Jenny von Platten

Jenny von Platten is a Research Fellow at SEI Headquarters – Energy and Industry Transitions Team, at the Division for Global Agendas, Climate and Systems. Her research explores just energy transitions in the Swedish housing and heating sectors with a particular focus on energy poverty. She is currently leading the project Underconsumption in the Anthropocene? Past, present and future of energy poverty in Sweden, which uses interdisciplinary and artistic approaches to study the development of energy-related inequalities. She is also responsible for SEI’s partnership with the European Commission’s Energy Poverty Advisory Hub (EPAH), bridging expertise between Swedish local communities and EU-level policymaking.

Prior to joining SEI, Jenny had a postdoctoral position at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, where she is now an affiliated researcher. She also got her PhD from Lund University with her interdisciplinary thesis In the Name of Energy Efficiency: Justice and energy poverty in the energy transition of Swedish housing. She holds a master’s degree in environmental engineering with a specialization in energy systems, also from Lund University.

With an academic journey going from engineering to the social sciences in her PhD, and into the humanities during her postdoc, Jenny today identifies as an “undisciplined” researcher. This label reflects her various academic trainings, but also captures her ambition to challenge traditional norms within academia to contribute to mote inclusive and creative research and research environments.