Jann Weinand

Dr. Jann Michael Weinand is the head of the Integrated Scenarios department at the Institute Jülich Systems Analysis (IEK-3). He coordinates around 30 scientists, PhD students, and master students with a research focus on the assessment of regional and international energy systems, complexity reduction in mathematical optimizations, and the integration of artificial intelligence methods and research data management in energy system analyses. Jann studied Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration with a specialization in energy technology at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany until 2016 and received the degree of Dr.-Ing. from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2020, with a thesis focused on the techno-economic feasibility of energy autonomy in regional energy systems. Along with this experience, Jann has led and coordinated several research projects in collaboration with scientific and industrial partners and has authored over 40 publications in journals such as Nature Energy, Joule, and Patterns and has been cited over 650 times.