Energy informatics expert Astrid Nieße appointed

Prof. Dr. Astrid Nieße has taken the post of Professor of Digitalized Energy Systems at the University of Oldenburg’s Department of Computing Science.

She was previously Professor of Energy Informatics at the University of Hannover. Nieße is also member of the board of the energy department at the university’s affiliated OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, where she was involved in setting up the department over a decade ago. Nieße studied biology and computer science at the University of Oldenburg and the Bremen University of Applied Sciences. After graduating in 2005, she worked with an Oldenburg startup before joining OFFIS in 2007.

She earned her PhD from the University of Oldenburg in 2015 with a thesis on the application of distributed algorithms for virtual power plants, and then took up the professorship in Hannover in 2018. Her research focuses on the digitalization of energy systems using self-organizing methods and software agents. At OFFIS, Nieße supervises application-oriented research projects in connection with the energy transition.