Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Resource Economics

Dr. Roman Mendelevitch

Roman Mendelvitch

 

Research Interests

 

Contact

  • Energy Resource Markets
  • Electricity Markets
  • Transformation of Energy Systems
  • German Energiewende
  • Food-Water-Energy Nexus
  • Methods of Operations Research
 

Room: 1.09
Phone: +49-30-2093-46372
Fax:     +49-30-2093-46361

roman.mendelevitch(at)hu-berlin.de

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Academic Career

since 2016   Habilitation project at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Topic: The Political Economy of Governing Infrastructure and Socio-Technical Pathways
since 2016  

Post-Doc
Resource Economics Group
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2016  

PhD
Economics / Dr. rer. oec.
Technische Universität Berlin

2013-2016  

Doctoral student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center
Dept. Energy, Transportation, Environment

2013-2016  

Research Associate
Dept. Energy, Transportation, Environment
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

2013-2016   Research Associate
Workgroup for Economic and Infrastructure Policy (WIP)
Technische Universität Berlin
 

2006-2012

 

Dipl.-Ing.
Industrial Engineering and Management
Technische Universität Berlin, University of Maryland, College Park

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Selected Publications

Mendelevitch, Roman, Christian Hauenstein, and Franziska Holz. 2019. “The Death Spiral of Coal in the USA: Will New U.S. Energy Policy Change the Tide?” 1790. DIW Berlin Discussion Paper. Berlin, Germany: German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

Scherwath, Tim, Ben Wealer, and Roman Mendelevitch. 2019. “Nuclear Decommissioning after the German Nuclear Phase-Out: An Integrated View on New Regulations and Nuclear Logistics.” 1779. DIW Berlin Discussion Paper. Berlin, Germany: German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

Mendelevitch, Roman, Claudia Kemfert, Pao-Yu Oei, and Christian von Hirschhausen. 2018. “The Electricity Mix in the European Low-Carbon Transformation: Coal, Nuclear, and Renewables.” In Energiewende “Made in Germany,” edited by Christian von Hirschhausen, Clemens Gerbaulet, Claudia Kemfert, Casimir Lorenz, and Pao-Yu Oei, 241–282. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95126-3_10.

Holz, Franziska, Jonas Egerer, Clemens Gerbaulet, Pao-Yu Oei, Roman Mendelevitch, Anne Neumann, and Christian von Hirschhausen. 2018. “Energy Infrastructures for the Low-Carbon Transformation in Europe.” In Energiewende “Made in Germany,” edited by Christian von Hirschhausen, Clemens Gerbaulet, Claudia Kemfert, Casimir Lorenz, and Pao-Yu Oei, 283–317. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95126-3_11.

Neetzow, P., Mendelevitch, R. and S. Siddiqui (2018): Modeling coordination between renewables and grid: Policies to mitigate distribution grid constraints using residential PV-battery systems. DIW Discussion Paper 1766. Available at: www.diw.de/

Oei, Pao-Yu and Roman Mendelevitch (2018): Prospects for Steam Coal Exporters in the Era of Climate Policies - A Case Study of Colombia. Climate Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1449094

Mendelevitch, R. 2018. “Testing Supply-Side Climate Policies for the Global Steam Coal Market – Can They Curb Coal Consumption?” Climatic Change, Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy, 150 (1–2): 57–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2169-3

Richter, Philipp M., Roman Mendelevitch, and Frank Jotzo. 2018. “Coal Taxes as Supply-Side Climate Policy: A Rationale for Major Exporters?” Climatic Change, Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy, 150 (1–2): 43–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2163-9

Assembayeva, M., J. Egerer, R. Mendelevitch, and N. Zhakiyev. 2018. “A Spatial Electricity Market Model for the Power System: The Kazakhstan Case Study.” Energy 149 (April): 762–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.02.011

Mendelevitch, R., and P.-Y. Oei. 2018. “The Impact of Policy Measures on Future Power Generation Portfolio and Infrastructure: A Combined Electricity and CCTS Investment and Dispatch Model (ELCO).” Energy Systems 9 (4): https://doi.org/1025–54.10.1007/s12667-017-0242-z

Kunith, A., R. Mendelevitch, and D. Goehlich (2017): Electrification of a City Bus Network: An Optimization Model for Cost-Effective Placing of Charging Infrastructure and Battery Sizing. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. Vol. 11, Iss. 10, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2017.1310962

Assembayeva, A., J. Egerer, R. Mendelevitch and N. Zhakiyev (2017) A Spatial Electricity Market Model for the Power System of Kazakhstan. DIW Berlin, DIW Discussion Paper 1659, Berlin, Germany.

Oei, P.-Y., and R. Mendelevitch. (2016) European Scenarios of CO2 Infrastructure Investment, The Energy Journal Vol. 37 (SI3).

Holz, F., C. Haftendorn, R. Mendelevitch, and C. v. Hirschhausen (2015) The COALMOD-World Model: Coal Markets until 2030, In The Global Coal Market - Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies, edited by Richard K. Morse and Mark C. Thurber. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Mendelevitch, R (2014) The Role of CO₂-EOR for the Development of a CCTS Infrastructure in the North Sea Region: A Techno-Economic Model and Applications, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 20 (January): 132–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.11.007.

Oei, P.-Y., J. Herold, and R. Mendelevitch (2014) Modeling a Carbon Capture, Transport, and Storage Infrastructure for Europe, Environmental Modeling & Assessment 19 (May): 515–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-014-9409-3.

Lebenslauf einschließlich Publikationsliste (pdf)

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Teaching

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  • Master-level course: Advanced Environmental and Resource Economics (2017-2018, lecture)

Technische Universität Berlin

  • Bachelor- and Master-level course: Methods of Network Engineering (2012-2016, integrated lecture, price for best small lecture Fac. VII, price for exemplary teaching, friends of the TU Berlin)
  • Master- and PhD-level course: Modelling Resource Markets: Advanced Methods of Operations Research (2014-2016, integrated lecture, junior trainer)
  • Guest lectures on Sustainable Transportation, Resources for the Future, Fossil Fuel Markets, Carbon Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage, in TU Summer School (2017-2018)

DIW Graduate Center Berlin

  • Master Class: Advanced Methods of Operations Research (2013-2015, junior trainer)

American University Central Asia (AUCA)

  • Master-level course: Theoretical, experimental and empirical methods to study Socio-Ecological-Technical Systems in Central Asia (2017, integrated lecture)

Hertie School of Governance Berlin

  • Guest lectures on: “Central Asian Power Systems”

 

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Other Activities

  • Co-Managing Editor Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy (EEEP)
  • Reviewer for i.a. Nature Climate Change, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, Advances in Mechanical Engineering
  • Young Scientist ‘BEST PAPER AWARD’ at IEWT, Vienna, 2014
  • Research Internship at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 2014
  • Invitation to the 5th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences as a selected young economist from EEA Congress, 2013

 

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