Autor: Karen Smith Stegen

Daniel Scholten is Assistant Professor in geopolitics of renewables at Delft University of Technology. He also writes on the governance of renewable energy systems, renewable energy security, transitions to sustainability, and European integration. His research combines engineering insights on renewable energy systems with institutional economics, political science, and international relations. He has authored publications in Technical Forecasting and Social Change, Energy, Sustainability, and the Journal of Common Market Studies among others.Dr. Scholten has been an affiliated research fellow at the Energy Programme Asia of the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden and a lecturer of International Political Economy at Webster University Leiden. In addition, he was the managing editor of the international journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries between 2011-2016. He defended his dissertation on the organizational requirements of future energy systems at TU Delft in 2012 and holds degrees in Political Science (Radboud University, 2003) and International and European Relations (University of Amsterdam, 2006, with distinction).