Dr.-Ing. Manfred Fischedick studied chemical technology at the University of Dortmund with emphasis on energy and environmental technologies. He earned his PhD at the University of Stuttgart. He is director of one of the four research groups of the Wuppertal Institute (“Future Energy and Mobility Structures”). In 2006 he was appointed as Vice President of the Wuppertal Instituteand has been the Institute’s acting scientific head since February 2008.In November 2008 he was appointed as Professor at the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics at the University of Wuppertal.

Manfred Fischedick has more than 15 years experience in energy system analyses, he is author of a number of books and peer reviewed articles, member of several scientific boards and holdslectures in the field of energy and environmental science (e.g. at the Universities of Wuppertal and Kassel).