University College Oxford Record 2020

NEWLY ELECTED FELLOWS
Tutorial Fellows
DR NICLAS MONEKE
BSc (Reutlingen), BBA (Lanc), MSc, MRes, PhD
(LSE), MSc (Warw) has been elected as Schroder
Family Fellow and Praelector in Economics. He
was previously a PhD Candidate in Economics
at the London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE). His research interests centre
on Energy and Environmental Economics,
Development Economics and International
Trade. His work focuses on how access to
energy in low income countries affects economic
development. To this end, he collects new, geoidentified
data on the large-scale electricity
expansions in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Zambia. In
his analyses, he combines reduced-form causal
and structural estimation, employing tools from
international trade.
Supernumerary Fellows
DR LAURA STEVENS
BA (Wellesley), PhD (MIT) has been elected
as Supernumerary Fellow in Climate and Earth
Surface Processes. Dr Stevens is an Associate
Professor of Climate and Earth Surface
Processes in the Department of Earth Sciences
at Oxford. Their fields of interest are Glaciology,
Geophysics, and Polar Oceanography and
Climate. Their research seeks to disentangle
the physical mechanisms of Greenland
and Antarctic ice sheet disintegration as
temperatures rise during the 21st century,
with both field observations and numerical
modelling. They were previously a Postdoctoral
Research Fellow 2018–2020 at the Lamont-
Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia
University.
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