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Peter Mulder serves as a part-time Associate Professor in Innovation Studies at Utrecht University's Faculty of Geosciences, specifically within the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. He concurrently holds a position as Senior Researcher at TNO Energy Transition Studies in Amsterdam, demonstrating a dual academic-professional affiliation focused on energy transition challenges.
His research centers on the economic dimensions of energy transitions, combining macroeconomics, energy economics, and spatial economics to analyze cost-benefit distributions. Key interests include energy poverty, transport poverty, income/employment effects of decarbonization, and spatial inequality metrics. Mulder frequently collaborates with CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, VU Amsterdam, and ROA at Maastricht University.
Mulder's policy-relevant work on energy and transport poverty receives significant media attention and informs national/local government advisory processes. His research contributes directly to UN Sustainable Development Goals through energy policy analysis, pollution reduction frameworks, and sustainable mobility solutions.
He teaches in the Energy Markets program and maintains active research partnerships across Dutch academic institutions and policy organizations, with recent publications examining regional vulnerability to energy transitions and sustainable mobility challenges in the Netherlands.
