Biography
Amir Akther is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Complexity Economics group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
He completed an MMath in Mathematics at Loughborough University, where he also obtained a PhD in Physics specialising in the deterministic and stochastic dynamics of complex systems. Prior to joining Oxford, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, where he collaborated with the World Bank and WRI India on energy transition and decarbonisation research.
His research focuses on the empirics of technological change, with particular interests in technology cost forecasting, experience curves, and the dynamics of the energy transition. At Oxford, he uses quantitative and statistical methods to study how technologies improve and diffuse over time, contributing to a large-scale empirical database of cost and performance curves across net-zero technologies and artificial intelligence.
