Prof Dr Claudia Kemfert has been head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004 and is Professor of Energy Economics and Energy Policy at the Leuphana University, Till 2019 she was Professor of Energy Economics and Sustaiability at Hertie School of Governance and from 2004-2009 she was Professor of Environmental...
Head of Department Energy, Transportation, Environment
Franziska Holz is Deputy Head of the Department Energy, Transportation, and Environment and coordinates the research area resource and environmental markets in the department. Her research deals with international natural gas, coal, and oil markets. She focuses on the interaction of these markets with climate policies and uses numerical equilibrium models.
Franziska is also an Adjunct Professor...
Deputy Head of Department Energy, Transportation, Environment
Wolf-Peter Schill is deputy head of the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and leads the research area “Transformation of the Energy Economy”. After studying environmental engineering at TU Berlin and Macquarie University Sydney, he obtained a doctoral degree in energy economics at TU Berlin. His research focuses on renewable...
Deputy Head of Department Energy, Transportation, Environment
Astrid Cullmann is senior researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, and Environment. Her research deals with productivity and regulation of public sector firms. She focuses on municipal state-owned firms in the energy and water sector. Astrid is also Senior Lecturer at the Chair of Econometrics and Business Statistics at TU Berlin. She studied Economics at Free University Berlin and...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Carlos Gaete is a Research Associate in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department at the DIW Berlin. He received his PhD in July 2019 from The University of Manchester. His dissertation consisted of sustainability assessment of electricity generation by using mathematical optimization and life cycle assessment (LCA). He is also Associate Member at the Sustainable Industrial System group ...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Dennis Gaus is a PhD student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2017. After a Bachelor in Management, he gained a M.Sc. degree in Applied Economics from the University of Innsbruck, with semesters abroad in Toronto and Taipei and internships at Deutsche Bahn AG and the DIW. In his Master thesis, written in collaboration with the transport economics department of the DIW, he assessed insufficient...
Adeline Guéret is a PhD candidate at the DIW Graduate Center and TU Berlin. Her research focuses on topics related to the energy transition. More specifically, she uses modeling methods to better understand pathways that can lead to deeply decarbonize our economies. Prior to joining the Graduate Center in October 2020, she worked as a researcher at the French Economic Observatory (OFCE) to...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Dana Kirchem joined the research group ‘Transformation of the Energy economy’ within the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment in September 2021. Her dissertation at the University College Dublin and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Dublin dealt with the modelling of energy demand flexibility in integrated energy-water systems. Prior to her PhD, Dana studied...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Martin Kittel is a Ph.D. candidate at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Prior to DIW, Martin worked as a research associate at the Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy, Technical Institute Berlin and with Germanwatch, a development and environmental civil society organization, focusing on energy transition cooperation in Southeast Europe. He has completed internships at the German-Australian Chamber...
Heike Link is Head of the Transportation Research Team. She joined DIW in 1992 after studies in Mathematical Economics and a PhD thesis on dynamic input-output models. Her research interest is the econometric analysis of issues mainly in transport infrastructure. Heike has been in charge for a variety of national and international research and consultancy projects on infrastructure issues, the...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Mariza Montes de Oca León is a is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Her current research interests are centered around the interaction between the natural resource curse in fossil-fuel abundant economies and climate change mitigation policy.
Prior to joining the Graduate Center, Mariza worked at ICAP, the International Carbon Action Partnership, focusing on emissions...
Julia Rechlitz is a PhD student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. She completed her studies in the master of industrial and network economics at the TU Berlin in 2015. She focused on applied microeconomics and energy economics. In her master’s thesis she analyzed the efficiency of German distribution system operators with respect to their ownership structure. Furthermore, she gained...
Alexander is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center since October 2018. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Mannheim and his Master’s degree in economics from the University of Mannheim and the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in a joint double-degree program. Alexander’s research interests include empirical microeconomics, focusing...
Research Associate & Ph.D. Student Energy, Transportation, Environment
Adrián is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center since October 2020. He obtained both his Master´s and Bachelor´s degree at the University of Mannheim. Adrián´s research interests lie in the fields of climate and environmental economics, applied microeconometrics and policy evaluation. In his master´s thesis, Adrián evaluated the effects of...
Robin has been a doctoral student in the DIW Graduate Center since October 2020. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim. Moreover, he studied one semester at Chinese University of Hong Kong and spent the second year of his Master as a Visiting Student at the PhD Program...
Aleksandar Zaklan is an applied economist interested in topics in environmental economics. In his research, he currently focuses on assessing the (cost-)effectiveness and distributional impacts of policy instruments designed to mitigate environmental externalities; understanding impacts of pollution externalities on individuals; and analyzing indirect effects of environmental policy.
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
