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, energy storage, electric mobility, green hydrogen and other sector coupling strategies. His methodological focus is open-source power sector modeling. At DIW Berlin, he works in various research projects with grants from German federal ministries and the European Commission. His work lead to numerous articles in leading international peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Energy, Joule, European Economic Review, Communications Earth and Environment, and other leading field journals. He is an active member of the national academy project Energy Systems of the Future (ESYS), co-developer of the Open Energy Tracker, and host of the (German) podcast fossilfrei.