Rate My Professor Frauke Wiese

Prof. Dr. Frauke Wiese serves as Junior Professor for the Transformation of Energy Systems at Europa-Universität Flensburg since 2020, leading the interdisciplinary junior research group on Energy Sufficiency within the Department for Sustainable Energy Transition and the Department of Energy and Environmental Management. She studied Energy and Environmental Management as an industrial engineering program at Universität Flensburg, completing her diploma thesis in 2008 on the impacts of offshore wind energy on coal power plant operations in Brunsbüttel. Wiese earned her PhD in 2015, funded by the Reiner Lemoine Foundation, focusing on open-source modeling of energy systems. Prior to her current position, she worked as a project manager at Deutsche Umwelthilfe in Berlin, addressing social acceptance of the energy transition. She co-developed the renpass electricity system model at Europa-Universität Flensburg and served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, where she advanced open and collaborative energy system models in the Energy System Analysis Group, contributed to the Future Gas project analyzing gases in energy transformation, and taught courses on open energy system modeling and analysis in the Master Sustainable Energy Systems program. As a co-initiator of the Open Energy Modelling Initiative, she promotes open data and open-source practices in energy system research.

Her research specializes in energy system modeling, energy sufficiency, and strategies to reduce final energy consumption during the energy transition. Wiese leads the BMBF-funded EnSu project, exploring the role of energy sufficiency in energy transition and society, including crisis-resilient, socially equitable, and environmentally sound sufficiency strategies for Germany. Key publications include 'The key role of sufficiency for low demand-based carbon neutrality and energy security across Europe' (Nature Communications, 2024, with F. Wiese et al.), 'Reducing demand: a quantitative analysis of energy service demand indicators in sufficiency-oriented scenarios' (Environmental Research Communications, 2024, with F. Wiese et al.), and 'Enough? The role of sufficiency in European energy and climate plans' (Energy Policy, 2021, with C. Zell-Ziegler et al.). In 2025, she received the BAUM Environment and Sustainability Prize in the Science category for her research on sufficiency, emphasizing social innovations to lower energy and resource use. Her contributions influence open modeling tools and sufficiency integration in sustainable energy policies.