About
Professor Karoline Rogge is a Professor of Sustainability Innovation and Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) within the University of Sussex Business School. She leads the EMPOCI project on accelerating sustainable energy-mobility transitions and was Co-Director of the Sussex Energy Group. Her research focuses on policy mixes, socio-technical transitions, and climate innovation, with extensive work on energy systems, mobility decarbonization, and urban green transitions. Affiliated with the Bennett Institute for Innovation and Policy Acceleration and Fraunhofer ISI, she bridges academia and policy, contributing to the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report and advising EU and national governments.
Research interests include policy design for low-carbon innovation, multi-system transitions, and the interplay between policy and technology. Key projects include EMPOCI (2020-2026), GreenDEMO (2025-2027), and SONNET (2019-2021). Her work emphasizes transdisciplinary methods, such as co-creating city labs and transformative foresight processes.
Notable achievements include being named in the 2021 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers List and contributing to over 78 publications. She supervises PhD students on topics like electric mobility policy mixes and decarbonization strategies, and serves on editorial boards for journals like Research Policy and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
Her grants include the ERC-funded EMPOCI and EU Horizon 2020-supported SONNET. Professional activities span advisory roles at the European Commission’s JRC and editorial leadership in her field. Teaching includes modules on energy policy and innovation systems at the University of Sussex.
