Habilitation

02/2016 at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (now KIT) with the topic „Electric Mobility and Energy Systems"

Ph.D.

05/2009 at University of Karlsruhe (now KIT) with the topic „ A CO₂ Emission Trading Scheme for German Road Transport”

Education

• Economics with the main focus on environmental economics and econometrics at the Universities Heidelberg and Mannheim (Diploma)
• Basic studies of (philosophy and) economics at University of Bayreuth

Professional Activities

• Since 01/2020 Head of the division Energy System Analysis at the Institute of Networked Energy Systems at DLR
• 10/2009 - 12/2019 Group leader at the Institute for Industrial Production (IIP), French-German Institute for Environmental Research (DFIU), and Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) of the KIT
• 07/2015 - 09/2015 Visiting Professor at the faculty of mathematics at the University of Waterloo (Canada)
• 10/2015 - 08/2018 Assistant Lecturer at the University of Landau
• 01/2009 - 09/2009 Research Associate at the Institute for Economic Policy (IWW, now ECON) of KIT
• 01/2006 - 12/2008 Scholarship fellow of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) at Institute for Economic Policy (IWW, now ECON) of KIT
• 07/2005 - 12/2005 Research associate at the Institute for Resource Efficiency and Energy Strategies (IREES), Karlsruhe
• 10/2002 - 09/2005 Research assistant at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim

Working fields

• Energy system analysis
• Applied environmental economics / Ecological Economics
• Agent-based simulation and econometrics