Biography:
Timo Gerres was born in Hamm (DE) in 1989. After obtaining his B.Sc. in Business Administration and Engineering at the Universität Paderborn (DE) in 2011, he gained first insights into the energy sector while working as a business analyst for the EuroDev Group (NL). He received his M.Sc. in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management from TU Delft (NL) in 2014. After working for 2.5 years as a project manager for the transmission system operator TenneT in Germany, he joined the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica of Universidad Pontificia Comillas as a Research Assistant. In January 2022, he defended his PhD thesis, titled “Understanding the implications of industrial decarbonisation: a multidisciplinary approach towards the transition of the basic materials industry and its impact on our energy systems.” As a member of the Chair for Low Carbon Hydrogen Studies, his ongoing research and consultancy projects focus on the technical, economic and regulatory dimensions of the transition and especially its role in the decarbonisation of the emission-intensive basic materials sector.
Areas of interest:
Energy economics, industrial decarbonisation, hydrogen, renewable energy resources, energy sector regulation, environmental policy instruments
Maier, R., Gerres, T., Tuerk, A., Mey, F., Finding tipping points in the global steel sector: a comparison of companies in Australia, Austria, South Korea and the USA. Global Environmental Change. Vol. 86, pp. 102846-1 - 102846-20, May 2024. [Online: May 2024] 
JCR: 8,600 Q1 (2023) - SJR: 2,996 Q1 (2023) Chiappinelli, O., Gerres, T., Neuhoff, K., Lettow, F., de Coninck, H., Felsmann, B., Joltreau, E., Khandekar, G., Linares, P., Richstein, J.C., Sniegocki, A., Stede, J., Wyns, T., Zandt, C., Zetterberg, L., A green COVID-19 recovery of the EU basic materials sector: identifying potentials, barriers and policy solutions. Climate Policy. Vol. 21, nº. 10, pp. 1328 - 1346, November 2021. [Online: May 2021]
JCR: 6,056 Q1 (2021); 5,300 Q1 (2023) - SJR: 1,654 Q1 (2021); 2,245 Q1 (2023) Gerres, T., Haussner, M., Pirlot, A., To ban or not to ban carbon-intensive materials: a legal and administrative assessment of product carbon requirements. Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law. Vol. 30, nº. 2, pp. 249 - 262, July 2021. [Online: May 2021]
JCR: 2,047 Q2 (2021); 2,000 Q1 (2023) - SJR: 0,499 Q1 (2021); 0,609 Q1 (2023)
JCR: 5,042 Q1 (2019); 9,300 Q1 (2023) - SJR: 2,168 Q1 (2019); 2,388 Q1 (2023)
JCR: 7,246 Q1 (2019); 9,700 Q1 (2023) - SJR: 1,886 Q1 (2019); 2,058 Q1 (2023) 
