Dr. Thomas Bartoschek
Workshop on Citizen Science
Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster and founder and general director of the startups re:edu and openSenseLab. He holds a PhD in Geoinformatics with a research focus on environmental citizen science and learning with geotechnologies.
Jonathan Bonadio
Workshop on Sustainable Energy Governance
Jonathan coordinates SolarPower Europe’s policy work on the renewable energy directive and governance, permitting and local authorities. As part of the Land Use and permitting workstream, Jonathan coordinates work on spatial planning and the acceleration of permitting procedures.
Carolin Dähling
Panel Discussion
Deputy head of division for Energy Policy at Green Planet Energy eG.
Carolin Dählings main topics are hydrogen, biogas, wind energy and flexibility.
Prof. Dr. Mark Davis
Workshop on Financial Participation of Citizens – Practical examples
Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Leeds and Founding Director of The Bauman Institute. Main areas of expertise include besides other: Economic Sociology; Social Relations of Money and Finance; Net Zero Economies; Crowdfunding / P2P lending.
Lina Dubina
Workshop on Sustainable Energy Governance
Works as a Policy Advisor for Sustainability at SolarPower Europe. As part of the Land Use and Permitting Workstream, Lina Dubina coordinates work on agrivoltaics and floating PV and oversees several environment-related projects.
Hans-Josef Fell
Keynote & Discussion
Member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2013 and Author of the draft of the EEG 2000 and founder of the Energy Watch Group.
Dr. Swantje Gährs
Impulse from Junior Research Group: Exploring Complex Interrelationships in the Energy System
Expert on prosumerism and community energy, researcher at Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW).
Dr. Lars Holstenkamp
Panel Discussion
Expert on community energy, researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg and board member of ECOLOG – Institute for Social-Ecological Research and Education.
More information about Dr. Lars Holstenkamp at ECOLOG and Leuphana University
Jan Osenberg
Workshop on Financial Participation of Citizens – International framework conditions
Works as a Policy Advisor at SolarPower Europe. Responsible for rooftop solar, energy sharing, Electric Vehicle/Heat pump/Battery Energy Storage Solution integration, cyber security and data interoperability.
Ricardo Reibsch
Hands-on Workshop with PV plant
Expert on decentralized PV-battery storage systems, PhD candidate at the Reiner Lemoine Foundation Graduate School and the Department of Electrical Energy Storage Technology TU Berlin.
Dr. Steven Salecki
Workshop on Financial Participation of Citizens – Importance and Options
Researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW). The main focus of his work at the IÖW is on economic issues in the energy sector, such as economic evaluations and regional economic effects of renewable energy generation plants, sustainable energy systems and energy efficiency measures.
Kathrin Schwarz
Expert on Environmental impact analyses. She is working at the Competence Center for Nature Conservation and Energy Transition (KNE) as a consultant for Biodiversity in the Energy Transition.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Siebenhüner
Panel Discussion
Professor for Ecological Economics at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Main research interests: collective learning processes, ecological economics, climate adaptation, socio-ecological transitions, environmental governance, science-policy interface, transdisciplinarity.
Katharina Sieß
Simultation Game "Not in my backyard!"
Project Manager at Wissenschaft in Dialogue in the joint project "SciComm Energy Transition''. Katharina develops and implements dialogue-orientated formats by bringing researchers and the public together to discuss different aspects of the energy transition.
Malte Zieher
Panel discussion
Executive Board Bündnis Bürgerenergie. Committed to an energy supply based on 100 percent renewable energies owned by citizens.