Frithjof Staiß, Prof.

Managing Director of the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and Head of Energy Policy and Energy Carriers Division

Personal details:

Prof. Dr. Frithjof Staiß has been the Managing Director of the ZSW since 2007 and is the head of the institute’s Energy Policy and Energy Carriers Division. He graduated in Business Administration and Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and earned a doctoral degree in 1989 on the integration of wind energy into electricity supply systems.

From 1989-2007 Prof. Staiß worked at ZSW as a scientist and as the head of the Systems Analysis Department on potential and market analyses for renewable energies, energy scenarios, market introduction strategies and the implementation of funding instruments.

He has published numerous books on these subjects and is teaching as an honorary professor at the Department of Law and Economics of the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Moreover, he provides policy consulting to the federal government and the regional government of Baden-Württemberg, e. g. as a member of the German government’s independent expert commission for the monitoring process “Energy of the Future” and as a member of the Baden-Württemberg government’s advisory council for sustainable development.