Jakob Napiontek
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)| Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) | |
| Potsdam, Germany | |
| Member ID | 2043 |
|---|---|
| Member since | Oct 04, 2019 |
| Status | Active |
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Doctoral Researcher at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)Co-President of the ISIE Student Chapter
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My background is in physics. During a year of study abroad at UC Santa Barbara, I got introduced to and excited about industrial ecology by Roland Geyer. Once back in Germany, I started working as a research assistant for Helga Weisz at PIK and finished my Bachelor's degree with a thesis on "Complex Network Analysis of the International Trade Network".For my Master's degree, I moved to the Netherlands to join the MSc programme in Industrial Ecology at Leiden University and TU Delft. I finished my Master with a thesis on "Building Decarbonisation at Scale: Dynamic Stock-Flow Modelling of Pathways Across Germany's 400 districts and cities", supervised by Tomer Fishman (now published as my first paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.108117).
Currently I'm a PhD student at PIK, working on high-resolution spatial and socio-economic modeling of climate change mitigation for Germany and Europe, with a focus on residential buildings and the distributional impacts of the energy transition, supervised by Helga Weisz, Felix Creutzig, and Peter-Paul Pichler.
I live in Berlin and enjoy swimming and running in my free time.