Participants

The Academies’ Project “Energy Systems of the Future” assembles different disciplines. More than 100 specialists collaborate in an honorary capacity in the following five “sections”:

  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Natural Sciences
  • Law
  • Science and Engineering
  • Economics.


  • Prof. Dr. Martin Kment
  • University of Augsburg
  • Chair for Public Law and European Law, Environmental Law and Planning Law Institute for Environmental Law
  • Law
  • University Professor and Head of Institute
  • Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Department of History and Social Sciences
  • Institute for Political Science
  • Jean Monnet Professor
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Kohl
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Institute for Applied Geosciences
  • Geothermics Division
  • Head
  • Prof. Dr. Klaus Kornwachs
  • Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
  • Chair for Philosophy of Technology
  • Emeritus
  • Working group Centralised vs. decentralised power supply
  • Dr. Christoph Kost
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE
  • Department Energy System Analysis
  • Energy Systems and Energy Economics
  • Head of Group
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen Kreusel
  • Hitachi Energy
  • Senior Vice President, Global Head of Market Innovation
  • Working group Centralised vs. decentralised power supply, and Resilience of Digitalized Energy Systems
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Krewer
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Institute for Applied Materials - Electrochemical Technologies (IAM-ET)
  • Head of Institute
  • Prof. Dr. Kora Kristof
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Digitalization and Sustainability
  • Vice President
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kröger
  • ETH Zurich
  • ETH Risk Center
  • Executive Director
  • Working group Centralised vs. decentralised power supply, and Digitalisation in the energy System

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In the “Energy Systems of the Future” (ESYS) initiative, energy experts from academia and corporate research departments work in interdisciplinary working groups to develop ideas and options for action for implementing a secure, affordable and sustainable energy supply. ESYS is a joint initiative of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering (lead), the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. ESYS was launched in April 2013 is and funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.

www.acatech.de
www.leopoldina.org
www.akademienunion.de