Scientific profile – Research Clusters
The “Energy, Environment & Sustainability” Research Center’s aim is to examine the political, economic, social, and technological dimensions of the energy and environmental sector – and their interdependencies – as well as to analyze the approaches and effects of energy and environmental policy. In addition to pure research, the group plans to develop practical and process-oriented solution models for business, politics, and society.
The range of topics covered includes the research clusters “Socio-technical Interactions in Climate Protection,” “Climate Protection at the Interface Between Politics and Economics,” “Emotions and Standards for Sustainable Development,” “Sustainable Supply Chains,” “Climate Change, Financial Markets and Macroeconomics,” and “Smart Cities.”
Research Clusters
Climate Change, Financial Markets and Macroeconomics
- Integrating the EU ETS with energy and commodity markets
- Modeling European CO2 emissions
- Oil prices and exchange rates
- Mood indicators and energy prices
- Investor behavior and sustainable financial investments
- Price determination and volatility on financial markets in the context of emission certificates and energy prices
- Transition risk premiums in option prices
- Legacy hypotheses in the field of finance
- Sustainability flags for structured products
Climate Protection at the Interface between Politics and Economics
- CO2 pricing
- Communication and sustainability
- International environmental agreements and moral consumers
- The role of individuals and politics
- Environmental policy measures and their impact
- Protection of reliance in the energy sector
- Association lawsuits, citizen initiatives and protests against wind energy expansion
Emotions & Norms for Sustainable Development
- Acceptance of wind energy
- Attachment and emotional regulation in the context of sustainable consumption
- The influence of (moral) considerations and emotions on the acceptance of and protest against political measures
- Emotions and environmental protests
- Sentiments and energy prices
- The gap between attitude and behavior
- The phasing out of coal and compensation payments
- Supply chains with the participation of the Global South
Smart Cities
- Data platforms
- Digital services
- Sustainable traffic planning
- Use and habituation of information systems
- Open innovation and service design with active citizen participation
- Smart waste
- Smart mobility
- Data engineering for smart cities
- Adaptive systems for smart cities
Socio-technical Interactions in Climate Protection
- Willingness to transform, participation and acceptance
- Decision-making behavior in companies and private households
- Energy transition and transformation pathways towards CO2 neutrality
- Maturity, adoption and market diffusion of climate protection technologies
Sustainable Supply Chains
- Production and sequence planning
- Network design
- Modeling and development of solution algorithms
- Simulation-based performance assessment
- Assessing the sustainability of global supply chains
- Efficiency analysis and multi-criteria optimization
- Indicator-based performance evaluation and technology impact comparison
