Since grad­u­at­ing as an elec­tron­ics engi­neer in 2004, JP Car­vallo has been work­ing, study­ing, and research­ing dif­fer­ent aspects of the ener­gy field. His cur­rent inter­ests relate to var­ied top­ics in sus­tain­able devel­op­ment for less indus­tri­al­ized economies, with a geo­graph­i­cal focus in Latin Amer­ica and Asia. He brings togeth­er dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines – engi­neer­ing, eco­nom­ics, polit­i­cal sci­ence, and soci­ol­ogy – to study long term evo­lu­tion of high renew­able ener­gy pen­e­tra­tion elec­tric­ity grids, alter­na­tive ener­gy sys­tems, and rur­al ener­gy access, among oth­ers. His the­o­ret­i­cal inter­ests encom­pass mar­ket design, insti­tu­tional emer­gence, inno­va­tion, and change, tech­nol­ogy adop­tion as a social con­struc­tion, and the­o­ret­i­cal aspects of the pol­icy process.