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Before joining the Climate Policy Lab, Tim Tröndle conducted research at the University of Cambridge, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, and the University of Leipzig. He has experience working with an energy start-up that developed Europe's commercial megawatt-scale battery storage plant. Currently, he is involved in research and teaching within the Climate Policy Lab and serves as Project Director for the non-profit organization Open Energy Transition. His team leads support the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) by performing flexibility needs assessments for the European electricity system. Tröndle's core research area is the political feasibility of the energy transition, focusing on assessing barriers to energy transition and policy instruments that can help overcome those barriers by addressing societal trade-offs and the plurality of opinions and lock-in effects. For instance, he has evaluated the trade-off between self-sufficiency and local landscape integrity and investigated citizens' decisions in this context. His work applies state-of-the-art quantitative methods in fields such as energy system modeling, Bayesian probabilistic models, and surrogate models, along with high-performance computing. Tröndle advocates for open, transparent, and reproducible research and employs methods derived from software engineering to produce high-quality scientific workflows.
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