Winner Professor Roula Inglesi-Lotz
Professor Roula Inglesi-Lotz is an associate professor at the department of economics at UP. She received a PhD in economics from UP in 2011 with the help of a postgraduate fellowship from the department of economics and a three-year bursary from the South African National Energy Development Institute. The title of her doctoral thesis was “A sectoral benchmarkand-trade system to improve electricity efficiency in South Africa”.
Her research interests include energy and environmental economics, economic growth and development, and applications of time series and panel data econometrics. She has a NRF Y1 rating and is the author of over 40 peer-reviewed publications and two book chapters. She currently supervises four PhD, one MCom and four honours students, and has successfully supervised 12 MCom students, 10 of whom graduated cum laude. Inglesi-Lotz is currently responsible for a research methodology course, teaching honours students how to conduct research. She also developed the curriculum for and teaches the first course on Energy and Environmental Economics at master’s level in the department of economics. The main purpose of the course is to educate postgraduate students on topics such as energy sustainability, energy decision- making, and the environmental impacts of electricity on the country’s socioeconomic conditions.
A fellow of the International Association for Energy Economics and the Economic Society of South Africa, Inglesi-Lotz is on the editorial panel of the Journal of Energy of Southern Africa, as well as a reviewer for several top international energy journals such as Energy Policy, Energy Economics and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
Inglesi-Lotz received the Junior Researcher of the Year award from the department of economics at UP in 2011, 2013 and 2014. In 2014 she also won the Junior Researcher of the Year award from the Economic and Management Science Faculty at UP, and an Exceptional Young Researcher award from UP. In 2016, InglesiLotz received the Economic and Management Science Faculty Senior Researcher of the Year award.