Christine Brandstätt is a researcher at the Bremer Energie
Institut, a scientific institute investigating and advising on
issues concerning energy economics and energy politics. She
contributes to the institute's research focus on energy
economics and market design and is currently engaged in
integration of renewable energy and smart grids.
As a collaborator in the research project Innovative
Regulation for Intelligent Networks, which receives funding
from the German Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology, she pursues research on incentive structures to
efficiently support the development of smart grids in energy
networks. Her interests include sustainable energy supply,
energy policy, market design, and regulation. She previously
collaborated in the EU project, Sustainable Energy
Management Systems, investigating the requirements for
sustainable energy supply at the community level.
Mrs. Brandstätt received her undergraduate degree in
industrial engineering and environmental planning from the
University of Applied Sciences in Trier, Germany, and holds
masters in management and engineering of the environment
and energy from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Spain; Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France; and Kungliga
Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm, Sweden.
Gert Brunekreeft is Professor of Energy Economics at
Jacobs University Bremen in Germany and Director of the
Bremer Energie Institut. Before joining Jacobs University, he
was a Senior Economist at EnBW AG and held research
positions in applied economics at Tilburg University, the
University of Cambridge, and Freiburg University. He is
associate researcher to a number of research centers and is
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