Head of Chair

Prof. Dr. Johan Lilliestam

School of Business, Economics and Society
Lehrstuhl für Sustainability Transition Policy

Room 5.259

Prof. Dr. Johan Lilliestam is Professor of Sustainability Transition Policy and joined the FAU in September 2023. His research focus is policies, strategies and instruments for a transition to a completely renewable energy system, including the effects of interactions between different energy policies. He is a European Research Council grantee.

Johan Lilliestam is Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the 7th Assessment Report (2025-2029) in Chapter 9, Energy Systems.

Before joining FAU, he was Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Potsdam and led the Energy Transitions and Public Policy group at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Research Institute for Sustainability. He was first appointed Assistant Professor of Renewable Energy Policy at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he had previously worked as Senior Scientist in the Climate Policy Lab. He obtained his PhD in Environmental Science and Policy from at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, in 2013. From 2007-2013, he was a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and from 2009-2013 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.

Johan’s full CV here: CV Johan Lilliestam Jan 2025.

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2021

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    The possibility for renewable electricity autarky in Europe
    In: Atlas of the human planet 2020 – open geoinformation for research, policy, and action, EUR20516EN, Luxembourg: European Commission DG Joint Research Centre, , p. 99-100

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