The Founders
Dr. Helmuth-M. Groscurth
Managing Director
- Since 2005: Managing the arrhenius Institute
- Since 2004: Independent adviser for energy and environmental issues
- 1999-2003: Head of the department "Energy Concept Future" of the Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke AG (Hamburg Electricity Works, HEW)
- Development of new business fields concerning the envrionment and climate change
- Emissions trading and environmental risk management
- Renewable energy sources and new energy systems
- Coordinator "Emissions trading" for Vattenfall Europe
- 1995-1998: Project Manager Research Deparment "Environmental and Resource Economics, Logistics" of the Center for European Economic Research (Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, ZEW) in Mannheim
- Study of physics at the Universities of Würzburg and Albany, New York
- Dissertation on energy optimization models
Dr. Sven Bode
Head of Research
- 2005: Co-Founder of the arrhenius Institute
- 2000-2003: Co-worker on projects of the "Energy Concept Future" of the Hamburg Electricity Works (Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke, HEW)
- 2000-2006: Researcher at the Hamburg Institute for International Economics (Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv, HWWA)
- Consulting of decision makers on energy and climate policy
- Member of the secretariat of the Working Group Emissions Trading (Arbeitsgruppe Emissionshandel, AGE) at the German Environment Ministry (2001 bis 2003)
- Support of developing countries during the implementation of the Framework Convetion on Climate Change (FCCC)
- Expert reviewer for special reports of the IPCC
- More than 40 publication in refereed and other international journals
- 2004: Doctorate in environmental economics of the University of Hamburg
Topic: "On the Design of the International Climate regime“ - 2000: Diploma as economic engineer of the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg