Kathrin Goldammer is an expert in energy technology and management. She has been Managing Director of Reiner Lemoine Institute since February 2016 and is responsible for scientific and financial management.
Kathrin Goldammer studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and received her PhD in Physics after research periods in Switzerland, the USA and Japan. After that, she started her career in the energy industry and managed the German electricity generation portfolio of a Swiss utility company. From there she switched to consulting and was in charge of asset management and portfolio optimization projects for utilities and the industry.
In 2012 she switched to the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, a sustainability and transdisciplinarity think-tank in Potsdam where she established the Transdiscipilinary Panel on Energy Change and wrote energy policy briefs. From IASS she transferred to the German Academy of Science and Engineering where she was in charge of the Energiewende Research Forum, the multi-stakeholder dialogue platform of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
In 2016 she became managing director at the Reiner Lemoine Institut. The Reiner Lemoine Institute is an applied energy research institute in Berlin that conducts research on battery-electric and fuel-cell vehicles, off-grid electrification schemes with renewable energies and computer-based energy system modelling. In 2018 Kathrin co-founded a software company called Localiser that develops software for electric mobility infrastructure planning.
