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.-Ing. Thomas Jordan
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Institute for Thermal Energy Technology and Safety
  • Head of the Hydrogen Group
  • Dr. Witold-Roger Poganietz
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)
  • Research Group "Sociotechnical Energy Futures"
  • Head
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg / Director of Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy
  • Lehrstuhl für Chemische Reaktionstechnik
  • Head of institute, director
  • Dr. Kirsten Westphal
  • Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
  • German Institute for International and Security Affairs
  • Research Division Global Issues
  • Senior Associate

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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 December 2023. For this project, acatech is the lead institution.

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