Dr. Falko Ueckerdt

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Secretariat
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Postfach 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam
Germany
Phone: +49 331 288 2687

Dr Falko Ueckerdt is a postdoctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and project leader of the START project.

Dr Ueckerdt works in international projects with researchers from all over the world, including China, USA, India, Europe and Australia. In the CD-links project (http://www.cd-links.org/), 10 national modeling teams and 3 global modeling teams cooperate with the aim of deriving coherent national and global low-carbon development pathways.

Since 2015, Dr Ueckerdt is part of the IEA advisory group on grid integration of variable renewables. In the past, he worked in energy planning for the International Renewable Energy Agency (2014/2015) and in e-mobility for the Boston Consulting Group (2009). He has been a contributing author to the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation of the IPCC (2011) and in 2016 he was a postdoctoral research scholar at the Hanley Sustainability Institute of the University of Dayton, Ohio (2016).

He has a background in physics and economics and conducts research and policy advice in the field of climate change mitigation, energy system transformation, wind and solar power integration as well as economic impacts of climate change.

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