- 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: Kowan O’Keefe, Gokul Iyer, Kathleen Kennedy, Alicia Zhao, Haewon McJeon, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Yang Ou
School Authors: Christoph Bertram, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman, Gokul Iyer
Other Authors: Elina Brutschin, Laurent Drouet , Gunnar Luderer , Bas van Ruijven, Lara Aleluia Reis , Luiz Bernardo Baptista, Harmen-Sytze de Boer, Vassilis Daioglou, Florian Fosse , Dimitris Fragkiadakis 8 , Oliver Fricko, Shinichiro Fujimori , Kimon Keramidas, Volker Krey, Elmar Kriegler, Robin D Lamboll, Rahel Mandaroux , Pedro Rochedo, Joeri Rogelj, Roberto Schaeffer, Diego Silva, Isabela Tagomori, Detlef van Vuuren, Zoi Vrontisi, Keywan Riahi
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Gokul Iyer, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Aman Malik, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Medhavi Sandhani, Pallavi Das, Chetna Arora, Nishtha Singh
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Matthew Binsted, Haewon McJeon, Claire Squire, Steven J. Smith, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Gokul Iyer, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Kowan T.V. O’Keefe, Adriana Bryant, Mengqi Zhang, Yang Ou
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Matthew Binsted, Haewon McJeon, Claire Squire, Steven J. Smith, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Gokul Iyer, Nathan Hultman, Camryn Dahl
Other Authors: Kowan O'Keefe, Adriana Bryant, Mengqi Zhang, Yang Ou, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: James 'Jae' Edmonds, Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon
Other Authors: Patrick O’Rourke
School Authors: Thomas B. Wild , Gokul Iyer
Other Authors: AFM Kamal Chowdhury, Ranjit Deshmukh, Stefano Galelli
School Authors: Alicia Zhao, Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Wei Peng, Xinyuan Huang, Yang Ou, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Jenna Behrendt, Andy Miller, Christoph Bertram, Mel George, Maria Borrero, Alicia Zhao, Gokul Iyer, Kathleen Kennedy, Jiehong Lou, Haewon McJeon, Mengye Zhu, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Matthew Zwerling, Michael Westphal , Alexandra Kreis, Dillon Walton, Aldana Joel Canton, Shiqi Chen, Yingtong Li, Kowan O’Keefe, Shannon Kennedy
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Alicia Zhao
Other Authors: Yang Ou, Kowan O’Keefe, Mengqi Zhao, Yang Qiu, Daniel H. Loughlin
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon
Other Authors: Allison M. Campbell, Malini Ghosal, Nathalie Voisin, Sarah Davis, Dhruv Bhatnagar, Patrick R. Maloney, Abhishek Somani, Michael C. W. Kintner-Meyer
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, James 'Jae' Edmonds, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon
Other Authors: Allen Fawcett, Yang Ou
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Thomas B. Wild
Other Authors: Neal T. Graham, Flannery Dolan, Jonathan Lamontagne, Katherine Calvin
School Authors: Gokul Iyer, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Steven J. Smith, James 'Jae' Edmonds
Other Authors: Allen Fawcett, Shaun Ragnauth, Yang Ou
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, Nathan Hultman
Other Authors: Tom Cyrs, John Feldmann, Kevin Kennedy, Kowan O'Keefe (CGS PhD Candidate), Sujata Rajpurohit, Lainie Rowland, Shannon Kennedy
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