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Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert

Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert

Head of Department of the

Energy, Transportation, Environment Department

Research Topics and Working Areas

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 Economics at Humboldt University.

Claudia Kemfert studied economics at the Universities of Bielefeld and Oldenburg (PhD 1998) and Stanford. As part of a research stay, she was at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan (1998). From January 1999 to April 2000 she headed the junior research group at the Institute for the Rational Use of Energy at the University of Stuttgart. From 2000 to 2004 Claudia Kemfert held a position as junior professor and headed a junior research group at the University of Oldenburg.

Claudia Kemfert was appointed to the Expert Council for Environmental Issues at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in 2016. She was an advisor to EU President José Manuel Barroso and is on advisory boards of various research institutions as well as federal and state ministries as well as the EU Commission. Claudia Kemfert was a member of the High Level Expert Group of the EU Environment Commissioner and the Advisory Group on Energy of the European Commission (DG Research). Since 2011 she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the German Society of the Club of Rome.

In 2006, Kemfert was recognized as a top researcher in the Elf der Wissenschaft by the DFG, the Helmholtz and Leibniz Associations. In 2011 she received the Urania Medal and the B.A.U.M Environment Prize in the science category and in 2016 the German Solar Prize and the Adam Smith Prize for market-based environmental policy. 2013 she published her book “Kampf für Strom” (English version “The battle about electricity”) in which she describes the myths of the energy debate. 2017 followed her book “Das fossile Imperium schlägt zurück”. Her latest book „Mondays for Future - Freitags demonstrieren, Samstags diskutieren und am Montag anpacken und umsetzen“ was published in spring 2020.

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Publications

Energies

Designing a Model for the Global Energy System - GENeSYS-MOD: An Application of the Open-Source Energy Modeling System (OSeMOSYS)

2017 | Löffler, K., Hainsch, K., Burandt, T., Oei, P.-Y., Kemfert, C., von Hirschhausen, C.
Energy Policy

A Welfare Analysis of Electricity Transmission Planning in Germany

2016 | Kemfert, C., Kunz, F., Rosellón, J.
DIW Weekly Report 10/11 / 2023

Plans for Expanding Nuclear Power Plants Lack Technological and Economic Foundations

2023| Alexander Wimmers, Fanny Böse, Claudia Kemfert, Björn Steigerwald, Christian von Hirschhausen, Jens Weibezahn
DIW Wochenbericht 10 / 2023

Ausbau von Kernkraftwerken entbehrt technischer und ökonomischer Grundlagen

2023| Alexander Wimmers, Fanny Böse, Claudia Kemfert, Björn Steigerwald, Christian von Hirschhausen, Jens Weibezahn
DIW Wochenbericht 9 / 2023

Erneuerbare Energien in Bayern: Im Wahlkampf stirbt die Wahrheit: Interview

2023| Claudia Kemfert
DIW aktuell ; 86 : Sonderausgaben zum Krieg in der Ukraine / 2023

Deutschlands Gasversorgung ein Jahr nach russischem Angriff auf Ukraine gesichert, kein weiterer Ausbau von LNG-Terminals nötig

2023| Franziska Holz, Christian von Hirschhausen, Robin Sogalla, Lukas Barner, Björn Steigerwald, Claudia Kemfert
DIW Weekly Report 49/50 / 2022

Water Resources in Germany: Increasingly Polluted and Regionally Overused

2022| Astrid Cullmann, Greta Sundermann, Nicole Wägner, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Indsutrie ächzt unterm Preis

In: Der Tagesspiegel (09.03.2023), S. 32 | Claudia Kemfert,Jörg Hofmann, Jakob Schlandt
Externe Monographien

Schockwellen: letzte Chance für sichere Energien und Frieden

Frankfurt a. Main: Campus, 2023, 310 S. | Claudia Kemfert
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Letzte Generation plant Offensive: was kann die Massenblockade bewegen?

In: Der Tagesspiegel (27.01.2023), S. 32 | Nora Freier, Raphael Thelen, Claudia Kemfert
Externe referierte Aufsätze

Geopolitical and Climate Risks Threaten Financial Stability and Energy Transitions

In: Energy Proceedings 29 (2022), 9 S. | Franziska M. Hoffart, Paola D’Orazio, Claudia Kemfert
Weitere externe Aufsätze

Energiewende statt Atomkraft

In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022), 11, S. 815 | Claudia Kemfert

Lectures

Diskussionsteilnahme

Diskussionsrunde

Claudia Kemfert
Berlin, 07.03.2023
| Endlagersuche und Zukunft der Atomenergie - wie gelingt die Atomwende in Deutschland?: DIW Berlin
Vortrag

Gas- und Wasserstoffmärkte im europäischen Kontext

Franziska Holz, Robin Sogalla, Alexander Roth, Claudia Kemfert, Frank Meißner, Georg Zachmann, Ben McWilliams
Berlin, 23.09.2022
| Infraday-Konferenz 2022, TU Berlin
Vortrag

Gas- und Wasserstoffmärkte im europäischen Kontext

Franziska Holz, Robin Sogalla, Alexander Roth, Claudia Kemfert, Frank Meißner, Georg Zachmann, Ben McWilliams
Berlin, 23.09.2022
| Infrastrukturpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert - Infrastructure Policy in the 21st Century: TU Berlin
Vortrag

DIW-Szenarien für die deutsche Erdgas- und Energieversorgung 2022/2023

Franziska Holz, Robin Sogalla, Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen
Bonn, 24.08.2022
| Gasszenarien-Workshop
Vortrag

Mondays for Future: Wie wir drei Krisen mit einer Klappe schlagen können: Wirtschaftskrise, Energiekrise, Klimakrise

Claudia Kemfert
[Online], 12.07.2022
| BayWa r.e. Solar Projects [Online]

Research Projects

Research Project

CoalExit

Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Decarbonisation of energy

Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

ADaptation And Mitigation Strategies for Europe (ADAM)

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Biochar in Agriculture – Perspectives for Germany and Malaysia

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Die Auswirkungen des Atomausstiegs in Deutschland auf Strompreise und Klimaschutz in Deutschland und Europa

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Economic Analysis and Evaluation of the Effects of the Renewable Energy Act

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

EMF Energy Modelling Forum

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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