Dr. Christine Gschwendtner

Christine Gschwendtner conducted her PhD at SusTec from 2019 to 2022. Her research focused on the decarbonization of transport and energy systems. Her dissertation investigates how low-carbon technologies can be integrated across sectors to achieve flexible electricity demand. Her work focused on sector coupling with heterogeneous behavioral aspects of technology integration, long-term planning with different technology diffusion stages, and both spatial and temporal considerations. She was particularly interested in the interaction between the transport and the electricity system, including mobility behavior, demand response, and urban systems. She developed an agent-based model with an interdisciplinary perspective on driving and charging behavior of electric vehicles.

Christine holds a Master of Science in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Munich. She spent an academic year at the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge during her Bachelor's degree and conducted a 6-month research stay at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during her PhD.