Dr. Jan Wohland
Dr. Jan Wohland
Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Systems Science
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Research area
My work sits at the interface between climate and energy science. Combining data analysis and quantitative modeling, I am interested in questions like:
- How do we decarbonize energy systems while simultaneously minimizing climate and weather related risks?
- Can we improve the representation of climate variability in power system optimization as well as in investment decisions?
- What is the relative importance of climate change and climate variability in energy system decarbonization?
I am a fellow at the interdisciplinary network of early-career researchers das junge ZiF, and a co-organizer of the Next Generation Challenges in Energy-Climate Modeling workshops.
I have a background in physics - with a focus on climate physics - and hold degrees from the Humboldt University Berlin, University of Potsdam and the University of Cologne. I began to analyze the impact of climate variability and climate change on renewable power generation in Europe during my PhD studies at the Research Center Jülich (2016-2019) and have continued to address related questions in the last years. In 2019, I won an ETH postdoctoral fellowship (2019-2021) to tackle multidecadal fluctuations in renewable energy potentials in the climate policy lab. After a year at the Climate Service Center in Hamburg, I returned to ETH in 2023 as part of the interdisciplinary SPEED2ZERO project, where I will address energy-sector climate risk further.
Additional information
For my publications (almost all of them are open access), please see my Orcid or google scholar profiles.
If you are interested in writing your master theses on renewables and climate, feel free to send me an email. If time allows, I am always keen to work with students.