Data Science in Energy and Environment

Welcome to the Chair of Data Science in Energy and Environment. The research group has been led by Florian Ziel since February 2017. Our research focuses on the development and application of modern methods in statistics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) to address complex challenges in the energy and environmental sectors.

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Fri, 09. May 2025 Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

DAAD Scholarship for Paul Ghelasi

We congratulate Paul Ghelasi on receiving a DAAD scholarship for education and training abroad. As part of the scholarship, Paul will spend a period abroad at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. There he will...

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Tue, 06. May 2025 Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

Welcoming of Wenzhen Huang

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Wenzhen Huang to our chair in terms of teaching and research. Wenzhen Huang will primarily be working on the EfeMOD project. The entire chair team warmly welcomes him and looks...

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Wed, 30. Apr 2025 Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

Publication in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Florian Ziel and Paul Ghelasi have published a paper on medium to long-term electricity price forecasts in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Further information can be found under Publikationens. Click here for...

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Wed, 16. Apr 2025 Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

idw-Artikel about Florian Ziel

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e.V. has written an article about Florian Ziel. The article Energiewende im Fokus - Neue Prognosen discusses Florian Ziel's current research focus and refers to current research projects. Read more...

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Wed, 09. Apr 2025 Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

New chair denomination

We are pleased to announce the official renaming of our chair. The name Data Science in Energy and Environment reflects the research and teaching focus of our chair. Background to the change of name is that an English name...

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Fri, 04. Oct 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

Science Award in Economics

Michal Narajewski received the Science Award in Economics for outstanding academic achievements in his dissertation on forecasting and optimizing electricity prices in short-term markets. His advanced forecasting models provide...

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Fri, 30. Aug 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

Congratulations to Prof. Florian Ziel!

We are very happy to announce that Florian Ziel has now been appointed full professor. We congratulate Prof. Florian Ziel on this well-deserved success and look forward to continuing to work together on exciting projects!

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Fri, 30. Aug 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

Announcement of Lectures in the Winter Term 2023/2024

In the winter term 2024/2025 our chair will offer the following courses: "Umweltökonomik und erneuerbare Energien", "Econometrics of Electricity Markets", "Energy Forecasting Competition" and "Advanced Forecasting in Energy...

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Fri, 05. Jul 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

Best Paper Award

Prof. Dr. Florian Ziel received the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Forecasting for his paper Conformal Prediction Interval Estimations with an Application to Day-Ahead and Intraday Power Markets with Christophe...

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Fri, 05. Jul 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

1st Place Award in the Battle of Water Demand Forecasting

The Team ZWUcaster with Jens Kley-Holsteg, Björn Sonnenschein, Gergor Johnen, Florian Ziel has won the 1st Place Award in the Battle of Water Demand Forecasting. The Forecasting Competition was organized at the 3rd...

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Thu, 04. Jul 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

Job advertisement

We are looking for research assistants (f/m/d) for the newly founded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TRR 391 "Spatio-temporal Statistics for the Transition of Energy and Transport" (salary group 13 TV-L, 75 %). The House of...

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Wed, 05. Jun 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

DFG funding - Empirical research for the energy transition

We are very pleased to announce that the German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a joint project between the University of Duisburg-Essen, TU Dortmund University and Ruhr University Bochum in the field of empirical research...

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