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 various aspects of the decarbonisation of international and European energ markets, with a focus on the markets for natural gas, coal, oil, and hydrogen. She also works on the Social-Ecological...
Deputy Head of Department Energy, Transportation, Environment
Wolf-Peter Schill is leading the research area “Transformation of the Energy Economy” in the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). 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 energy...
Head of the research area „Transformation of the Energy Economy“ 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
Adeline Guéret is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the DIW Graduate Center and the Technical University of Berlin. Her research focuses on the energy transition, in particular the effects of sector coupling between the electricity and transport sectors. Methodologically, she works with electricity system models and open source tools. Before joining the Graduate Center, she worked as...
Research Associate & PhD student 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 Economics at...
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
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 experience as...
Alexander is a postdoctoral research associate in the department of energy, transportation, environment. He works on the decarbonization of the energy sector, using numerical and empirical methods. His research focuses on power market flexibilities, sector coupling, such as heat, and societal challenges of the energy transition.
He obtained his PhD in economics from the Technische Universität...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Adrián is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and the University of Potsdam 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. His current research focuses on the analysis of causes and effects of...
Felix is a PhD student at the DIW’s Graduate Center. Prior to joining the program, he worked with an economic consultancy in London focusing on energy market arbitration and litigation projects. His research interests lie in the fields of energy economics and operations research for power systems. Felix holds a Master of Science in Advanced Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business...
Ph.D. Student Graduate Center; Member of Department Energy, Transportation, Environment
Laura joined the Energy, Transport, Environment department as a postdoctoral research associate in July 2023. She conducts research at the intersection of environmental and social policy, with a particular interest in the effects of air pollution on citizen's lives, including their health and human capital. Previously, Laura completed her PhD at FU Berlin and DIW's Graduate Center and worked in...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
Caroline Stiel has been a research associate at DIW Berlin since 2013. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, firm productivity, public infrastructure services, and new advances in empirical methods. Caroline Stiel received her PhD in November 2018 from Technische Universität Berlin. Her dissertation analyses the productivity of municipal energy and water utilities in Germany in the light of...
Research Associate Energy, Transportation, Environment
