I am a PhD Student at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in the Future Lab Social Metabolism and Impacts and at Humboldt University of Berlin. I am studying the relationship between energy use, population growth and sustainability in low-income countries. My research lies at the intersection of different fields: energy sociology, demography, social metabolism and gender studies. I am working with survey data, statistics, micro-simulation modelling, mostly in R.

Posts

Data embodiment through embroidery

As much as I enjoy crunching data and coding, spending my day in front of my R session can be frustrating sometimes, especially since I love to use my hands on crafts.
Jan 18, 2022 3 min read
Data embodiment through embroidery

Uninformed sterilizations are still happening

Today is the 8th of March 2021, it’s international women’s day, and I want to tell you you about forced and uninformed sterilization. An anti-forced sterilization poster by the artist Rachael Romero, 1953.
Mar 8, 2021 5 min read
Uninformed sterilizations are still happening

Wanted: a perfect reproducible paper workflow

Last week I submitted my first article as part of my PhD. This paper was written in R markdown and is fully reproducible. It means that a single document contains all the manuscript but also all the code for the analysis and figure generation.
Sep 16, 2020 5 min read
Wanted: a perfect reproducible paper workflow

A dataset of harmonized DHS districts

In this post, I present a dataset that I created, containing the harmonized district names and regions of 254 demographic and health surveys (DHS). I explain why I created it, how I did it and how to use the dataset.
Nov 1, 2019 10 min read
A dataset of harmonized DHS districts
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Publications

(Dataset) LivWell, a sub-national database on the Living conditions of Women and their Well-being for 52 countries

A database developed from 199 DHS surveys and gridded climate data covering 52 low and low-middle income countries from 1990 to 2019
Jan 5, 2022

Fertility transition powered by women’s access to electricity and modern cooking fuels, Belmin et al. 2021, Nature Sustainability

Evidence from 42 countries that access to modern energy reduces fertility
Camille Belmin
Dec 13, 2021
Fertility transition powered by women’s access to electricity and modern cooking fuels, Belmin et al. 2021, Nature Sustainability

Recent Talks

WinEED Seminar

Seminar on Gender and Energy organized by Women in Environmental Economics for Development
Nov 23, 2020 12:00 AM
Video