Dr. Friedrich Krebs
Research Interest
Agent-based modelling, simulation and optimisation approaches to energy systems, policy modelling and decision-support, empirically grounded diffusion models, sustainable behaviour in large populations
Work Experience
2017 | Team manager department Integrated Energy Systems |
2017 | Researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology, Kassel |
2005 - 2017 | Researcher at the Center for Environmental Systems Research |
1993 - 2009 | Freelance consultant databases, information systems, systems analysis |
Academic background
| since 2017 | Team manager department Integrated Energy Systems |
| since 2017 | Researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology, Kassel |
| 2013 | PhD in Computer Simulation and Psychology (Dr. phil.), University of Kassel |
| 2005 - 2017 | Researcher at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), Kassel, Germany. |
| 1995 - 2009 | Free lance consultant systems analysis, systems design database programming and administration |
| 1995 | Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (Dipl.-Math.). University of Kassel |
| 1993 - 2000 | Database programmer, administrator and application developer (Oracle, PL/SQL, Oracle Developer) as assistant/freelancer at the Institute of Solar Energy Supply Systems , University of Kassel |
Lectures
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09/2016 | A spatially explicit agent-based model of the diffusion of green electricity: Model setup and retrodictive validation The Eleventh Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Groningen |
09/2016 | The SPREAD model: Diffusion of green electricity in Germany “Social Simulation for the Energy Transition” associated to IST 2016 (www.ist2016.org), Wuppertal Institut |
10/2015 | Policy modelling with agents UBA Zukunftskolloquium „Strategische Vorausschau in der Politikberatung“, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit, Berlin |
09/2015 | Towards an empirical validation of spatial patterns of simulated innovation diffusion Eleventh Artificial Economics Conference, Porto |
01/2015 | Psychologisch plausible und empirisch fundierte agentenbasierte Modelle: ein Beispiel aus dem Kontext der Klimaanpassung Workshop "Integration qualitativer Faktoren in Umwelt- und Energiemodellierung und -simulation", Stuttgart |
09/2013 | The interaction of social conformity and social orientation in public good dilemmas 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference, Warschau |
06/2013 | A psychological model of neighbourhood support under climate change Workshop Public Good Provision, Decision Making, and the Environment |
03/2013 | Modelling the provision of adaptation public goods: The case of neighbourhood support during heat waves 1st European Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Hamburg |
07/2012 | Social-ecological modelling with LARA: A psychologically well-founded lightweight agent architecture International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Leipzig |
09/2011 | Individuelle Klimaanpassungsmaßnahmen im ökologisch-sozialen Dilemma 13. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie |
