Professional experience

Since 2013
Professor of Environmental Economics and Energy Economics at Nuertingen Geislingen University (NGU)

2024
Director of the German-French Institute (interim)

Since 2022
Visiting researcher at the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition, Sciences Po, Paris, France

Since 2019
Visiting researcher at the School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Since 2013
External consultant and expert for various institutions (European Commission, German Bundestag, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, GIZ)

2009-2013
European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy, National Expert in the Energy Efficiency and Intelligent Energy Europe Unit

2009
Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Federal Foreign Office, Paris, First Embassy Secretary

2004-2013
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Deputy Head of Division for Energy Policy

2001-2004
German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), Advisor for Economics

2000
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Education

2021
Habilitation at Technical University Darmstadt (Germany): "Sustainability Management in the Public Sector"

2004
PhD at Technical University Chemnitz (Germany): „Energy and Climate Change: Analysis of the climate policy instruments deployed on the German electricity market“

2000
Graduated in economics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)

1998/1999
Studies of polical economy at Université d’Angers (France)

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Research projects (selected)

• Research project ARIADNE on the German energy transition (Kopernikus excellence project of the German Ministry of Reserach)
• Research projects in the framwork of the AGYA energy and water group
• Global Berlin in the 21st Century (BMBF, AGYA, 2021-2023); with Humboldt Universität Berlin, Reiner Lemoine Institut Berlin
• Minimizing COVID-19 Fatigue Through Social Media (BMBF, AGYA, 2021); with; Gulf University Kuwait
• Sustainable Investment in the Arab Region and Germany (BMBF, 2021/2022); with Gulf University Kuwait
• Workshop Energy and Climate Modelling (BMBF, AGYA,2021); with University of Bristol, Reiner Lemoine Institut Berlin
• Decomposition of energy consumption data in Morocco, Algeria and Germany (BMBF, AGYA, 2021); with University of Bristol
• European policy-making: Assessing stakeholder interests and lobbying along the European Green Deal (BMBF 2019-2021); with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels
• Structural changes through green transitions in Germany and the US (2021/2022); with California State University
• Digitalization of the provision of public goods (energy and water) in Germany and MENA countries (BMBF, AGYA 2019); with American University of Ras-El-Khaima, UAE
• Smart cities: Comparison between approaches in the MENA region and Germany (BMBF, AGYA, 2017-2019); with Université d’Algers; Université St. Joseph Beirut, American University of Beirut
• Machine learning and big data used for energy efficiency in buildings (BMBF, AGYA, 2018); with CERIST - Centre de recherche sur l’information scientifique et technique, Algiers
• The future of the energy systems (ESYS), working group on energy governance with the German academies of sciences
• Innovative academic teaching methods (Phoenix project)

Research Institute

• Board member of the NGU Institute for International Research on Sustainable Management and Renewable Energy

Research interests

• European Economic Policies (European Green Deal)
• Energy Economics & Policies (Energy efficiency, renewable energies)
• Climate change policy
• Environmental and resource economics

The following projects were implemented with different student groups. The aim of the projects is to enable students to apply their knowledge and to connect them with practical partners from business, associations, ministries and international organisations.

• Renewables for Wikipedia - update of the Wikipedia article on the German feed-in tariffs for renewable energies
• Excursion to the European Institutions and documentation of the talks in a life Brussels-blog
• Lost in German energy laws? One page factsheets to present and discuss the relevant German energy law acquis
• Smart cities and Communities: Support for the in-depth report on sustainable cities of the German Advisory Council on Global Change to the Federal Government (WBGU)
• Energy and Resource Management 2.0: Getting energy and resource studies online
• Contracting for the modernisation of street lighting
• Business models for local energy communities
• Support of the climate and energy agency Baden-Wuerttemberg (KEA) - refurbishing public buildings
• Green economy - Module for on-demand learning on "green growth" (online access via ILIAS)
• Zukunft der Energieberatung in Deutschland - Befragung der 2500 Mitglieder des Bundesverbandes GIH
• Support for the EU-Horizon 2020-Project EPATEE (Website  und Poster of the project)
• Carbon capping in the mobility sector
• Financing the energy transition in Germany (Cooperation withe the BMBF project ARIADNE)
• Wiki on climate actions (Pledges for the EU Climate Pact)

Lectures in English, German and French

• Energy economics and policy
• European Clean Transition
• Energy efficiency
• Environmental economics
• International energy and climate change policies
• Macroeconomics
• Sustainable Mobilities
• European Studies