Hünteler, Jörn

Joern Huenteler joined Prof. Volker Hoffmann’s Chair of Sustainability and Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, for his doctorate studies in April 2011. He investigates the influence of policy support on innovation and industrial performance in the renewable energy sector.

Joern holds a diploma degree in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and a M.Sc. in Engine Thermophysics from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). Furthermore, he spent time at Seoul National University (South Korea), and Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand).

Besides his studies, Joern gained practical experience working with Jöst (Dülmen, Germany), IHI Corporation in Yokohama, the German Technological Cooperation (GTZ) in Beijing, the Institute of Automatic Control and the Technology and Innovation Management Group at RWTH Aachen.

He received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Chinese Ministry of Education and the state North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW Stipendium).

Joern serves as reviewer for Energy Policy.

Publications:

• Hünteler J., Schmidt T.S., Kanie N.: "Japan's post-Fukushima Challenge - Implications from the German Experience on Renewable Energy Policy" (viewpoint) Energy Policy 45 (2012) 6-11 (link)

• Yang M.; Zheng X.; Bamba T.; Tamaki H.; Huenteler J.; Li Z. (in press): Stability Improvement of High-Pressure-Ratio Turbocharger Centrifugal Compressor by Asymmetric Flow Control - Part I: Non-Axisymmetric Flow in Centrifugal Compressor; ASME Journal of Turbomachinery Abstract

• Zheng X.; Huenteler J.; Yang Y.; Zhang Y.; Bamba T. (2010); Influence of the Volute on the Flow in a Centrifugal Compressor of a High Pressure Ratio Turbocharger; Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A, Journal of Power and Energy 224(8) 1157-1169. This paper has been awarded the SAGE Best Paper Award 2010 and the full text is available here.