Dr. Jakob Wachsmuth

Coordinator of Business Unit Renewable Energies

He studied mathematics with a specialization in mathematical physics at the University of Bonn. From 2006 to 2010, he was a research associate at the University of Tübingen, where he acquired his ph.d. in 2010 (supervisor Prof. Dr. Stefan Teufel). From 2010 to 2014, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Sustainability Research at University of Bremen. From 2014 to 2015, he was the managing director of the Smart Grids-Platform Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Since May 2015 he has been working as a senior researcher and since September 2024 as Coordinator of the Business Unit Renewable Energies at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in the Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets. 

His work focus is:

  • evaluation of targets and instruments in climate policy
  • design of support schemes, in particular the EU Innovation Fund
  • analysis and design of energy system scenarios and transformation pathways
  • hydrogen market uptake and transformation of gas infrastructures