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Welcome to my personal website! My name is Saumya, and I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). I study energy and infrastructure policy, projects and outcomes in India. My work aims to better understand the complex interplay between energy systems, technologies, the economy and socio-politics.

 

I have recently returned to the United States from India, where I had been undertaking data collection for my dissertation project on the operation and governance of the electricity sector in the city of Mumbai.

I have worked as a policy research analyst with Prayas (Energy Group) in Pune, and with PRS Legislative Research in New Delhi. I have a master's degree in Geography from Penn State, a master's degree in Economics and Public Policy from Sciences Po, Paris, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Saint Xavier’s College, Mumbai.

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