Rimvydas Baltaduonis

Bio

Rimvydas Baltaduonis, Ph.D., - Rim - is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. In January of 2024, he joined the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University as a Project Scientist with the Grid Integration Systems and Mobility (GISMo) team. Dr. Baltaduonis is also an Associate Professor (currently on leave) in the Economics Department at Gettysburg College and co-directs Gettysburg Lab for Experimental Economics (GLEE). While being a longtime affiliate of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics (IRLE), Dr. Baltaduonis also worked as a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) during 2019-2020 academic year and a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from 2015 to 2017. Dr. Baltaduonis' areas of expertise are industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, energy security, experimental and behavioral economics. His current research focuses on the design and behavior of electric power markets. He also conducts workshops on laboratory economics experiments designed to inform energy policy. At Stanford University, Dr. Baltaduonis teaches an economic policy seminar on “Energy Transition & Security”, and a course titled “Energy Market Design & Regulation.” At Gettysburg College, he taught Industrial Organization, Energy & Security, Energy Economics and Experimental Economics. The National Science Foundation, the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) and the Australian Research Council have supported his research. Prior to assuming his faculty position at Gettysburg College, Dr. Baltaduonis was an IFREE Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University and later at the Economics Science Institute at Chapman University. He earned his PhD and MA in Economics from the University of Connecticut and a BSc in Economics from Vilnius University in Lithuania.

Academic Appointments

• Lecturer, Economics