Researchers

Ebenaezer Appies

Background: Economic development in the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme

Focus topics: Just Energy Transitions, Public Participation, Energy Finance and Social Innovation

Affiliation: Stellenbosch University, South Africa | Project 90 by 2030

Email: ebenaezera@90by2030.org.za

Marlin Arnz

Background: Industrial Engineering and Management

Focus topics: Open source transport modelling, energy system modelling, transport behaviour, rail transport

Affiliation: Reiner Lemoine Institute, Reiner Lemoine Foundation, WIP TU Berlin

Email: maa@wip.tu-berlin.de

Jan Baran

Background: Economics

Focus topics: Labour economics, Pension schemes, Innovation and intellectual property, Social networks in economics

Affiliation: IBS - Institute for Structural Research, Poland

Andrzej Błachowicz

Background: Policy Making, Stakeholder Engagement

Focus topics: Coal, oil & gas transitions worldwide, Just Transition in developing countries, EC Initiatives for Coal Regions in Transition in the EU, Western Balkans & Ukraine (Secretariats)

Affiliation: Climate Strategies, UK & the Netherlands

Hanna Brauers

Background: Industrial Engineering

Focus topics: Coal phase-outs, natural gas phase-outs, political economy of energy transformations

Affiliation: CoalExit, TU Berlin, DIW Berlin, EUF Flensburg Germany

Email: hbr@wip.tu-berlin.de

Telephone: +49-(0)30-314-21651

Isabell Braunger

Background: Political Science and Social Studies

Focus topics: Transformation research, Coal and gas phase-out in Germany, Gender and energy policy

Affiliation: CoalExit, EUF Flensburg, TU Berlin, DIW Berlin, Germany

Email: ib@wip.tu-berlin.de

Telephone: +49-(0)30-314-21651

Andrea Brock

Background: Political Economy, Political Ecology

Focus topics: Political ecology of energy and coal mining, biodiversity conservation, policing of dissent

Affiliation: Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK; Steps Centre; Sussex Energy Group

Email: a.brock@sussex.ac.uk

Carolin Brodtmann

Background: Economics and Social Sciences

Focus topics: Gender Perspectives on Climate Change and Policy, Coal-Phase Outs, Socio-Ecological Transformation

Affiliation: CoalExit, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Email: cb@wip.tu-berlin.de

Thorsten Burandt

Background: Industrial Engineering

Focus topics: Energy system modeling, Sector-coupling, (Global) Decarbonization pathways

Affiliation: CoalExit, EUF Flensburg, TU Berlin, DIW Berlin, Germany; NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Email: thb@wip.tu-berlin.de

Jesse Burton

Background: Energy Studies

Focus topics: South African and global coal markets, Fossil fuel subsidies and finance, Political economy of the South African coal sector

Affiliation: University of Cape Town, Energy Research Centre, South Africa

Ben Caldecott

Background: Economic Geography

Focus topics: Environment, energy, and sustainability issues, Intersection between finance, government, civil society, and academe

Affiliation: University of Oxford, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, UK

Andrea Cardoso

Background: Ecological Economist, Environmentalism, Political Ecology

Focus topics: Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Environmental Studies

Affiliation: University of Magdalena, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Económicas, Colombia

Aleh Cherp

Background: Environmental and Energy Studies

Focus topics: Feasibility of global energy transitions meeting the climate targets, political economy of energy transitions, and energy security

Affiliation: Central European University (CEU), Lund University

Email: cherpa@ceu.edu

Paweł Czyżak

Background: Economics and Computer Science

Focus topics: Energy system modelling, RES potential assessment, Poland’s coal exit, data visualization

Affiliation: Instrat Foundation, SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Email: pawel.czyzak@instrat.pl

Martin David

Background: Urban and Environmental Sociology

Focus topics: Sustainability transformation and transition, Exnovation and innovation, Anticipative Governance, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

Affiliation: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

Email: martin.david@ufz.de

Steve Fothergill

Background: Economics

Focus topics: Urban and regional economic analysis, Regional policy, business and industry, Europe, Labour markets, Joblessness, Local area studies, Energy policy, Benefits system, Regeneration, Tourism

Affiliation: Sheffield Hallam University, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, UK

Panagiotis Fragkos

Background: Engineering, Economics

Focus topics: Energy system modelling, Socio-economic impacts of low-carbon transition, Energy system decarbonisation

Affiliation: E3Modelling S.A.

Email: fragkos@e3modelling.com

Ben Gales

Background: General Economics, History

Focus topics: Economic, Social History

Affiliation: University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business, Netherlands

Amit Garg

Background: Public Policy, Management, Economics

Focus topics: Sustainable Development, Energy Policy, Climate Policy, Environment Policy, Water Policy, Energy Systems Modelling, Carbon Finance

Affiliation: IIMA - Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India

Karlo Hainsch

Background: Industrial Engineering (Energy and Resources)

Focus topics: Energy system modelling, Transition of the transportation sector, Role of sector-coupling in energy transitions

Affiliation: CoalExit, TU Berlin, DIW Berlin, Germany

Email: kh@wip.tu-berlin.de

Christian Hauenstein

Background: Renewable Energy Engineering and Management, Environmental Sciences and International Forestry

Focus topics: Global coal phase-out, Political economy of coal: carbon lock-in/deep incumbency, Socio-ecological transformation

Affiliation: CoalExit, EUF Flensburg, TU Berlin, DIW Berlin, Germany

Email: ch@wip.tu-berlin.de

Telephone: +49-(0)30-314-21753

Lukas Hermwille

Background: Global climate governance and transition research

Focus topics: Global climate and energy governance architecture and politics of regional structural adjustments in response to decarbonization

Affiliation: Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy – Global Climate Governance Research Unit

Email: lukas.hermwille@wupperinst.org

Philipp Herpich

Background: Industrial Engineering (Energy and Resource Management)

Focus topics: Coal phase-out, transformation studies, energy system modeling

Affiliation: CoalExit, TU Berlin, Germany

Email: phe@wip.tu-berlin.de

Michał Hetmański

Background: Economics

Focus topics: Just transition, decarbonisation pathways, Poland’s coal exit, energy market reform, open energy data

Affiliation: Instrat Foundation

Email: michal.hetmanski@instrat.pl

Christian von Hirschhausen

Background: Economics and Industrial Engineering

Focus topics: Applied industrial economics, Infrastructure and network economics, Environmental, energy and resource economics

Affiliation: TU Berlin, DIW Berlin, Germany

Franziska Holz

Background: Economics

Focus topics: Modeling of international and European energy resource markets, Coal, oil, and natural gas markets, Climate policy and energy resource markets

Affiliation: DIW Berlin, Germany; NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Shakhawat Hossain

Background: Geology, Geotechnical Engineering, Geological Engineering

Focus topics: Climate Change, climate variability, GeoHazards, stability of eco-forests focusing sustainable water & renewable energy, Geological Engineering & Sustainable Development (focusing UN SDG’s) by managing hazards, resources (including coal) and environment

Affiliation: Geological Engineering, GeoHazards & Disaster Sciences Research group, Department of Geological Sciences, Jahangirnagar University

Email: shossain@juniv.edu

Damian Iwanowski

Background: Economics

Focus topics: Firm-level dynamics and productivity, Innovation and innovation policy, Entrepreneurship, Policy evaluation, Impact evaluation

Affiliation: Instrat Foundation

Email: damian.iwanowski@instrat.pl

Thabit Jacob

Background: Natural resources, political economy of development

Focus topics: Political economy of energy and resource extraction, renewed role of the state in energy, energy nationalism in Sub-Saharan Africa, politics of energy access and transition

Affiliation: Roskilde University, Denmark

Email: thabit@ruc.dk

Jessica Jewell

Background: Energy transitions

Focus topics: Coal phase-out, Substitutions, Powering Past Coal Alliance and Policy costs

Affiliation: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and University of Bergen, Norway

Email: jewell@chalmers.se

Frank Jotzo

Background: Economics

Focus topics: Economics and policy of climate change and energy, Political economy of policy reform, Environment and development, Global issues: Australia, China, Indonesia, Asia-Pacific

Affiliation: Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University

Claudia Kemfert

Background: Economics

Focus topics: Energy economics, Environmental economics, Climate protection

Affiliation: DIW Berlin, Hertie School of Governance, Germany

Daniel Kiewra

Background: Economics

Focus topics: Just Transition, Industrial relations, Labour market and social dialogue

Affiliation: Instrat Foundation

Email: daniel.kiewra@instrat.pl

Irem Kok

Background: Nature, Society and Environmental Policy, Philosophy, Economics, Political Science and International Relations

Focus topics: Quantitative and qualitative research on stranded assets, Focusing on the financial and environmental risks of investing in the thermal coal sector, Coal-fired power stations, Climate finance and the political economy of energy transitions

Affiliation: Tellus Mater Foundation, London, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, UK, Bogazici University, Turkey

Alexandra Krumm

Background: Industrial Engineering

Focus topics: energy system transformation, just transition, public participation

Affiliation: CoalExit, EUF Flensburg, TU Berlin, Reiner-Lemoine-Institut, Germany

Email: ak@wip.tu-berlin.de

Konstantin Löffler

Background: Industrial and Network Engineering

Focus topics: Energy system modelling, Energy- and environmental economics, Renewable energies

Affiliation: CoalExit, TU Berlin, DIW Berlin, Germany

Email: kl@wip.tu-berlin.de

Telephone: +49-(0)30-314-25139

Aman Malik

Background: Chemical Engineering and Climate Sciences

Focus topics: Carbon lock-ins, political economy of energy transitions

Affiliation: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and TU-Berlin

Bryce McCall

Background: Sustainable Energy Engineering

Focus topics: Energy systems modelling, New statistical energy modelling techniques, City energy modelling, Energy efficiency in Industry

Affiliation: Energy Research Center, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Roman Mendelevitch

Background: Industrial Engineering and Management

Focus topics: Energy resource and electricity markets, Transformation of energy systems, Food-water-energy nexus

Affiliation: Oeko-Institut e.V. - Institute for Applied Ecology, Germany

Felipe Corral Montoya

Background: Political Economy and Public Policy

Focus topics: Political economy of the energy sector, Energy transitions in Colombia, Natural resource & energy policies in the Global South

Affiliation: CoalExit, TU Berlin, Germany

Email: fcm@wip.tu-berlin.de

Lola Nacke

Background: Political Science and Energy Studies

Focus topics: Coal phase-out, Policy costs

Affiliation: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Email: lolan@chalmers.se

Pao-Yu Oei

Background: Industrial Engineering, Economics

Focus topics: Global coal phase-out, Political economy of coal: carbon lock-in/deep incumbency, Socio-ecological transformation, Renewables

Affiliation: CoalExit, EUF Flensburg, TU Berlin, DIW Berlin, Germany

Email: pao-yu.oei@uni-flensburg.de

Telephone: +49 461 805 2533

Sandeep Pai

Background: Interdisciplinary researcher (Energy Transitions & Policy)

Focus topics: Political economy & history of energy transitions, Coal phase-out, just transition

Affiliation: The University of British Columbia, Canada; MESPOM, Austria

Email: sandeep@mespom.eu

Paola A. Yanguas Parra

Background: Economics and Public Policy

Focus topics: Climate and energy policy, distributional implications of coal phase-out policies, coal transitions

Affiliation: CoalExit, TU Berlin

Email: pp@wip.tu-berlin.de

Dominika Rečková

Background: Economics

Focus topics: Applied microeconometrics, Efficiency analysis, Energy economics, Meta-analysis

Affiliation: Charles University, Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Czech Republic

Catharina Rieve

Background: Physical Engineering

Focus topics: Renewable energies, Potential of wind and solar energy, Remaining coal amounts in opencast mining

Affiliation: CoalExit, TU Berlin, Germany

Email: clr@wip.tu-berlin.de

Adrian Rinscheid

Background: Political Science

Focus topics: Political Economy of Coal Transitions (COALSTAKE project), Energy politics, Divestment, Sustainability transitions, Discourse and narratives

Affiliation: Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Email: adrian.rinscheid@unisg.ch

Pablo del Río

Background: Economics and Business Administration

Focus topics: Environmental economics, Management, Energy economics and Innovation economics

Affiliation: Spanish National Research Council, CSIC - Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos, Spain

Michaela Roelfes

Background: Political and Social Sciences

Focus topics: Local and regional sustainable development and sustainability politics

Affiliation: Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy, and Environment – Research Unit Urban Transitions

Email: michaela.roelfes@wupperinst.org

Oliver Sartor

Background: Economics, Arts, Commerce

Focus topics: European climate and energy policy, climate and energy policy governance, coal transitions, decarbonisation policy for energy-intensive industries

Affiliation: IDDRI - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, France

Josephine Semb

Background: Political Sciences

Focus topics: System transformation, Climate Policies, Gender Perspectives on climate change

Affiliation: CoalExit, Freie University Berlin

Email: jos@wip.tu-berlin.de

Philipp Späth

Background: Political Sciences, Human Geography, Science and Technology Studies

Focus topics: Energy Transitions, Energy Justice, Environmental Governance

Affiliation: AL University Freiburg, Germany

Email: spaeth@envgov.uni-freiburg.de

Jennie C. Stephens

Background: Environmental Science and Public Policy, Engineering

Focus topics: Renewable transformation, energy democracy, energy justice, gender and racial inequities in energy, embodied energy injustices

Affiliation: Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, USA

Email: j.stephens@northeastern.edu

Nora Stognief

Background: Environmental and Resource Management and Environmental Planning

Focus topics: Coal phase-out, Just transition, Resilience

Affiliation: CoalExit, TU Berlin, DIW Berlin, Germany

Email: nstognief@diw.de

Aleksander Szpor

Background: Political Science

Focus topics: Public policy instruments and design, National innovation systems, Energy security, Low-emission transition

Affiliation: IBS - Institute for Structural Research, Poland

Katarzyna Szwarc

Background: Policy, Law

Focus topics: Sustainable finance, Just transition

Affiliation: Instrat Foundation, Grantham Research Institute - London School of Economics

Email: katarzyna@instrat.pl

Fei Teng

Background: Management Science

Focus topics: Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Environmental Management, Climate Change Economics

Affiliation: Tsinghua University, Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, China

Konstantina Togaridou

Background: Political Science and Social Studies, European Studies

Focus topics: energy justice, energy democracy, coal transition, mass media and social inclusion

Affiliation: Peace and Journalism Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece / Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Email: ktongaridou@gmail.com

Gregory Trencher

Background: Sustainability science, energy policy, governance of sustainability transitions and low-carbon technologies

Focus topics: Governance of coal power in Japan and Indonesia, coal divestment in Japan, hydrogen and fuel-cell vehicles

Affiliation: Tohoku University (Graduate School of Environmental Studies), Japan, www.gregorytrencher.net

Bregje van Veelen

Background: Human Geography, Environmental Social Sciences

Focus topics: Social and political dimensions of fossil fuel phase out; Socio-technical imaginaries; cultural political economies of low-carbon transitions

Affiliation: Uppsala University, Sweden

Email: bregje.vanveelen@geo.uu.se

Saritha S. Vishwanathan

Background: Public Policy, Management, Environmental Engineering

Focus topics: Energy and Water Systems modelling, Sustainable Development, Energy Policy, Water Policy, Climate Policy, Environment Policy

Affiliation: IIMA - Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India

Paula Walk

Background: economics and political science

Focus topics: Historical coal phase-outs, Ecological and environmental economics

Affiliation: CoalExit, TU Berlin, Germany

Email: pw@wip.tu-berlin.de

Timon Wehnert

Background: Research on Energy Transitions and Climate Policy

Focus topics: Regional structural change processes linked to sustainable development and industrial decarbonisation strategies

Affiliation: Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy - Research Unit Structural Change and Innovation

Email: timon.wehnert@wupperinst.org

John Wiseman

Background: Public policy, Social science, Political economy

Focus topics: Just transitions, National and regional decarbonisation strategies; Socio-ecological transformations

Affiliation: Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Energy Transition Hub, University of Melbourne

Email: jwiseman@unimelb.edu.au