We are pleased to announce that we are expanding our chair and will soon be hiring new staff as postdoc and scientific researchers. You can find the job postings on our internal job board.

We are very pleased to announce that Pierre-Antoine Sells joined our chair as an intern and Julian Wangert as a student assistant on March 1, 2026. Leon Rump is working with us as a research assistant since November 2025.The...

Registration for the 4th Climate, Energy and ESG Workshop, taking place at the University of Duisburg-Essen from March 24–27, 2026 is now open! The workshop brings together leading experts from academia, industry and policy to...

Prof. Dr. Weber ist neues Mitglied im Energiebeirat der Stadt Essen. Mittlerweile nehmen 29 Unternehmen und Institutionen teil – Start-Ups, etablierte Unternehmen und wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen. Der Beirat ist eine Plattform...

Lisa wurde für ihre Publikation "Investigating inefficiencies in the German rental housing market: The impact of disclosing total costs on energy efficiency appreciation" [1] ausgezeichnet. Wir gratulieren Lisa! Ihre Arbeit zeigt,...

The International Journal of Forecasting has appointed eleven new Associate Editors following an open call for applications. The International Journal of Forecasting holds such calls for applications annually in order to attract...

Paul Ghelasi has won the Best Paper Award at the International Ruhr Energy Conference (INREC 2025) with his presentation “A probabilistic merit order: a data-driven fundamental model for electricity price forecasting". A...

We congratulate our longtime employee Jonathan on archiving his doctorate! The topic of his doctorate: Data Science Methods for Forecasting in Energy and Economics. The dissertation deals with various approaches to forecasting...

We congratulate Paul Ghelasi  on receiving a DAAD scholarship for education and training abroad. As part of the scholarship, Paul will spend a period abroad at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. There he will...

Die Universität Duisburg-Essen ist der internationalen Forschungsplattform CRESYM – Collaborative Research for Energy System Modelling beigetreten. CRESYM ist ein gemeinnütziger Zusammenschluss führender europäischer Industrie-...

We are pleased to announce the appointment of  Wenzhen Huang  to our chair in terms of teaching and research.  Wenzhen Huang  will primarily be working on the EfeMOD project. The entire chair team warmly welcomes him and looks...

Florian Ziel and Paul Ghelasi have published a paper on medium to long-term electricity price forecasts in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Further information can be found under Publikationens. Click here for...