Dr. Sandra Venghaus (english)
Research Domain III: Sustainable Solutions
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Sandra Venghaus is assistant manager of the project "Biofuel as Social Fuel“. Her specific subproject focuses on the development of a mathematical model to explore, weight, and evaluate the impact of different political courses of action on social and environmental parameters embedded in the broader concept of sustainable development. A feasible model shall be developed based on the relevant actors and environmental interactions, whose behavioral characteristics will be represented by an agent-based model.
Sandra Venghaus received her B.A. in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard University in 2004, before she spent a one-year research term at the Institute of Agricultural Economics (Department of Environmental and Resource Economics) at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. She wrote her PhD thesis on "The Management of Complex System Innovations: A Theoretic Approach to Network Formation and Critical Success Factor Identification Using the Case of Fuel Cell Vehicles" at the Institute of Marketing and Management at the Leibniz University of Hannover. Focus of her dissertation was the development of an economic model which identified and integrated the complex cooperation requirements of alternative automotive fuels into the innovation process.
From 2006 until 2009 she was a research assistant and coordinator of the Center for Energy Management at the Leibniz University of Hannover.
Her current research focus is the agent-based modelling of complex systems based on socio-economic and ecological factors.
During the past year, Sandra Venghaus has published papers, e.g., on the topics of consumer acceptance of renewable energies as well as the complex innovation requirements of a market launch of fuel cell vehicles.
Project: Biofuel as Social Fuel
