmental behaviour.