Jakob Napiontek

Jakob Napiontek is doctoral researcher in the FutureLab Social Metabolism and & Impacts and in the Working Group Cities: Data Science and Sustainable Planning.

Jakob Napiontek studied physics and industrial ecology in Berlin, Santa Barbara, Leiden and Delft. He joined the FutureLab Social Metabolism & Impacts in 2021, first as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Helga Weisz and since December 2023 as a PhD student. His research focuses on high-resolution spatial and socio-economic modeling of climate change mitigation, with a focus on residential buildings and the distributional impacts of the energy transition, for Germany and Europe. His PhD is supervised by Prof. Dr. Helga Weisz, Head of the FutureLab Social Metabolism and Impacts, and Prof. Dr. Felix Creutzig, Head of the Working Group Cities: Data Science and Sustainable Planning and Chair of Sustainability Economics at the Technische Universität Berlin. Jakob Napiontek is co-president of the Student Section of the International Society for Industrial Ecology.