Data Science in Energy and Environment

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.

Current Announcements

 Tue, 28. Apr 2026   Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

New project MERIT

The BMWE-funded project MERIT (Future Markets for Electricity: Risk, Investment and Trading) has started at the DSEE chair. It develops innovative methodological approaches for modeling and assessing price risks in liberalized...
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 Tue, 28. Apr 2026   Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

New project TARGET

The DFG-funded project TARGET (TAming UnceRtainty in EnerGy MarkETs) has started at the DSEE chair. It develops new statistical and econometric time series methods to better model uncertainty in energy markets. The focus is on...
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 Tue, 14. Apr 2026   Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

Job offers

We are pleased to announce that we are expanding our chair and will soon be hiring new staff as postdoc and scientific researchers. You can find the job postings on our internal job board.
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 Mon, 02. Mar 2026   Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

New faces at our chair

We are very pleased to announce that Pierre-Antoine Sells joined our chair as an intern and Julian Wangert as a student assistant on March 1, 2026. Leon Rump is working with us as a research assistant since November 2025.The...
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 Mon, 03. Nov 2025   Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

Appointment as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Forecasting by Prof. Florian Ziel

The International Journal of Forecasting has appointed eleven new Associate Editors following an open call for applications. The International Journal of Forecasting holds such calls for applications annually in order to attract...
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 Tue, 16. Sept 2025   Witthaus-Bertram, Angela

Congratulations to Paul Ghelais for the Best Paper Award at INREC2025!

Paul Ghelasi has won the Best Paper Award at the International Ruhr Energy Conference (INREC 2025) with his presentation “A probabilistic merit order: a data-driven fundamental model for electricity price forecasting". A...
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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, 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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