Yannick Perez joins the UFZ Department of Economics as an ENERGY-TRANS guest professor

Y. Perez

Starting from September 2015, Yannick Perez has joint the UFZ Department of Economics as a guest professor for one year. His guest professorship is funded by the Helmholtz Alliance ENERGY TRANS. Together with UFZ economists Yannick Perez will carry out research on the regulation of renewable energy technologies, electricity markets and electricity networks.

Yannick Perez is Associate Professor of Economics at the University Paris-Sud and at Centrale Supélec. Since October 2008, he is also chief economic advisor of the Loyola de Palacio Chair on European Energy Policy at the European University Institute in Florence. In February 2012, he joined the Armand Peugeot research chair on Electromobility as a Senior Research Fellow. His research focusses on electricity market design, using methods from industrial organization and microeconomics.

The Helmholtz Alliance ENERGY-TRANS is a five-year (2011-2016) research programme that investigates the systemic interactions between technology, organisation and behaviour in context of the Germany energy transition. The emphasis is on the demand side of energy systems and focuses on user needs, integrated scenario building, innovation diffusion, infrastructure planning and risk governance. The research team investigates the interfaces between technical and societal factors that significantly influence the prospects for the envisioned transformation process.

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