Sebastian Zwickl-Bernhard
Sebastian is a research associate at the Energy Economics Group (EEG). He holds a master's degree in Energy Engineering and Automation Technology (2020) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2023), both from TU Wien. He joined EEG already in 2018 as a teaching assistant. Currently, he is working on open-source modeling to address the challenges of decarbonizing the energy system in the context of sustainable energy transition scenarios and is significantly involved in teaching and supervision of bachelor and master students. Since 2022, he has also a position as researcher in the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management (IØT) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Milestones
- 10/2023
- Faculty Award (Doctoral Thesis), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Wien
- 07/2023
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, TU Wien
- 06/2023 — 08/2023
- Research Stay to the University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business
- 06/2022 — 09/2022
- Research Stay to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- 06/2021 — 08/2021
- Research Fellow, Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- 09/2020
- Faculty Award (Master Thesis), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Wien
- 05/2020 — date
- Research Associate at EEG, TU Wien
Projects
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2023
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2027
- iDesignRES
Integrated Design of the Components of the Energy System to Plan the Uptake of Renewable Energy Sources: An Open Source Toolbox
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2022
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2025
- FLXenabler
Flexible heating and cooling and geothermal energy storage as an enabler for decarbonized integrated energy systems
