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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Current Announcements

Mon, 21. Jul 2025 Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

Congratulations to Simon Hirsch for the Student Presentation Award at IWSM2025!

Simon Hirsch has won the Student Presentation Award at the International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM 2025) at the University of Limerick. He excelled with his presentation about Online multivariate distributional...

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Mon, 07. Jul 2025 Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

Congratulations on your doctorate, Jonathan Berrisch!

We congratulate our longtime employee Jonathan on archiving his doctorate! The topic of his doctorate: Data Science Methods for Forecasting in Energy and Economics. The dissertation deals with various approaches to forecasting...

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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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Wed, 17. Apr 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

Job advertisement

We are looking for a research assistant (f/m/d) for the EfEMOD project (salary group 13 TV-L, 75 %). The House of Energy Markets and Finance is one of the leading European research institutes for quantitative energy economics. ...

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Thu, 07. Mar 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

EEX Group Excellence Award 2023 for Simon Hirsch

Simon Hirsch Receives the EEX Group Excellence Award 2023! The European Energy Exchange has awarded Simon Hirsch the EEX Group Excellence Award 2024 for his paper "Simulation-based Forecasting for Intraday Power Markets:...

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Wed, 06. Mar 2024 Zimmermann, Monika

Announcement of the Lecture "Portfolio Management" (M.Sc.) and "Advanced Forecasting in Energy Markets" (M.Sc.) in the summer term 2024

In the summer term 2024 our chair offers the course "Portfolio Management" (M.Sc.) and the seminar "Advanced Forecasting in Energy Markets" (M.Sc.). Further information can be found on the moodle page https://moodle.uni-due.de/...

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