Participants

The Academies’ Project “Energy Systems of the Future” assembles different disciplines. More than 100 specialists collaborate in an honorary capacity in the following five “sections”:

  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Natural Sciences
  • Law
  • Science and Engineering
  • Economics.


  • Dr. Dieter Franke
  • BGR - Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
  • Energy Resources
  • Head of Departement
  • Dr. Brigitte Knopf
  • Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
  • Secretary General
  • Prof. Dr. Ellen Matthies
  • Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
  • Institute of Psychology
  • Chair of Environmental Psychology
  • Chairholder
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Prof. Dr. Karen Pittel
  • ifo Institute - Leibnitz Institute for Economic Research / LMU Munich
  • ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Resources
  • Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Prof. Dr. Mario Ragwitz
  • Fraunhofer IEG Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems
  • Director
  • Co-Head working group Integrated power supply
  • Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn
  • Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
  • Department Structural Changes of the Technosphere
  • Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA)
  • Chair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems
  • Chairholder
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Prof. Dr. Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann
  • Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main
  • Faculty of Law
  • Chair in Public Law, Information Law, Environmental Law, Legal Theory
  • Chairholder
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Dr. Derk Swider
  • E.ON SE
  • Group Strategy, Foresight & Analytics
  • Vice President
  • Prof. Dr. Anke Weidlich
  • University of Freiburg
  • Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering - INATECH
  • Professor for Control and Integration of Grids
  • Co-Head working group Integrated power supply

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With the initiative “Energy Systems of the Future” (ESYS), acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities provide impulses for the debate on the challenges and opportunities of the German energy transition. The Academies’ Project assembles more than 160 experts from science and research to develop policy options for the implementation of a secure, affordable and sustainable energy supply. ESYS was launched in April 2013 and will be funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) until June 2024. For this project, acatech is the lead institution.

www.acatech.de
www.leopoldina.org
www.akademienunion.de