Rezvan Derayati is a Visiting Researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and a Doctoral Candidate in Business at the University of Mannheim, where she is a member of the Mannheim Institute for Sustainable Energy Studies (MISES). Her research focuses on the economics of clean energy transition, spanning decarbonisation pathways, renewable energy investment, and sustainable development. She is supervised by Prof. Stefan Reichelstein.
Pursuing these themes, her current work spans two directions. Her sole-authored theoretical study develops an optimal capacity investment framework for solar-hydrogen systems, examining storage, sales, and hybrid strategies under uncertainty. A separate analytical study, co-authored with colleagues at the University of Mannheim and Harvard Business School, examines firms' decarbonisation pathways and the trade-offs between electrification and renewable energy adoption.
On the empirical side, a co-authored study investigates the capital budgeting economics of plug-in balcony photovoltaic systems under Germany's Solarpaket I framework, contributing to the literature on the energy efficiency gap in rental housing. Alongside this research, she co-authored a case study for Stanford Graduate School of Business on ENOWA’s ambition to power NEOM with 100% renewables.
Prior to joining MISES, Rezvan undertook research internships at the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne and at Eurostat in Luxembourg. She holds a Master's degree in Economics (cum laude) from the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, where she was awarded a Merit Scholarship as the best international student, and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic).