Energy, Transportation, Enviroment Department Team

Claudia Kemfert

Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert has been head of the Department of Energy, Transport and Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004 and is Professor of Energy Economics and Energy Policy at Leuphana University. Until 2019, she was Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance (HSoG). From 2004 to 2009, she held the...

Franziska Holz

Franziska Holz is Deputy Head of the Department Energy, Transportation, and Environment and coordinates the research area Resource and Environmental Markets in the department. Her research deals with various aspects of the decarbonisation of international and European energ markets, with a focus on the markets for natural gas, coal, oil, and hydrogen. She also works on the Social-Ecological...

Heike Link

Heike Link is Head of the Transportation Research Team. She joined DIW in 1992 after studies in Mathematical Economics and a PhD thesis on dynamic input-output models. Her research interest is the econometric analysis of issues mainly in transport infrastructure. Heike has been in charge for a variety of national and international research and consultancy projects on infrastructure issues, the...

Wolf-Peter Schill

Wolf-Peter Schill is leading the research area “Transformation of the Energy Economy” in the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). After studying environmental engineering at TU Berlin and Macquarie University Sydney, he obtained a doctoral degree in energy economics at TU Berlin. His research focuses on renewable energy, energy...

Elisabeth Asche

Lukas Barner

Lukas is a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2024. He graduated in Industrial Engineering (B.Sc./M.Sc.) at the Technical University of Berlin. His research interests are in the field of energy economics, with a focus on quantitative modeling of infrastructure systems.

Astrid Cullmann

Astrid Cullmann is senior researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, and Environment. Her research deals with productivity and regulation of public sector firms. She focuses on municipal state-owned firms in the energy and water sector. Astrid is also Senior Lecturer at the Chair of Econometrics and Business Statistics at TU Berlin. She studied Economics at Free University Berlin and...

Hella Engerer

Adeline Guéret

Adeline Guéret is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the DIW Graduate Center and the Technical University of Berlin. Her research focuses on the energy transition, in particular the effects of sector coupling between the electricity and transport sectors. Methodologically, she works with electricity system models and open source tools. Before joining the Graduate Center, she worked as...

Dana Kirchem

Dana Kirchem joined the research group ‘Transformation of the Energy economy’ within the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment in September 2021. Her dissertation at the University College Dublin and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Dublin dealt with the modelling of energy demand flexibility in integrated energy-water systems. Prior to her PhD, Dana studied Economics at...

Martin Kittel

Martin is a research associate and postdoctoral researcher in the Department Energy, Transportation, Environment. His work addresses the decarbonization of the energy system, focusing on flexibility options in the electricity sector, sector coupling, hydrogen, and the challenges of integrating variable renewable energy sources, especially during extended periods of low wind and solar generation (...

Alexander Roth

Alexander is a postdoctoral research associate in the department of energy, transportation, environment. He works on the decarbonization of the energy sector, using numerical and empirical methods. His research focuses on power market flexibilities, sector coupling, such as heat, and societal challenges of the energy transition. He obtained his PhD in economics from the Technische Universität...

Adrián Santonja di Fonzo

Adrián is a Ph.D. student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and the University of Potsdam since October 2020. He obtained both his Master's and Bachelor's degree at the University of Mannheim. Adrián's research interests lie in the fields of climate and environmental economics, applied microeconometrics and policy evaluation. His current research focuses on the analysis of causes and effects of...

Laura Schmitz

Laura joined the Energy, Transport, Environment department as a postdoctoral research associate in July 2023. She conducts research at the intersection of environmental and social policy, with a particular interest in the effects of air pollution on citizen's lives, including their health and human capital. Previously, Laura completed her PhD at FU Berlin and DIW's Graduate Center and worked in...

Caroline Stiel

Caroline Stiel is a research associate at DIW Berlin. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, firm productivity, public infrastructure services, and new advances in empirical methods. Caroline Stiel received her PhD in November 2018 from Technische Universität Berlin. Her dissertation analyses the productivity of municipal energy and water utilities in Germany in the light of liberalisation, the...

Lara Walther