Head of the Research Field “Sustainable Energy and Climate Protection”
Studies at the Technical University of Berlin and at the Technical University of Denmark
2002 – 2006: Doctorate at the geographical institute of the Humboldt-University Berlin within a postgraduate research and training programme funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Since 2006: Researcher at the IÖW
2012 – 2022: Deputy Head of the Research Field Sustainable Energy and Climate Protection at the IÖW
Since 2022: Head of the Research Field Sustainable Energy and Climate Protection at the IÖW (together with Prof. Bernd Hirschl)
Allotment gardeners show how it's done: they harvest part of what they need every day to live. The situation is similar with energy production. More and more households not only consume energy, but also produce it themselves [...]
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As a renewable energy source, geothermal energy can increasingly replace fossil fuels and thus contribute to climate protection and create added value locally. Despite great potential, the share of heat from deep geothermal [...]
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Heating networks play an important role in climate-neutral heat supply. The project aims to provide scientific support for the implementation of a grid-connected supply approach in the center of Leeste in the Lower Saxon [...]
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Neighborhood energy concepts can enable new paths for higher energy efficiency and renewable energies at the local level by taking an integrated view of energy generation, consumption and decentralized infrastructure. For [...]
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Due to the Corona pandemic, there has been movement in the perception and use of home office and teleremote working. In this joint project, the energetic and non-energetic implications of this change that are relevant for the [...]
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