Jan Tautorus

Short bio:

Jan is a PhD student in the Energy Transition and Climate Futures group at IT:U. His research focuses on the decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries, currently with an emphasis on steel, using large-scale optimisation and simulation models built on open-source tools.

He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Energy Engineering with distinction from RWTH Aachen University. As a student assistant at the Chair of Technical Thermodynamics, he worked on energy system optimisation and life cycle assessment.