Researcher
Dr. Michael Stecher has been working as a researcher and project manager in the Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI since 2023. Previously, he worked as a research associate at the Chair of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Freiburg, where he completed his doctorate on »Causal attribution in ecosystems with tipping points«.
Michael Stecher works in scientific research and political consultancy projects at a national and international level. The focus of his work is on the evaluation and further development of the market design of different energy markets in the course of the transformation to a climate-neutral energy and economic system. He focuses on the design of auctions and support instruments for renewable electricity and hydrogen using a wide range of qualitative assessment methods and quantitative statistical methods.
He studied International Business Administration (B.A.) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Victoria, Canada, as well as Economics (M.Sc. and B.Econ.) at the University of Tübingen and the University of Adelaide, Australia.