Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISICoordinator of Business Unit Energy Policy
Since March 2022, Dr. Niklas Reinfandt has been working as a researcher and project manager in the Business Unit Energy Policy of the Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets. Since April 2025, he has been Coordinator of the Business Unit Energy Policy.
His research areas include evaluation, design and analysis of various energy policy instruments and measures with a particular focus on energy efficiency. From May 2022 to August 2025, he was also a scientific advisor to the German Council of Experts on Climate Change, which focuses on greenhouse gas emissions trends and reaching the emission reduction targets in Germany.
Niklas Reinfandt studied chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with a focus on inorganic chemistry, polymer chemistry and transient absorption spectroscopy. From 2018 to 2022 he was a research fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. P. Roesky (KIT). He received his doctoral degree in 2021 with his work focusing on the organometallic chemistry of rare earth metals.