Stafflist Research Domain III

		Chair of Research Domain III
Ottmar Edenhofer		Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer is deputy director and chief economist at the PIK. He is currently leading the research on the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilisation. Within Research Domain III, he explores the impact of induced technological change on mitigation costs and mitigation strategies. He holds the chair "Economics of Climate Change" at the TU Berlin.
		Vice Chair
Elmar Kriegler		Dr. Elmar Kriegler is a senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). His research focuses on the integrated assessment of climate change, in particular on technological and climate risks of policies to mitigate climate change.
		Project coordination & assistance
Johann Grüneweg		Johann Grüneweg is accredited translator and makes sure that our papers, presentations and articles leave the house in a ready-to-print state.
Dorothe Ilskens		Dorothe Ilskens is scientific coordinator of Research Domain III and responsible for finance, project acquisition and management as well as personnel planning.
Kristiyana Neumann		Personal assistant to Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer. She is currently on parental leave.
Nicole Reinhardt		Team assistant of the research domain III
Susanne Stundner		Susanne Stundner is the Personal Coordinator to Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer.

		Researchers
Tino Aboumahboub		Tino Aboumahboub has done her PhD at the Technical University of Munich in power engineering. She is now a post-doctoral researcher at PIK, working on the assessment of climate change mitigation scenarios as part of the LIMITS project.
Nico Bauer		Dr. Nico Bauer finished his PhD thesis on "Carbon Capturing and Sequestration - An Option to Buy Time?" and has now come back to PIK after working with FEEM in Milan, Italy. He is now working on the further development of the model REMIND.
Lavinia Baumstark		Dr. Lavinia Baumstark studied mathematics and economics. Her PhD thesis dealt with endogenous growth, R&D investments and technological spillovers. Currently she is focusing on model development and efficiency improvements of large-scale models of the research domain (e.g. ReMIND).
Christoph Bertram		Christoph Bertram studied Physics and is a PhD student at PIK. He works on the representation of energy demand and energy efficiency in coupled macroeconomic and energy system models to evaluate climate change mitigation strategies.
Markus Bonsch		Markus Bonsch is a physicist who joined the PIK as a PHD student. He works on the field of landuse / land use change modeling with special respect to water availability and the representation of the water sector in MAgPIE.
Bob Brecha		Dr. Bob Brecha is Professor of Physics and Electro-optics at the University of Dayton in Ohio, USA. His interests are in the intersection of the energy, environmental and economic systems and how these interact in the face of fossil-fuel scarcity and climate change mitigation strategies. He spends time working at PIK during the summer as a guest scientist.
Adrian Ciesinski		Adrian Ciesinski is a doctoral student at PIK. His thesis is focuses on the incorporation of forestry related carbon abatement into incentivation schemes. Goal is: (1) to screen and structure the landscape of proposals and (2) to work out the implications of selected scenarios in terms of ecological effectiveness, economical efficiency and distributional fairness/equity.
Felix Creutzig		Dr. Felix Creutzig is a senior research fellow and group leader for Sustainable Human Settlements and Infrastructures in the department Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University Berlin, chaired by Professor Edenhofer. Together with Ottmar Edenhofer, he teaches Geographical Economics and Climate Change. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, Felix worked with Professor Daniel Kammen, Lee Schipper and Elizabeth Deakin on a variety of transportation issues.
Tabaré Arroyo Currás		Tabaré Arroyo Currás joined PIK as an energy specialist with particular interest in climate strategies, policies and economics. At PIK, he is pursuing doctoral studies focusing his research on the role of inflexible carbon markets for climate change mitigation pathways. He is currently doing his research as part of the AMPERE Project.
Christian Flachsland		Christian Flachsland is post-doctoral researcher at PIK. His research interests include international climate policy, the design of policy instruments for climate mitigation, game theoretic analysis of climate policy, and the science-policy interface in climate policy. He is speaker of the 'climate policies' flagship activity of PIK research domain Sustainable Solutions.
Max Franks		Max Franks has studied Mathematics, Physics, and Economics in Regensburg, Berlin, and Berkeley. As a PhD student in Research Domain III he is involved in the CREW project within the Policy Instruments group.
Anastasis Giannousakis		Anastasis Giannousakis studied Chemical Engineering and did postgraduate studies on Numerical Methods and Computer Simulations. He is contributing to the work done at PIK as a Scientific Programmer, helping to optimize the algorithms and solver routines used for the solution of large-scale models (like REMIND) that are developed by the researchers.
Jérôme Hilaire		Jérôme Hilaire joined the Research Domain III in 2011 as a Post-Doc researcher. His research focuses on the functioning of the Green Paradox under various socio-economic, technology and policy assumptions. Previous work includes the quantification of the impacts of shipping emissions on tropospheric chemistry and climate as well as the modelling of Birch pollen dispersion.
Michael Jakob		Dr. Michael Jakob studied Physics, Economics, and International Relations. His PhD at PIK focused on the role of developing countries in climate policy. His research interest include development issues, international trade, and game theory. Currently, he is in charge of the project 'Entdeken'.
Fabian Joas		Fabian Joas is a doctoral student and guest scientist at PIK. His thesis focuses on greenhouse gas trading and taxation mechanisms which he analyses by applying transaction costs theory. The central question of his work is what can be learned from application of these instruments in industrialized countries, in particular from the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS), for their application in developing countries.
Matthias Kalkuhl		Matthias Kalkuhl studied Applied System Science at the University of Osnabrück. In his Diploma thesis he developed an integrated climate policy assessment model within the framework of dynamic game theory. At PIK he continues investigating the impacts of several climate policy measures on efficiency, welfare and income distribution.
David Klein		David Klein studied energy engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and is a PhD student at PIK. He works on the linking of energy system and land use models and the advancement of energy system models concerning concentrating solar power plants and biomass fed IGCC power plants.
Daniel Klingenfeld		Daniel Klingenfeld is pursuing doctoral sudies at PIK. Concurrently, he works for the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). His research focuses on the theoretical and practical relevance of global cap-and-trade frameworks as well as future implementation options and challenges building on the Copenhagen climate agreement.
Brigitte Knopf		Dr. Brigitte Knopf is a physicist and is currently coordinating a project on low stabilisation of CO2 emissions for the mitigation of climate change. Her main interest is the transformation towards a low carbon economy and its economic consequences and technological requirements. Additionally, she is interested in the interlinkage between climate change and equity.
Ulrike Kornek		Ulrike Kornek studied Physics at the University in Magdeburg. As a PhD student at PIK she joined the “Policy Instruments Modeling”-group and is interested in modeling cooperative climate policy using game theory.
Marian Leimbach		Dr. Marian Leimbach works on Integrated assessment of Climate change, Macro-economic modelling, Mathematical programming (with GAMS ) of large-scale systems and Endogenous economic growth and induced technical change.
Teresa Lenz		Teresa Lenz studied physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and joined PIK as a doctoral student in March 2011. She works on the linking between land-use models and macro-economic models.
Kai Leßmann		Dr. Kai Lessmann is a post-doctorate researcher at PIK. His research interests include the analysis of incentives for cooperative policy in the context of global public goods, and integrated assessment of climate change with a focus on economics and the choice of policy instruments. He is currently co-heading (with R. Marschinski) PIK’s working group on “Policy Instruments Modeling”.
Gunnar Luderer		Dr. Gunnar Luderer studied Physics, Atmospheric Sciences and Economics. His activities within research domain III include the analysis of climate policy instruments and integrated concepts of international climate policy.
Sylvie Ludig		Sylvie Ludig is a PhD student at PIK. She works on the intermittency problem of renewable energy sources and net integration. The focus of her work is on European electricity grids.
Robert Marschinski		Dr. Robert Marschinski is a Post-Doc researcher. The main focus of his work is on the economic analysis of (climate-) policy instruments, both at the international and national scale.
Jan Minx		Dr. Jan Minx obtained his doctorate in environmental economics from the University of York. His interests lie in the spatial aspects of climate policy, industrial and urban metabolism and the methodological development and integration of approaches of sustainability assessment.
Ioanna Mouratiadou		Ioanna Mouratiadou is a post-doctoral researcher at PIK, working on the assessment of climate change mitigation scenarios as part of the RoSE project. Previous research includes the analysis of climate change impacts and adaptation in Western Africa and the assessment of agricultural and nitrate pollution control policies.
Robert Pietzcker		Robert Pietzcker is a doctoral student at PIK working on the representation of capital inertia in hybrid energy-economic models, focusing on the example of decarbonizing the transport sector. Further research interests are Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), the effect of differing economic damage valuation on climate protection policies, and the modeling of load management and efficiency learning curves in energy models.
Franziska Piontek		Franziska Piontek is a postdoc at PIK, working on the assessment of impacts and costs of climate change, with a special interest in adaptation measures. She studied Physics at the University of Tübingen and obtained a Master's degree in Astronomy from the University of Maryland, USA. At the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam she wrote her PhD thesis in Astrophysics on the formation of disk galaxies. Franziska also holds a Master's degree in Peace and Security Studies from the University Hamburg, during which she focused especially on climate change and security.
Alexander Popp		Dr. Alexander Popp works in the field of land use, land use change and management. His main research objectives are potential and limitation of bioenergy, avoided deforestation in tropical countries for mitigation and vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate and land use change.
Thomas Präßler		Thomas Präßler is a doctoral student at PIK. His PhD thesis focuses on renewable energy policies and their interplay with carbon markets . He studied Business Administration at ESB Reutlingen and Dublin City University. Before joining PIK, he worked on energy and mitigation related projects with a global consultancy firm.
Lena Reuster		Lena Reuster works as a project manager and research associate for the research domain Sustainable Solutions. She holds a M.Sc. in Economics from TU Berlin and a B.Sc. in Economics from HU Berlin.
Niklas Roming		Niklas Roming received his diploma in economics from the University of Hohenheim and is a PhD candidate at PIK. He contributes to the further refinement of modelling macroeconomic relationships in ReMIND.
Eva Schmid		Eva Schmid is a PhD student at PIK. Her research focuses on developing low-carbon energy scenarios for Germany. Before joining the institute, she studied Econometrics (MSc) at the University Maastricht.
Jana Schwanitz		Dr. Valeria Jana Schwanitz joint the Research Domain "Sustainable Solutions" to work in AMPERE, an EU project with 22 world-wide partners. The project is about the assessment of climate change mitigation pathways and associated cost estimates. Jana has a background in theoretical physics and in environmental economics.
Jan Steckel		Jan Steckel studied economics and engineering with a special regard to energy and environmental management at the University of Flensburg. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis. Among other things he works on possibilities for a sector-based CDM in a post-Kyoto regime and its possible impacts on NIC economies, especially China.
Miodrag Stevanovic		Miodrag Stevanovic joined PIK as a PhD student in the Landuse Modeling group. He graduated mathematics at the University of Belgrade and has a master degree in economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His work is focused on assessing climate change damages and mitigation options in the agricultural sector. Currently, he is working on the project Global IQ.
Jessica Strefler		Jessica Strefler is a PhD student at PIK. She studied Physics and now works on non-CO2 emissions in energy systems.
Falko Ueckerdt		Falko Ueckerdt studied physics and economics. As a PhD student at PIK he deals with the question of how to integrate fluctuating sources of renewable energy into the power sector of energy systems.
Shuwei Zhang		Dr.Shuwei ZHANG joint the Research Domain "Sustainable Solutions" to work in climate mitigation modeling with the support of Humboldt Foundation. A native of China, Shuwei broadly focuses his research on assessing the economic costs and impacts of climate protection and energy conservation policies and new technologies in China. Shuwei has a background in engineering physics and energy system analysis, with expertise on CDM flexible mechanism, dynamics of transport and power sectors and energy use in China, acquired from the previous PhD study and work experience.

		Student assistants
Nora Wegener		Nora Wegener is supporting our administration team. She does literature research for papers, organize meetings and conferences and keeps contacts up to date.

		Guests
Hans-Martin Fuessel		Dr. Hans-Martin Füssel is a guest scientist at PIK. By training he is a systems scientist and applies climate-economy models to assess climate protection strategies under uncertainty. He works at the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen.
Hermann Held		Prof. Hermann Held, former co-chair of RD III, has been appointed professor at the University of Hamburg and is now a guest at our institute. His research focus is on the uncertainty analysis of climate projections within the context of mitigation strategies.
		Group "Biofuel as Social Fuel"
Wibke Avenhaus		Wibke Avenhaus studied Landscape Development and Applied System Science at the University of Osnabrück with a focus on modelling environmental systems. She is currently a PhD student working on the construction of a socio-economic model including ecological factors of the region Ribeirao Preto in Brazil to simulate different scenarios and to evaluate them on the basis of criteria of sustainable development.
Nico Grasselt		Nico Grasselt works at PIK in Research Domain III. He coordinates the research project "Biofuel as Social Fuel".
Felix Kaup		Felix Kaup is writing his PhD thesis as part of the research project “Biofuel as Social Fuel”. His interests are the development of economic indicators in order to evaluate sustainable economic processes as well as the comparison of different biofuel production technologies by applying opportunity cost theories. He has been working in various small-scale biofuel projects in Latin America and Southern Africa within the last years.
Anne Klinnert		Anne Klinnert is one of the research project student assistants. She finished her studies of Political Science (B.A.) and is currently enrolled in a Master Program in the field of Political Science at the University of Potsdam. Anne’s competences include literature research, writing and text editing.
Esther Laabs		Esther Laabs studied Geography, Economy and Environmental Protection at Philipps-University Marburg. Currently she is a PhD student and her research focuses on social economical and ecological conflicts resulting from biofuel production in Brazil. Her main interests are renewable energies, global value chains and company-networks.
Sabrina Mutz		Sabrina Mutz studied Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology and Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. Currently she is a PhD student and her research focuses on the economic, political, social and cultural transformations caused by increasing biofuel production - both in local and global ways - based on the case of Brandenburg.
Kirsten Selbmann		Kirsten Selbmann is director of the interdisciplinary research group “biofuel as social fuel”. Her work focuses on the social and ecological impacts of new (risk) technologies. From her academic background she is biochemist, political scientist and science journalist and finished her PhD thesis on political regulation of gene technology.
Sandra Venghaus		Sandra Venghaus studied Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University with a focus on renewable energies and energy management. She is currently finishing her PhD in the field of marketing and management on alternative automotive fuels and complex system innovations at the Leibniz University of Hannover. As assistant director of the research group, her focus is the socio-economic modelling of the project regions and their interdependency with global developmental dynamics and sustainability.
Katrin Wlucka		Katrin Wlucka is the administrative coordinator of this research project. She supports the team in organization, event management and scheduling as well as public relations.
Kerstin Mohr		Kerstin Mohr is one of the research project student assistants. She studies political science with a focus on international relations at the University of Potsdam. Before joining PIK she worked at the International Labour Organization and the Institute for European Politics. Kerstin is interested in state- and nationbuilding and European climate policy.