Core Research Areas of the Second Research Training Group
"Pathways to Environmentally Friendly, Safe, and Competitive Energy Systems: Technical Feasibility and Societal Impacts"
The doctoral students of the 2nd Boysen-TUD-RTG, together with Executive Director Dr Anna Martius, spokespersons Prof. Hagen and Prof. Hurtado, and their supervising professors.
A key driver of global energy demand is the growing world population. Global energy demand is also expected to continue rising due to increasing per capita energy consumption, particularly in emerging and developing countries. With fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, oil) continuing to account for a high share of the energy mix, global CO2 emissions are also expected to rise accordingly.
To make this development sustainable, an expansion of renewable energy in the electricity supply is necessary. This expansion is also being driven forward politically at the European and national levels. The targets for expanding renewable energy adopted by the German federal government were further tightened in the wake of discussions following the nuclear accident in Fukushima and have increasingly entered the public consciousness.
This presents the challenge of designing an environmentally friendly, safe, and competitive energy system. To meet this challenge, the second Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group once again aims for an interdisciplinary perspective and the integration of methods from various Departments. The first Research Training Group already demonstrated that this approach offers significant added value compared to discipline-specific approaches. In the second Research Training Group, this concept will be expanded by incorporating additional departments, such as medicine and law.
You can find the alumni of the 2nd Boysen-TUD-Research Training Group here.