Dr. Stefan Vögele studied economics at the University of Heidelberg. From 1994 to 2000, he worked as a scientist in the Department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management” at the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung in Mannheim, Germany. Since 2000, he has been working at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research–Systems Analysis and Technology Evaluation (IEK-STE) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. Primarily, he is working in the area of energy economics with special focus on socio-economic scenarios. He was in charge of several projects focusing on impacts of climate change on thermal power plants, on projects dealing with innovations processes in the energy system as well as on scenarios assessing the possible future of the European electricity market.