Dr Jonas Hörsch is a member of the Climate Policy Team at Climate Analytics and is involved in multiple projects, including the NDC 1.5°C Pathways project.
Jonas focuses on the modelling and analysis of energy systems. He is knowledgeable about optimisation, detailed technological bottom-up models as well as multi-model coupling in general, and focuses on workflow design and automation for the evaluation of decarbonisation pathways in integrated assessment models.
Before joining Climate Analytics, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Energy Systems Modelling group at the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (IAI KIT). Jonas holds a PhD in Physics from the Goethe-University Frankfurt for his research on the techno-economic decarbonisation options for the European electricity system based on the optimisation of integrating renewables under limited expansion of the electricity grid. He co-developed and maintains widely-used open-source libraries and models for energy system analysis.
Publications
- Hörsch, J., Houlie, T., Welder, L., Das, N., Riany, F. A 1.5°C future is possible: getting fossil fuels out of the Philippine power sector. (2023)
- Welder, L., Grant, N., Aboumhaboub, T., Hörsch, J., Maxwell, V., Fyson, C., Hare, B. Clean power in South Korea. (2023)
- 1.5°C pathways for the Council of Europe
- 1.5°C Pathways for the EU27: accelerating climate action to deliver the Paris Agreement
- G7 climate policy: what good looks like
- National 1.5°C compatible emissions pathways and consistent power sector benchmarks in Africa
- An assessment of the adequacy of the mitigation measures and targets of the respondent states in Duarte Agostinho v Portugal and 32 other states
- 1.5°C Pathways for Europe: Achieving the highest plausible climate ambition
- Global Update: Climate target updates slow as science demands action
- Employment opportunities from a coal-to-renewables transition in South Korea
- National 1.5°C Compatible Emissions Pathways and Consistent Power Sector Benchmarks: Indonesia, Viet Nam, Philippines, India and Japan
- 1.5°C-consistent benchmarks for enhancing Japan’s 2030 climate target