Great to welcome a delegation from UMass Boston at TU Darmstadt! I presented DiReX @tuda.bsky.social , our centre for digital resilience of critical infrastructures and society, and enjoyed reconnecting with UMass — where I once was a visiting professor. 🌍🤝

Beim #INNODAY25 mit DiReX & emergenCITY @tuda.bsky.social . Unsere Serious Games #Krisopolis und #eHUBcities zeigen, wie #Krisenvorsorge spielerisch geht. Danke an 1.400 Besucher:innen für spannende Gespräche! 🚀🎮

💡⚙️ Gemeinsam mit Christian Hasse, Marius Schmidt & Rainer Hofmann als Metal Energy Hub im Fachdialog „Mehrere Eisen im Feuer“ in der Landesvertretung Hessen, Berlin. Thema: Eisen als CO₂-freier Energiespeicher – nachhaltig, sicher, innovativ. 👉 metalenergyhub.de

Thanks to Kai Hufendiek & Patrick Jochem from STRise for inviting me to give a keynote at the 2nd ISESA Symposium in Stuttgart. Spoke on “Navigating Complexity: Coordination across Institutions and Levels in Energy Policy,” drawing on insights from Ariadne & Metal Energy Hub @tuda.bsky.social .

Nach dem Erfolg des #Wärmequartier Walldorf gehen wir von der BERMeG den nächsten Schritt: Richtung Wärmequartier Mörfelden! 🔥 Infos am 24.10., 10 Uhr im Bürgerhaus Mörfelden oder auf 🌐 wqmw.de/informieren oder bei www.bermeg.de

Solar storms create stunning auroras 🌌 — but they can also disrupt power grids ⚡, satellites 🛰️ & comms. Great exchange with Juha-Pekka Luntama at ESA 🇪🇺 — excited to collaborate as @emergencity.de and DiReX @tuda.bsky.social on boosting resilience to space weather! #SpaceWeather #Aurora #Resilience

🎓 It’s official – PhD completed! Congratulations, Elisa, on this remarkable achievement! Elisa explores how political actors navigate through the Covid and energy crisis. We’re proud to celebrate this moment with you 🚀

🛰 Raumfahrt & Resilienz? Klingt weit weg – ist aber nah dran. Beim Besuch mit Innenminister Roman Poseck im @ESA/ESOC ging’s um Satelliten, Krisenvorsorge & digitale Sicherheit. Mit unserem Zentrum Digital Resiclience Xchange (DiReX) bringen wir Forschung & Praxis zusammen. Danke für den Austausch!

🌊 Floods don’t wait for interdepartmental emails. New article out with @wibke_de_boer @Britta_Schmalz & me (@LOEWE_emergenCITY @TUDarmstadt): How internal coordination in local govs shapes flood resilience. 📄 Read the full article in Water (Open Access) lnkd.in/eK6hBxST

⚡ Who to trade renewable energy with? It's more than just cost -check out our article and try our Dashbord: "Navigating the selection of renewable energy trading partners: A multi-objective optimization approach" in Energy and Climate Change (2025) 👉 ttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2025.100197

🎭 When culture becomes a battleground… At TU Darmstadt, Prof. Natalia Chaban Uni Canterbury, NZ, unpacked how EU heritage diplomacy and Global south narratives are being redefined by Russia’s war against Ukraine. Culture isn’t just soft power but a strategy. #CulturalDiplomacy #Ukraine #EU

Forschung trifft Spielfreude auf dem #Hessentag2025! Mit #Krisopolis & Litfaßsäule 4.0 zeigen wir von #emergenCITY & #DiReX @tuda.bsky.social, wie Städte krisenfest werden. Danke an Minister Gremmels & Ministerin Sinemus & Hans-Joachim Heist für den Besuch!

🆕 Unser neues Ariadne-Kurzdossier ist da! Wie wird der Staat in der Klima- & Energiepolitik handlungsfähiger? Spoiler: verbesserte Koordination Bund, Land, Kommune Jetzt lesen: ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/... #Klimapolitik #AriadneProjekt #Governance @ariadneprojekt.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social

🌍 Our first joint article on transformative climate law is out! Law doesn’t just shape change – it changes, too. Open access here 👉 eurup.lexxion.eu/article/EURU...

📰 In der heutigen F.A.Z.: Unsere @ariadneprojekt.bsky.social Replik auf den Zwischenbericht der Initiative für einen handlungsfähigen Staat. Unsere Empfehlung: Eine interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe für bessere Klima- und Energiepolitik. zeitung.faz.net/faz/wirtscha...

📢 New Ariadne Report: Creating Better Incentives for Renewable Hydrogen - that I co-authored with colleagues from TU Darmstadt and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) takes a close look at how the EU can better support the scale-up of #renewable #hydrogen.

🔋 New Insight Paper out now! What does it take to keep the grid stable in a system based on renewables? We took a closer look – from shrinking inertia to grid-forming converters. Written by researchers from TU Darmstadt’s Integrated Energy Systems team @tuda.bsky.social. 👉 zenodo.org/records/1558...

Excited to be part of the new Hessen Monitor – studying democracy, division & resilience in Hesse. Backed by the Hessian Ministry, led by an amazing team at @tuda.bsky.social, colleagues from 5 unis at Hesse are teaming up. For a stronger democracy!

New open-access book! Teaching IR in Wartime – co-edited with Kateryna Zarembo & Maksym Yakovlyev. How do you teach IR under bombs, in war, through trauma? Experiences of University Lecturers during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine www.ibidem.eu/out/media/vl...

What an inspiring day! 🚀 We had the pleasure of welcoming a fantastic group of students from the University of Victoria, CA. Together with students from @tuda.bsky.social, they joined my lecture on “EU Energy Policy”. Powerful reminder of the value of international academic exchange!

Valuable impulses and strong momentum at #emergenCITYWeek 2025 @tuda.bsky.social! Was a pleasure to present our work and vision behind DiReX, our new center for transferring digital resilience research. Big thanks to our advisory board for inspiring feedback and new perspectives.

Thanks for having me at the Bundeskongress of Scientists 4 Future 2025! I had the pleasure of giving a talk on "Trump 2.0 and the Impact on EU Climate Policy", together with the brilliant Terenzio Facchinetti. Great discussions, shows how science and policy need to stay connected in turbulent times.

170 Jahre Litfaßsäule – jetzt digital & krisenfest! Heute haben wir - @emergencity.de @tuda.bsky.social - & Ströer die Litfaßsäule 4.0 vorgestellt: energieautarke Kommunikation im Blackout. Dank an hess. Wiss.minister T. Gremmels, Digitalministerin Prof. K. Sinemus für die Untersützung!

#UrbaneResilienz entsteht im Dialog. Beim Sounding Board zum Digitalen #Heinerblock diskutierten wir von #emergenCITY #DiReX @tuda.bsky.social in der @schaderstiftung.bsky.social #DTDT25 mit Verwaltung, Einsatzkräften & Unternehmen, wie unsere Technologieinnovationen Städte krisenfest machen.

Beim Ariadne-Konsortialtreffen in Potsdam bringen wir unsere Analysen @tuda.bsky.social zu Wasserstoffverteilnetzen und Koordination der Energietransformation in die wissenschaftliche Diskussion ein. Starker interdisziplinärer Austausch zur Energiewende! #AriadneProjekt #Energiewende #Wissenschaft

Wir freuen uns, dass unsere Arbeit in emergenCITY und zukünftig in DiReX mit unterschiedlichen Krisenszenarien - von lang anhaltenden Stromausfälle, über die Klimakrise bis hin zu hybriden Bedrohungen - in einem nationalen Zentrum für digitale Resilienz in Katastrophen weitergeführt werden.

Pünktlich zur #Bundestagswahl2025 haben Jörg Kemmerzell und ich in unserem Papier die Energiepolitik der Parteien analysiert – mit Blick auf potentielle Koalitionen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Energiepolitik der nächsten Wahlperiode. Details hier: tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/29407/

Special Issue „Teaching International Relations in Wartime“ published in the ibidem-Verlag "Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society." Ed. Kateryna Zarembo, @micheleknodt.bsky.social and Maksym Yakovlyev. Distributed by @columbiaup.bsky.social. @tuda.bsky.social @dgap.org

Congratulations to Rainer Hofmann: Winner of the Master's Thesis Award in Energy and Climate Policy Transformation of the Department of History and Social Sciences at Technische Universität Darmstadt! Outstanding work, Rainer! Your topic: #EU regulates, US acts pragmaticly in #hydrogen policy.

🚀 Excited to share my interview with energate, where I look at how iron as an energy storage solution can complement hydrogen and play a key role in the energy transition - in a CO₂-free, circular process. 👉https://www.energate-messenger.de/news/250498/eisen-ergaenzt-wasserstoff-als-energiespeicher

🏆 We are honored to receive the Hessian University Award for Excellence in Teaching 2024! Our course "Shaping the Energy Transition", featuring a serious game where students guide Germany to climate neutrality by 2045, was recognized as the Best Teaching in Hesse. 🌍💡

Curious how the EU is navigating the path to a just and sustainable future? 🌍✨ Our latest article dives into the EU's mix of policies and reveals the competing visions shaping this transition. Take a look! lnkd.in/eSi8DRvK

What an inspiring opportunity for emergenCITY to engage in discussion with Minister Sinemus @DigitalesHessen about creating a national center for #DigitalResilience in disaster scenarios at the Federal Government's #DigitalSummitfor to build a future of resilient digital infrastructure!

When do you ever get the chance to present your research on #digitalresilience to three ministers at once? Today, we had the honor of welcoming Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser, Hesse's Digital Minister Kristina Sinemus, Hesse's Science Minister Timon Gremmels at emergenCITY.

Exciting Opportunity: our summer semester simulation. Students from JGU Mainz, TU Darmstadt, Ben-Gurion University, and other unis (50 students from 7 countries) simulated the #EU legislative processes and had a deep dive into complex negotiations.

Our new Article Alert! "Advocating harder soft governance for the European Green Deal" together with Nils Bruch and Marc Ringel. We explore stakeholder perspectives on revising the EU Governance Regulation. It shows broad support for improvement. Read more doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Zukunftsbündnis für sozialen Zusammenhalt in Hessen ist gestartet! Bin begeistert für die Wissenschaft @TUDarmstadt , Teil dieser wichtigen Initiative zu sein. Dank des Engagements von Minister Mansoori + Ministerin Hofmann werden wir zusammen für #SozialerZusammenhalt arbeiten.

Check out my interview on the results of the first round of parliamentary elections in France and the potential implications for the EU. #FrenchElections #EU #Politics @TUDarmstadt

Freue mich sehr auf die nächste Amtszeit als stellvertretende Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende der BürgerEnergieRheinMain eG (#BERMeG)! Erfolgreiches Wärmequartiers Walldorf, steigende Mitgliederzahlen und vieles mehr - wir blicken optimistisch in die Zukunft. #Energiewende

Check out our latest Policy Paper @emergen_CITY @TUDarmstadt on urban #disastermanagement! It emphasizes the importance of early and regular cooperation among public authorities, security organizations, private companies, and citizens as key to resilient #crisismanagement.

In our Kopernikus Ariadne Analysis @nils_bruch and I @TUDarmstadt argue that the #EU needs a clear strategy and stronger regulations of low-carbon #hydrogen to ensure lifecycle emissions reductions and address regulatory gaps. Check out: doi.org/10.48485/pik...

Want to know what role smartphones play in times of war? Check out our  oa publication @emergen_CITY @TUDarmstadt. We show how smartphones empowered Ukrainian civil society after Russia’s 2022 invasion, turning them into resilience hubs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hessian Economic Minister Kaweh Mansoori checked out our groundbreaking @clean_circles project at @TUDarmstadt today! We are turning iron into a CO2-free energy carrier, ready to store large amounts #renewable #energy and repurpose existing coal plants!

Whether it's power sharing in a crisis for critical infrastructures or the serious game Krisopolis, Hesse's Minister for Science and the Arts, @Timon_Gremmels, was impressed by our interdisciplinary research at #OpeneHUBDay #LOEWE @emergenCITY @TUDarmstadt @HMWK_Hessen

Full house! Had an amazing discussion with Dirk Joerke, Christian Stecker and students from #PoliticalScience @TUDarmstadt as well as citizens, about #EUElections2024 results!

Big thanks to Daniel Baczyk from Darmstädter Echo for the great conversation on my analysis of the #EUElections2024 results and the consequences for European policy over the next 5 years!

My key takeaways from the 2024 EP election in the media: democratic center in the EU has held firm, far-right grouping remains a wildcard, and Germany is not France procedurally. check out my SAT1 interview: www.1730live.de/ergebnisse-u...

Spannung bei der #Europawahl2024! Unsere exklusive Umfrage zeigt: AfD hat Chancen auf Platz 2. Die Wählerschaft ist tief gespalten bei EU-Fragen und #DEXIT. Ausführliche Auswertung von Christian Stecker, Christina-Marie Juen, Christine Quittkat und mir unter www.tu-darmstadt.de

Heute in der FAZ meine Einschätzung zur Europawahl in ganzer Länge. Meine Prognose für die Wahlbeteiligung ist gewagt, aber möglich und notwendig! Daher: #NutzedeineStimme #Europawahl2024

Mein Kommentar zum Interesse an der #Europawahl ist in der heutigen Ausgabe der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung #FAS zu lesen. Das ausführliche Interview folgt nächste Woche.