The DEEDS Scientific experts’ Data Base (DB)

In the context of the DEEDS project Work Package 1 (WP1), we have invited several experts, European and non-European, to be part of the scientific group that will support the European Decarbonisation Pathways Initiative (EDPI). We have made use of our networks and of tools, such as Google scholar, to identify the scientific experts who have knowledge on decarbonisation strategies. They have been invited via email, and asked to register in our database through an on-line form specifically designed to be of fast answer and to correctly profile their expertise by sector/topic. The sectors/topics have been organized in order to align with the High Level Panel (HLP) sectoral division as closely as it was possible.

This Website provides a graphical overview of the database, analyzing the experts’ background, origin, expertise, experience and gender. The database consists of 122 experts who have voluntarily registered, until the 13th of April.

We consider this deliverable to be closed, however the database remains open to any valuable expert that might still join during the duration of the whole project.

The DB per Sector

We present the scientific experts database for the DEEDS WP1. The experts have been organized per sectors/topics, and can be visualized by country. Please note that one expert might have expertise in more than one sector and/or theme, Therefore the number of experts in the figure might be higher than the number of total experts in the database. The network is interactive you can click in each expert to see is profile and move and zoom the nodes around. We do not disclose the experts’ identity publicly unless they have given their authorization.

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Database summary

We present the geographical distribution of our experts; we show the intensity per country and the shares of the experts that are directly connected to the DEEDS project and the ones that we have been able to reach out outside the consortium of the project. DEEDS is an European project, dedicated to the European Decarbonisation Pathways Initiative (EDPI), therefore the main focus is in Europe, however our DB is open to experts from all parts of the globe.

The greatest majority of experts comes from Europe as expected, with Italy, France, UK and Germany dominating the contributions, however we have received support from all over the world.

Additionally we have drawn statistics of our database that allow for a qualitative evaluation of the evolution of the network.

Title

We have collected information on the title (a proxy for scientific experience). Most of the respondents, approximately 90%, hold a PhD, showing that we have a very informed network.

Gender

The data collected on gender, shows a gender unbalanced database, with most of the entries being masculine. The label with no gender attached corresponds to the experts who did not answer the question about gender, as this was set as an optional question.

Professional background

More than half of our scientific experts come from Academia, but the results show that their background is somehow still very varied.

Field of knowledge

The data collected on the field of knowledge shows a very robust database, with a well balanced spread amongst the different fields gathering knowledge from different perspectives of the decarbonisation process.

Sectoral distribution

As showed above, the sectoral distribution is not as well balanced as it would be desirable, however the database has a significant number of contributors even in the sectors that are less represented. The Energy sector and the ‘Macro to Micro’ topic (the latter being a very broad topic) are the ones that gather more support, however the topic ‘integrated pathways’ and mobility are also very well represented.

Themes distribution

Regarding the cross-cutting themes, which encompass some of the topics, especially on the ‘Macro to Micro’ topic, we observe that the knowledge is concentrated around the co-benefits and trade-offs and the technological innovation themes. Digitalization seems to be the only cross-cutting theme where expertise needs to be developed.