Doctoral Researcher · Department of Sociology · University of Geneva
I study how cities keep cool as the world warms — and for whom. My research follows low-carbon energy transitions in the Global South, working with participatory methods to bring community voices and everyday practices into how just energy futures are imagined.
Energy transitions · Urban governance · Sustainable consumption
1–4 September 2026 — find me at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London.
My doctoral work traces heat stress and adaptation in urban India — the institutional and individual strategies for cooling in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Surat, and the imaginaries embedded within these practices.
Fieldwork across three Indian cities, and co-author of Geneva's thermal-justice study with the SWEET SWICE project — on who bears the heat unequally at home.
Procedural justice and energy citizenship in Europe — lead author of a review of energy initiatives across eight countries (DIALOGUES, EU Horizon 2020).
Sufficiency seen from the Global South, from Mumbai's Climate Action Plan to a research agenda for prefigurative sustainability transitions.
Prof. Siddharth Sareen
Research Professor, Fridtjof Nansen Institute
& Professor II, University of Bergen
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