Adrian Odenweller

Doctoral researcher at the Energy Systems Group, Research Department 3 Transformation Pathways, PIK. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gunnar Luderer, Dr. Falko Ueckerdt.

• Title: "The role of sector coupling for achieving the EU greenhouse gas reduction targets"
• Member of the Kopernikus Project Ariadne
• PhD scholarship from the German Federal Environmental Foundation, Programme "Environmental-social questions of the energy transition"

Former guest researcher (2016-2017) at BMBF Young Investigators Group CoSy-CC²: Complex Systems Approaches to Understanding Causes and Consequences of Past, Present and Future Climate Change, RD 4, PIK. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Reik Donner.

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Current highlight

New paper in Nature Energy on the market ramp-up of electrolysis for green hydrogen production. We show that green hydrogen suffers from short-term scarcity and long-term uncertainty if it grows as fast as wind and solar power have done, the growth-rate champions of the energy transition. These issues could be overcome by unconventionally high growth rates, experienced for certain technologies under specific circumstances in the past.

Also see: Guest Post in Carbon Brief using the new IEA Hydrogen Projects Database 2022.

Free view-only version here.

Publications

Work in progress / under review

• Y. Simsek, P. Vercoulen, A. Ball-Burack, Femke J. M. M. Nijsse, A. Odenweller, J.-F. Mercure: FTT:Power 2.0: A global simulation model of power technology diffusion with learning-by-doing and renewables integration.
• J. Biehl et al. (incl. A. Odenweller): Wicked facets of the German energy transition – examples from the electricity, heating, transport, and industry sectors. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2134870/v1
• C. Gong, F. Ueckerdt, R. Pietzcker, A. Odenweller, W.-P. Schill, M. Kittel, G. Luderer (2022): Bidirectional coupling of a long-term integrated assessment model with an hourly power sector model. Preprint:
  https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-885

Peer-reviewed

• A. Odenweller, F. Ueckerdt, G. F. Nemet, M. Jensterle, G. Luderer (2022): Probabilistic feasibility space of scaling up green hydrogen supply. Nature Energy, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01097-4
  
• A. Odenweller (2022): Climate mitigation under S-shaped energy technology diffusion: Leveraging synergies of optimisation and simulation models. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 178, 121568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121568
• L. Baumstark et al. (incl. A. Odenweller) (2021): REMIND2.1: transformation and innovation dynamics of the energy-economic system within climate and sustainability limits. Geoscientific Model Development, 14, 6571–6603. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6571-2021
  
• A. Odenweller & R. V. Donner (2020): Disentangling synchrony from serial dependency in paired-event time series. Physical Review E, 101(5), 052213. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.052213

Policy paper

• A. Odenweller, J. F. George, V. P. Müller, P. C. Verpoort, L. Gast, B. Pfluger, F. Ueckerdt (2022): Wasserstoff und die Energiekrise: 5 Knackpunkte. Ariadne-Analyse. https://ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/analyse-wasserstoff-und-die-energiekrise-funf-knackpunkte/
• R. Piria, J. Honnen, B. Pfluger, F. Ueckerdt, A. Odenweller (2021): Wasserstoffimportsicherheit für Deutschland - Zeitliche Entwicklung, Risiken und Strategien auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität. Ariadne-Analyse. https://ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/analyse-wasserstoffimportsicherheit-fuer-deutschland-zeitliche-entwicklung-risiken-und-strategien-auf-dem-weg-zur-klimaneutralitaet/
• F. Ueckerdt, B. Pfluger, A. Odenweller, C. Günther, M. Knodt, J. Kemmerzell, M. Rehfeldt, C. Bauer, P. Verpoort, H. C. Gils, G. Luderer (2021): Durchstarten trotz Unsicherheiten: Eckpunkte einer anpassungsfähigen Wasserstoffstrategie. Ariadne-Kurzdossier. https://ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/eckpunkte-einer-anpassungsfaehigen-wasserstoffstrategie/
• F. Ueckerdt, B. Pfluger, A. Odenweller (2021): "Kapitel 6: Wasserstoff und E-Fuels" in G. Luderer, C. Kost, D. Sörgel (Hrsg.), Deutschland auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität 2045: Szenarien und Pfade im Modellvergleich. Ariadne-Report. https://ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/deutschland-auf-dem-weg-zur-klimaneutralitat-2045-szenarienreport/

Short CV

• Since 09/2020: Doctoral researcher, RD3, PIK, Germany.
• 11/2022 - 12/2022: Visiting researcher, Melbourne Climate Futures, University of Melbourne, Australia.
• 06/2020 - 07/2020: Research Associate, Research Unit Sustainability & Global Change (FNU), University of Hamburg, Germany.
• 10/2017 - 04/2020: M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences, Cluster of Excellence CLICCS, University of Hamburg, Germany.
• 01/2018 - 03/2020: Research assistant, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Department: The Land in the Earth System, Global Vegetation Modelling Group, Hamburg, Germany.
• 10/2018-01/2019: Visiting researcher, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge, UK.
• 2017: Trainee, Macroeconomic Statistics Division, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2012 - 2017: B.Sc. Physics, University of Cologne, Germany. Thesis written at PIK.
• 2012 - 2016: B.Sc. Economics, University of Cologne, Germany.
• 2014: Semester abroad, Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary.
• 2011 - 2012: Enrolled in MEng Civil Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK.