Julia Kunkel

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Department for Ecological Modeling

Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Building 1.0, Room 202

Phone.: +49 341 235- 1748
Fax.: +49 341 235- 451748

julia.kunkel@ufz.de

Julia

Research Interests

  • Comparing different designs for climate risk insurances
  • Investigating the sustainability of grassland management options
  • Assesing the impact of policy instruments on agriculture
  • Incorporating human behaviour into socio-ecological models
  • Identification of valuable business strategies on energy markets

    CV

    10/2017-09/2023 Diploma Business Mathematics
    University of Leipzig
    Thesis: "Balancing reserve activation in energy system models: Methodology development including performance and robustness evaluation of selected numerical solving techniques"
    since 04/2022 PhD Student
    Department of Ecological Modeling within the working group POLISES
    Exploring the impact of insurance products on grassland farmer's behaviour in cooperation with ETH Zurich and iDiv within the project InsuranceGrass
    10/2020-12/2021 Research Assistant
    Chair for Energy Management and Sustainability at University of Leipzig within the H2-Flex project
    10/2019-03/2022 M.Sc. Sustainability Management
    University of Leipzig
    Thesis: "Balancing reserve activation in energy system models: Methodology development including performance and robustness evaluation of selected numerical solving techniques."
    08/2019-01/2020 Exchange Semester Environmental Engineering
    Tongji University Shanghai
    10/2014-09/2017 B.Sc. Business Mathematics
    University of Bayreuth
    Thesis: "Optimale Diplomatie in mehrdimensionalen
    Meinungsräumen und die zwölf Geschworenen"
    Beside research
    		 Working student
    TenneT TSO GmbH
    European Energy Exchange AG