About & CV
Prof. Dr. Dogan Keles
Professor of Energy Economics and Head of Section, Energy Markets and Finance, Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Biography
Dogan Keles is Professor and Head of Section at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). His research focuses on energy markets and their design, the drivers of electricity prices, and the modelling of energy systems with large shares of variable renewable energy, including hydrogen and Power-to-X.
He studied Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Karlsruhe (today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT), graduating in 2006, and received his doctorate in economics from KIT in 2013 (summa cum laude). In his doctoral thesis he analysed uncertainties in energy markets and developed methods to evaluate energy investments.
Before joining DTU, he headed the research group Energy Markets and Energy System Analysis at the Institute for Industrial Production (IIP) at KIT. In 2019 he was a Senior Research Fellow at Durham University. Today he leads research projects with industry and public partners, such as PtXMarkets, funded by Innovation Fund Denmark, and supervises a team of PhD students and postdocs.
Career
- Since 08/2020
Professor of Energy Economics, Head of Section Energy Markets and Finance
Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Technology, Management and Economics
Leads the section Energy Markets and Finance (formerly Energy Economics and System Analysis), coordinates research projects and supervises PhD students and postdocs.
- 03/2019 – 08/2019
Senior Research Fellow in Energy Economics
Durham University, United Kingdom
EU-COFUND Senior Research Fellowship.
- 01/2013 – 07/2020
Group Leader, Energy Markets and System Analysis
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Research on energy market design, evaluation of energy technologies under uncertainty and energy system modelling.
- 09/2007 – 12/2012
Research Associate in Energy Economics
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- 11/2006 – 08/2007
Research Assistant in Hydrogen Modelling
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI)
Education
- 2022
Leadership Programme (Certificate)
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- 2020
Habilitation
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- 2013
Doctorate in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), summa cum laude
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Thesis on uncertainties in energy markets and methods to evaluate energy investments.
- 2006
Diploma in Industrial Engineering and Management
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Awards & honours
- 2023
EEX Group Excellence Award
For outstanding academic papers – awarded for “Stochastic optimization of trading strategies in sequential electricity markets” (European Journal of Operational Research).
- 2019
EU-COFUND Senior Research Fellowship
Durham University, United Kingdom.
- 2014
Teaching award, HECTOR School of KIT (3rd place)
- 2011
Visiting researcher scholarship, Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS)
Research visit to UC Berkeley.
Academic roles
- 2020 – present
Speaker, Smart Energy Systems Group
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- 2020 – present
Member of the Management Team
Division for Climate and Energy Policy, DTU
- Since 2017
Scientific committees of conferences
European Energy Market (EEM), European IAEE Conference, GOR
- Since 2016
Member, International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)
and of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB)
- 2021 – 2022
Advisory Board Member
TransnetBW projects “Energy System Design / Adequacy 2050”
- 2021 – 2022
Guest Editor, special issues
ERL and Energy Strategy Reviews
- Ongoing
Reviewer
More than 10 high-ranked journals; European and Swiss science foundations (ESF, SFNF); EU Horizon calls
- Ongoing
PhD defence committees
DTU, NTNU, TU Delft, TU Vienna, University of Freiburg, KTH
Teaching
- 2021 – present
Energy Economics
Course
- 2020
Energy System Analysis and Scenarios
Course
- Since 2014
Energy Markets
HECTOR School of KIT · Course
- 2014 – 2020
Quantitative Methods for Energy Economics
Course and tutorials
- 2008 – 2020
Energy Trading and Risk Management
Course and tutorials
- 2009 – 2011
Industrial Business Administration
Tutorials
- Online course
From Commitments to Action: Transformative Approaches to Climate Adaptation in Europe
SDG Academy (edX) · Contribution as instructor to an open online course on climate action in Europe.
Supervision
Ongoing PhD projects
- Ongoing
5 ongoing PhD projects
Completed PhD theses (co-)supervised
- 2024
Policy requirements for the decarbonisation of the maritime sector
DTU
- 2024
Decarbonisation of district heating networks and implications for business models
DTU
- 2023
Effekte von Kapazitätsmechanismen in gekoppelten Strommärkten
KIT · in German
- 2022
Impacts of auctions on financing conditions for renewable energy
DTU
- 2022
Offshore energy hubs as an emerging concept – sector integration at sea
CBS
- 2022
Stochastic optimization of trading strategies in sequential electricity markets
KIT
- 2020
Market design for the transition to renewable electricity systems
KIT
- 2020
Analyzing decarbonization strategies for Europe with energy system modelling
KIT
- 2018
Capacity remuneration mechanisms for electricity markets in transition
KIT
Master’s and bachelor’s theses
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More than 30 master’s and 10 bachelor’s theses