Franziska Riedel, M.Sc.

PhD Student, Distributed Energy Supply and Markets, Division Power Solutions

Short biography

Franziska Riedel has been working at Fraunhofer ISE since 2017 and is currently working on her PHD on the topic of corporate climate strategies and their internal and external implications. Her most recent work examines Net-Zero and Climate Neutrality strategies of companies in the German chemical industry. Her research focus at Fraunhofer ISE is the analysis of energy transitions from a social sciences perspective. In her Master thesis, she analyzed barriers to company-internal carbon pricing approaches and has worked on several projects developing company-specific decatbonization approaches. Currently, she is involved in the research project IND-E, where she is analyzing actor-specific dynamics, challenges and drivers for industrial decarbonization. Franziska Riedel studied Political and Social Studies as well as Environmental Governance.

Awards & Outstanding Achievements

Since 2020 PHD scholarship by the German Environmental Foundation (DBU)

Major Projects

IND-E Decarbonization and Electrification potentials in the German industry. Analysis of actors, drivers, and barriers.
Climate Neutral Companies Overview of voluntary initiatives and activities addressing climate neutrality on a sub-state level.
DBU graduate college Socio-environmental aspects of the energy transition.