President and Scientific Director, Wuppertal Institute

• Studied chemical and process engineering at the University of Dortmund
• From 1991 to 1993, doctoral studies in the field of energy technology and energy economics and research assistant at the University of Stuttgart
• From 1993 to 2006 held various positions at the Wuppertal Institute (including head of the research group “Future Energy and Mobility Structures”)
• Acting Director of the Wuppertal Institute from 2008 to 2010
• Vice President of the Wuppertal Institute from 2006 to 2020
• Since 2008 Associate Professor of the Department of Economics - Schumpeter School of Business and Economics at the University of Wuppertal
• Since 2020 President and Scientific Director of the Wuppertal Institute
• Lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the 6th and 5th Assessment Report and in the Special Report Renewable Energies
• Board member of the Johannes Rau Research Foundation (JRF)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Research Association for Renewable Energies (FVEE)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the “Energy Systems of the Future” (ESYS) project of the national science academies (acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering, Leopoldina and Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities)
• Member of the Sustainability Advisory Board of the state of NRW
• Board member of KlimaDiskurs.NRW e.V