I am a socio-economist and technology researcher dedicated to working towards a speedy and just sustainable energy transition. My work mainly concerns energy innovations, digitalization, infrastructure, critical raw materials, and advanced materials, as well as political economy issues such as power centralization and oligopolies. My research focuses on the risks and opportunities posed by contemporary challenges, particularly the hard-to-crack structural ones, which I believe to be both social and technical.
My toolbox includes quantitative methods such as econometrics or risk modelling and qualitative methods such as interviews and policy analysis.
I provide consultancy to policymakers, including ministries as well as the European and Austrian Parliaments, offering insights into emerging technologies.
Until recently, at the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, I conducted basic research on the co-evolution of energy technologies and infrastructure and their societal consequences. I have been on leave since April.
I teach at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business a regular undergraduate course on energy transitions.
Recent and upcoming presentations
06/2025: 3rd CiRCLETECH Summer School, University of Miskolc, Hungary
- invited talk on the geopolitics of critical raw materials
06/2024 TA24, Annual Conference of the Institute of Technology Assessment, Vienna, Austria
04/2024 European Parliament, Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA)
11/2023 University of Stuttgart, Department “Sociology of Technology, Risk and Environment”
- invited talk in departmental seminar on “Blackout prevention in Austria”