since 2011

E.ON AG, Düsseldorf, Germany

Commercial Analysis Global Commodities and Economics. Commercial Operations & Analysis Directorate.

2007 - 2010

E.ON Ruhrgas AG, Essen, Germany

Market Analysis and Market Forecasts. Gas Business Steering and Strategy Directorate.

2001 - 2007

Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy.

2000 - 2001

VEAG Vereinigte Energiewerke AG, Berlin, Germany

Internship. Corporate Development Department.

1998 - 1999

The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Research Assistant. Mechanical Engineering Department.

1998

Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany

Internship. Product Management of Steam Power Plants Department.

2001 - 2005

Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Dissertation (Ph.D.), "Trading on Markets for System Reserves and Spot Energy".

1995 - 2001

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Diploma (M.S.), Energy Engineering, emphasized Energy Economics.

2001 - 2007

Financial support of the European Commission, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and others for various research projects.

1998 - 2006

Scholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Research Foundation for study and conference stays in Auckland, Boston, Montreal and Zurich.

2006

Theodor-Wessels-Prize for outstanding dissertations in Energy Economics and Energy Policy (awarded biennially). Cf. note and article in Stuttgarter unikurier No. 99 1/2007.

2003

Young Scientist Best Student Paper Prize at the 3rd International Conference on Energy Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

1997

Philotherm-Prize for being best student in Thermodynamics at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany (awarded biannually).

2003 - 2007

Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy.

1998 - 2000

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Institute of Process Technology.

• Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, ISSN 1687-9724.
• Applied Thermal Engineering, ISSN 1359-4311.
• Computers & Operations Research, ISSN 0305-0548.
• Energy, ISSN 0360-5442.
• Energy Economics, ISSN 0140-9883.
• Energy Policy, ISSN 0140-9883.
• IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, ISSN 0885-8977.
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, ISSN 1089-778X.
• IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, ISSN 1751-8687.
• IET Renewable Power Generation, ISSN 1752-1416.
• International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, ISSN 0142-0615.
• International Journal of Global Energy Issues, ISSN 0954-7118.
• International Journal of Production Economics, ISSN 0925-5273.
• International Journal of Thermal Sciences, ISSN 1290-0729.
• Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, ISSN 1387-3954.
• Utilities Policy, ISSN 0957-1787.
• Wind Energy, ISSN 1095-4244.

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, since 2006.
• International Association for Energy Economics, IAEE, since 2005.
• German Society for Energy Economics and Policy, GEE, since 2005.
• Society of German Engineers, VDI, since 1995.