Dr Falko Ueckerdt

Falko Ueckerdt is a senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and leads the team National Energy Transitions. He leads or works in national and international research projects with researchers from all over the world, including China, USA, India, Europe and Australia. Dr Ueckerdt is part of two IEA advisory groups, on system integration of variable renewables and on projected costs of generation. He was/is a contributing author to the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation of the IPCC (2011) and the Sixth Assessment Report (current).

In the past, Falko Ueckerdt was a postdoctoral research scholar at the Hanley Sustainability Institute of the University of Dayton, Ohio (2016), worked in energy planning for the International Renewable Energy Agency (2014/2015) and in e-mobility for the Boston Consulting Group (2009). Falko Ueckerdt studied physics at the Humboldt University Berlin and did his PhD at PIK (on renewable system integration) supervised by Ottmar Edenhofer, Bob Brecha and Gunnar Luderer.

Falko Ueckerdt has a background in physics and economics and conducts research and policy advice in the field of climate change mitigation and energy system transformation, particularly on wind and solar power integration, sector coupling, electrification, hydrogen and efuels.