The Founders

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

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