Ellen Österlein

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Ellen Österlein is a PhD student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), supervised in collaboration with the Energy Transition and Climate Futures group at IT:U. She works at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in the Department of Energy Policy and Energy Markets. Her research focuses on the reconfiguration and resilience of supply chains for hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives with a particular focus on ammonia and methanol.

She studied Management and Economics (B.Sc.) at the University of Mainz and Management Science with a focus on Energy Management and Sustainability (M.Sc.) at the University of Leipzig with a semester abroad at the Università degli Studi di Siena (IT). During her studies she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management (IIRM) at the University of Leipzig, at the German Energy Agency (dena) in the field of hydrogen and synthetic energy carriers and at ECC in clearing for EEX.