- Expert in technology diffusion, stranded assets, and investments within the context of long-term transitions
- Expert in long-term scenarios, tradeoffs and synergies across societal objectives
- Lead developer and coordinator of a detailed U.S. state-level, energy-water-land human-Earth systems model
Dr. Gokul Iyer is a Joint Appointee between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute and the University of Maryland. His research focuses on investigating issues at the intersections of energy, land, water systems using integrated human-Earth systems models. His research uses these models to explore long-term transitions, subnational, national, and global decarbonization strategies, technology diffusion, investments, and stranded assets. Dr. Iyer's research also explores sustainable development issues - in particular, synergies and tradeoffs across various societal objectives, climate impacts on the energy system, and more recently, income inequality. He is the lead developer and coordinator for the U.S. state-level version of the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM - USA) at JGCRI. Dr. Iyer has a vast publishing experience in peer-reviewed journals. In addition, he is a contributing author in the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He also serves on the editorial board of Energy and Climate Change. Dr. Iyer has a Ph.D. in Environmental Policy from the University of Maryland, a Master's degree in Energy Systems Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology - Nagpur.
- Integrated modeling; technological change; sustainable development; climate and energy policy
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Jenna Behrendt, Andy Miller, Matthew Zwerling, Christoph Bertram, Mel George, Shannon Kennedy, Michael I. Westphal, Maria Borrero, Alicia Zhao, Gokul Iyer, Kathleen Kennedy, Zarrar Khan, Jiehong Lou, Haewon McJeon, Mengye Zhu, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Alexandra Kreis, Dillon Walton, Aldana Joel Canton, Shiqi Chen, Yingtong Li, Kowan O’Keefe
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Yang Ou
Other Authors: Allen Fawcett
School Authors: Yang Ou, Gokul Iyer, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Steven J. Smith, James 'Jae' Edmonds
Other Authors: Allen Fawcett, Shaun Ragnauth
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon
Other Authors: Gokul Iyer, Yang Ou, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Allen A. Fawcett, Nathan Hultman, James McFarland, Jay Fuhrman, Stephane Waldhoff, Haewon McJeon
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon
Other Authors: Gokul Iyer, Yang Ou, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Allen A. Fawcett, Nathan Hultman, James McFarland, Jay Fuhrman, Stephane Waldhoff, Haewon McJeon
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Jiehong Lou, Alicia Zhao, Jenna Behrendt, Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Sha Yu, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Baihe Gu, Jiawei Song, Leon Clarke, Yi Wang, Xianchun Tan, Kaiwei Zhu, Yuhui Sheng, Hanbing Zhai, Lingsi Kong, Yonglong Cheng, Jon Sampedro, Stephanie Waldhoff
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Haewon McJeon, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Gokul Iyer, Kathleen Kennedy, Shannon Kennedy, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Tom Cyrs, John Feldmann, Kevin Kennedy, Kowan O'Keefe (CGS PhD Candidate), Sujata Rajpurohit, Lainie Rowland
School Authors: Morgan Edwards, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Gokul Iyer, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Jiawei Song, Matilyn Bindl, Krinjal Mathur
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Leon Clarke, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Haewon McJeon
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Leon Clarke, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Nathan Hultman, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Sha Yu, Haewon McJeon
Other Authors: Yang Ou, Allen A. Fawcett, James R. McFarland, Matthew Binsted, Claire Fyson, Andreas Geiges, Sofia Gonzales-Zuñiga, Matthew J. Gidden, Niklas Höhne, Louise Jeffery, Takeshi Kuramochi, Jared Lewis, Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, Pralit Patel, Shaun Ragnauth, Joeri Rogel J., Stephanie Waldhoff
School Authors: Thomas B. Wild , Gokul Iyer
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, James 'Jae' Edmonds
School Authors: Morgan Edwards, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Gokul Iyer, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Jiawei Song
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, James 'Jae' Edmonds
School Authors: Gokul Iyer
School Authors: Gokul Iyer
School Authors: Gokul Iyer







