Our research focuses on the development and design of pioneering Energy Systems that comply with the qualities of Sustainability and Resilience.
Methods and Tools
Methods and tools
In the field, energy systems are designed around the guiding properties of resilience: resistance, improvisational capability, adaptability and innovation capability. In particular, technical, economic and social aspects are considered. Methodologically, modeling and simulation, vulnerability and risk analysis, methods of social science empiricism and stakeholder-based evaluation approaches are used. Methods of classical technology assessment (e.g. Life cycle assessment, risk assessment, toxicology, cost/benefit analysis, scenario technology), which are further developed in the respective examination framework, up to the mission statement-oriented technology design. Agent-based models, backed by social science empiricism and environmental psychological theory, enable the development of digital decision support tools.
The resilience approach to the design and development of technologies is understood as a bionic approach, in the sense of "learning from nature".