Modelling

Expert Expertise
Prof. Dr. Karin Frank
Department of Ecological Modelling
Ecological modelling, social-ecological agent-based modelling

Analysis of drivers and impacts of energy-related land use change, evaluation of policy instruments
Prof. Dr. Andreas Huth Dr. Franziska Taubert
Department of Ecological Modelling
Dynamic modelling of vegetation systems (grasslands, forests)

Effects of species diversity, carbon-/ nitrogen-/water-balances, impacts of climate change and resource management
Dr. Martin Drechsler
Department of Ecological Modelling
GIS-based modelling, multi-criteria impact analysis, spatial optimization

Spatial allocation of energy infrastructures in landscapes
Dr. Marcus Eichhorn
Philip Tafarte
Department of Bioenergy
GIS-based modelling; energy system modelling

Mapping of renewable energy potentials; spatial organization of energy systems, their performance impacts and sustainability tradeoffs
Dr. Sinéad O’Keeffe
Department of Bioenergy
Life cycle assessment for regional bioenergy systems
Dr. Alberto Bezama
Department of Bioenergy
Systems analysis of bio-based technologies
Prof. Dr. Olaf Kolditz Dr. Uwe-Jens Görke
Department Environmental Informatics
Modelling and numerical simulation of multiphysics processes in porous media for energy-related subsurface applications; Computational Mechanics, High Performance Computing (HPC), data integration, visualization
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Haibing Shao
Department Environmental Informatics
Modelling of heat and mass transport and coupled reactive transport processes; coupled multiphysics models;

Application to deep and shallow geothermal energy