Camille Belmin

Research Interests :

• Social Metabolism
• Demography
• Development
• Gender aspects of energy
• Micro-Simulation

I am a doctoral researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and part of the Future Lab Social Metabolism and Impacts. I have a strong interest in studying human activities with a physical approach. My PhD topic focuses on the social metabolism of human demography. I am developing a Micro-Simulation Model to assess the impact of various scenarios of energy poverty reduction on population growth and on long term residential energy demand. I aim to help find scenarios where improved well-being (enhanced access to modern energy, women empowerment, improved health) and reduction of environmental impacts would be compatible.

My background is both environmental economics and biology. I have a Master's degree from AgroParisTech, the French leading Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences. I previously completed internships at CIRAD (International Center for Research on Agronomy and Development) on participative Agent-Based Modeling in Costa Rica, Montana State University in the USA on forest data analysis  and UNEP (United Nation Environment Programme) in Georgia on the management of protected area.

Personal website: https://camillebelmin.github.io/

Recent publications:

Belmin, C., Hoffmann, R., Pichler, PP. et al. Fertility transition powered by women’s access to electricity and modern cooking fuels. Nature Sustainability (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00830-3

Belmin, C., Hoffmann, R., Elkasabi, M., & Pichler, PP. (2022). LivWell: a sub-national database on the Living conditions of Women and their Well-being for 52 countries (Version v1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5821533

Belmin, C. (2021). Introducing the energy-fertility nexus in population projections: can universal access to modern energy lead to energy savings? IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA [pure.iiasa.ac.at/17688]