Christine Gschwendtner joined the Group for Sustainability and Technology in September 2019 as a PhD Candidate
She investigates how low-carbon technologies, such as electric vehicles, heat pumps, storage, and distributed generation, can be incorporated in future distribution networks, using quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Christine completed the interdisciplinary Master`s program Download Environmental Change and Management (MSc) at the Download University of Oxford.
In her Master`s thesis, she developed a mixed-methods research design, combining building physics, social practice theory, and economics to examine the barriers and potentials for demand load shifting of heat pumps.
Welcome Christine!