Nikola Milojevic-Dupont

Nikola Milojevic-Dupont (he/they) is a postdoctoral researcher working on climate change mitigation, urban planning, and applied machine learning. His research broadly investigates the pathway from research to deployment of AI systems for climate action in cities, focusing on narratives, data needs, tool development, and practical deployment considerations.

At the Mercator Research Institute for Global Commons and Climate Change, Nikola is a member of the working group Land Use, Infrastructure, Transport. He holds a PhD from the Technical University Berlin and wrote his dissertation on "Geospatial artificial intelligence for scaling low-carbon planning" under the supervision of Felix Creutzig. He holds a MSc in environmental and energy economics from a consortium of universities in Paris led by AgroParisTech, with a major in Integrated Assessment Modelling led by CIRED. Before, he studied economics at the University of Paris La Sorbonne.

Nikola is also a founding member of Climate Change AI (CCAI), a global non-profit aiming to catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning, where he has taken on various roles including chairing the organization's educational content committee and being a member its board of directors.