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Philipp Verpoort has been a postdoctoral researcher in Research Department 3 (Transition Pathways) since May 2021, where he is a member of Dr Falko Ueckerdt's team on Hydrogen, Electrification, and Industry Transformation. His current main research focus is trade with hydrogen and energy-intensive basic materials (steel, chemicals).
He is a physicist by training and previously completed a PhD in the Theory of Condensed Matter Group at the University of Cambridge, where he conducted research in solid-state physics, statistical physics, materials research, and artificial intelligence.
Please visit his personal website for more details and a list of publications.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
philipp.verpoort[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam
14412 Potsdam
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- Araidne — The research alliance Ariadne part of the Kopernikus projects funded by the German federal ministry of education and research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF). Ariadne guides a targeted learning process with policymakers, businesses, and society to develop viable options for shaping the energy transition in Germany. In Work Package 6 on hydrogen, industry, and value chains, we try to develop to a better understanding of the role that hydrogen value chains will play in defossilising energy-intensive hard-to-abate industries.
- HyValue — The Norwegian HyValue project is a research initiative focused on advancing hydrogen technologies and value chains. It aims to support Norway's transition to a low-carbon economy by developing efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable hydrogen production, distribution, and utilization methods. Key aspects include studying hydrogen storage, transport solutions, and integration with renewable energy sources, as well as assessing the economic and environmental impacts of hydrogen technologies. The project also promotes collaboration between academia, industry, and policymakers to ensure the findings contribute to Norway's energy goals and global hydrogen advancements. At PIK, we contribute to this with techno-economic research on value chains and integrated assessment modelling for scenarios of hydrogen deployment.
- Scenario Compass Initiative (SCI) — SCI is a global consortium bringing together leading organizations from the scientific scenario community and environmental advocates. Every year, hundreds of global and national scenarios are produced, offering detailed insights into future energy, land, economic, and climate systems. The aim of the consortium is to make the thousands of available scenarios more usable and accessible.
- UNEP-FI Sector Pathway Explorer — This project is organised by the Finance Initiative of the United Nations Environment Program and aims to advance the comparability of sector pathways for achieving 1.5C. The project has entered a second phase in fall 2024 to undertake the necessary groundwork to develop a tool which supports users in engaging with the sector pathway comparisons, specifically tailored to and developed with inputs from financial institutions and their target setting, investment decision making and risk assessment needs.
- Sino-German INTEGRATE project — Local air pollution control and climate change mitigation are timely and important challenges that are tackled not only in the international arena but also on national and regional level. Both aims can be approached with a number of interacting policy options that may contradict or complement each other. Only a well-coordinated set of policy instruments can avoid inconsistencies while leveraging synergies. The overarching objective of the research project INTEGRATE is identifying such a coordinated set for China and Germany based on an integrated economic analysis.
