Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg und DIW Berlin
Vortragstitel: „Klima, Mensch und Energie”

Short Bio:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert leitet seit 2004 die Abteilung Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) und ist Professorin für Energiewirtschaft und Energiepolitik an der Leuphana Universität. Sie ist Ko-Vorsitzende im Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen beim Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit, sowie im Präsidium der deutschen Gesellschaft des Club of Rome; Kemfert gehört zu den renommiertesten ihres Faches. Sie ist Autorin von über 600 Veröffentlichungen, darunter mehrere Bücher. Im Frühjahr 2023 erschien ihr Buch „Schockwellen“(Campus Verlag), im Jahr 2024 das Buch „Unlearn CO2“ (Ullstein Verlag) und im März 2026 das Buch "Kurzschluss"(Campus Verlag) (www.claudiakemfert.de). 

Prof. Dr. Anke Weidlich

Universität Freiburg
Vortragstitel: „Herculean coordination: Grid operations under high variable renewable penetration”

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Prof. Dr. Anke Weidlich ist seit 2017 Professorin für Technologien der Energieverteilung an der Universität Freiburg und forscht dort im Bereich Energiesystemanalyse an der Schnittstelle von Stromnetzen und Strommärkten. Sie ist Mitglied in mehreren relevanten Gremien der Energieforschung und -praxis wie der Expertenkommission zum Energiewende‑Monitoring, dem Energie-Forschungszentrum Niedersachsen, dem Direktorium der Akademieninitiative "Energiesysteme der Zukunft" (ESYS) oder dem Beirat zum 8. Energieforschungsprogramm des BMWE.

Prof. Dr. Johann Lilliestam

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Vortragstitel: „Modern Climate Policy: Transition and technology policy for net-zero emissions by 2050”

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Johan Lilliestam is Professor of Sustainability Transition Policy at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focus is policies, strategies and instruments for a transition to a completely renewable energy system, including the effects of interactions between different energy policies. His work is strongly interdisciplinary, rooted in transition studies and political science. He is a European Research Council grantee, and Lead Author for Energy Systems in the ongoing Assessment Report of the IPCC.
Before joining FAU, he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University Potsdam and the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, and Assistant Professor of Renewable Energy Policy at the ETH Zürich.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lehnhoff

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Vortragstitel: „Grid Stability Is Easy. Humans Are Hard. Trust and Opinion Dynamics in the Energy Transition”

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Sebastian Lehnhoff is Professor of Energy Informatics at the University of Oldenburg, CEO of OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, and spokesperson of the Energy Research Centre of Lower Saxony. His work sits at the intersection of computer science, energy systems, and society – ranging from AI and digital twins to the resilience of critical infrastructures. Beyond research projects, he is active in scientific academies, supervisory boards, and open-source initiatives for the energy sector. And somehow, between all the management responsibilities, he still finds time for what he enjoys most: being curious, understanding complex systems, and shaping the future.

Assistant Professor Christina Papadimitriou

Universität Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Vortragstitel: „Orchestrating Citizen-Centred Energy Communities: Balancing Decarbonization and Privacy”

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Dr. Christina Papadimitriou is an assistant professor with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) on intelligent energy systems since 2022. She has received her diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece as well her PhD degree on control of dispersed generation for their integration into microgrids (research excellence grant).  In this context, she has managed and coordinated European and National projects on her main research interests that is smart grids planning and operation for flexibility harvesting of the integrated grid. She has been the technical coordinator of eNeuron project H2020 (this speech will be based on) while she leads the DIgiRES project under CETPartnership and she is currently  the chair of  EU BRIDGE initiative -Working Group on Business models.

Professor Martha Roggenkamp

Universität Groningen (RUG)
Vortragstitel: „The North Sea as a source for energy transition”

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Martha Roggenkamp is Professor of Energy Law at the University of Groningen (RUG) and a leading expert in Dutch, European, and international energy law. She was the first professor of energy law in the Netherlands and has played a major role in research and regulation topics. 
 

Professor Christian Zuidema

Universität Groningen (RUG)
Vortragstitel: „Energy transition in dense contested spaces, towards inclusivity and area based thinking”

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Christian Zuidema is Full Professor at the University of Groningen, holding the chair on Planning for Sustainable Transformation. His work concentrates on the relationship between space, spatial planning and energy transition, focussing mostly on institutional processes and innovation required for spatial energy planning. He has contributed to over a dozen (inter)national research projects on these subjects. He has published in a variety of international journals, on topics related to integrated energy planning, marine spatial planning, offshore energy transitions and spatial energy modelling. 

Assistant Professor Jesse Hoffman

Utrecht University
Vortragstitel: „Realigning energy transitions with the goals for a just and human world.”

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Jesse Hoffman is assistant professor at the Urban Futures Studio (UFS) and the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. Jesse studies the politics of sustainability transitions, with a particular interest in the politics of large-scale infrastructures and ecosystems and the imagination of the future. He has an interest in transformative, practice-oriented pedagogies and research approaches. In 2021 Jesse and his teaching team were awarded the Dutch Higher Educational Premium for the innovative ‘Mixed Classroom’ and ‘Museum of the Future Past’ concepts. In 2018 he was a curator of the exhibition Places of Hope as a part of Leeuwarden Cultural Capital.