Yakubu Abdul-salam
TB Macaulay Research Fellowship
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
Scottish Crop Research Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
His background is in Engineering and Economics, with a BSc. honours in Chemical Engineering (2004-2008, Upper Second Class) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST, Ghana); an MSc. in Petroleum and Energy Economics (2009-2010, Distinction) and a PhD in Economics (2011-2014), both from the University of Aberdeen. I joined the James Hutton Institute after three years with the University of Aberdeen where he coupled his PhD research with work as a tutor, teaching courses in statistics, finance, micro- and macroeconomics. He had previously worked as a Chemical and Process Engineer with the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation and the Tema Oil Refinery in Ghana.
Research Interest
Research interests are in applied economics, including energy economics, agricultural economics and development economics. Expertise lies with (1) developing and/or implementing algorithms to design optimal energy networks; (2) constructing optimisation models to investigate behaviour of economic agents; and (3) use of large datasets for econometric and economic modelling. He have advanced software expertise in GAMS, Matlab, Stata and ArcGIS among others.
Publications
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Abdul-Salam, Y. & Phimister, EC. (2016). ‘How effective are heuristic solutions for electricity planning in developing countries’. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. Vol 55, pp. 14-24.
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Abdul-Salam, Y. & Phimister, EC. (2016). 'The Politico-Economics of Electricity Planning in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Ghana'. Energy Policy. Vol 88C, pp. 299-309.
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Abdul-Salam, Y., Ehlers, M. H., & Harnmeijer, J. (2017). Anaerobic Digestion of Feedstock Grown on Marginal Land: Break-Even Electricity Prices. Energies, 10(9), 1416.
