Dr. Elisabeth Dütschke

Coordinator of the Business Unit Actors and Social Acceptance in the Transformation of the Energy System

Dr. Elisabeth Dütschke studied psychology, business administration and marketing. For her PhD thesis she received an award from Südwest Metall as an outstanding contribution to research. Further work experience include consulting of private and public organizations and journalism as well as university lectures. Since June 2009 at the Fraunhofer ISI as senior scientist and since March 2019 coordinator of the Business Unit Actors and Social Acceptance in the Transformation of the Energy System. She has been an Associate Editor at the Journal Energy Research & Social Science since 2023 and a Co-Editor of the Zeitschrift Umweltpsychologie from 2018-2023. Her work focuses on the human perspective on a changing energy system. She is the main contact for societal issues around the energy transition for the institute.