Stefi Mitova
PhD Student
Environmental Studies

Dissertation:"Integration of Electric Vehicles (EV) and Solar Photovoltaics (PV) Using Smart Charging and Storage into Smart Cities: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Comparison between Individually Owned and Shared EV and PV Technologies."

Stefi Mitova's work and interests are in the field of clean energy technology and innovation: particularly solar energy and electric vehicles.

Over the years Stefi has worked on electric vehicles at the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (Washington DC); environmental footprint methodologies at the European Union (Brussels, Belgium); clean energy accreditation at the United Nations (Bonn, Germany), among others. These jobs have been a great opportunity to build analytical, project management, and professional skills; they have also allowed Stefi to collaborate with business, governmental, and public stakeholders in the field of clean energy technology.

Research areas focus on optimizing the transformative potential of these technologies; building/ transportation energy impacts; integration into urban and infrastructural systems, etc. Sustainable energy production/consumption has been analyzed from environmental/ energy, economicand technological point of view.

Specifically, prior research covers: electric vehicle charging stations, car sharing, solar energy, wind power, hydropower, nuclear power, cap-and-trade, sustainable waste management, urban sustainability, etc. Research methods include data analysis, modeling, geospatial analysis, policy/economic evaluation, etc.